Search results for: “ken mode”

  • Ararat: Musica de la Resistencia

    … release, Nuevo Orden de la Libertad signalling a return to their heavy-rockin’ roots after some psychedelic detours, frontman Sergio Chotsourian lets his experimental side show with side-project Ararat. Opening track “Gitanoss” is a 14-minute psych-folk freakout, pairing flamenco guitar with OTIS drones, Sergio doing his best Ken Baluke sneer on vocals sparsely scattered throughout.…

  • No Simple Highway – A Cultural History of The Grateful Dead

    … listened to them and so no one tried to get me started on them. In addition, they simply weren’t the stuff I ever reached for on my own because I simply wasn’t into hippie culture. My first exposure to the band came from the music video which got made for “Touch Of Grey,” and…

  • STAFF PICKS, JULY 2018

    … recommendation outside of or beyond the above picks HELLBOUND RECOMMENDS Bianca Bobescu Listening to: Septicflesh – Codex Omega (Season of Mist, 2017) New release: Parkway Drive – Reverence (Epitaph) Live: Hellfest Open Air (www.hellfest.fr) Non-metal: Zaz – “Je veux” Wild card: reading – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Steve Earles Listening to: Deepest Purple: The…

  • Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal by Jeff Wagner

    … people who have championed and funded such precarious artistic ventures. In talking to Jim Pitulski of Inside Out, Ken Golden from Sensory/The Laser’s Edge, and Andreas Katsambas from The End Records, Wagner gives us a sense of who’s scouting the talent and catering to the demanding, diverse prog-metal audience. They all have interesting things…

  • Eloy: Visionary

    … There are an awful lot of Tull related passages during this track but it still works. Moving on to the second track, “The Secret” sounds like some of their albums from the early 80’s like Planets (1981) and Time To Turn (1982). The guitar playing is outstanding at all moments. The real highlight of…