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NOW ON MIDLINE. Latest from Dream Theater's vocalist finds him further exploring prog metal territory in a similar vein to his two previous Mullmuzzler projects. This time around I find the music to be quite a bit heavier though. Another great lineup -
Record Label: Inside Out
Style: Progressive Metal
Latest solo album from Dream Theater's vocalist finds him pushing the boundaries a bit. This is square on prog metal with keyboardist Matt Guillory and guitarist Marco Sfogli returning. LaBrie plays with a monster rhythm section with his main band bu...
Record Label: Inside Out
Style: Progressive Metal
German import limited edition digipak comes with expanded artwork and two bonus tracks.
Latest solo album from Dream Theater's vocalist finds him pushing the boundaries a bit. This is square on prog metal with keyboardist Matt Guillory and gu..
Record Label: Inside Out
Style: Progressive Metal
Record Label: Scarlet
Style: Power Metal
This is quite an amazing deal...this is the Japanese version that comes with the Freeman album as well as a live bonus DVD with a complete show from Tokyo as well as London. And...it's NTSC Region 0 to boot! I expect these copies to last about 5 minu...
Record Label: Arise Records
Style: Power Metal
Latest album from this Italian power metal band is a strong comeback nearly reaching the heights of Return To Heaven Denied. Perhaps most surprising due to the departure of founder/guitarist Olaf Thorsen who is now concentrating on Vision Divine. Ste...
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Long awaited sequel to the 12 year old masterpiece. The album marks the return of the classic lineup with Olaf Thorsen and Rob Tyrant in control. No surprises here - just first class power metal with a touch of prog.
Record Label: Scarlet Records
Style: Power Metal
Italian powermetal in the tradition of Athena and Rhapsody. Features the stunning vocals of Rob Tyrant. Jewel box version featuring the infamous Olaf Thorsen mix and a bonus track.
Record Label: Metal Blade
Style: Power Metal
EP from these Italian power metal kings.
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Gothic S&M metal with prog influences.
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Austrian Gothic metal with prog overtones.
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Austrian gothic prog.
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Dark wave symphonic gothic metal. Great one for the nipple clamp crowd.
Record Label: Hall Of Sermon
Style: Gothic Metal
Double CD set.
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Gothic metal for the nipple clamp set recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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The production keeps getting bigger and bigger with each passing release. Imagine gothic metal as conceived by Kurt Weill and you'll begin to scratch at the surface of Lacrimosa's sound. Orchestral, bombastic, and melancholy (bordering on doom) are w...
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Import digipak version of the latest from this Austrian gothic doom band. Another huge orchestral epic production...of course.
Record Label: Nuclear Blast
Style: Gothic Metal
This Austrian band have pretty much carved out a niche for themselves. Orchestral gothic doom is the best way I can describe their sound.
Record Label: Hall Of Sermon
Style: Gothic Metal
New release from Italy's Lacuna Coil finds them moving subtlely in a more commercial direction. The music is not quite as heavy as in the past and the male vocals are all clean now. The band seems to utilize more synths also creating an atmospheric b...
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Sixth album from Italy's best export since the invention of neapolitan style pizza. The band gets a bit of heat since they achieved break out success. Far from a sell out, Lacuna Coil is as heavy as ever. The band's focus remains on the co-vocalists...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Lots of different versions of this album coming out from Century Media. This is a CD/DVD digipak. It comes with a poster, sticker, and custom guitar pick. What's on the DVD? Here is what the promo sea:
"The DVD, 'Dark Passengers,' contains..
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Italian B & B metal influenced by The Gathering.
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Let the naysayers bark all they want. It's expected whenever an underground band finds success. Ignore 'em! Karmacode is the superb follow up to Comalies. Crushing riffs and bottomless grooves fill the air and Christina Scabbia's moves glide over i...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Debut EP. gothic wave metal from Italy featrues a similar sound to The Gathering. Femme vox of course...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Lacuna Coil broke out big time thanks to hit videos and a successful Ozzfest tour. Their last album, Karmacode, sold over 200,000 copies in the US. Pretty impressive for an Italian gothic metal band! The music of Shallow Life is definitely more comm...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
New 2 disc expanded edition of Shallow Life comes with a bonus disc with live tracks and b-side tunes and 2 new acoustic versions of "Spellbound" and "Closer".
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Lacuna Coil broke out big time thanks to hit videos and a successful Ozzfest tour. Their last album, Import digipak comes with one bonus track and a glossy print. Lacuna Coil broke out big time thanks to hit videos and a successful Ozzfest tour. The...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
European import combines the two EPs "Lacuna Coil" and "Half Life" onto one disc. Killer gothic metal from Italy.
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
With The Gathering now moving off into the world of progressive pop, Lacuna Coil has neatly stepped into their shoes as one of the best goth metal bands around. To cut to the chase if you like The Gathering's Nighttime Birds this disc will rip you to ...
Record Label: Century Media
Style: Gothic Metal
Solo album, originally released in 1979, by the leader of Contraction. This release features musicians from a variety of Quebecois prog bands including Harmonium, Conventum, and L'Orchestre Sympathique. It's a fairly laid back prog album with some ja...
Record Label: ProgQuebec
Style: Progressive Rock
Reunion album of sorts for this avant gothic rock band from Sweden. Strong emphasis on melodies - keyboards galore. Sort of like Type O Negative meets The Cure meets Pink Floyd.
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Record Label: Locomotive
Style: Doom Metal
"Greg Lake is a British guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Lake was a founding member of the original incarnation of the British group King Crimson, and was a member of the super-group Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He also toured briefly with the group Asia
Record Label: Lemon
Style: Progressive Rock
"From The Underground Volume 2 Deeper Into The Mine, is a second collection of rare and previously unreleased recordings dating back to 1969 and Greg Lake's days in King Crimson.
Also included are several never before-heard finished studio rec..
Record Label: Lemon
Style: Progressive Rock
Live disc recorded at the Stevenage Concert Hall on his 2005 tour of the UK. I can't say I know any of the members of the band Lake assembled by they play the material pretty faithfully. This is a career retrospective-type show focusing on material f...
Record Label: Music Video Distribution
Style: Progressive Rock
Michael Landau is probably the go-to-guy guitarist in LA for session work. He's played on over 100 gold and platinum albums. He also has a fusion band called Karisma that plays out at the Baked Potato all the time. This is a 2 CD live set chroniclin...
Record Label: Tone Center
Style: Fusion
Jorn Lande never hid the fact that Ronnie James Dio was a significant influence on him. This album is Jorn's tribute to the elf. It is a collection of cover tunes of Dio material as well as a new song "Song For Ronnie James" that he wrote as an homa...
Record Label: Frontiers Records
Style: Melodic Metal
Essentially a greatest hits collection of tracks selected by Jorn Lande - some of which are re-recorded.
Record Label: AFM Records
Style: Power Metal
Double live CD recorded at Progpower in 2006. Set draws from the Out To Every Nation album as well as cross selection of material from bands Jorn has been associated with over the years.
Record Label: Frontiers Records
Style: Melodic Metal
Double live CD + pro-shot DVD of Jorn's performance at the Sweden Rock Festival on October 6, 2010. Seventeen tracks solely focused on his solo album material.
Record Label: Frontiers Records
Style: Power Metal
Jorn's fifth solo album concentrates on original material. His voice is spot on as usual. If your taste veers towards a classic hard rock sound with touches of AOR this is right up your alley. It would be hard to make an argument that this is metal....
Record Label: Blistering
Style: AOR
Limited edition comes with two bonus tracks and a slipcase!
Record Label: Frontiers
Style: AOR
Third solo album for the former singer of Ark (and currently with Masterplan). Now signed to AFM Records, Jorn has found the middle ground between the progressive metal of Ark and the hard rock sounds of his solo albums. The lineup consists of member...
Record Label: AFM Records
Style: Melodic Metal
New solo album from the quite possibly the best vocalist in metal. The usual mix of AOR and melodic metal with an 80s vibe. Spirit Black features a cover of Tarja's "I Walk Alone". Comes in a limited edition digipak with one bonus track.
Record Label: Frontiers
Style: AOR
New solo album from this vocal God is easily his best by a mile. Jorn is one of my favorite vocalists in hard rock and metal these days. He is a bit of a chameleon sounding a bit like Coverdale at times and at others he evokes Dio. The Duke would ha...
Record Label: AFM Records
Style: AOR
Record Label: Metal Mind
Style: Progressive Rock
Record Label: Avalon
Style: Progressive Rock
"Lana returns after a 4-year hiatus with a symphonic rock tour-de-force featuring 10 incredible songs and cutting-edge modern production from husband Erik Norlander. Lana’s unique style includes dynamic elements from prog metal to acoustic vocal jazz t...
Record Label: Think Tank Media
Style: Progressive Rock
It seems as though Lana has a yearly daliance with cover albums. Gemini grabs all the musicians from the Think Tank stable and adds on George Lynch. The musical selection covers Cream, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Heart, Foreigner, an...
Record Label: Think Tank Media
Style: AOR/Hard Rock