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ThisIsNotAScene’s Top 10 Albums Of 2011

ThisIsNotAScene’s Top 10 Albums Of 2011

Posted on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

This year for our Top 10 we asked the team to put together their Top 10 albums of 2011, because everyone’s taste is different we decided to approach the ThisIsNotAScene Top 10 scientifically… It was compiled by taking the score (1st place = 10pts –...

Opeth & Pain Of Salvation At Manchester Academy 11/11/11

Opeth & Pain Of Salvation At Manchester Academy 11/11/11

Posted on November 20, 2011 | No Comments

It was a damp and dreary Manchester evening, to be expected at this time of year, in particular in the North West. Brightening the miserable November evening and to mark the joyous occasion of having released new records this year, a duo of Swedish titans...

Betraeus “Towards The Sun” EP Launch Party

Betraeus “Towards The Sun” EP Launch Party

Posted on November 19, 2011 | 5 Comments

Things are brewing in the Manchester Metal Scene and it is going to make its mark in the UK metal scene very soon. Team TINAS was sent on a mission to document the “Towards The Sun” EP Launch Party of Manchester metal colossus Betraeus. The...

Machine Head Voted ‘Album Of The Century’

Posted on November 10, 2011 | No Comments

Machine Head’s “The Blackening” has been named the best album released so far this century by Roadrunner Records.

Absu – Abzu

Posted on October 24, 2011 | No Comments

Sumerian mythology and the work of HP Lovecraft are heavily revered in the extreme metal section. From Metallica (okay, that’s not extreme metal, besides from being extremely boring metal) to Morbid Angel, pretty much every band has dabbled with the old tales in some way...

Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning

Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning

Posted on October 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

Well-known as Porcupine Tree’s mastermind, one half of Blackfield, Opeth producer, King Crimson and Jethro Tull remixer, Steven Wilson has become one of the central figures of today’s progressive rock. His second solo album “Grace For Drowning”, announced as his “biggest project to date” with...

East Of The Wall – The Apologist

East Of The Wall – The Apologist

Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments

Progressive rock and metal used to be terms for a specific group of bands who preferred to use long songs, difficult and elaborate song structures and often mind boggling concepts. Nowadays it’s used for every band with slightly technical edge or an off-beat approach to...

Opeth – Heritage

Opeth – Heritage

Posted on September 4, 2011 | No Comments

You’ve got to hand to Opeth, there aren’t many bands who forged their success on their own terms. “Blackwater Park” was the band’s big breakthrough and their success was solidified by subsequent albums like “Deliverance”, “Damnation”, “Ghost Reveries” and “Watershed”. Their combination of death metal...

Betraeus To Release Debut EP Through Seige Of Amida Records

Posted on August 28, 2011 | No Comments

UK progressive metal outfit BETRAEUS are set to release their fantastic debut EP on Siege Of Amida this November.

Novembers Doom – Aphotic

Novembers Doom – Aphotic

Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments

I’ve always viewed Chicago-based Novembers Doom as the American counterpart to bands like Opeth, Paradise Lost and Katatonia. My first introduction to Paul Kuhr and Co was their “The Pale Haunt Departure” album, a splendid doom/death album with some slight progressive overtones. Their subsequent records...

Opeth – Sonisphere 2011 Live Review

Opeth – Sonisphere 2011 Live Review

Posted on July 24, 2011 | No Comments

For one reason or another we have never actually seen Opeth live, a shocking revelation indeed!, but thankfully that ghost was well and truly laid to rest at Sonisphere as we bore witness to a short but brilliant set on the Saturn Stage from the...

James Last Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

James Last Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Posted on July 10, 2011 | No Comments

Ross Allen put some questions to James Last, drummer of Fornost Arnor. They talked about the new album “The Death Of A Rose”, Kate Bush, classic 70’s/80’s Rock & Metal, Jeff Buckley and Tool. Congratulations on “The Death Of A Rose”, it’s a stunning album....

Sam Austen Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Sam Austen Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Posted on July 8, 2011 | No Comments

Ross Allen recently put some questions to Sam Austen, bass player and clean vocalist of Fornost Arnor. They talked about the new album “The Death Of A Rose”, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth, The Dillinger Escape Plan and future live aspirations. Congratulations on “The Death Of A...

Greg Chivers Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Greg Chivers Of Fornost Arnor Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Posted on July 7, 2011 | No Comments

Ross Allen recently put some questions to Greg Chivers, vocalist and guitarist of Fornost Arnor. They talked about the new album “The Death Of A Rose”, Mikael Åkerfeldt, early 90s black metal, Talanas, Radiohead and Special Brew! Congratulations on “The Death Of A Rose”, it’s...

Fornost Arnor – The Death Of A Rose

Fornost Arnor – The Death Of A Rose

Posted on July 7, 2011 | No Comments

Fornost Arnor burst onto the scene towards the end of 2009 with the release of their debut album, “Escaping the Abyss”, on their own Witch-King label, which made our Top 10 Albums of 2009! The progressive metal band take influences from all corners of the...

Sonisphere 2011 – Sunday Preview

Sonisphere 2011 – Sunday Preview

Posted on July 6, 2011 | No Comments

Co-authored by Mark Wrigley. Apollo Stage With Saturday’s diversities fresh in our memories, come 11:00 am it’s time to climb aboard the huge musical roundabout once more with Volbeat (11:00 – 11:30) kicking off the Apollo Stage. These guys literally are one of the best...

Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink

Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink

Posted on May 15, 2011 | No Comments

Royal Weddings. Pomp and Circumstance. Wet Bank Holiday Mondays. There are some things that the English do much better than anyone else. Let’s add eccentric, self deprecating progressive rock to that list. The 40th anniversary reissue of Caravan‘s “In the Land of Grey and Pink”,...

Vintersorg – Jordpuls

Vintersorg – Jordpuls

Posted on April 23, 2011 | No Comments

You’ve got to hand it to Andreas Hedlund, principal protagonist and driving force behind Vintersorg- if there’s a moment when he stopped creating music over the past decade, then I missed it. “Jordpuls”, the latest release from the creative unit he runs with Matthias Markland...

Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

Posted on April 3, 2011 | No Comments

When it comes to to combining virtuoso instrumental skills with unpredictable and unorthodox compositions few do it better than Between The Buried And Me. They’ve released five full length albums so far. I was really impressed by their last two records, namely Colors (2007) and...

Talanas – The Waspkeeper

Talanas – The Waspkeeper

Posted on March 28, 2011 | No Comments

There’s a a bit of a cliché in the music business that you only get one shot at getting it right. Make it a great one and you can be set for life; if it’s a scuffed one or a miss-kick, you can spend a...