Nova Collective performs “Dancing Machines” from their debut album “The Further Side.”
Nova Collective began in 2014 when bassist Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me, Trioscapes) and guitarist Richard Henshall (Haken) began exchanging emails about music; before long, a few demos were fleshed out into full arrangements. Drummer Matt Lynch (Trioscapes, Cynic) and keyboardist Pete Jones (ex-Haken) came on board shortly after to finish writing the album. The Further Side was written on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, with Briggs and Lynch in America and Henshall and Jones in England, sharing session files until the group could get together at the beginning of 2015 to record with engineer Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist). Mixed by Rich Mouser (Neal Morse, Transatlantic), it is immediately
clear that The Further Side is a labor of love for all involved, and that enthusiasm shines throughout.
The 1980s were a GLORIOUS time for rock and metal…but you may have missed some excellent albums from that era. Have no fear: Metal Jesus & Andrew talk about some of the more under-rated metal albums and you can listen to those songs here:
The Music Biz Weekly Podcast episode 272, this week Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert are joined by Bruce Houghton from Hypebot. Bruce discusses the state of the music business in 2017. Bruce also announces the new Hypebot Music Biz Weekly Podcast relationship.
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Watch Part 1 of our Loudwire Legacy documentary series on Pantera’s ‘Vulgar Display of Power.’ This Part focusing on the making of the album, and features the three surviving members of Pantera, as well as producer Terry Date.
Explore the impact of Pantera’s iconic ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ album.
This is the secret story behind Pantera’s iconic ‘Vulgar Display of Power.’
Guitar god shredder 331Erock takes on John Petrucci of Dream Theater: “Well, had to sit down for this one haha. The top comment on the last solo challenge video was “Dream Theater”. That narrowed it down pretty much haha. The 2 that were mentioned the most were “Stream of Consciousness” and this one. I learned “As I Am” and SOC off of Train of Thought somewhat before so I decided to go with the one I never touched. Hope I showed a sloppy tribute to JP’s nastiness :P”
Check out Graham Hartmann‘s personal favorite albums of 2016!
1) Astronoid – Air
2) The Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence
3) Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
4) Sumac – What One Becomes
5) Wormrot – Voices
Loudwire’s Joe DiVita picks his personal Top 5 Albums of 2016!
1) Fates Warning – Theories of Flight
2) Sumerlands – Sumerlands
3) Destroyer 666 – Wildfire
4) Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management
5) Purson – Desire’s Magic Theatre
Jesper Frostgaard asks:
I would love to hear your opinion on what is best – vinyl, cd, streaming or maybe high-res audio (like HD-tracks). And about what you use and how?
Reese Riverson asks:
What turn table would you recommend to buy for those who don’t have a very good one or wish to get one to start collecting or expand upon their vinyl collection?
Sergio Elisondo is a musician who released a full digital audio album on NES cartridge format – A first of it’s kind! This is not 8bit chip tunes but real instruments played like a real digital album. It is the results of several people overcoming technical challenges and in this video we talk about the making of it.
Here are the new, re-issued and used records I have picked up in the last couple months.
Albums Shown:
Steve Vai – Passion & Warfare
Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake
Airbourne – Breakin’ Outta Hell
Judas Priest – Turbo
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Anthrax – For All Kings
Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six
Volbeat – Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie
Greenday – Revolution Radio
Whitechapel – Mark of the Blade
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Here are 16 vinyl records I have added to my music collection over the last couple months. Those albums include:
Dream Theater – The Astonishing
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute
Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack
Zero 7 – Simple Things
Whitesnake – Come An’ Get It, Ready an’ Willing, Ain’t No Love
Stryper – No More Hell to Pay
KISS – Music from The Elder
KISS – Alive! The Millennium Concert
Cocteau Twins – Stars and Topsoil
Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood
Halestorm – The Strange Case Of…
Halestorm – Into the Wild Live: Chicago
Rob Zombie – Everybody is Fucking a UFO
