Theatricality in rock music has long served as a means for bands to make themselves stand out from the crowd and draw listeners into worlds of their own creation. Whether it be the campy almost-pantomime horror of Alice Cooper, the falsetto wails of King Diamond’s macabre opus Abigail, or the conceptual fairytale-like world-building of Avantasia, the…
It is an album so relentlessly stuck in the past that it probably would have voted to leave the EU.
Concept albums are rife in the world of progressive music. When an entire band steps into the realm of conceptual you know you’ve got some hard but rewarding work on your hands. Take Coheed and Cambria as perhaps the most prominent example; an overarching story that determines the lyricism and musicianship of each album as…
CKY rise from the ashes and return to incendiary form with their innovative fifth album ‘The Phoenix’. Eight long years since ‘Carver City’ shared its secrets, ‘The Phoenix’ takes flight at a crucial time for a band that could so easily have disappeared into obscurity. Chad I Ginsburg takes the helm for the first time…
