Category: Music

It’s been a while since Monday has been metal, so here you go. Haken is London-based progressive metal group. This track is the first off their recently released Restoration EP.

One of my favorite instrumental bands is actually just one guy (probably why I like him) who writes and records under the name Cloudkicker. This is the first track of a 3 song EP, which you can probably stream either on YouTube or the bandcamp site I just linked to. If you like it, consider…

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The other day I decided to rock an older album from my iTunes library, For Today’s Ekklesia. It was one of my go-to albums in the fall of 2008. They are thankfully still around making music and here is their most popular video off their most recent album Fight The Silence: Also, here’s an interview…

Say you wanted to brush up on your understanding of music notation. Maybe you’ve always wanted to understand music theory. Well, now you can. Here is an online book that will help you get a grasp of music theory (thanks Lifehacker!) Below is a chart showing all of the standard musical notations you might come…

When the guitarist for Scale The Summit released his solo project this past summer (Lightbox), he utilized several guys from The Reign of Kindo. I hadn’t heard of them, but now I’m glad I have. This song is off their most recent album, Play With Fire, which also comes in an 8-bit remix version, Play (which…

A friend of mine on Facebook posted a cover of this song recently, so I ran it to ground to get the original. Jon Gomm is singer/songwriter with some very impressive guitar magic: If you’re interested, like I was, you can get the tab for this song here. This video is about 3 years old,…

There’s not a ton of metal bands that have a vocalist only doing clean vocals, but this just works. I wish more instrumental metal acts would make the jump to adding a clean vocalist like Intervals did.

One of my favorite bands, Animals as Leaders released a new album back in March, The Joy of Motion. Earlier in the summer, they played a few of the songs live at Guitar Center in Hollywood. Here is the first cut from the album, Kascade: As well as the first single, Tooth and Claw: If…