What do you get when you send a metalhead and a prog-nerd with a camera to a Good Charlotte show? You get a set of photos and a thirteen-minute audio piece. Sonic Perspectives Texas Bureau Chief Gonzalo Pozo and longtime friend Melissa Cagle leave their comfort zones to live among fans of more radio-friendly rock [...]

Anneke van Giersbergen burst onto the scene in the mid 90s when the Dutch progressive death metal band The Gathering decided to start doing things a little differently. Since then, this siren of the lowlands has led a varied and busy enough career to exhaust musicians half her age, transitioning into and out of metal, [...]

Having released collaboration albums with The Sea Within, Jon Anderson and being out on tour with Steve Hackett, the leader of The Flower Kings is now focusing on his own music by releasing a brand new album called “Manifesto of an Alchemist”. Under the moniker ROINE STOLT’S THE FLOWER KING, “Manifesto Of An Alchemist” offers [...]

For many people, Guy Manning flies under the radar.  That’s despite a 30-plus-year career that’s included more than a dozen albums under his own name, Manning, a stint in The Tangent, work with The United Progressive Fraternity, and too many guest spots to count. His current band is Damanek, an intercontinental collaborative effort with Southern [...]

Alex Skolnick first gained attention as the teenage wizkid whippersnapper super-shredder in the legendary thrash band Testament. But his musical passions have always had a broader scope; he experimented with funk with Stu Hamm in the early 90s, formed a number of bands who played everything from fusion to cop-show music, pursued a degree in [...]

Live Perspectives is back, once again brought to you by Gonzalo Pozo. This time around he witnessed the Alex Skolnick Trio show @ Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue in San Antonio, TX, as  part of the “Conundrum Tour”. Listen to Gonzo’s thoughts about the night in the audio below, and enjoy some pictures of the [...]

Do you remember when you first got into your favorite band? How you quickly ran through everything they had done up to that point and then anxiously awaited their next release? On this episode of Talking Perspectives we talk about how the point in which that happens with a band affects how you perceive their [...]

Talking Perspectives road trip! We head to the land of ProgStock, a progressive rock festival that was held over the weekend of October 6th in Rahway, New Jersey. Joel Barrios, Austin Kokel, Scott Medina, Nick Andreas and Bruce Allen give a day-by-day wrap up of the highlights of the festival, which featured over a dozen [...]

Dom R Crey made a splash when he joined the German bier-loving metalheads Equilibrium, but his own band Nothgard had been making some damn fine metal in the vein of Dark Tranquillity for several years already. Nothgard are set to hit the European road with Wolfheart and Omnium Gatherum to support their new album, Malady [...]

On this week’s episode Nick, Jordan, and Gonzo were joined once again by Edge of Reality and Kyros axeman Joey Frevola. The quartet discussed the use of, and the pros and cons of click and backing tracks in live performances and how Joey’s bands use them as part of their creative process. The second topic [...]