Articles by Roman Sokal
Junky Gods
Junky Gods
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001
Straight from picturesque East Vancouver comes some authentic rock with enough hair riffs to make one think they're on Hollywood's Sunset S...
King Crimson
Discipline
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001
In 1981, over-achieving guitarist extraordinaire Robert Fripp summoned three other musical monsters to join him in his tirade into a musica...
Shadow Gallery
Legacy
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001
Although billed as a "progressive" metal band, Shadow Gallery's aptly acrobatic changes in tempo are not enough to earn the diploma. The vi...
S. Process
More Me
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001
Although this is a rather short album - just over 24 minutes in total - S. Process utilises some kind of Stephen Hawking theory to make the...
Torrez
Wild Horse
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001
Led by the spiritual struggling-for-peace vocals of Kim Torres, this New Hampshire four-piece beautifully characterises the sounds of damag...
A Luna Red
The Death Birds
PUBLISHED May 1, 2001
Using looped drums and scattered and combustible electronic bits, the vintage, synthesised sounding A Luna Red take the lateral thinking as...
Subzone
Paranoid Landscape
PUBLISHED May 1, 2001
Luckily, the folks involved in this project have somewhat successfully rationalised the existence of what is otherwise a bland, electronic-...
Zyon
The Wishing Star
PUBLISHED May 1, 2001
Somewhere, floating in the same vein as grand and temperamentally heavy outfits such as Neurosis and Acacia is Zyon. However, there is some...