Music Review: The Gathering – The West Pole
Feared by most as the portent of doom for The Gathering, the news that long term singer Anneke van Giersbergen was leaving in 2007 has, instead, acted as something of a new impetus for the Dutch metal...
View ArticleMusic Review: The Gathering – West Pole
The Gathering is an interesting band. I was first introduced to them in the late 1990s. They were signed to Century Media records, a label that was fast becoming one of my favorites with its impressive...
View ArticleThe Evolution of a Band
Like everything else, human beings feel the need to categorise music. Unfortunately, this is restricting bands from exploring and exploiting their talent for fearing of losing fans; having problems...
View ArticleTV Review: Torchwood: Miracle Day – “The Gathering”
It is two months later and the penultimate episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day opens with the planet in the midst of a global economic crisis as the Great Depression enters its 61st day. In a move...
View ArticleAn Interview with Young Adult Scribe Suzanne Young
The amazing Suzanne Young is the author of A Need So Beautiful (Balzer&Bray/HarperCollins), the upcoming novels, A Want So Wicked (Summer 2012) and The Program (SimonPulse, Spring 2013). Suzanne...
View ArticleMusic Reviews: Doro, The Gathering, Magica, and Seven Kingdoms
It’s time for another review of a fine collection of hard rock featuring the fairer – if no less heavy rock – sex. Doro is back with another album called Raise Your Fist. Yet again it is an album that...
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