Scott Wilson, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: Caspian – Caspian

Since CASPIAN’s last record, the world has lived through a pandemic, the band have celebrated their 20th anniversary, and their

From the outside, FUTURE PALACE appear to have their shit together. They have dropped a new record every other year

“Empathy was called a crime, but not in our name,” goes Colours, one of the lead tracks off XANDRIA’s ninth

Maybe it’s inevitable that a band will turn to look back at their history, if they are lucky enough to

Symphonic metal bands go through new singers like it’s going out of business. On AMBERIAN DAWN’s 11th record, Temptation’s Gates,

LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT is as deft at plucking delicate tapestries from her harp as she is leading the charge on arena-stomping

There’s a reason frisson, a physical tingling sensation, is sometimes referred to as a ‘skin orgasm’. It’s a release of

With Solstice, London-based A.A. WILLIAMS picks up the beautifully melancholic baton dropped by ANATHEMA at their dissolution. She becomes poet

There’s an awesome video from a few years ago of ERDVE playing in a church. It works as well as

“I think the world is getting darker,” says Martijn Westerholt, EYE OF MELIAN’s keyboardist and orchestral arranger. “Art is extremely