Review by Kirsty Middlemist I discovered Kris Barras Band in 2021, which means I missed the blues-soaked opening chapter of Kris’s career and instead met the band mid-transformation. What hooked me was the harder rock direction that Death Valley Paradise and then Halo Effect leaned into — bigger riffs, bigger choruses, a [more…]
All Aboard the ‘Neverland Train’: An Interview with Marco Pastorino
By Justin Smulison If you’re a fan of European melodic rock and metal you’re probably already familiar with at least one of Marco Pastorino’s active symphonic, prog or power metal groups: Temperance, Fallen Sanctuary, Serenity, Virtual Symmetry or Christiano Filippini’s Flames of Heaven. In most cases, Pastorino is a (or the) primary [more…]