Metaphor

This is a 12" promo single originally released in Sept. 1987.

After successfully establishing themselves as one of America's best commercial progressive rock bands of the late '70s with albums like The Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight, Chicago's Styx had taken a dubious step towards pop overkill with singer Dennis DeYoung's ballad "Babe." The centerpiece of 1979's uneven Cornerstone album, the number one single sowed the seeds of disaster for the group by pitching DeYoung's increasingly mainstream ambitions against the group's more conservative songwriters, Tommy Shaw and James "JY" Young…

Swedish sludge/doom trio MONOLORD invites you to a trip to their spacey world with their Rust, to be released on September 29th via Riding Easy Records. It’s an equilibrium between heavy riffs and atmospheric ambitions that keeps together this LP: Jäger almost ethereal vocals, their minimalistic approach, with all the unnecessary stripped down, create their unique fingerprint that differentiates them from other bands of their genres, like YOB, that on the other hands focus their work on a more palpable song structure and rich arrangement. And yet, this game of untouchable smoke works, as their international success in the last three years can witness.