Five disc (four CDs + DVD) box set from the German guitarist and his band, an official 'bootleg' release. Walk The Stage features four different live shows spread across a quartet of CDs (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1980, Live At Osaka First Show, September 10th, 1981, Live At Osaka Second Show, September 11th, 1981 and Live At The Reading Rock Festival, August 29th, 1982) plus one DVD: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1983…
The day may come when the well runs dry, but that day is not upon us. The fourth installment of Sonny Rollins' Road Shows series has arrived, bringing more beauties from the archives to light while bearing out that the genius of the Saxophone Colossus is best demonstrated on the stage. That's where the magic has always happened for him, and that's why these offerings have been so well-received. The first three volumes are already considered to be indispensable items in the storied Rollins canon, and this one stands to join them.
The seventh studio long-player from the veteran California-based metal ensemble, and their first new collection of music to feature ex-Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman behind the kit, The Stage sees Avenged Sevenfold rolling up their sleeves and delivering an ambitious concept LP. Dropped with little to no promotion - WWE superstar and Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho leaked the album's original title, Voltaic Oceans, via his Instagram account a month prior to the release - the narrative concerns itself with the Orwellian consequences of a world struggling to adapt to the myriad complexities of artificial intelligence - there's even a spoken word appearance by celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Despite some forays into Floyd-ian space rock - the soloing in the orchestra-driven "Roman Sky" is positively Gilmour-esque - the 11-track set mostly sticks to the kind of propulsive, melodic carnage…