STCBM060: Keelhauled!

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Alestorm - Keelhauled (from Black Sails At Midnight)
The Mute Gods - Last Man on Earth (from Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)
Ben Craven - The Remarkable Man (from Last Chance To Hear)
The Enid - The Demon King (from In The Region Of The Summer Stars)
Gary Numan - Love Hurt Bleed (from Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind))
Galahad - Sleepers (from Sleepers)
The Butterfly Effect - In A Memory (from Imago)
Plini- Every Piece Matters (from Handmade Cities)
John Wesley - Once A Warrior (from Disconnect)
The Pineapple Thief - Take Your Shot (from Your Wilderness)

The Eighties at 8: 

Pink Floyd - Not Now John (single version) (from The Final Cut)
Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (from Invisible Touch)

Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman - God Be My Judge (from Weir Keeper's Tale)
HEADSPACE - Road to Supremacy (from All That You Fear is Gone)
Damian Wilson - Battlelines (from Built for Fighting)
Devin Townsend Project - Secret Sciences (from Transcendence)

2012 Top Ten: 9 Headspace - I Am Anonymous

Back to my top ten of 2012 and at number 9 I have chosen Headspace's I Am Anonymous.

It had been something of a wait since the band's first release, the I Am... EP in 2007, but the full album was certainly something well worth waiting for.

Progressive metal albums can on occasion suffer from sounding a bit "samey" even if the individual songs are good (something the recent Threshold album is guilty of), but Headspace have not fallen into this trap producing a varied selection of sounds and some excellent songs drawing on various musical styles and influences. I am especially taken with with In Hell's Name and Invasion.

Lead singer Damian Wilson (also in Threshold) is in fine form and with a new album already being worked on hopefully it won't be another seven years before we get some new music from this excellent band.