Part of me is locked inexorably into the traditional Sunday fare of a roast chicken, two veg and a puckle of tatties from which the lieges here at Schloss Edwards are able to graze well into Monday ...

When longtime bassist and co-vocalist Marko Hietala released his debut solo album, Pyre Of The Black Heart, in 2019, he referred to it as “hard prog.” After leaving Nightwish the following year, he’s ...

But Hietala lets loose throughout, as might be expected on a solo album. His vocals were often trammelled for the sake of the song in Nightwish, but he wails away here in a way that might be more ...

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What measures are used to avoid or contain failure and do they disable the very things they are meant to allow, particularly in publicly-funded undertakings that are trammelled into goal-driven, ...