Ever since A Perfect Circle broke up, I’ve been on the lookout for a band that that combined elements of hard rock and progressive rock with heavy effects and melody. Tool, while very different from APC, ventures into artistic realms largely unexplored by mainstream hard rock, and it was a major plus that the two bands shared a vocalist, but it still wasn’t enough….

Lightweights such as 10 Years and Evans Blue emerged, but it wasn’t until I stumbled upon the Seattle based Rishloo, that I felt I had found something closer to the mark.

Rishloo has a great amalgamation of styles and techniques:

Illegible metal band logos
Extreme metal logos have become a genre in themselves, spawning creative and sometimes baffling designs. The bands that adopt them are usually far from mainstream and cover a range of styles: brilliant riffs and technical chops at one end, and a chaotic mass of noise, squeals and …

Do you have the ‘guts’ to read Chuck Palahniuk?
Most people hear of the author via the modern cult movie Fight Club, which was adapted from his novel of the same name. In the film, a disillusioned Edward Norton attempts to overcome the emasculation and hollowness caused by modern American life …

Apart from a few albums that come to mind (System of a Down’s Toxicity and Mezmerize, Deftones’s White Pony, A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step), there are very few mainstream modern rock albums I’ve listened to where almost every track is good enough to potentially be released …

This blog is not really about absinthe. But because the drink was a favorite of a number of (mainly French) artists and visionaries of the Symbolist movement, it seemed a fitting emblem for an art blog.
Supposedly these old masters would down the brew, get visited by a green fairy or …