CrypticRock

Vlad in Tears - Relapse album

Vlad in Tears – Relapse (Album Review)

The categorization of Gothic Metal is quite a broad one that can range all the way from the work of England’s Paradise Lost to Finland’s H.I.M.  Two vastly different entities, to simplify matters, let us just say – to most, Gothic Metal falls somewhere between ... Read More
Another Sky - Beach Day album

Another Sky – Beach Day (Album Review)

The Doors’ Jim Morrison said it best in the 1967 song “Strange Days,” but just fast forward nearly six decades later… and the times are even stranger. No question one of the oddest periods in recorded history, among those sustaining collateral damage due to technology ... Read More
Paula Cole - Lo album

Paula Cole – Lo (Album Review)

Back in the ‘90s period of popular music there were a bundle of talented singer-writer types getting plenty of deserved Pop radio airplay. You have the likes of Alanis Morissette, Sherly Crow, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, but also a young woman out of New England ... Read More