Robert Adams

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Robert has been writing about music for over thirty years. Starting with Glasgow-based M8 magazine back in his native Scotland, he then moved down to London and worked as a music PR with the late Roland Hyams at Rock Hard PR.


With Roland, he worked with artists such as Bruce Dickinson, The Almighty, Helloween, W.A.S.P, Big Country, and The Stranglers.

Robert wrote for Rock Sound magazine for a few years before joining the MetalTalk team around seven years ago.

FISH / Legendary Scot bows out with his finest album

Weltschmerz – German noun meaning "a feeling of melancholy and world weariness." Fish - Weltschmerz (Chocolate Frog Records) Release Date 25 September 2020 Words: Robert Adams "This is my defining statement. I knew that I couldn’t...

The Sunday Supplement / Arjen Lucassen talks ‘Transitus,’ The Movie

If you are familiar with Ayreon at all, you will already know that Arjen Lucassen does not really do things on a small scale.  Thankfully, 'Transitus' finds that nothing has changed on that...

Oceans Of Slumber / Band return with beautifully bruising album number four

If you are looking for quality Progressive Death Metal, chances are your first stop would not be Texas! Oceans Of Slumber seem to have a revolving door policy when it comes to...

Biffy Clyro / ‘A Celebration Of Endings’ is a belter of an album

Ayrshire’s finest return with sublime album number nine and I am going to make a bold statement here – Biffy Clyro are a progressive rock band!! Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings...

Black Crown Initiate / Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape

Hailing from Reading - no not that one, the Pennsylvanian one, 'Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape' is Black Crown Initiate’s first album for Century Media after two successful albums for eOne. Their sound...

Haken / Virus is the bands finest album to date

If 'Vector' was a fuller origin story of ‘The Cockroach King', who first made an appearance in 2013’s 'The Mountain' album, then 'Virus' is his genesis story. That is, the 17 minute...

Lonely Robot / Never has pain and heartbreak sounded so beautiful

Lonely Robot is the name that multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer John Mitchell has chosen to use for his solo work. Already a member of Frost*, Arena, It Bites and Kino, Mitchell certainly...

Caligula’s Horse raise the bar on a masterful fifth album

Australia seem to have a knack of providing brilliant progressive rock bands. I stumbled across Karnivool whilst watching footage of a Download festival from years gone by and while researching this band,...

Alestorm still have a place in our hearts with ‘Curse Of The Crystal Coconut’

Ahoy you scurvy landlubbers, lock up your daughters, treasure, whisky and rum - Alestorm are setting sail once again with their new voyage - ‘Curse Of The Crystal Coconut’. Words: Robert Adams According to...

FM Continue their rich vein of form with ‘Synchronized’

Veteran British melodic rockers FM continue to mine their rich vein of form with album number 12 - 'Synchronized'. Words: Robert Adams FM are a band that rarely puts a foot wrong. They seem...

Robert Adams

WRITER
Robert has been writing about music for over thirty years. Starting with Glasgow-based M8 magazine back in his native Scotland, he then moved down to London and worked as a music PR with the late Roland Hyams at Rock Hard PR.


With Roland, he worked with artists such as Bruce Dickinson, The Almighty, Helloween, W.A.S.P, Big Country, and The Stranglers.

Robert wrote for Rock Sound magazine for a few years before joining the MetalTalk team around seven years ago.
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