Tag Archives: William Shatner

William Shatner, Ponder The Mystery. Album Review.

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There are always new worlds to explore, even those you have been briefly to before can still hold a world of wonder within its dark caverns and forbidding forests. For William Shatner, the man who first took Star Trek fans on an adventure that shows no signs of running out of steam, the music quest has been taken before but not perhaps to the best of receptions.  Times have changed, William Shatner has grown older and wiser and his life has taken many different turns since those heady days of the 1960s at the head of the Enterprise. This certainly feels like the best time to Ponder The Mystery.  

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(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

William Shatner To Ponder The Mystery Of Progressive Rock.

To many, William Shatner is one of the main reason why Star Trek become a television hit in the 1960s and has long lived on and flourished under different franchises and films nearly 50 years later. Now Mr. Shatner is going boldly where he has never gone before, the world of Progressive Rock with Prog Rock giant Billy Sherwood by his side.

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(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Star Trek Into Darkness, Film Review.

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Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban, John Cho, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Bruce Greenwood, Noel Clarke, Peter Weller.

There used to be a theory that every other Star Trek film was a little bit duff, that it just didn’t stand up to the one before it or that one that followed in its wake. For every excellent Wrath of Khan, Voyage Home and The Undiscovered Country, there is the slightly tired and sometimes reek of desperation The Search For Spock, The Final Frontier and Insurrection. Then came along J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and their combined vision with what could be done with a much loved franchise, re-wrote history and then made two jaw dropping films on the trot. First with 2009’s reboot Star Trek and now with the daddy of them so far Star Trek Into Darkness.

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(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Blackburner, Planet Earth Attack. Album Review.

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Mix the industrial with a healthy dollop of some of the finest exponents of Progressive Rock, some genre crossing of dubstep and Heavy Metal and finally one of the megastars and iconic figures of Science Fiction film and television and you have the superb new Blackburner album Planet Earth Attack in all its grandiose and lavish glory.

William Shatner, the one and only Captain Kirk from television’s Star Trek,is no stranger to adding his unique tone of voice to another artist’s idea but from the start of the Skyla Talon’s produced album, with its eclectic and brutally dystopian future soundscapes, it sets the ultimate and stunning start to the aggressive and dominant music.

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(383 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)