Category: COMPASS

The COMPASS story began back in December 2017 when British singer-songwriter Steve Newman decided to write a few songs that musically would step outside the barriers imposed by many years writing for his own melodic rock band Newman. This was to be something very different, liberating, both musically and lyrically, from anything he had created before, with the freedom to move across genres and not be pigeonholed within any particular musical style.
After a 2020 debut album to great acclaim by the music press and fans of both the Melodic Rock and Metal genres, Newman’s COMPASS are back with new effort “Theory Of Tides“, a very interesting eclectic mix pulling in influences from Rush, Saga, and Dream Theater through It Bites and Pink Floyd.
Steve’s vision, and indeed the rest of the band successfully realised in creating a bridge between these two genres of music; “Theory Of Tides” is a great piece of work merging melodic hard with progressive rock, and demonstrating Newman’s talent far beyond his usual AOR material.
One of the greatest compliments being that the songs could not be placed into one specific category, and that’s really captivating…

Known for his AOR / Melodic Rock pedigree, some years ago British singer-songwriter Steve Newman decided to write a few songs that musically would step outside the barriers imposed by many years writing for his own melodic rock band Newman.
Steve then assembled a new band, COMPASS, mixing elaborated melodic rock with progressive, and the result is their debut album “Our Time On Earth“, successfully creating a bridge between these two genres of music.
While Steve Newman previously collaborated with some more proggy acts, never in my wildest dreams I would have expected he will create an own project like COMPASS. And glad he did it. “Our Time On Earth” is intriguing, awesomely performed and executed, melodic and intelligent progressive all over…