Steve Babb and Hannah Pryor of Prog Rock's 'Glass Hammer' Exclusive Interview!

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho

Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb and Fred Schendel began to write and record “Journey of the Dunadan”, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings.

Glass Hammer is Progressive rock at its finest! First came Dreaming City (2021), followed by Skallagrim – Into the Breach (2022). Now Glass Hammer returns to the cursed realm of Andorath with Part III of their Skallagrim trilogy, AT THE GATE their most recent release. The album’s narrative concludes the sword and sorcery-inspired tale of the thief with the screaming sword, a “desperate man” who lost his lover and his memory. Lead vocalist, Hannah Pryor, joins Steve Babb, Fred Schendel, and Aaron Raulston. Singer John Beagley and former Glass Hammer vocalist Jon Davison (now of YES) make guest appearances.

Musically Glass Hammer’s most apparent influences are Yes, Kansas, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and to a less noticeable extent, Genesis. While Glass Hammer has, for the most part, combined those influences into a characteristic style of their own.

PLEASE WELCOME BASSIST/KEYBOARDIST SINGER/SONGWRITER/AUTHOR/ STEVE BABB AND SINGER HANNAH PRYOR OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP GLASS HAMMER TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS ….

 

 

PURCHASE

THE LATEST RELEASE

BY

GLASS HAMMER

Entitled

AT THE GATE

At

https://glasshammer.com/official-store/

and amazon.com

ALSO

PURCHASE

STEVEN BABB’S BOOK

SKALLAGRIM

IN THE VALUES OF PAGARNA

BOOK ONE

At amazon.com

“And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.”

Skallagrim wakes in the middle of a fight for his life with only the vaguest idea of who he is. Facing an angry mob of murderous cutthroats, he watches helplessly while the love of his life is abducted before his eyes. Finally, with a crushing sense of despair, he realizes he’s going to die without even knowing her name.

But he doesn’t die.

To find the girl and take his revenge upon the fiend who took her, Skallagrim, wounded and exhausted, must endure a journey like no other. He’ll face madmen, ghouls, tentacled horrors, and witches, both foul and fair, as he races toward a final showdown that will have readers on the edge of their seats.

An awe-inspiring tale of adventure, triumph, and tragedy, set in a brutal, unforgiving wilderness and packed with heart-stopping action, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna marks the first installment of an outstanding new series.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

GLASS HAMMER

VISIT

www.glasshammer.com

Official website

https://twitter.com/GlassHammerProg

Twitter

www.facebook.com/glasshammerband

Facebook

www.youtube.com/user/ghprog

YouTube

https://stephenrbabb.com/about/

Steve Babb author website

 

Discography

Studio albums

Journey of the Dunadan (1993)

Perelandra (1995)

On to Evermore (1998)

Chronometree (2000)

The Middle-Earth Album (2001)

Lex Rex (2002)

Shadowlands (2004)

The Inconsolable Secret (2005, re-recorded in 2013)

Culture of Ascent (2007)

Three Cheers for the Broken-Hearted (2009)

If (2010)

Cor Cordium (2011)

Perilous (2012)

Ode to Echo (2014)

The Breaking of the World (2015)

Valkyrie (2016)

Chronomonaut (2018)

Dreaming City (2020)

Skallagrim - Into the Breach (2021)

"At the Gate" (2022)

 

Live albums

Live and Revived (1997; also a compilation of previously unreleased tracks)

Live at Nearfest (2004)

Double Live (2015)

Mostly Live (2018)

 

Live DVDs

Lex Live (2004)

Live at Belmont (2006)

Live at the Tivoli (2008)

Double Live (2015)