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Live Review – The Prog Before Christmas – CCA Glasgow 18/12/15 – by Progradar
(Your intrepid correspondent and Jon Hunt, aka jh) No matter how long and arduous the journey, if the destination deserves it, it was a worthy one. Trust me, the trip up to Glasgow and back for The Prog Before Christmas was decidedly long and, at times, extremely arduous. However, what transpired and unfolded before me…
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Review – Teramaze – Her Halo – by Kevin Thompson
WARNING! IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR PROG ON THE METAL SIDE, LOOK AWAY NOW. An endless list: Muse, Queen, Joe Satriani, Pallas, Evergrey, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Anathema, Threshold, and on and on……… I think I have found a new sub-genre, Alloy Prog, as this band combine so many different styles of prog metal and…
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Review – Malady (self-titled) by Emma Roebuck
I don’t really like to have half the review written for me.However, the guys from Malady kindly translated their website information from the Finnish as their English makes my total absence of Finnish look very embarrassing. So for those of you looking at the website, you can now see what some of the words mean…
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Combination review – Panzerballet – Breaking Brain & Special Providence – Essence of Change by Shawn Dudley
fusion (noun) – a merging of diverse, distinct, or separate elements into a unified whole. When venturing into conversations about experimental or hard-to-define musical styles I often find it beneficial to go back to the original literal definition of the genre name. Fusion (the musical style) conjures a particular sound and a particular era, mostly…
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Proud Peasant announce Vinyl Only New Release!
Cinematic progressive rock band Proud Peasant (Austin, TX, USA) will release a 7″ single on acclaimed UK vinyl-only label Fruits de Mer Records. ‘Cosmic Sound’ will be released as a part of the label’s April 2016 releases and will feature covers of songs by Eloy and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Cinematic in scope, Proud Peasant’s…
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The Honourable Mentionables and Wallet Emptiers of 2015 – by Progradar
So, I’ve done my ‘Best of 2015’ list but there were so many that nearly made the list and should still be on your ‘Wallet Emptying’ selection that I couldn’t let 2015 close out without giving them a mention……….. Mandala – Midnight Twilight Psychedelic, dark and groovy. Mew – +/- Uplifting and slightly mental. Progoctopus…
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Review – Marquette – Human Reparation – by Terry DeLien
WHAT S UP PROG-NATION?!?!? It’s your boy, Terry DeLien, sometimes guest-host of PROG-WATCH and I am out to strain the shows relationship with Progradar even further by expecting Martin to publish my half-baked reviews!!!! Marquette (Markus Roth and Achim Wierschem) have just blown my mind!? An unwritten axiom of prog rock is that instrumentals are…
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Progradar’s ‘Best of 2015’ review – by Progradar
A scary picture to get things started, it’s that time of year again when everyone puts out their ‘Best of 2015’ album list and I’m no different to every other music journalist, budding or otherwise. Lists like these are very subjective, after all, one man’s poison is another man’s wine but they’re fun to do…
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Hasse Fr?berg and Musical Companion – HFMC – by Rob Fisher
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Live review – Lee Maddison at The Rabbit Hole – by Progradar
“…there’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else….” Brad Melzer. The juggernaut that is mainstream music is a big, ugly bloated behemoth that just tramples all and sundry underfoot. It is a money making machine, long gone are the reasons why people created and performed music in the first…