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CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX SHARE LATEST TRACK WINNING A LOSING BATTLE’
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have revealed the 2nd track from their forthcoming album ‘Bronze’. The UK dark progressive rockers will release their stunning new full-length on November 4th. Justin Greaves comments: Some songs depart from my mind into reality without consent. Winning A Losing Battle is one of those. The track just barged itself into the…
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Riverside – Eye Of The Soundscape – releases 21st October 2016
Following RIVERSIDE s sixth and highly successful studio album release, Love, Fear and the Time Machine” and its recently launched 5.1 edition, the Warsaw, Poland-based Progressive Rock innovators return with a very special complimentary instrumental release dubbed Eye Of The Soundscape . Eye Of The Soundscape features 13 experimental and highly atmospheric compositions, previously used…
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Review – Blues Pills – Lady In Gold – by James R. Turner
This is the second album from Swedish Blues rockers Blues Pills, who appeared as if from nowhere back in 2014 with their assured self titled debut album with its wonderfully psychedelic artwork and its feet planted firmly in the blues rock tradition of the late 60’s. In fact, with the power behind the band and…
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BE PROG! MY FRIEND NOW ADDS ANATHEMA, ANIMALS AS LEADERS AND CALIGULA?S HORSE.
Since its inception in 2014 the Barcelona based festival Be Prog! My Friend has played host to the likes of Opeth, Steven Wilson, Anathema, Devin Townsend, TesseracT, The Pineapple Thief, Magma, Agent Fresco, Camel, Meshuggah, Katatonia, Riverside, Isahn and Alcest. Taking place in the beautiful open air surroundings of Poble Espanyol – a huge stone…
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Review – Crippled Black Phoenix – Bronze – by Gary Morley
I have a love hate relationship with post rock. It depends on the weather I think. Someday a gumbo mix of old Black Sabbath riffs, Bauhaus vocal growls and thundering Bonham influenced drums hits that spot. Other days the everything louder than everything else mantra grates and I want a simple clean palate of sound.…
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Review – The Gift – Why The Sea Is Salt – by Leo Trimming
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Review – Kansas – The Prelude Implicit – by Gary Morley
Confessions time this review is proving trickier than I thought. I discussed writing it with a friend who’s far more erudite… a transcript follows:- Me: Morning. Am still struggling with Kansas CD, are you an expert in them? Learned Friend: in what sense? Me: I have listened to this new one 6 or 7 times…
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Review – Sphelm – These Roots Know No Boundaries – by Emma Roebuck
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THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – ANNOUNCE HEADLINE YOUR WILDERNESS TOUR FEATURING GAVIN HARRISON
The Pineapple Thief have announced a string of European dates for early 2017 in support of their highly acclaimed new album, ‘Your Wilderness’. The band will be joined by virtuoso Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on drums. “We always said that we couldn’t imagine touring the material live without Gavin on stage’, explains band…
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Colin Tench Project ‘Hair In A G-String’ ready for pre-orders
Colin Tench tells us, “The album is complete and in preparation for CD manufacture. The cast list is a dream come true. The diversity of the players and pieces is what makes this album special to me. The album structure could be labelled Prog before there was Prog. Split this into the written piece “Hair…