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The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord checks in from the studio and reveals details of their new studio album Dissolution
UK & European Headline Tour Announced Bruce Soord, The Pineapple Thief’s composer, lyricist and driving force, has checked in from the studio with an update on the progress of the band’s new album, the follow up to 2016’s acclaimed Your Wilderness. After?5 intensive months of song writing and recording, the new The Pineapple Thief album…
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The Slyde announces new album “Awakening”
Following up with 2017’s EP release “Back Again”, Canadian melodic proggers The Slyde return with their first full length effort titled “Awakening”.? The band (formerly known as just Slyde) will add six tracks to Back Again’s four, of the intricate, contrapuntal prog rock they’ve honed over the last decade, on May 18 2018. In true…
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STEVE HACKETT TO HEADLINE THE SATURDAY OF BE PROG! MY FRIEND 2018 / SWEDISH PROGRESSIVE METAL BAND BURST TO REFORM AT THE FESTIVAL
Be Prog! My Friend have announced Steve Hackett as the 2nd headline act for the festival next year. The former Genesis guitarist will close the festival on the Saturday while A Perfect Circle headline the Friday. The organisers add: ‘Steve Hackett is coming to Be Prog! My Friend 2018 and will be playing a mix…
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Review – Shadowlight – Stars Above The City – by Progradar
A little known fact is that UK based alternative rock band Shadowlight are the main reason you are now reading this review on a website called Progradar. I liked their 2012 release ‘Twilight Canvas’ that much that I really (and I mean REALLY) pushed it on social media as well as creating some Youtube videos…
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Single Review – Sleeperman – Keeley Really – by Progradar
Like a never ending musical production line staffed with working class heroes from the 50’s and 60’s, those folks at Chippy Records have released the fourth Sleeperman single of 2018 and, once again, it is a humour filled triumph of social commentary and the lives that normal people lead. “Aged eight she was going to…
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Progradar Recommends – Episode 5 – Frequency Drift, Hillmen, Deafening Opera & Weend?
Here we go again folks, another episode of my recommendations and have we got some pretty powerful and intense stuff for you this time so, without further ado… Frequency Drift – Letters to Maro Intense and complex cinematic art rock with a heavy progressive feel, that has been the core of German band Frequency Drift’s…
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GAZPACHO RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR EXIT SUITE? FROM NEW STUDIO ALBUM SOYUZ
Ahead of the release of their brand-new studio album, Soyuz, on May 18th Norwegian Art-rock progressive outfit Gazpacho have revealed their visually stunning and emotive new video for the track Exit Suite? Gazpacho’s Thomas Andersen explains the song’s creative birth Exit Suite is the cinematic sounding result of a night playing with matches in the…
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The Sea Within – Roine Stolt, Daniel Gildenl?w, Jonas Reingold, Tom Brislin & Marco Minnemann – announce self-titled debut album
The Sea Within – the new art-rock collective comprising of Roine Stolt(Transatlantic, The Flower Kings), Daniel Gildenl?w (Pain of Salvation), Jonas Reingold (Steve Hackett, The Flower Kings, Karmakanic, The Tangent), Tom Brislin (Yes Symphonic, Renaissance, Spiraling, Deborah Harry) & Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, UK, Joe Satriani) – have announced that their debut self-titled…
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Only Echoes Remain Release New Live Single Monolith -Sophomore Album Due Late 2018
London prog/post rock quartet Only Echoes Remain have today released emotional and heavy live single Monolith, their first since last summer’s acclaimed debut concept album ‘The Exigen’t, filmed live at their recent Chaos Theory show with Godspeed-collaborator thisquietarmy. The band says the new record definitely feels like a natural evolution for us. There’s a lot…
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DREAM THE ELECTRIC SLEEP ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF LOST? 2008 ALBUM THE GIANTS NEWGROUND?
KENTUCKY PROGGERS ALSO SHARE FIRST SINGLE? WE SMELL THE BLOOD’ Dream The Electric Sleep have announced details of an unheard lost? 2008 album The Giants Newground which will be released on 18/05/18 via 7Hz Productions and shared the first single to be heard from the album We Smell The Blood. Dream the Electric Sleep officially…