Month: March 2023

  • Norwegian progressive rock group AVKRVST reveal details for debut album The Approbation?

    Norwegian progressive rock group AVKRVST reveal details for debut album  The Approbation?

    New video for the first single The Pale Moon out now. Norwegian progressive rock group AVKRVST are pleased to reveal details on their debut album titled The Approbation, set to be released on the 16th June, 2023.  The album cover and tracklisting can be seen below. The band are also pleased to share the new video for the album’s first single The Pale Moon which you can…

  • Steve Hackett – 90’s solo albums?”Guitar Noir’ and Darktown’ to be released on vinyl for the very first time.

    Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett is pleased to announce that two of his 90’s solo records will be released on vinyl for the first time ever in 2023, marking the beginning of a series of vinyl reissues of his solo catalogue. On the 2nd June 2023, the 1993 album Guitar Noir? & the 1999 album Darktown will…

  • Review – Single Helix – Prog Gnosis

    Review – Single Helix – Prog Gnosis

    In 2021 multi-instrumentalist Rik Loveridge‘s Parkinson’s diagnosis led to him leaving The Kentish Spires. The only proper responses were a little cry and a new album. The album is drenched in the spirit of progressive rock but also explores other genres whilst remaining musically inventive (says Rik)! He envisaged some stunning guitar and sax elements…

  • Review – Ascher – Beginnings

    Review –  Ascher – Beginnings

    I love discovering new music, especially when it comes out of the blue. I had a review request in with regard to new US progressive rock group Ascher and I respected the opinion of the PR guy who had sent me the album so, as a favour, I listened to their debut release ‘Beginnings’ and…

  • Review – Cold Flame – A Circus In Paradise

    Review – Cold Flame – A Circus In Paradise

    Cold Flame are a respected original blues rock/ folk rock band who are also widely regarded as the premier Jethro Tull tribute band in the UK. They were formed in 1984 by singer songwriter Pat Rowbottom who remains the band’s driving force together with a stable and experienced line up that has been together for…

  • Review – Deposed King – One Man’s Grief

    Review – Deposed King – One Man’s Grief

    I learn about new music in a lot of different ways and one is word of mouth. When a fellow reviewer who I respect recommends an album then I will definitely seek it out. Jason Spencer of well renowned review website The Prog Mind had been waxing lyrical about ‘One Man’s Grief’, the debut album…

  • Review – Ebb – Mad & Killing Time

    Review – Ebb – Mad & Killing Time

    Prog Rock music takes commitment and concentration to create and sometimes even to listen to.? If requested to express spontaneous keywords that describe this style of music, the spectrum encompasses intellectual, unusual, off-beat, story-telling, conceptual, left-field, left-bank, innovative, challenging, technical, proficient, and soundscapes – before a rapid argument then ensues… People begin to reminisce about…

  • Review – Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orhcestra – Postcards From The Asylum

    Review – Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orhcestra – Postcards From  The Asylum

    Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra have returned once again with?’Postcards From The Asylum‘,? the follow up to 2021’s critically acclaimed?’Songs For The Apocalypse‘. The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra’s music has been described as Nordic Ambient Post-Classical Satanic Love Songs for Nomadic Peoples Living Above the Arctic Circle catering specifically for those who…

  • Review – Great Wide Nothing – Hymns for Hungry Spirits, Vol. II – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – Great Wide Nothing – Hymns for Hungry Spirits, Vol. II – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Great Wide Nothing are a progressive punk rock band who hail from Atlanta, Georgia, USA and while you can hear punk in their anger, the music they offer is classic Neo Prog. They cite Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Muse, Marillion, Depeche Mode, Deep Purple and The Cure among their very varied influences. Some interesting choices,…

  • Review – Klone – Meanwhile – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – Klone – Meanwhile – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Klone are a French alt-metal collective and this album, their seventh, was recorded in February 2022 and is the follow up to their 2019 release, ‘Le Grande Voyage’. In the intervening period between the two albums the group have been busy wowing festival audiences at Hellfest and Prog Power USA, among others. This has certainly…