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HAKEN announce Liveforms: An Evening With Haken? – recorded live in London
Progressive pioneers Haken spent 2024 celebrating their most recent acclaimed studio album, Fauna, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their An Evening With run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed Fauna in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from…
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Review – Glass Hammer – ‘Rogue’
Glass Hammer’s ‘Rogue’ spins the tale of one man’s fateful, final journey. He leaves everything he knows behind,? explains composer Steve Babb. And thinks he’s returning to a place where he once knew happiness, but in reality, his odyssey will sweep him away to somewhere completely unexpected.? Babb explains that the ten-song album explores themes…
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PRESS RELEASE: FIRST SINGLE IS REVEALED FOR THE NEW OAK ALBUM
Karisma Records announced earlier the release of the highly anticipated fourth album from OAK, The Third Sleep , which will be out on the 25th of April. An album that contrasts light and darkness, both thematically and musically, seamlessly blending folk-inspired acoustic passages with the raw intensity of progressive metal, evoking echoes of Opeth and…
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Review – Sharks: Car Crash Supergroup – The Island Years 1973-1974, 3CD Box Set – by John Wenlock-Smith
It almost seems that in the 1970’s you couldn’t move for supergroups, that strange scenario where bands split, only to re-emerge in a new combination of musicians. Some of these were very successful, like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, others less so, where the combination was just to volatile to exist peacefully enough to make their…
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Anthony Phillips – Sail The World – New 2CD Remastered & Expanded edition
Released 25th April, 2025. Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce the release of a newly remastered and expanded 2CD edition of Sail The World, the evocative 1994 album by celebrated composer and guitarist Anthony Phillips. Originally composed and recorded for the UK television coverage of the Whitbread Around the World Yacht Race, Sail The World became a…
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Review – Tribe3 – Life Amongst Strangers – by Jane Lee
Rising stars Tribe3 released their self-titled debut album in October 2023, and since then the Bridgend-based three-piece have been raising their profile, storming the concert and festival circuits with their superb musicianship and immersive and impactful style of prog. Guitarist Chris Jones (guitars) and Steve Hughes (bass, bass pedals and keyboards) had previously collaborated as…
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COSMIC CATHEDRAL – the union of Neal Morse, Chester Thompson, Phil Keaggy & Byron House – announce debut album Deep Water?
Cosmic Cathedral – the union of Neal Morse (Transatlantic), Chester Thompson (Genesis), Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp) & Byron House (session player with Robert Plant, Dolly Parton etc) – are pleased to announce the release of their debut album Deep Water on the 25th April 2025 via InsideOutMusic. With the album’s centerpiece being the 38-minute long Deep Water…
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Review – The Weever Sands – ‘Moonfish. Songs Of Love And Water’
“On their fourth album, The Weever Sands take their listeners to the gentle, soothing, and peaceful side of the ocean. The magnificent title track follows the beautiful Moonfish on a day’s journey from the sunlit surface to the deep waters and back again, starting by daybreak until the soft whale song lays him to sleep.…
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Review – Karmakanic – ‘Transmutation’
The acclaimed Swedish progressive rock band Karmakanic is back with their highly anticipated sixth studio album, ‘Transmutation’. Produced by the band’s founder and visionary leader Jonas Reingold, The album has been mixed by five-time Grammy Award winner Chris Lord-Alge, renowned for his work with legends such as Muse, Tina Turner, and Bruce Springsteen. For this…