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  • Review – Drifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence

    Review – Drifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence

    Drifting Sun are a UK-based Progressive Rock studio project. Their music has been described as dramatic, theatrical, and atmospheric, in the true style of Progressive Rock giants such as Dream Theater, Queensryche, Genesis and Jethro Tull, to name but a few of the bands that influenced their sound. Or so says the PR material, well,…

  • Drifting Sun Open Pre-orders For Reissue of Debut Album

    Drifting Sun Open Pre-orders For Reissue of Debut Album

    The re-issue of Drifting Sun’s eponymous debut album has been set for March 2nd. The album will be released as a jewel case CD, with brand new artwork in a 12-page colour booklet, and the band are now taking pre-orders on their official web: And from their bandcamp page here

  • Review – Drifting Sun – Twilight – by Progradar

    Review – Drifting Sun – Twilight – by Progradar

    There is so much new music out there that sometimes I just don’t know where to start. Requests for reviews come in multiples and it is really difficult to keep up with them all. Thankfully the team here at Progradar manage to just about keep up with the plethora of new releases. The issue with…

  • Drifting Sun Announce New Concept Album ‘Twilight’ Release Date and New Single ‘Eternal Cycle’

    Drifting Sun Announce New Concept Album ‘Twilight’ Release Date and New Single ‘Eternal Cycle’

    UK Progressive Rock act Drifting Sun have announced that they are in the final stages of completing their forthcoming new concept album ‘Twilight’ and it is now available as a pre-order ahead of a 1st September release at the band’s official website here: To celebrate the release of the album Drifting Sun are offering a…

  • Review – Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remaster) – by Progradar

    Review – Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remaster) – by Progradar

    “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…” A common enough saying, if there’s nothing wrong with a certain thing then why change it? Yet in the music industry there seems to be a propensity of remixed and remastered versions of older releases, why is this? I suppose the technology today means that the songs can…

  • Progradar’s Best of The Year For 2016 – Editor’s Choice

    Progradar’s Best of The Year For 2016 – Editor’s Choice

    So we have had a wonderful selection of Top 10 picks from some of my great collaborators and now it is my turn. I’m going to stray from the norm because mine is going to be a Top 20 to keep it in line with my TEP selection that I spoke with David Elliott about.…

  • Progradar Best of 2016 – Emma Roebuck’s Top 10

    Progradar Best of 2016 – Emma Roebuck’s Top 10

    Emma’s 10 for the year November 2015 to November 2016. It’s difficult to select 10 out of a whole year of frankly remarkable music. This selection is based on what I have listened to outside my radio show and reviewing schedule. No doubt I will change it in 2 days or more but this is…

  • Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    (Yours truly and Prog Guru himself) Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first official Progradar Reviewers and Friends ‘Best Of…’ feature. I asked those who wished to contribute to cogitate over what great music they had heard, released 1st January to 30th June, in the first half of 2016 and come up with a list…

  • Review – Drifting Sun – Safe Asylum – by Progradar

    Review – Drifting Sun – Safe Asylum – by Progradar

    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.? – Gustav Mahler Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.? – W. Somerset Maugham I like using quotes in my reviews, they can give some instant idea of what I am trying to get across in a pithy and memorable way. Maybe…