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2022 Progradar’s Best Of The Year – The Editor’s Top 20
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Review – Gandalf’s Fist – Widdershins
English speakers today are most likely to encounter widdershins as a synonym of counterclockwise. But in earliest known uses, found in texts from the early 1500s, widdershins was used more broadly in the sense of “in the wrong way or opposite direction.” To say that one’s hair “stood widdershins” was, in essence, to say that…
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Gandalf’s Fist announce Pre-Orders on 8th?Album Widdershins”
UK Prog-rock wizards, Gandalf’s Fist, have today announced details of their 8thfull-length album, Widdershins, and have begun pre-orders on the title. The release marks their first full album following the hugely acclaimed 5-disc Clockwork Saga and is again a conceptual work, this time a collection of individually crafted songs, exploring the superstitious nature of human existence. Gandalf’s…
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HRH Prog 7 at Hafan y M?r Holiday Park in Pwllheli – by James R Turner with input from Progradar
This was my first HRH Prog, and I gleefully loaded up my car with the requisite supplies (Bottled water, Bottled Beer) and entertainment for the journey (the new Sheridan Smith album – it’s rather brilliant btw, the new Robyn CD, the latest Gryphon album and Chas n Dave the EMI years) and set off on…
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Gandalf’s Fist Tease Road to Darkness Special Edition
Gandalf’s Fist have announced, and begun pre-orders on a special, deluxe re-issue of their 2011 offering ‘Road to Darkness’. In line with 2017’s special edition release of their ‘Universal Wanderer’ album, ‘Road to Darkness’ has been fully remixed and remastered from the ground up, utilizing new performance takes and bringing the release firmly in line…
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Review – Gandalf’s Fist – A Day In The Life Of A Universal Wanderer (Special Edition) – by Progradar
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Gandalf’s Fist Begin Pre-Orders of ?A Day In The Life Of A Universal Wanderer? Special Edition Re-issue
Gandalf’s Fist have announced a special deluxe re-issue of their 2013 space-rock offering A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer. The expanded album has been fully remixed and remastered from the ground up, utilizing new performance takes and bringing the release firmly in line with the sonic palette of 2014’s A Forest of…
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Gandalf’s Fist announce Fistival? – One-Off Headline Performance in Workington, Cumbria.
UK Progressive Rock act, Gandalf’s Fist, have announced a special one-off headlining performance which they have coined simply as Fistival. Commandeering the Carnegie Theatre in Workington, Cumbria, the 4th August show marks a homecoming for the band, capping off a hugely successful 12 months which has heralded the release of their acclaimed triple album, ‘The…
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Progradar’s Best of The Year For 2016 – Editor’s Choice
