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  • Progradar’s Best of 2024!

    2024, well the second half, has been a tough year for me and I took my eye off the reviewing ball from August onwards due to changes in my life. It doesn’t mean that I haven’t been listening to amazing music though! As my friend John Wenlock-Smith has already said, 2024 was an amazing year…

  • Review – Nick Magnus – A Strange Inheritance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – Nick Magnus – A Strange Inheritance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    September sees the release of ‘A Strange Inheritance’, Nick Magnus’ highly unusual, nautically themed, concept album, concerning itself with the tale behind an unusual inheritance. This being a chest full of artefacts received anonymously from an unknown relative, the artefacts taken together telling a story of bureaucratic incompetence, harsh decisions taken without much, if any,…

  • NICK MAGNUS: ?A Strange Inheritance? (Magick Nuns Records) – Released 16th September

    NICK MAGNUS: ?A Strange Inheritance? (Magick Nuns Records) – Released 16th September

    It was a strange inheritance, unexpected, an oak chest bound with iron straps come into my possession, from a relative of whom I knew nothing Nick’s seventh progressive rock album takes us on a cinematic voyage; a swashbuckling tale of love, loss and revenge. An unexpected bequest reveals the story of a young woman whose…

  • John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    This is a list of the albums that have made a big impression on me this year. They are not in any order although several marked are my favourites and I will nominate one as my album of the year. Here is the list: 1.Orion– The End Of Suffering – This came out of nowhere…

  • Progradar – Review Of The Year 2023

    Progradar – Review Of The Year 2023

    2023 has been a fantastic year for music with an absolute plethora of superb albums that I have reviewed. It’s always very difficult indeed to pick out my favourite twenty releases from such a stellar year but here are the ones that have really left a mark for me. They are in no particular order…

  • Review – Unitopia – Seven Chambers

    Review – Unitopia – Seven Chambers

    “I often think in music, I live my daydreams in music, I see my life in terms of music.” –Albert Einstein. That quote is really how I see music and why I started this website in the first place, I love music and spend the vast majority of my time listening to it. Progressive rock…

  • Progressive fusion ensemble Unitopia announce new studio album Seven Chambers – Pre-Orders start today!

    Progressive fusion ensemble Unitopia announce new studio album Seven Chambers – Pre-Orders start today!

    Founded by vocalist/songwriter Mark Truey? Trueack (United Progressive Fraternity) and multi-instrumentalist Sean Timms (Southern Empire,Damanek, UPF) in 1996, Australian progressive fusion Unitopia have always been among the most renowned and distinctive bands of their ilk and era. Now the band is pleased to announce the new studio album Seven Chambers, due out on August 25th,…

  • Review – John Greenwood – DARK BLUE

    Review – John Greenwood – DARK BLUE

    Following a life training as a Plastic Surgeon and practicing as a Burn Surgeon and Director of the Adult Burn Centre of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. retirement has finally allowed John Greenwood to pursue some musical dreams. Just prior to retiring, he met Mark Trueack who had been pointed his way by Jimmy Keegan (not that…