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  • Review – Glass Hammer – Chronomonaut – by Progradar

    Review – Glass Hammer – Chronomonaut – by Progradar

    It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.? – George…

  • Glass Hammer Set To Release Chronomonaut? Concept Album

    Glass Hammer Set To Release Chronomonaut? Concept Album

    Glass Hammer have been teasing a concept album based on the ultimate prog fan, and now it’s official. Fans will no doubt recognize the name Tom from 2000’s ‘Chronometree’ release and videos on Glass Hammer’s social media sites show that Tom has recently resurfaced to promote his own music. Bassist Steve Babb explains, While ‘Chronometree’…

  • DISCIPLINE Issue Trailer, Artwork, And Street Date For new album Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea

    DISCIPLINE Issue Trailer, Artwork, And Street Date For new album Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea

    Detroit prog rock icons DISCIPLINE, advancing their fifth studio full-length and first for Laser’s Edge, Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea, have issued a new trailer for the album, as the label sets the record for July 7th worldwide release. DISCIPLINE has performed and recorded together since 1987, and remains one of the top bands…

  • Progradar Best Of 2016 – Leo Trimming’s Top 10

    Progradar Best Of 2016 – Leo Trimming’s Top 10

    Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence Simply stunning. Robin Armstrong has imagined a rich narrative of alien incursion (or paranoid breakdown?!) with sonic brilliance. The imaginative story is unnerving, whilst the music is captivating on a human level but cinematic in scope – ranging from crunching Purple riffs, through atmospheric acoustic passages to sweeping Floydian soundscapes.…

  • 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 – Matthew Parmenter – All Our Yesterdays – by Leo Trimming

    Review – Matthew Parmenter – All Our Yesterdays – by Leo Trimming

    This review is dedicated to Jean Trimming R.I.P Matthew Parmenter, the charismatic front man of Discipline, has released his impressive third solo album, imbued with emotion and narrative skill. This album marks his first release with Bad Elephant Music, following on from their fire alarm meeting outside the Summer’s End Festival in 2015. The dramatic…

  • Interview with Discipline’s Matthew Parmenter (reproduced with kind permission of Jeff Milo)

    Interview with Discipline’s Matthew Parmenter (reproduced with kind permission of Jeff Milo)

    This is a complete transcript of an article featured in The Ferndale Friends, reproduced with the kind permission of the author, Jeff Milo. All photos are by Graham Stead and Sam Holt. Words by Jeff Milo… There is a distinct relationship between artist and audience, bands and listeners. There is an opportunity to instill inspiration,…