It is one of the most pleasing aspects of progressive rock music that it often takes time for an album to open up and reveal itself fully. I’m glad to say that the latest album by Dutch prog-metal band Dilemma,…
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Ruby Dawn are a UK-based progressive and alternative rock band who have created quite a stir in the progressive rock community of late, with their 2023 debut album, Beyond Tomorrow, as well as and many well-received live performances on the…
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Nick Fletcher has done it again! With A Longing For Home, the Sheffield-based jazz rock guitarist, has produced yet another stunning solo album full of artistic brilliance and unbounded creativity, swirling with musical invention, emotion and breathtaking complexity in a…
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Massimo Pieretti has released an intriguing and enjoyable 4-track EP called Creature of the Night, in advance of his new album, The Next Dream, due for release in the next few months. Well known as a pianist/keyboardist in Italy, he…
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It can be somewhat of a cliché when reviewers claim a new album is an artist’s best release to date, especially after the previous ones have been heaped with praise, but I’m going to have to unashamedly trot out that…
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Eiger Studios, Leeds Saturday, 21st September 2024 After two years in Hull, Al Winter and This Winter Machine, moved their annual day festival to Leeds for a highly enjoyable full day of prog at the nicely filled, quirky and intimate…
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French composer and guitarist Gabriel Keller returns with his second album, Hope Despite Everything, showing his poetic and often powerful progressive rock to great effect. As with his 2022 debut album, Clair Obscur, it is a diverse musical statement that…
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Northumberland’s finest – the 5-piece melodic progressive rock band, Stuckfish – have just released their fourth album, suitably titled IV, and have succeeded in not only matching the quality of the previous release from 2022, the glorious Days of Innocence,…
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Northumbrian 4-piece progressive rock band, Unit8, have just released their second album – The Second Arch – and a most enjoyable listen it is too. In fact, it might even have topped their impressive eponymous debut release from late 2022,…
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Pyramid was the third studio album by The Alan Parsons Project (APP), the progressive rock ensemble comprising the engineer/producer Alan Parsons and the songwriter, musician and manager Eric Woolfson. Originally released in May 1978, it followed the successful and eclectic…
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