The ability of streaming and download sites such as Bandcamp and others to make the musical endeavours of thousands of bands accessible to listeners remains a double-edged sword. The sheer diversity of choice and freedom of distribution away from major…
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‘Everyone’s a VIP Weekend’ – The Platform, Morecambe Saturday 20th May & Sunday 21st May 2023 Pendragon deliver a wealth of classic neo-prog, including the whole of Love Over Fear and Not of This World, over a thoroughly enjoyable and…
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Canadian melodic and symphonic progressive rock band Mystery will release their eighth studio album, Redemption, on 15th May. It has been five years since their last album, the highly-acclaimed Lies and Butterflies, and whilst the live releases Live in Poznan…
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Hailing from the Sunshine State of Florida (not renowned for being a hot bed for prog rock), the band Ascher have produced an excellent debut album entitled, appropriately, Beginnings. Over nine diverse and entertaining tracks, five of which are instrumental,…
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American melodic progressive rock band Days Before Tomorrow (DB4T) return, a decade after disbanding, with an EP of previously unreleased material from that period, entitled Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams. Newly mixed, with musicians from an earlier…
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When multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Andy Foster produced his debut release, The Way Home, a year ago, I was bowled over by the sheer melodic vibrancy on show. Like condensed sunshine, the raft of accessible, and yet deceptively complex songs were…
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Promising Welsh melodic prog rock band The Mighty Ra have followed up on their well-received debut album, last summer’s All Secrets Known, with a live album of their very first gig! Recorded at the second Prog For Peart Festival in…
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Stations is the exciting and intriguing debut album by German progressive rock quintet Cydonia. Hailing from Freiburg im Breisgau, the band date back to 2007. Originally known as Hills of Cydonia, they played instrumental music until 2019, when singer Michael…
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UK prog-metal stalwarts, Threshold, have returned with their much anticipated follow-up to their highly acclaimed 2017 album Legends of the Shires with the impressive Dividing Lines. Legends of the Shires was one of my top albums of 2017 and effortlessly…
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Following on from last November’s publication of
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