Less than a year after the release of their last album, Carnivorous, Hawkwind return with another collection of new songs. This, their thirty-fourth album, continues the fine tradition of the space rock genre that the band have created and nurtured…
View More Hawkwind – Somnia
Dragging his sorry ass to the laptop, the writer desperately attempts over several whiskies and incantations to summon his muse, long confined in the depths of Purgatory, from whence there seems no escape. The writer has done this in order…
View More Ske – Insolubilia
UK melodic prog rock band Mostly Autumn release a powerful and evocative new album, documenting their experience of the pandemic over the last year or so. It has all the ingredients of a classic Mostly Autumn album, but soaked with…
View More Mostly Autumn – Graveyard Star
Styx has always been something of an outsider in rock music: successful as an AOR band with symphonic tendencies, producer of mainstream hits and ballads. Active since its foundation in 1972 and extremely successful in the mid-seventies, the fact that…
View More Styx – Crash of the Crown
For King and Country is a new project led by Magenta mainman Rob Reed, but its roots go right back in his school days. Before Reed formed Magenta in 1999 he was in Cyan, formed at school in the early…
View More Cyan – For King and Country
Surrender of Silence. Even the title sounds a little angry. All Steve Hackett albums offer something, some take a time to settle in, this one is no different. The Obliterati is definitely angry, and whilst my personal leaning is toward…
View More Steve Hackett – Surrender Of Silence
Fioraidh is a new solo project from Scotland with some history. The name Fioraidh is a Celtic neologism that pays tribute to the band Fury, that Mark Reid was once a member of. The pronunciation of both names is roughly…
View More Fioraidh – Mind Over Madness
Canadian proggers Saga toured a large number of packed venues at the end of 2017 as part of their 40th Anniversary – The Final Chapter tour. The Come-back Kids of prog invariably started said series of farewell concerts with a…
View More Saga – Symmetry
After eighteen months of being locked down in his home studio, Paul Carrack has emerged with his first new album for three years and is Good and Ready to get back on stage in front of his fans. His new…
View More Paul Carrack – Interview plus review of One On One
Warning #1: There’s no Prog here! If you’re expecting IQ or Marillion then you will be disappointed. This is about modern, progressive Rock. And Jazz. And Metal. Probably. Warning #2: The deliberate and seemingly incorrect use of upper and LoweR…
View More art against agony – Reincarnation Suite [plus interview with Stefan Huth]