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A Different Aspect #51

In this update we feature: • JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland – Oscillospira • Hæka – Outer Space • Andy Gregory – Clockwork People • Panzerballett – Planet Z • Orange Clocks – Metamorphic • Juice Oh Yeah – Juice…

FRAKTIONS – Kalos EP

I was introduced to UK five-piece prog metal band FRAKTIONS with their 2016 EP, Anguish. I’ve always been attracted to musical releases which deal with mental health in a realistic and sympathetic way. The musical styles FRAKTIONS played with allowed…

Wudewuse – Northern Gothic

Norway has always held a particular fascination for me, from the spectacular scenery, its friendly people and its history, but most of all the wonderful and varied music that comes out of the country. Wudewuse fall into the fascinating and…

Sound of Origin – The All Seeing Eye

Whenever I review a sludgy, fuzzy and doomy release from a band from the stoner rock scene, I’m aware of the likelihood of some wondering why they deserve coverage on a prog website. But there’s not a genre of music…

Sanguine Hum – A Trace of Memory

We all know that music makes us feel good. The regions of the brain triggered by music, the limbic and paralimbic areas, also deal with sex, good food and the best addictive drugs, but not that shit Zayden sells. I…

Edgar Broughton Band – Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings 1975 to 1982

For many years, the one and only Edgar Broughton Band album I owned was Sing Brother Sing. Like a lot of first albums by bands bought in the dim distant days of one’s youth, it retains top spot in the…

La Horsa Bianca – Diluvian Beat

Ukrainian band La Horsa Bianca provided a far more mind-blowing and mind-bending experience than I expected with Dilvuvian Beat, which begins in a fairly typical psychedelic manner. Encyclica is an entirely pleasant opening number, which I happily listened to. It’s…

Magnum – Dance Of The Black Tattoo

A year since the release of their most recent studio album, The Serpent Rings, Magnum return with a compilation of bonus tracks and radio edits which are debuting on the CD format. Recent efforts like Escape From the Shadow Garden…

ADA#50 (A Different Aspect ~ Un Aspecto Diferente)

Un Aspecto Diferente #50

In this, our third ADA update featuring music from Spain we have: • Eclipse 27 – Eclipse 27 • ṘO – Athalase • Back To R’lye – Chosen • Magick Brother & Mystic Sister – Magick Brother & Mystic Sister…

Seaorm – Olkhon

Last year I reviewed Sada, the second collaboration between the Spanish jazz fusion and RIO guitarist Ángel Ontalva and members of Russian psychedelic space-prog rockers Vespero. I made the comment that I have enjoyed several of their releases, but somehow…

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