The TPA / The Prog Mill ‘The Unitopia Family Tree Special’, compiled for The Prog Mill by Leo Trimming of The Progressive Aspect, first broadcast on 17th September 2023 on Progzilla Radio. Two hours of superb progressive music from down…
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Southern Empire – Another World
Southern Empire continue the current wave of Australian albums hitting our progressive music shores with their third album, Another World. They face the challenge of following their brilliant 2018 release Civilisation with new singer Shaun Holton, after the amicable departure…
View More Southern Empire – Another WorldThe Decade in Review – Rob Fisher
Picking 10 releases from across a decade is no easy task. Injustices will be done! The different criteria you can use and the wide range of emphases on which you pin importance lead to all manner of selections and lists,…
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In November 2018 Australian progressive rock band Southern Empire played what many regarded as the gig of the weekend at the HRH Prog Festival in North Wales, in their first ever gig in Europe at the beginning of what became…
View More Southern EmpireTPA Best Albums of 2018
We have been spoiled by yet another year of exciting music and hugely enjoyable releases. The Progressive Aspect, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together our “The Best Albums of 2018”. There may yet be some more delights left…
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HRH Prog, Pwllheli, North Wales Saturday 17th November 2018 Southern Empire announced themselves spectacularly to Europe with their first ever gig outside their homeland of Australia in fine style with an imperious and impressive set in a packed Arena 2…
View More Southern EmpireSouthern Empire – Civilisation
Although I generally make a point of spending significant amounts of time with the albums I review, nevertheless it is rare that I find myself quite so resistant to putting pen to paper or, more accurately, fingers to keyboard. Getting…
View More Southern Empire – CivilisationTPA Best Albums of 2016
2016 has been another very good year for music at the progressive end of the spectrum, a bumper crop of new releases to digest, and assimilate. On the down side, the genre has lost way too many of its heroes…
View More TPA Best Albums of 2016Southern Empire – Southern Empire
Time “is the fire in which we burn” (Forest Fire). The aching awareness of our mortality, the relentless, incessant and seemingly quicker passing of the years forces the uncomfortable recognition that there is more behind us than lies ahead and…
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