The long awaited new Barock Project, Time Voyager, has finally materialised from Italy, five years since their well-received Seven Seas release. Purveyors of high class, ornate melodic progressive rock, Barock Project, have delivered another intoxicating blend of musical influences, intricate…
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You may be familiar with The Bob Lazar Story from such albums as Baritonia, Vanquisher, No Foodstool Left Behind, The Bob Lazarus Chronicles Pt1 : Foodstool Resurrection and from such reviews as Baritonia, Vanquisher, Ghost Of Foodstool and The Bob…
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A Game Of Whispers, the thrilling debut album from Age of Distraction, explores the way poor communication can create toxic relationships in which our view of reality becomes increasingly distorted. The musical style is an arresting blend of hard rock,…
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2024 blusters in with storms and rain but despite widespread world problems it fails to stem the flow of new music flooding into our ears. Rushing in a torrent towards us there have already been a number of commendable albums…
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SWX, Bristol Monday 20th May 2024 Riverside are back for a second part of the ‘I.D. Entity’ Tour a year or so since they last toured these isles… and frankly my Prog socks are well and truly blown right off!…
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Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer [NL] Saturday, 11th May 2024 Supergroup Cyan performed at the last ProgDreams Festival held at the Boerderij, unfortunately I couldn’t attend their show at the time. But one year later, the English progrock band led by Magenta…
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Esoteric’s series of reissues keep bringing me opportunities to discover or reassess albums I’ve overlooked in the past; some are newer than others, it seems. As I found with Nektar’s Remember the Future, it was worth giving the album a…
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Key Theatre, Peterborough Sunday 12th May 2024 As last year, Sunday started with a call from organiser, Rachel Barratt, and the band, for all attendees to meet up, as the Pendragon Choir, outside the theatre at 11.15 am for a…
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Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday 11th May 2024 Following the success of last May’s ‘Everyone’s A VIP Weekend’ at The Platform in Morecambe, Pendragon successfully repeated the feat at the Key Theatre in Peterborough with another thoroughly enjoyable and sun-drenched weekend…
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Capping a career that has lasted for over half a century, Blue Öyster Cult have issued their fifteenth studio album. Ghost Stories is comprised of performance rehearsals and workshopping demos that were intended for albums recorded between 1978 and 1983…
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