Five The Hierophant – Apeiron
It’s incredible how an album without any lyrics can paint pictures of ancient civilizations so vividly. How one can experience life and death, nothingness and infinity, through it, sonically.
Albums
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Isbjörg – Falter, Endure
It’s always a great feeling to discover a new band that instantly stands out - and I was happy when I discovered Isbjörg just a few months ago, as it turns out this is definitely such a band for me. Based in Denmark, 6-piece stadium-math rockers are releasing their...
Ever Forthright – Techinflux
Despite all the complexity, the composition is very engaging and gets under your skin, making you want to move along to the grooves.
Entheos – An End to Everything
Could this be the most emotionally relevant technical death metal release I’ve heard to date? I’m not sure, but it’s certainly close to the top.
Iotunn – Kinship
This is a band that have a passion for what they write and seem to strive to produce something different. It’s still relatively early days in their career and there is lots of potential for evolution. Hopefully they have a hunger for it, and we will see another release before too long.
The Progspace Presents
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Major Parkinson is the 8th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary!
Tiberius is the 7th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Tiberius is the 7th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Tiberius is the 7th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Mayfire is the 6th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Mayfire is the 6th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Elegy is the 5th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Legendary dutch progmetal band Elegy is the 5th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
Voidchaser is the 4th band confirmed for ProgPower Europe 25th Anniversary edition!
We’re stoked to announce that VoidChaser, is the fourth confirmed band for ProgPower Europe’s 25th Anniversary!
What's Hot?!
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Best of What’s Hot?! – August 2021
This is our monthly Best of What’s Hot?! YouTube Playlist, highlighting the best music videos of the previous month.
Best of What’s Hot?! – July 2021
This is our monthly Best of What’s Hot?! YouTube Playlist, highlighting the best music videos of the previous month.
Best of What’s Hot?! – June 2021
This is our monthly Best of What’s Hot?! YouTube Playlist, highlighting the best music videos of the previous month.
Best of What’s Hot?! – May 2021
This is our monthly Best of What’s Hot?! YouTube Playlist, highlighting the best music videos of the previous month.
Best of What’s Hot?! – April 2021
This is our monthly Best of What’s Hot?! YouTube Playlist, highlighting the best music videos of the previous month.
Releases of the Week
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The first two weeks of November: 16 explosive highlights!
Releases of the Week 45/2024 with i Häxa, Ice Sealed Eyes, Coma Control, VOLA, Klone, Chasmhead, Alarum, Moss Upon The Skull, Isbjörg, EXXASENS, Beardfish, Rosalie Cunningham, Drownship, Codespeaker, A Scar For The Wicked & Árstíðir
Autumn’s full embrace: 12 dark and heavy highlights for Oct. 25
Releases of the Week 43/2024 with Fields of Næcluda, Iotunn, Black Aleph, Schammasch, Gaerea, Fit for an Autopsy, Vokonis, Gigan, Devin Townsend, Entheos, Sallow Moth & Omnerod
Release week of Oct. 24: 9 diverse highlights out of 65 releases
Releases of the Week 42/2024 with Dawnwalker, DGM, Aries Descendant, Kiko Loureiro, Rod Rodrigues, The Giant Baba, Ghostheart Nebula, Carnosus & Kim Olesen
16 highlights this week, as diverse as they come: Release Week 41/2024
Releases of the Week 41/2024 with Laudare, Oranssi Pazuzu, Andy Gillion, Kozoria, Maitreya, Neacal, Oddleaf, Ad Infinitum, envy, Unethical Dogma, Fixation, No Oath, Sandveiss, Cemetery Skyline, Lucid Haze (Solar Fields/Krister Linder) & Ihlo
Perhaps our most brutal week yet: October started with 4 extreme prog gems and more
Releases of the Week 40/2024 with Mother of Millions, Lowen, Blood Incantation, Devenial Verdict, Cosmic Putrefaction, Krosis, Chain Code, Geordie Greep & Somne
Interviews
Interview with Isbjörg: “ Even when you’re at your lowest, you can find the will to push through and overcome anything”
Today, we had the pleasure to ask some questions to a Danish 6-piece progressive rock band Isbjörg, who is about to release their sophomore album “Falter, Endure”. We discussed how the band came to be, and what to expect from the new album. You have released...
Interview with Entheos’s Chaney Crabb: Beginnings and Ends
The Progspace sits with Entheos’s Chaney Crabb on their latest EP “An End to Everything”, their origins as a band and her roots as an artist.
Interview with Obsidian Tide’s Oz Avneya: “Grotesque and pure at the same time – that contrast is something I really wanted to explore!”
On the eve of his debut solo album “Road to I” release, Obsidian Tide’s Oz Avneya talks about his musical origins and destinations.
Pulterkammer Progressiv Musikkfestival: a window for the Scandinavian Progressive Rock – Interview with organizer Eivind Strømstad
Pulterkammer Progressiv Musikkfestival is a Norwegian festival dedicated to the Scandinavian Prog Rock scene. Organized by members of the acclaimed norwegian band MEER and Hamar Theater, it will be held on 20-21 September in Hamar, Norway. Read our interview to know more about this young festival!
Keyboard Wizard Jordan Rudess talks about his new solo album “Permission to Fly”, influences, “that set-list job” and more
Keyboard Wizard Jordan Rudess talks about his new solo album “Permission to Fly”, influences, “that set-list job” and more
Premieres
Atomic Guava premieres the new EP “Beach Episode”
Atomic Guava premieres the new EP “Beach Episode”. Exclusive here at The Progspace!
Haarp premiere a somewhat jazzy Percussive Maintenance
Austrian Jazz Fusion Trio Haarp is ready to reveal ‘Percussive Maintenance’, putting a feeling we probably all know too well to music.
Omnerod present crushing re-interpretation of epic Panspermia
Belgian progressive death metal prodigies Omnerod present crushing re-interpretation of epic Panspermia for the 10th anniversary of their debut album Ivory Dunes
The Wring arrive in their 4th round with brand new album Nemesis
Canadian prog trio The Wring returns with new line-up and “Nemesis”, their 4th full length offering.
Enma premiere new single Obsidian ahead of their ProgPower Europe performance
Dutch grunge proggers Enma are back with brand new single “Obsidian”, right in time for their highly anticipated appearance at ProgPower Europe 2024.
Concert Reviews
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The 17th and final edition of the Night of the Prog Festival.
The final edition of the legendary Progressive Festival Night of the Prog was a success! With a wide range of progressive rock styles, the festival said goodbye to the Loreley Amphitheater with a bang! Read the complete review by our collaborator Jaak Geebelen and be sure to check the galleries of each of the 3 days of the festival!.
Ino-Rock Festival 2024: Two Days of Rock with a Focus on the Scandinavian Music Scene
Ino-Rock Festival 2024: 2 amazing days full of progressive rock and prog folk with Paatos, The Amazing, Gazpacho, Eivør, Łysa Góra, Antimatter, Sivert Høyem, Michał Łapaj and Ray Wilson. Don’t miss the photo galleries!
Pelagic Fest goes to Maastricht for 15th label anniversary
Berlin post metal specialists Pelagic Records celebrates its 15th anniversary at Pelagic Fest 2024 with a stacked line-up at Muziekgieterij in Maastricht (NL) featuring The Ocean, Ihsahn, And So I Watch You From Afar, Psychonaut & more…
A final farewell: The last Night of the Prog
Festival Preview: The final edition of Night of the Prog (Loreley, Germany)
Live review: Pendragon in Ittre, Belgium on 20 May 2024
Live review: Pendragon playing in Ittre, Belgium on 20 May 2024, support: Rog Patterson
Progtalks
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An Abstract Disillusion – Different Kinds of Hiveminds
For this year’s End of the Year episode, we assembled an illustrious round again: Karl Westerlund, Robert Stenvall & Christian Berglönn (An Abstract Illusion), Andy Schmidt (Disillusion), Colin MacAndrew (Ashbreather) & Rioghan Darcy.
Bach & silent movies: Dirt Poor Robins mastermind Neil DeGraide talks about Queen of the Night
There must have been something in the water in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004: Dirt Poor Robins emerged and started their artistic journey, culminating in their latest record and silent film, “Queen of the Night”. Mastermind Neil DeGraide told us everything about it!
String arrangements and Slipknot covers: Soen goes to Atlantis
Lars Enok Åhlund, multi-instrumentalist and arranger of Swedish prog masters Soen, called mid-tour from Quebec to talk about their current and future live activities, choosing a certain cover version and everything about their new album “Atlantis”.
Bloodshot Dawn’s Morgan Reid goes solo with all instrumental guitar banger Terran
Pondering the similarities of Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock while talking about Progressive Metal: Canadian-born, Leipzig-based guitarist Morgan Reid presents his very first solo album Terran.
Writing pop songs with a prog producer next time: ÆRIES present their debut Arcanum!
Calling from Cologne, ÆRIES guitarist Julian Suhr talked to us about the ÆRIES sound, working in the studio vs. recording at home and everything else there is to know about the band’s debut album, “Arcanum”.
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