Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
There’s plenty of variety across the tracks, be it grandiose, driving riffs or sombre moments, and it never gets boring. I think this new release has re-ignited my love for these Swedes.
Albums
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!GeRald! – .The Lost Tapes.
!GeRald! is a class act with a pinch of absurdity, which makes them just my type. Nothing is overdone or blown out of proportion, but it is still in your face.
Atomic Guava – Peasants of the Future
Every djent and prog metal nerd out there should do themselves the favor of checking out this album, especially if they’re introverted and need some booster to break their inhibitions.
Kirk Hammett – Portals (EP)
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, primarily known as the lead guitarist for one of the biggest metal bands on this planet, is also an avid lover and collector of horror movies and dito memorabilia. Forever operating in the shadow of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich he finally...
Ibaraki – Rashomon
With Ibaraki and “Rashomon”, Matt Heafy delivered an album that can stand toe to toe with Ihsahn’s more celebrated works.
Progtalks
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Music for all of the Spheres together: !GeRald! found The Lost Tapes!
Teddie Burton, drummer of French avantgarde prog punkers !GeRald! talked to us about his love for everything that makes noise, the rare infusion of a punk ethos into proggy music and the making of their debut album “The Lost Tapes”.
Not a Star Wars reference: UK proggers Giant Walker talk impressive debut album All In Good Time
¾ of UK Newcomers Giant Walker joined the Progtalks today to reveal the origin of the band name, their primary influences and how important it is to have music that gets you through hard times. Their debut album “All In Good Time” is out on Friday, May 13.
They tried to show us magic: Pure Reason Revolution’s return!
Pure Reason Revolution guitarists/vocalists Jon Courtney and Greg Jong called from Berlin and Portland/Oregon respectively to talk about the European tour with Gazpacho they just finished, the new PRR album “Above Cirrus” and more…
Delve into the universe of Delvoid – with vocalist Alex Delver!
Norway’s Delvoid take their time with their studio albums. So we took some time to talk with vocalist Alex Delver about their third full length offering, “Swarmlife”, vocal influences and of course the meaning behind the band name.
John Boegehold (Pattern-Seeking Animals) talks album lengths, prog history and all things P-SA!
Songwriter John Boegehold keeps churning out the music with Pattern-Seeking Animals. Their third album “Only Passing Through” is out since April 1st, so we called him up to talk about his influences, the perfect album length and a bit of prog history.
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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Instrumental or not: the prog metal factor is high this week!
Releases of the Week 20/2022 with Steroid Puppets, Mendel, !GeRald! & Iris Divine
1 EP, 4 albums, 33 more releases: Friday 13th is saved!
Releases of the Week 19/2022 with Mimesis, Giant Walker, Heterochrome, Zero Hour & Gospel
Weekend music: Mother of Millions, Bioplan, Jo Quail & PRR
Releases of the Week 18/2022 with Mother of Millions, Bioplan, Jo Quail & Pure Reason Revolution
April 2022 says goodbye with a massive release week
Releases of the Week 17/2022 with The Prize, Delvoid, Alex Carpani, Kaipa, Glass Museum & Bedsore / Mortal Incantation
Electric harp sounds and soothing instrumental goodness
Releases of the Week 16/2022 with Nerissa Schwarz & Held By Trees
TPS Presents
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!GeRald! from France found The Lost Tapes in Waterfront Ratholes!
French avant-garde punk proggers !GeRald! are ready to unleash their mind-blowing debut full length "The Lost Tapes" tomorrow. And we just couldn't let the opportunity pass by to present you two tracks from it one day early. !GeRald ! (UK/FR) is an experimental rock...
Iran’s Heterochrome premiere brand new album “From The Ashes”
Iran’s Heterochrome Now Streaming Deeply Personal And Heavy Album “From The Ashes”
Morgan Wick premieres The Great Stereopticon
A Sense of Gravity guitarist/The Prog School mastermind Morgan Wick goes solo with The Great Stereopticon. Watch the music video now!
Ckraft share new Gregorian jazz metal banger Epic Discordant Vision
French gregorian jazz metal innovators Ckraft unleash the title track of their upcoming debut album “Epic Discordant Vision”.
Feather Mountain premiere visual new video for Sincere
Danish progressive metal ensemble Feather Mountain reveals visual video for their brand new single, ‘Sincere’.
The Progfiles
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The Progfiles Archives: June 2021
A forgotten gem of Israeli prog rock from the ’70s, a triad of connected, excellent Norwegian progressive metal albums, Syrian and Mexican prog-death, ambient, drony progressive doom from France, modern prog-rock from Italy and the Netherlands, and more! Should be something for just about everyone in this month’s edition of The Progfiles Archives.
The Progfiles Archives: May 2021
Vietnamese traditional progressive metal, French djent, progressive/technical death-metal and cinematic post-rock, American 70’s inspired prog-rock, a lesser-known true gem of British early prog, some Swedish doomy prog and much more in this month’s Progfiles Archives.
The Progfiles Archives – Promotour April 2021
This month Progfiles Archives is here for your reading and listening pleasure. This time it’s a “Promotour” edition, put together by The Progspace writer, and Progfiles host Cees, focusing on brand new progressive music releases of all styles and sub-genres. So if you are up for discovering a diverse selection of new music released over the last few months, this is the place you want to be.
The Progfiles Archives: March 2021
Grievously overlooked progressive artrock by Olivia & the Random, powerprog by Dakesis, modern progressive folk by James Lindsay, prog-thrash by Paranorm and a look back to the seventies with classic band Gryphon.
There should be something for absolutely everyone in this edition of Rune’s Progfiles Archives.
The Progfiles Archives: February 2021
A new song by UK band Konom, great Italian Prog by Logos and feel-good music by Norway’s MEER are just some of the highlights of the February edition of Rune’s Progfiles!
Concert Reviews
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Novena Album (Re-)Launch Show – Sat, 30 Oct 2021
Concert Review: Novena Album (Re-)Launch Show – Sat, 30 Oct 2021 with Novena, Countless Skies, IHLO and Azure.
VOLA – Live from the Pool
The sound is as crystal clear as it’s bone-crushingly heavy when it needs to be. The light show and camera work is mesmerizing. And VOLA are playing hit after hit. What a show!
Voyager – A Voyage Through Time
A voyage in 5 jackets and 7 albums: Voyager managed to capture the immense fun of their live shows for audiences around the world – and leave us craving for more.
Leprous – Aphelion Preview Livestream
…this pre-release livestream for “Aphelion” proved to be the perfect tool to hype up the Leprous fanbase even more if that was even possible.
Fractal Universe – The Impassable Horizon Alive
In these strange times and longer than expected restrictions, the possibility of safely attending a normal live gig still seems remote. There is light at the end of the tunnel although concerts booked keep getting postponed, some getting pushed back a year....
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