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DALTONISTS (POLAND) Gradient By sheer perseverance and absolute luck , I landed on an online video of a piece from their previous debut album, recently released in September 2025. It […]

CASTANARC (UK) Forged by the Sun This is a band that started out from the same progressive revival gates that spawned IQ, Marillion, Pallas and Pendragon back in the early 80s when prog […]

ARTESIA (France) Le Monde D’Hier Another recent discovery has landed in my lap, as I was busy searching for some modern medieval tinged music, lo and behold, here is a neoclassical […]

The SAMURAI of PROG (MULTI-NATIONAL) The 7 Voyages of Sinbad The superlatively prolific warriors never seem to run out of ideas, not surprising as there are so many more subjects out there still needing a prog rock […]

John GREENWOOD (AUSTRALIA) First Day Our favourite ex-surgeon is back with a third solo album that should cause shudders of joy across the progressive universe. With luminaries like Roger […]

RIFFSTONE (UK) Great Journeys The prolific multi-instrumentalist duo of Colin Powell and Dave Allen strike again, a fourth edition of the Riffstone saga, where progressive rock unites […]

AURORA CLARA (SPAIN) Seven Hills This sublime group has rather rapidly taken over top spot as my favourite Spanish Prog band, a nudge beyond Rafael Pacha, only due to the impeccable […]

THE OLD CASTLE (ITALY) Storie Nascoste One step generally leads to another, and subsequent to discovering Paolo Pagliari’s charming solo album “Through the Eyes of a Child” that I had the p […]

ESP PROJECT (UK) Extra Sensory Perception No beating around the bush, flaming or otherwise, ESP Project is one of my perennials, an ongoing love affair that began 11 years ago with the debut […]

Ian NEAL (UK) This Gemlike Flame The Sheffield arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist rises once again, landing  straight to the top of the Symphonic prog pedestal with another […]

RUDZ-ODOJ (POLAND) Fight or Flight Przemyslaw Rudz and Roman Odoj have teamed together to offer electronic prog with a swift kick in the backside , a beefy release that has more muscles […]

JOJO RAZOR (USA) Eye of Clarion Part of the Prog Rogue duties is the requirement to constantly scour and scroll the web for new horizons, be it reputed prog sites as well as prog […]

ASCETA (CHILE) The Fool Leading the Blind Well, with a title like that, I just could not resist: Rodrigo Maccioni is certainly no fool and I am far from either blind, or deaf for that matter! […]

AETHER (ITALY) III Third album for these ‘ambient-jazz” pioneers from Italy , their previous work was a smashing success that I reviewed and thus enjoyed tremendously. As […]

Jean-Pascal BOFFO (FRANCE) Inner World Still going strong after all these years, especially in lieu of the fact that the preceding release was a smash by all accounts , as “In Spiral” (20 […]

LONG EARTH (UK) Towards the Sky  This veteran Scottish Neo-Prog band is delving into their fourth album, each one since 2017 “it’s getting better all the time” (another memorable Beatl […]

SARIS (GERMANY) Project Off World This is the 6th album by the veteran Neo-prog band from Germany, and my second, as I enjoyed 2020 album “Beyond the Rainbow”.  The group is now led by D […]

PHIDEAUX (USA) Automoto Animus Phideaux is baaaack…A consummate American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, he has launched a long list of staggering albums commencing i […]

DIFFERENT LIGHT (CZECHIA) Binary Suns (Part 2 -Alternate Reality) After a first album in 1996  “All About Yourself”, Maltese expatriate, vocalist and keyboardist Trebor Tabone moved to Prague, Czechia in the early 2000 […]

Geoff PROUDLEY (UK) Notes from Anne Boleyn Three astute reasons why the Prog Rogue has committed to this artist’s music to sit among his favourites, a freedom of choice that music can surely a […]