Colin MASSON (UK) The Visitor

Two albums in less than a year! My goodness, Mr. Masson is motivated to say the least. The rather resplendent “Echoes of Albion” was release on February 10, 2024, with a triumvirate of massive pieces well into the double digits that got the full five-star review...

Lee ABRAHAM (UK) Origin of the Storm

I am a lucky man (wink to Keith) of owning all of this underrated but hyper consistent artist’s work, a bass and guitar man who can also compose with the best of them. Lee Abraham not only gallantly soldiers on with the esteemed Galahad, having replaced fretboard...

Bill BRESSLER (USA) A Second Past

How to turn bad timing into good timing, you may ask? Be patient (a rare commodity in our current society it seems), think of the tortoise, not the hare and cross them fingers! Bill Bressler sent me a kind request to review his album a day before I departed for a...

SOLARIS (HUNGARY) Martian Chronicles III – I or A.I.

After Omega, Solaris is most probably the longest on-going Hungarian prog band (with Android not far behind), consistently releasing a long stream of six studio albums that are not only highly rated by the prog fan community but also with critics and reviewers...

ALIANTE (ITALY) Anime Invisibili

My recent trips to Italy have been revelations in a myriad of various ways, a blessed land with so much cultural diversity that the mind truly boggles. My grandfather one stated: “Italy is not a country! It’s a theater”. Musically, they have been talented since the...