GRICE (UK) Mordant Lake

Really proud to state without the slightest hesitation, that I am a big fan of this artist as I own all his discography and admire his craft intensely. There aren’t that many vocalists in prog that you can instantly recognize within a few seconds, but Grice Peters is...

LONG EARTH (SCOTLAND) An Ordinary Life

These Scottish veteran musicians released “The Source” in 2017, an excellent debut album that set the foundation for a huge upgrade on their sophomore 2023 work “Once Around the Sun” , a thoroughly engaging set of songs that did the rounds in...

ESP PROJECT (UK) 22 Layers of Sunlight

The Rogue needs to immediately correct a massive injustice, putting all pretenders for review on a temporary hold, before being unceremoniously hauled in front of the PROG chief justice and condemned to listen only to all the Magma releases for the rest of my hellish...

VYÖNI (NORWAY) The Tripoint

Some interesting little tidbits to get the appetite going, VYÖNI being a small town in Northern Sweden, near the Finland border. The Tripoint is a semi-obscure area, very well known to military historians in particular, as in the extreme north of Norway three borders...

BAKULLAMA (USA) Sleepers

One cannot survive just on polished, finely chiseled progressive rock albums all the time, and I know for a fact, that many aficionados actually enjoy the rougher edged, at times raw options available. Even the under-produced thinner sound can lay bare the purest of...

PARALLELS (SWEDEN) Exodus

Not to be confused with a similarly named US Band and their Yes tribute Awaken, this veteran Swedish trio opt for a more accessible sound, most definitely in the Neo-Prog vein, with tinges of AOR. Lead vocalist and bass player Ulrik Arturen, Keyboard man Forbjorn...