by rogue | May 23, 2026 | Reviews
With an album title like that, how could I, the Prog Rogue, possibly resist? This is a strange beast, the van Dam brothers (Niels on lead guitar and Robert on bass) conspire with vocalist Fons Herder and drummer Coen Speelman to be hang around since 1999 and flutter...
by rogue | May 23, 2026 | Reviews
Multi-instrumentalist Paolo Pagliari is an Italian musician based in France, who used to be a member of the Old Castle, a little known and still active as of 2022 symphonic prog band and this is his first solo album, helped on drums by Alberto Quacquarini, also ex-The...
by rogue | May 18, 2026 | Reviews
Fourth release by this dynamic duo of Kenny Bissett and Patric Farrell, both proficient multi-instrumentalists, and am awfully glad I have all their previous ones in my collection. I particularly was impressed with the previous “2084:Heretic” released in 2023. Though...
by rogue | May 18, 2026 | Reviews
One more new arrival from la Bella Italia, actually Sicily to be precise and certainly not ‘a wet behind the ears newbie’. Salvatore Scuderi, aka Baco Dì Silenzio, is an ‘extreme lover of progressive music and alternative auteur cinema, singer of modern music, writer...
by rogue | May 17, 2026 | Reviews
This French line-up was formed by composer, vocalist Richard Pick who had the very good fortune of involving a few mainstay members of legendary band Pulsar, namely sublime guitarist Gilbert Gandil (aka the French Hackett) as well as compadre Jacques Roman on...
by rogue | May 17, 2026 | Reviews
Out the wild blue yonder comes another one-man prodigy, Wiley Stillwell is not a genetic laboratory blend of some loony toon coyote and a former legendary US army general but a bona fide whirlwind multi-instrumentalist of the highest order. Under the appropriate...