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The BARDIC DEPTHS (UK) Some Things Are Worth Remembering Well, this album certainly pertains to the title, finding beauty and truth in musical form is a luxury that progressive rock can easily provide. Back in […]

HATS OFF GENTLEMEN, ITS ADEQUATE (UK) Parallel Lives By now, It must be suitable for me to tip my cap to the Malcolm/Mark pairing, a London project that has kept a prolific and qualitative progression ( […]

QUIVIRA (USA) same Kansas. Toto, Len Dawson, Patrick Mahones and the band that put the Mid-West state on the prog billboards worldwide, wayward sons like dust in the wind. […]

ZAMEN OFF (ITALY) Your New Mind Bassist extraordinaire Massimiliano Dionigi, whom I previously discovered with Juglans Regia (an album I loved and admiringly reviewed) sent me this […]

Lester GREENHALGH (UK) Mutalasis Being a robust rebel is fully explained by my Prog Rogue moniker and there is no intention ever to alter that mindset. Receiving music from any hitherto […]

KHATSATURJAN (FINLAND) Monologue of Chronos Nine years after their underwhelming 2025 “Beast, Machine & Man”, this Finnish combo returns with “Monologue of Chronos” with the home of reignit […]

CELLAR NOISE (ITALY) Panic Loves Telling Lies Milanese quintet releases their third album, following their 2017 debut “Alight” and “Nautilus” which came two years later, both well received. The ban […]

NORTH SEA ECHOES (USA) How to Cast a Shadow When I reviewed their debut in December of last year, this is what I opened up with :  “Here is a rather original reworking of the very notion of pr […]

WISH (ITALY) The Endless Winter Getting to review this cool album during the current heat wave, makes one hope of never having to hear a title like Endless Summer! It’s hot e […]

SOLSTICE (UK) New Life 2026 What an appropriate title! Giving new life to an old and dusty classic was such a joy to witness. Solstice appeared on the scene in the heady early […]

The ECHO VEILS (MEXICO) Roses Are Dreams I saw their 2024 debut pass by and did not or could not latch onto it for further perusal, but who else than my revered prog colleague and friend Lazland […]

DECEPTION STORE (ITALY) Osmosis The gift that keeps on giving, time after time. Just when you think the well is drying up, the spouting prog fountains spurt out another magnificent […]

CASTLE MOUNTAIN MOON (GERMANY) A Layman’s Guide to Unobtainium This German band’s debut album caught me, as well as many others by surprise, an unexpected delight. ‘Six Tales of Perception’ came out in 2024, and I […]

Carmine CAPASSO & Giorgio Fico PIAZZA (ITALY) Vi Suoniamo una Storia Carmine Capasso is a young and ultra-talented guitarist, making quite a name for himself not only in the Italian prog community with The Trip and solo […]

GREEN DESERT TREE (GERMANY) Fighting Dragons Oooh, this may be quite a tasty discovery, even though I did get the previous 2019 debut but never gave it a thought . But thankfully this one caught my […]

ARCHIVE (UK) Glass Minds Okay, I will take the plunge. I do have another album (‘You all Look the Same to Me’ from 2002) from this lot that did not bowl me over, but I do als […]

Lorenzo FELICIATI & Pat MASTELOTTO (USA) Portal FM Drumster Pat Mastelotto needs very little introduction, as he has a storied career with KC to bank on in terms of credibility while Lorenzo is an […]

TRE SPIRITUS (USA) same One of my favourite US bands is Minnesota’s own Ovrfwrd , a super-talented quartet whose discography has no Achilles heel. Although all the members are e […]

KOPILOTT (SPAIN) II The advantages of having a hardcore attitude towards finding hidden prog gems, especially the more recent ones, is that it requires research on a wide […]

Kristoffer GILDENLOW (SWEDEN) (Humanised) I was quite impressed with the previous 2024 “Empty” album, as I was expecting something heavy and predictable and it turned out to be neither. Will thi […]