Category: Progressive Rock

Progressive rock, also known as prog rock or prog, is a rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom, with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s. It developed from psychedelic rock and originated, similarly to art rock, as an attempt to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music.

La Coscienza di Zeno – Sensitività 2013

La Coscienza di Zeno  - Sensitività 2013Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: AltrOck/Fading
Release date: June 10, 2013

After the success of the homonym debut cd, the band confirm their Italian prog-rock direction: a powerful voice, rich instrumental arrangements and a great melodic vein. A young band to refresh the past of the most genuine prog music.Following the path of the other great Italian 70’s prog bands “Sensitività” is a serious candidate to become a new classic for this genre.

Solvo Animus – The Ways Of Men (2013)

salvboLos Thrasher Progresivos Puerto Riqueños, Solvo Animus, he puesto ya a la venta su disco debut “The Ways Of Men”, the manera independiente.La banda tiene influencia the agrupaciones como Dio, Coroner, Slayer, Rainbow, Dream Theater, Vanden Plas y Thin Lizzy.

Various Artists – More Animals at the Gates of Reason – A Tribute to Pink Floyd (2013)

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Offering the Floyd’s songs under a new guise – from the ‘60s until the last “The Division Bell” in 1994 – we find mostly Italian artists (Pandora, Fabio Zuffanti, Conqueror, EgoBand, Archangel, Prowlers, Greenwall & more), from the little-known but solid  and florid progressive rock panorama of the peninsula, but there are also a couple of international acts, such as the American Jay Tausig, the Finnish Permanent Clear Light and the supergroup The Samurai of Prog, including Roine Stolt from The Flower Kings and Jon Davison, the current lead singer for Yes.