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.

MAIEUTICA – Logos 2012

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DEFOX RECORDS and HEART OF STEEL RECORDS are very pleased to annunce the Record deal with an italian prog rocker MAIEUTICA.
The upcoming release is entitled “Logos” will be available in a special CD edition and in every Digital music store and scheduled for May 2012.

Hidden Lands – In Our Nature (2012)

cover hidden landsFrom the ashes of Swedish Proggers Violent Silence (four out of five members are joining in), comes this fine album with Hannes Ljunghall (composer/lyricist, keyboards & guitars) as main figure… It is a very interesting album that music wise is mainly keyboard orientated, you actually don’t hear much guitar even though stated in the booklet. But you get loads of keyboard washes, soli & melody lines, underlined by fine bass and solid drums.

Neo Star Nova-Z – Infinity Factor 2012

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Is anyone reading this old enough to remember Commodore computers, particularly the C64 line? No? How about the original Nintendo consoles? Maybe? If not, that’s okay, play along as if you know what I’m talking about. You see, these once-popular systems were great gaming platforms in their day. They had crude graphics and, back then, the music and sound effects in games tended to be quite high pitched. I’m not sure why, but people for decades associated the future and space and future space travel with high pitched sounds. Don’t believe me? Go hunt down episodes of the original Star Trek and