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.
Band Silent Memorial
Info: Switzerland
Info: Cosmic Handball
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1999/2009
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Rip By: -Jolly Roger-/spiralarch
Info: 506 Mb
With the advent of the New Year 2012 well past us, new age and popular artists of every genre are releasing their best new project for 2012. While brand new CD and mp3 album downloads are arriving daily at music stores, legendary new age artist Gandalf and popular rock music icon Steve Hackett, formerly of Genesis, have a new 2012, re-mastered release of an exquisite instrumental music classic.
Gandalf’s Gallery Of Dreams – Plus Live featuring Steve Hackett is the title given to this definitive 3 CD Anniversary Edition, that is progressive instrumental music at its finest! Also available as mp3 digital downloads, the first CD is an original studio Gallery Of Dreams album digitally re-mastered.
Band Nautilus
Info: 20,000 Miles Under The Sea
Style: Symphonic Prog
Years: 1978
Info: 256 kbps
Info: 72 Mb
Info: Switzerland
Band Rousseau
Info: Square The Circle
Style: Symphonic Prog
Years: 1988
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 85 Mb
Info: Germany
Band Automatic Man
Info: Automatic Man
Style: Progressive / Space Rock
Years: 1976
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 126,41 Mb
Info: USA
Sitting in the Hard Rock Cafe in Warsaw, just hours before our CD Release Show, it is hard to believe that it has come this far. 2 years of ideas, 9 months of hard work and finally here it is. 7 Billion and a Nameless Somebody. This journey, this musical evolution has been an incredible experience for the 4 of us and we are thankful for it. We sincerely hope for your continued support because we cannot go on without it.
A glimpse at the enviable discography of prolific German psychedelonautDave “Sula Bassana” Schmidt will result in a lifetime’s worth of albums, live releases and jamming lysergic sprawl. Both on his own under the Sula Bassana moniker and with bands like Liquid Visions, Südstern 44, Zone Six and most recently Electric Moon, Schmidt has overseen the creation of an entire scene’s worth of output, sustaining leads carving out a niche almost entirely his own within European heavy psych rock. His latest solo outing to be released through his own Sulatron Records is called Dark Days, and on it, Schmidt plays guitar, bass, drums, synth, organ, performs what little vocals there are and, on all but two of the tracks which feature live drumming (by Pablo Carneval, also formerly of Electric Moon), he programs the drum machine. Thus Dark Days is a solo record in the truest sense of being the
Many Arms have written upon the wall of the progressive indie rock scene with a bold stroke. Equally indebted to Ornette Coleman, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and latter-day Black Flag, the band’s jagged songs hit hard and hit often while remaining willing to take a turn towards the pretty or the weird when occasionally inclined. Sophisticated and unpredictable, Many Arms creates music that will unite both rockers and music nerds.
The Finns PSYCHEMA place this year with “The entry point”, in front after an EP in 2008, their official debut album. According to the information flyer plays progressive metal quintet. Well, if the word progressive increases in the original sense, is not it in a certain way. Stylistically, the limited band around singer / guitarist Tomi Kavala, anyway. However, they are not as brave as you could wish for good.
PSYCHEMA feel both the death metal and gothic metal and – as mentioned above – progressive metal attached. With the progressive element in the music of PSYCHEMA based not so much on Frickel passages, but rather by the combination of these ingredients. This is a risky business, and overall, the Finns are to do any bad way. As so often, it is sick but in the implementation of those objectives. “The entry point” does not sound really intended to end. One can see that the band made their mind works and has tried to implement it. This results in song fragments that promote the potential of PSYCHEMA well to light. On the other hand, there is far too much kitsch, as heard in “antiparticle”. Overall, the proportion of kitsch is the debut album by the Finns simply too high. That was the mid-nineties, when the Gothic genre just experienced its high point, even annoying, but somehow it was. Today, one can elicit such sounds with at most dreamy teen Goths delight from the cellar and.
