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.

Le Reverie – Dark Symphony 2012

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Le Reverie is a Female fronted Goth/Prog Metal Band that sounds like Evanescence and Dream Theater that lure you in with their Haunting vocals and melodies, dark heavy tracks that rip and tear you apart ever so sweetly and have you crawling back for more.

Critics are talking about Female-Fronted Goth Rock Metal Band Le Reverie and the release of their long awaited debut album, “Dark Symphony.” This 12-Song CD is an amazing combination of Symphony, Goth Rock, Metal and Progressive Rock. “Dark Symphony” will

The Minstrels Ghost – The Road To Avalon (2012)

 Written and produced by Blake Carpenter, with artwork by world renowned artist Ed Unitsky and featuring Zoltan Csörsz Jr. (The Flower Kings and Karmakanic) on drums, Troy James Martin (LeeAnne Savage) on bass, Colin Tench (Corvus Stone and Bunchakeze) on Guitar, Marco Chiappini (Gandalf’s Project) on keyboards and Blake Carpenter (The Minstrel’s Ghost) on lead vocals, guitar and keyboards The Road To Avalon is finally here! Drawing on influences ranging from Genesis to Iron Maiden The Road To Avalon is a neo-prog album full of enthusiastic keyboard leads, melodic guitar solos, smooth vocal lines and powerful rhythm

MECHANICAL ORGANIC – THIS GLOBAL HIVE, PART ONE 2012

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From the start, you can stay two things about Australia’s Mechanical Organic: they have vivid imaginations and create some interesting progressive metal. Their fifth release, This Global Hive, Part One, like previous offerings, is a concept album, and a strange one at that. The first sentence from its description gives you a taste: “This Global Hive Part One explores the black awakening, satanic ritual abuse, the creation of satanic super soldiers, multiple personality disorder and demonic mind control program used to ensure the global chaos that beckons.” Can you say ‘conspiracy theory?’