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.

Tony Banks (ex-Genesis) – Six – Pieces For Orchestra (2012)

Band Tony Banks
Info: UK
Info: Six – Pieces For Orchestra
????: Progressive Rock / Classical
Years: 2012
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On March 6, founding Genesis member Tony Banks’ new classical album Six Pieces For Orchestra will be released on the Naxos label. This is Tony’s second classical recording, following 2004’s Seven: A Suite for Orchestra.Tony says of the works: “The titles of the movements refer to the elements of a universal story: seductress, journey, hero, quest, decision and goal. I leave it to the listener to fill in the details, although really it is just music, a story without words.”

Circus Maximus – Reach Within (2012 ) single

Five years of waiting for CIRCUS MAXIMUS new masterpiece album “Nine” to be released in worldwide June on Frontiers

Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of the anticipated third album from Norwegian Progsters CIRCUS MAXIMUS entitled “Nine” on June 1st in Europe and June 5th in North America.

Five years after the successful release of the concept album “Isolate”, this time Circus Maximus are back with a strong and mature cd. “A lot happened in our personal lives during the past few years “, explains drummer Truls Haugen. “Three of us had kids, plus we also had a several bumps in the road with the production. So it has not exactly been a joyride, but it feels great to finally be done, and after all this time we are ready to unleash our new monster !”

XII ALFONSO – CHARLES DARWIN 2012

XII ALFONSO’s “The Lost Frontier” is a great first album with an ambitious concept. These young musicians from Bordeaux (France) have built a superb work with long instrumental passages, some female vocals, and a Celtic-influenced atmosphere sometimes reminding of Mike OLDFIELD. “Odyssees” is the second album in 1999, presenting the same sort of beautiful and majestuous music that could have been heard three years ago.

“Claude Monet Vol. 1” is the first delivery of a trilogy dedicated to the last years of the french impressionist painter’s Claude Monet life, for the French group XII ALFONSO. This first one surrenders it occupies from the years 1883 to 1889. The relative influences to progressive bands that are appreciated in the album, I believe that they would come mainly from French formations as VITAL MINIMUM or Jean Pascal BOFFO, besides others as Mike OLDFIELD and Steve HACKETT. Those that have not been satisfied with XII ALFONSO’s first two albums, they can prove with this third that sincerely I believe that it is a great disk.

HOSTSONATEN – THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER – CHAPTER ONE 2012

The idea of making a musical transposition of the famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was conceived by Fabio Zuffanti years ago in 1995, but soon abandoned until today, right after the release of the four chapters of the successful “Seasoncyle” tetralogy about the four seasons. Zuffanti, eminent personality of today’s Italian Prog scene, and worldwide acclaimed thanks to his various projects such as Höstsonaten, Finisterre and La Maschera di Cera, has now concluded the first in a series of two volumes dedicated to the “Rime…”. The first CD contains the first four parts of the opus, while the second three parts will end on a second album which will be released in 2013. The music is, if possible, more symphonic, theatrical and majestic than ever, with touches of celtic music, hard/new-prog and much more, developed in five long compositions. The vocal duties rely on five different vocalists, with the aim to explore, interpret and give the listener the emotions of the dark and dreamy poem by Coleridge. Fabio Zuffanti’s guests in this new adventure are Maurizio Di Tollo (drums), Luca Scherani (keyboards), Matteo Nahum (guitars), Edmondo Romano (sax, bagpipe), Sylvia Trabucco (violin) and Joanne Roan (flute), while Alessandro Corvaglia (La Maschera Di Cera), Carlo Carnevali, Davide Merletto (Daedalus), Mar

TERAMAZE – ANHEDONIA (2012)


For fans of Nevermore, Karnivool, Pantera, Tool and Devin Townsend
Teramaze might be Australia’s best kept secret … but that won’t last long. As this band is ready to burst out of their home country and make a well-deserved worldwide impact with their metallic alloy brand.