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.

Breaking Orbit – The Time Traveller (2012)

For long-term fans of Breaking Orbit, previously known as Nucleus, the obvious question with their highly anticipated debut album is, was it worth the wait?
Progressive Rock should always take you on a journey, the musical landscape changing as you travel, with the capacity to give you a different experience on each listen as you focus on different parts of the landscape.
With so much involvement required by the listener, I’m afraid that Prog is never going to be a mainstream genre, but fortunately due to the internet, the Prog community can get together and appreciate it internationally yet still feel very connected.

District 97 – Trouble With Machines (2012)

Reviewing their first album Hybrid Child, there was a question I wanted to ask, but never did. How did vocalist Leslie Hunt go from an American Idol finalist and cutting an album of basically pop rock to singing in a prog rock band? The inquiry is rather moot at this point since Hunt had a rather impressive performance on D97’s first effort, and does again on their second release, Trouble With Machines. I would imagine she might find the prog context a greater challenge to her abilities.

Fundamentally, Hunts vocals work well with the melodies and complexities of District 97’s progressive rock. They effortlessly compliment each other, which is quite striking. Back and Forth and The Perfect Young Man (featuring Asia’s John Wetton) are perfect examples of this smart union.

Romeo – Cara o Cruz (2012)

The theme that lends its name to the whole CD is a hard rock apotheosis of colors that leaves breathless. From the beginning the song with us about strength, reaching into our souls through a voice strong and addictive, with its particular way of singing, scratching each letter with passion, raw and pure as it should always be in a rock theme, without compromise . Well the game’s guitar on the central Toss to heavy shades, a full issue on each element and is the intro to an album that we hope to remain at these levels.

Weend’o – You Need to Know Yourself (2012)

01. Dark Element – 4:21
02. Experience – 4:45
03. Betrayal – 9:27
04. Run Away – 6:44
05. You Need to Know Yourself – 6:13
06. Welcome in My Mind – 4:44
07. Deadline – 9:18
08. The Soulmate – 4:52
09. Experience – 6:36
10. Dark Element – 5:46
11. Betrayal – 3:38

Destination’s Calling – End Of Time (2012)

What a pleasant surprise! DESTINATION’S CALLING of the boys are back and set with “End Of Time”, the successor to the 2008 long-iron “Invisible Walls” before. And four years ago I was able to express in terms of strong material, the band is an absolute recommendation – fortunately, things have not changed in the last four years, nothing!

On the contrary, because the Germans present themselves on their second album with even better sound, even ausgereifterem song material and with a better overall impression still around. And well, you scratch it quite clear at the upper limit of the scale of points! Because regardless of whether the (still) to VANISHING POINT reminding “Soul Bound”, which is oriental atmosphere meandering “Revolution in Mind,” the groovy title track “End Of Time” and the stomping “Burning Paradise” – always deliver DESTINATION’S CALLING elegant melodies , coupled with a good amount of pressure and catchy hooks that always performs at its best.

With “The Broken Hourglass” and the accompanying “Dreams Died On The Road” has to finally have a really finely balanced ballad at the start, a little of the ballad exploits “Always Will Be” and “Dreams Come True” by HAMMERFALL recalls. “Another Day” suggests a similar score, but it evokes reminiscences of the ballads work of Primal Fear, and the rest of the song material, the high level across the board always maintained.