Category: Progressive Rock

Band Phantom Band
Info: Phantom Band / Freedom of Speech
Style: Progressive / Krautrock
Years: 1980-1981
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 166 Mb
Info: Germany

“New Era”, the long-awaited fourth album from Swedish metallersCLOUDSCAPE, will be released in the U.S. on September 11 viaNightmare Records

CLOUDSCAPE is a melodic power metal band with progressive touches from southern Sweden. Fans of both progressive metal, such asEVERGREY, SYMPHONY X, DREAM THEATER, and PAGAN’S MIND, and old-school rock, like AEROSMITH, SCORPIONS, and JOURNEY, are sure to find something enjoyable about CLOUDSCAPE.
Since 2004 CLOUDSCAPE has called the prestigious Roastinghouse Studios in Malmö, Sweden their home for all of their albums to date.CLOUDSCAPE continue to progress with each record, breaking new boundaries in their style and continue to mature in their writing and composition. “New Era” is without a doubt the band’s crowning accomplishment to date. The record was produced and mixed by Micko Twedberg. Twedberg was assisted on the mixing by Anders “Theo” Theander. The mastering was also handled by Theander.

Judging by the name KingBathmat, one might think that the music contained on the group’s newest LP, Truth Button, would be an inaccessible mess of eclectic madness. Luckily, the opposite is true; in fact, it’s been awhile since I’ve heard such a tightly arranged and melodically enjoyable collection. The album oozes with psychedelic style and exceptional harmonies, too, which makes it an absolute joy from beginning to end.

01. Another Day
02. Calling Out
03. Water of Life
04. Dreaming / Universal Light
05. Solar Wind
06. Darkness
07. Part of Me
08. To the River
09. Still Water
10. Sojourn
11. Autumn Sky

Band Hundred Years
Info: Skyhook
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1997
Info: VBR ~230-250 s
Info: 94,33 Mb
Info: Finland

Band Flaming Bess
Info: Fata Morgana
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1996
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 146 Mb
Info: Germany

Band The Pink Mice
Info: In Action / In Synthesizer Sound
Style: Progressive / KrautRock
Years: 1971-1972
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 161 Mb
Info: Germany

Band Magnitude 9
Info: Decoding The Soul
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 2004
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 103 Mb
Info: USA

Band Thought Sphere
Info: Eden’s Shore
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1998
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 123 Mb
Info: Germany

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On the ground italicize flag of U.S. school progressive metal (Dream Theater, Symphony X) seems to have taken root in a marked … only in the last period on our virtual desk will be landed at least ten discs falling within this genre! Futile statistics aside, also present here Replosion, quintet led by brothers Galletto (guitar and drums respectively), and orbital areas of Mantua in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia, may well be classified in the chaos of the kind mentioned above. What we believe can (and will increasingly) to this interesting group to emerge from the standard of the genre is a seemingly innate propensity to compose melodies well-aimed, that softened the difficulty and the high technical content of the songs and bring the proposal at levels more user friendly, allowing the band to avoid the trap of proposing mere exercises in style and technique. The latter is certainly present in all the work (the borrower guitarwork strongly the lesson of Romeo of Symphony X, blended with a drumming school Portnoy, amply demonstrate), but fortunately is not the only goal of the band, which seeks to move away from merely trying to put quotations in the overall sound a bit ‘of sound speed and strength drawn from the power metal (“Push Me Down”), and also some shots of elegant rock settantiano, which help to soften the