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Trinity Live

26/05/2014

Good as Arena were, it was still Magenta who ultimately stole the show, and I can't imagine any other artist begrudging them for it...

Rush Vinyl Competition

06/05/2014

Sign up to our newsletter for the chance to win Rush's legendary debut on limited edition vinyl with loads of extras....

Haken [Live, The Garage]

06/05/2014

Despite the obvious virtuosity of the whole band there was relatively little in the way of soloing; the strength of their music is in the composition. ...

Riverside : O2 Islington

17/04/2014

An ideal band for the many people still missing Porcupine Tree, but on the basis of performances like this, they're far, far more than that....

Loitered Lens : HRH Prog

06/04/2014

A selection of photos from HRH Prog festival gives a hint of how things went down at the North Wales shindig...

John Wesley : Disconnect

02/04/2014

Wesley keeps a foot in both the singer-songwriter and guitar hero camps, and the songs are far more than mere vehicles for guitar pyrotechnics....

Halo Blind : Occupying Forces

21/03/2014

Memorable but unconventional melodies, and some great use of atmospheric instrumental passages in place of conventional solos...

Panic Room : Incarnate

28/02/2014

This is an album by a band not afraid to try something slightly different, and there is much to like about it. ...

Transatlantic : Kaleidoscope

24/01/2014

Symphonic rock riffs, quiet reflective passages, jazz-inflected instrumental sections and huge anthemic climaxes with recurring motifs....

Loitered Lens : Mostly Autumn

12/01/2014

A year of ups and downs for Mostly Autumn ends on a high note. Photos of Mostly Autumn at the Bilston Robin 2....

The Manic Shine : Let Go Or Be Dragged

17/12/2013

The guitar interplay is way above average fantastic, riffing off each other, pushing the music into stratospheric trippy heights and reminiscent of some tasty prog, it’s deliciousness itself....

A icture of the Fierce and the Dead album Spooky Action

The Fierce and the Dead : Spooky Action

11/12/2013

There are elements of progressive rock, post-punk, indie/alternative and metal in the music, resulting in a record that is both all of those things and none of them. ...

Loitered Lens : Touchstone

10/11/2013

Oceans of Time ought to cement Touchstone’s growing reputation as one of the most exciting bands in the scene....

Obelyskkh : Hymn to Pan

15/10/2013

What we have here is a doom sound with strong prog and alt rock influences. Also, fucking squirrels. ...

Touchstone : Oceans of Time

24/09/2013

There are still plenty of heavier passages where they show their metal side. But there is far more light and shade....

A picture of the Fish album Feast of COnsequences

Fish : Feast of Consequences

15/09/2013

It all amounts to an album that's well worth the six year wait...

Heidi Widdop (Cloud Atlas) : Interview

29/08/2013

The excitement I am feeling that finally I am in a position to record music that I have written, that I can produce it to sound exactly as I feel it should, is just massive! ...

Maschine : Rubidium

29/07/2013

Contemporary progressive rock at its best, mixing metal, jazz and rock in a seamless blend...

Tarja : Colours in the Dark

28/07/2013

It's all completely over the top, but then it's a Tarja record, and you wouldn't really expect anything else; it would be like expecting Meatloaf to make a lo-fi Americana album. ...

It's not a full-band recording, but neither is it completely stripped-down and minimalist. The dominant instrumental sounds are acoustic guitar and programmed rhythms, but there's a lot else in the...

Iain Jennings : My Dark Surprise

27/06/2013

Some of the delicate piano lines on this record are quintessential Iain Jennings...

Tubular Bells for Two : [Live Review]

31/05/2013

...they play as fans to whom the album is a sacrament – a resonant feeling that the audience of Oldfield devotees appreciated - Tubular Bells...

Loitered Lens : Steve Hackett

26/05/2013

Photos of Steve Hackett live at Hammersmith Apollo, May 10th...

Steve Hackett : Hammersmith Apollo

17/05/2013

It wasn't a reverential note-for-note reproduction of the original recordings, but neither was it a ground-up re-imagining that didn't respect the original versions....

Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

01/05/2013

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

29/04/2013

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

15/01/2013

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band's early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the...

Albums of the Year: Tim Hall’s Choices

20/12/2012

In many previous years any one of these might have been a strong candidate for my album of the year....

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...