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The American Progressive band DEREK SHERINIAN will release a new album entitled 'Sherinian / Phillips Live' on August 25, 2023 via INSIDE OUT Music.Externally at least, The Grape in Ventura California appears to be merely another anonymous building in a row of restaurants and stores. More»



Multinational Progressive Rock act Marek Arnold‘s Artrock Project published the officail trailer for upcoming self-titled album set to release on July 14, 2023 via Tempus Fugit. After more than 60 albums with his bands and projects such as Seven Steps To The Green Door, Toxic Smile, Cyril, Manuel Schmid & Marek Arnold, as a member of the German art rock legends Stern Combo Meissen More»



The Swiss Symphonic Metal band GREEN LABYRINTH will release a new album entitled 'Sequences' on June 23, 2023 via FASTBALL Music.The word "progressive" can be explained with "developing" or "evolving". The band GREEN LABYRINTH takes this to heart, and so the Swiss band ventures further into the depths of progressive metal with their new line-up, without forgetting their symphonic roots.
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"Echoes from the Past" will be released on 23.06.2023, the 20th studio album of the most successful German art & progressive rock band ELOY. It is also the 3rd album of a unique trilogy designed by band mastermind Frank Bornemann as a rock opera about the life and fate of the French national heroine and saint Joan of Arc. More»


FrontI'm really surprised this album hasn't garnered more of a cult following. This band matched strong rockers with moving ballads. Although the choruses are excellent and include the all-important backing vocals, I was equally impressed by the strong song-writing going on. This wasn't all cock-rock. There was actually a little substance going on imo. More»



The Canadian Melodic Rock/Metal band FATAL VISION will release a new album entitled 'Twice' on June 23, 2023 via PRIDE & JOY Music. Featuring lead singer Simon Marwood, who co-founded the band in 1988, guitarist Juan Miguel Gomez Montant, keyboard player Scottie Irving, More»



The American Heavy Metal band JAG PANZER will release a new album entitled 'The Hallowed' (CD) on June 23, 2023 via Atomic Fire Records.
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Working as a guitar player and songwriter in a host of bands and projects through the years (Ostrogoth, Thorium a.o.), Tom Tee launched Entering Polaris in 2018 with the debut album ‘Godseed’. The idea behind Entering Polaris is to realise a long overdue dream: More»


Alchemists” is the highly anticipated third album from modern Symphonic / Progressive Metal Italian band DEGREES OF TRUTH. The new CD introduces us to Degrees Of Truth’s incredible new vocalist Claudia Beltrame who adds more than just a sprinkling of stardust to the mix.

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The Finnish Progressive band OUTLANDERS will release a new album entitled 'Outlanders' on June 23, 2023 via EAR Music.Outlanders is the unique project of Finnish soprano legend Tarja Turunen and EDM pioneer Torsten Stenzel.
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Sometimes a band will have one major, game-changing album which not only proves to be their best work to date but also ends up redefining their sound, paving the way for something quite a bit different than what came before. One obvious case of that is Danish band PYRAMAZE , More»



DAVID FORBES, lead singer of Canadian band Boulevard (originally abbreviated Blvd) is about to release a solo album “Tales From The Past“, a wonderful AOR album which makes justice to its title both in sound & style.
Boulevard released their last album “Luminescence” a few years ago, a celebrated record by fans and critics, but since then the group went on hiatus. More»



The American Nu Metal band FEAR FACTORY will release a new album entitled 'Re-industrialized' on June 23, 2023 via NUCLEAR BLAST.After being long out of print on vinyl, in 2023, Nuclear Blast Records proudly present a stunning new edition of this album expanded with five bonus tracks and re-recorded drums.
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