Luz de Riada "Cuentos y Fábulas Vol. 3 (Final)"

Country: Mexico
Genre(s): Jazz-Rock, Avant Prog
Label: AICAACIA Records
Format: CD
Release date: August 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Play Ball (5:25)
2. Callejon De Igualdad (5:08)
3. Marichiweu (diez Veces Venceremos) (5:37)
4. Monos Sobre Elefantes Blancos (4:39)
5. La Ultima Frontera (3:48)
6. Satan Carrona (3:49)
7. El Cielo Non Es El Limite (5:16)
8. Aca Entr Nos (4:06)
9. Paseo De La Resistencia (5:47)
10. Mia (2:54)

Total time 46:29
Line-up: 
Ramses Luna (Cazbezas de Cera): Saxophones, duduk, native instruments, voice, percussion geoshreed.
Gustavo Jacob: guitar, fretless bass and piano.
    With
Aristides Martinez: tambourine (10)
Todd Clouser: voice (1)
Eduardo Reyes: voice (10)
Hugo Hernandez Chipa: Drums (2, 3)
Manuel F. Jimez: Drums

Description/Reviews: 

The music is a blend of Mexican jazz rock/progressive rock influenced by traditional Mexican musics, just as Cazbezas de Cera's music is, which will come as no surprise when you learn that Luz de Riada was started by Ramses Luna, formerly of Cabezas. Having said that, the music here is more firmly towards jazz rock/progressive rock to my ears than CDC. (waysidemusic.com)

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Play Ball
La Ultima Frontera

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The Mantras "Knot Suite"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 31, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Here We Go (6:04)
2. Knot Suite (5:04)
3. All You Here (5:25)
4. Silas Brown (5:33)
5. Dirtnap (5:31)
6. Strongbox (7:07)
7. Destroyer (6:59)

Total Time 41:43

Line-up: 
Keith Allen - Guitars, Vocals
Brian Tyndall - Bass, Vocals
Julian Sizemore - Keyboards, Vocals
Brent Vaughn - Percussion, Vocals
Justin Loew - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Opening track “Here We Go” eases listeners with a looping sample and some lush orchestration before a snaking, winding jam splits the song in half. Bassist Brian Tyndall shines throughout the instrumental track, his deep line cutting through the mix and giving the higher end excursions on the piano and guitar an unavoidable counter-balance of weight and purpose. On the title track, “Knot Suite” The Mantras manage to walk the fine line between immersive instrumental passages alongside a positive lyrical outlook without skewing too far in either direction.

Read the full review by Rex Thomson at liveforlivemusic.com

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Dec Burke "Book of Secrets"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: F2 (Festival Music)
Format: CD
Release date: August 29, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Reflection (6:16)
2. Everlasting (4:08)
3. Take (5:23)
4. As High As The Sun (5:01)
5. Another Hope (4:49)
6. Intervals (4:50)
7. Hate & Lies (5:28)
8. The Sun Will Rise (3:59)

Total time 39:54
Line-up: 
Dec Burke  (Darwin's Radio, Frost, AudioPlastik ) -  guitars, vocals
      With:
Kristoffer Gildenlow (Pain of Salavation) - bass
Steve Hughes (BBT) - drums
Carl Westholm (Carptree) - piano, mellotron, organ

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Everlasting
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SpaceShip "Traveler"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Format: digital
Release date: August 29, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Beyond Impossible (5:10)
2. Mandalaxy (5:36)
3. Molecular Velocity (10:59)
4. Traveler (10:01)
5. Moonprints (11:39)
6. Zero Gravity (13:37)

Total Time 57:02

Line-up: 
Ryan Benthall- Piano, Synthesizer
Jacob Zengerling- Bass Guitar
Stephen Haake- Drums
Ini Essien- Tenor Saxophone
AJ Lane- Trumpet
   With
Bryan Foote- Trumpet (5)

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Tuomas Norjanen Project "The Story Behind Everything"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: August 29, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. The Greatest Delusion Of All (4:53)
2. Burning Bridges (4:21)
3. The End Of Time (7:06)
4. Honorbound (4:30)
5. Signposts (9:06)
6. Bewilder (5:15)
7. The Story Behind Everything (7:29)

Total Time 42:40

Line-up: 
Tuomas Norjanen - Guitars, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Orchestra Programming
Aki Andrejeff - Bass
Topias Kupiainen - Drums Programming, Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Orchestra Programming
Turo Tapani - Vocals
Anna-Elina Norjanen - Backing Vocals

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Teaser
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Agori Tribe "Roller Coaster Tragedies"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Fusion
Format: digital
Release date: August 29, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Koda (5:13)
2. Cody (3:37)
3. Tiny Tyrant Biggins And The Avant Groove (8:46)
4. Jamasia Feat. Zach Nixon (5:54)
5. Serene Hemiola Feat. Zach Nixon (10:20)

Total time 33:50

Line-up: 
David Collins - guitar, keys
Sean Naughton - drums
Will Nicholls - guitar, samples
Dave Hash - keys

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Cirrus Bay "Places Unseen"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Symphonic
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 27, 2016 (digital), September 2016 (CD)
Tracklist: 

1. Places Unseen (6:52) 

2. First Departure (11:05) 

3. Songs Unheard (3:46) 

4. Dimension 7 (5:12) 

5. The Sheltering Cove (6:51) 

6. Horseback To Hanssonland (5:08) 

7. Boats (5:47) 

8. Second Departure (10:34) 

Total Time 55:15

Line-up: 
Tai Shan: vocals
Brendan Buss: flute & sax
Mark Blasco: drums, bass guitar, backing vocals, additional keyboards and electric guitar
Bill Gillham: keyboards, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, recorder, autoharp, additional backing vocals

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Here We Just Dream "Vessel"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: August 27, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Passing Days (6:08)
2. Lying (5:02)
3. Moving Forward (4:05)
4. Meant To Be (4:25)
5. I Don't Believe You (4:44)
6. Tale (6:09)
7. What If Nothing (9:41)

Total Time 40:14

Line-up: 
Andrew Davis - Bass
Tim Doherty - Guitar
Bradley Goff - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Seth Botos - Drums
    With
Kristin Santangelo - Additional vocals  (1, 5, 6, 7)
Nick Cardone - Additional vocals (3)
Ellie Foster - Additional vocals (4)
Taylor Kirkwood -  Additional keyboards (1, 2)

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Controlled Bleeding "Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Industrial, Progressive Rock, Jazz
Label: Artoffact Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 26, 2016 (CD, digital), September 23, 2016 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
Disc 1:
1) Driving through Darkness
2) Carving Song
3) Trawler's Return
4) As Evening Fades
5) The Perks of Being a Perv (Parts 1-4)

Disc 2:
1) Return of the Quiet
2) Fusion Song
3) Swarm
4) Garage Dub
5) Trawler's Song
6) Eye of Needle
7) Trang's Song

Line-up: 
Paul Lemos - guitar
Mike Bazini - programming
Tony Meola - drums
Chvad SB - programming

Description/Reviews: 

Larva Lumps is a startling record: it somehow flawlessly mixes industrial noise and prog rock into a beautifully stream-of-conscious work that is at once fairly brutal and lovingly serene. The opening piece, Driving Through Darkness, could be the title of a pop-ballad, until you realize the actual meaning of the word 'driving'; jumping out at you seemingly in medias res, the album and track crash thru a minute of jazz-improv and clicking bass that give way to a delightful guitar, before grabbing you again on the road to darkness. The second track, Carving Song, is an industrial monster that sounds like the spawn of Test Dept. and Cubanate, and the epic, 22-minute long closer The Perks of Being a Perv, an instrumental throbbing piece of industrial-meets-prog confusion, is breathtaking.

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Plini "Handmade Cities"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Instrumental Fusion, Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 26, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Electric Sunrise (5:05)
2. Handmade Cities (4:45)
3. Inhale (4:57)
4. Every Piece Matters (3:40)
5. Pastures (7:34)
6. Here We Are, Again (2:37)
7. Cascade (6:00)

Total Time 34:38

Line-up: 
Simon Grove - Bass
Troy Wright - Drums
Plini - Guitars & everything else

Description/Reviews: 

Plini‘s sound and style have become unique that many guitarists and composer follow the way he’s traced and enlist him as inspiration. On Handmade Cities, not only is there an atmosphere of optimism and triumph, Plini‘s riffs often depend on climbing and descending patterns. Although they are rarely melodic in the conventional sense, Plini‘s music has an atmosphere that washes over the listener and absolves them of the intellectual challenge generally associated with tech-centric music. This is certainly not to say that the music isn’t intelligent; rather, it is thoughtfully constructed in such a way that the numerous technical solos, riffs and fleeting moments of ambiance are all poised in a single direction, like a river. 

Read the full review at prog-sphere.com

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Die Like Gentlemen "The Quickening Light"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Sludge, Progressive Metal, Doom
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 26, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Cerberus Sleeps (7:51)
2. Unnamed (9:22)
3. Drought (7:17)
4. Harvestmen (3:43)
5. On Command (8:30)

Total time 36:43

Line-up: 
Adam Alexander – vocals, guitar
Shawn Boles – drums
Matt Wieber – lead guitar
Sean Rodgers – bass
   With
Kate Mordarski, Christina Lorentz, Carl Wayne - additional vocals

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DGM "The Passage"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Frontiers Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 26, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. The Secret Pt. 1 (8:24)
2. The Secret Pt. 2 (7:15)
3. Animal (5:18)
4. Ghosts Of Insanity (5:35)
5. Fallen (5:39)
6. The Passage (5:10)
7. Disguise (1:53)
8. Portrait (5:39)
9. Daydreamer (5:35)
10. Dogma (5:45)
11. In Sorrow (3:40)

Total time 59:53

Line-up: 
Simone Mularoni – guitars, keyboards
Marco Basile – vocals
Andrea Arcangeli – bass
Fabio Costantino – drums
Emanuele Casali – keyboards
   With
Tom Englund (Evergrey) - vocals (4)
Michael Romeo (Symphony X) - lead guitar (10)

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Animal

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Orphaned Land & Amaseffer "Kna’an"

Country: Israel
Genre(s): Oriental Prog Related, Soundtrack
Label: Century Media
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 26, 2016
Tracklist: 

1. The Holy Land Of Kna'an (1:55)
2. The Angel Of The Lord (3:36)
3. Naked - Sarah And Abraham (2:17)
4. The Burning Garden - Sarah And Hagar (3:36)
5. Naked - Abraham (4:45)
6. A Tree Without No Fruit - Sarah (2:37)
7. There Is No God For Ishma'el (3:17)
8. The Vision (2:28)
9. A Dove Without Her Wings - Hagar (1:44)
10. The Loneliness Of Itzhak (1:05)
11. Akeda (4:50)
12. Fruits From Different Trees - Ishma'el And Itzhak (4:12)
13. Prisoners Of The Past (2:37)

Total time 38:59

Line-up: 
Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land: vocals, narrations
Erez Yohanan (Amaseffer): sounds, drums programming
Uri Zelha  (Orphaned Land): bass
Chen Balbus  (Orphaned Land) : guitar
Matan Shmuely  (Orphaned Land): percussion
Idan Amsalem (Orphaned Land): additional guitar
   With
Josephine Bönsch, Julian Ricker, Michaela Fent, Christian Müller, Jan-Arne Looss: voices

Description/Reviews: 

...Kna'an is a play about the familiar biblical story of Abraham in the land of Kna'an. Kobi and Erez, with the help of Orphaned Land's members, composed this special soundtrack consisting ballads and metal songs about all the characters and inner conflicts of the heroes in this complex episode, a story that still reflects till this day the three Abrahamic religions.

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The Holy Land Of Kna’an (Teaser)  

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Edge Of Reality "Vicious Circle"

Country: UK/USA
Genre(s): Eclectic Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 25, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Wasteland (8:20)
2. Teeth Of The Universe (6:46)
3. Grababyte (7:48)
4. Cupcake (4:39)
5. Khanfusion (5:15)
6. Forks & Spoons II (7:24)
7. Moldy Banana Bread (6:13)
8. A Miner Problem (12:16)
9. Into The Shadows (19:43)

Total time 78:24   

Line-up: 
Joey Frevola (Kyros/Synaesthesia) – Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, Backing Vocals
Jesse Peck – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Branndon Center – Drums & Percussion
   With:
Ruben Vasquez Amos – Lead Vocals (all tracks except 5)
Daniel Garces – Scream Vocals (4)
Joel Schutte – Scream Vocals & Swedish Chef (4)
Emmanuel Echem – Trumpet (5, 9)
Johnathan Carberry – Piano (1), Synth Solo (3)
Megan Rasmussen – Lead Vocals & Alto Vocals (9)
Carolina Rodriguez – Soprano Vocals (9)
Cole Thannisch – Tenor Vocals (9)
Ollie Johnson – French Horn (4)
Chloe and Jaden Griggs – Grandchildren (7)

Description/Reviews: 

Shifting moods and styles throughout the album. Definitely not samey. A clear example of this is the shift from the heaviest track (humorously titled Cupcake) featuring scream vocals and chugging riffs, directly into the next track that draws from many jazz-fusion influences. This really helped sell this album to me, as I had begun to feel like the band were going heavy far too often, with little shift in the dynamics. Khanfusion was the track that broke this rule, at times sounding rather like the legendary Return to Forever, but also including a section where the band let up the fast pace to opt for a more chilled lounge jazz sound that doesn’t sound a bit insincere.

Read the full review by Basil Francis at theprogressiveaspect.net

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Teeth of the Universe
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Enigmatic Infinity "Sentenced to Solitude"

Country: Hungary
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 24, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Intro/Preludes Of Desolation (3:59)
2. My Toxic World (7:36)
3. Sickened (8:36)
4. Wanderer For A Lifetime (7:19)
5. Life Before Death (9:48)
6. Sentenced To Solitude (17:21)

Total time 54:39

Line-up: 
Nándor Tombor - guitars, backing vocals, programming:
Máté Horváth - lead vocals

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Mother Turtle "II"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: August 22, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Overture (1:46)
2. Harvest Moon (13:08)
3. Ennui (3:31)
4. Walpurgi Flame (20:15)
5. The Tower (2:56)
6. The Art Of Ending A Revolution (14:44)

Total time 56:20

Line-up: 
Kostas Konstantinidis: guitars, vocals, midi guitar, ukulele
George Baltas: drums,vocals
George Theodoropoulos: keys
George Filopelou: electric and fretless bass
Babis Prodromidis: saxophone, flute
Alex Kiourntziadis: violin
   With
Alexandra Sieti, Maria Mariadou: vocals (4)

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Sistema Sonar "Sol"

Country: Mexico
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: August 21, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Ignicion (4:07)
2. Mercurio (5:54)
3. Venus (5:24)
4. Tierra (5:01)
5. Luna (3:31)
6. Marte (3:51)
7. Jupiter (1:31)
8. Io (4:40)
9. Ganemides (2:37)
10. Saturno (4:49)
11. Urano (5:35)
12. Neptuno (5:59)

Total time 52:59

Line-up: 
Matias Rozat - drums
J. Carlos Sardaneta - bass
Odguer Hernández - guitar

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Contemplator "Sonance"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: August 21, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. The Veiling (5:40)
2. Ancestral Circles (1:42)
3. Shapes (5:02)
4. Echopraxia (4:42)
5. Balance (3:35)
6. Art Of Nothing (4:58)
7. Filter (5:30)
8. Welkin (3:46)
9. Relative (4:50)
10. Meridian (6:09)

Total Time 45:54

Line-up: 
Antoine Baril - Guitars
Maxime Rochefort - Guitars
Christian Pacaud - Bass, Programming
Antoine Guertin - Drums
   With
Jeff Ball - Violin, Viola

Description/Reviews: 

What makes “Sonance” so great is that it’s an all instrumental affair that could have either harsh or clean vocals over it but the music is so great, it doesn’t need it. This is how prog metal should be. It’s technical, it’s heavy but it’s also melodic and ethereal.

Read the full review by Rob Pociluk at progressivemusicplanet.com

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Floyd Bridgewater "Yacht Club"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Format: digital
Release date: August 20, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Neptune's Next (3:33)
2. It's Called Bixby (4:56)
3. Bigbafunki (3:12)
4. Darcy (5:30)
5. En Jei (3:19)
6. Fifteen (4:04)
7. Futbol (5:02)
8. The Slow One (4:20)
9. I Want You (2:28)

Total Time 36:24

Line-up: 
Dylan Clevenger - Drums, Percussion, Claps
Dylan Hovis - Bass, Guitar, Percussion
Anthony Grisham - Guitar
Cameron Row - Keys

Description/Reviews: 

"Yacht Club" combines influences from various jazz and rock artists to produce a strange concoction of music that resides somewhere between heavy riff rock and a customer service "please hold" soundtrack. It is big but funky, beefy and crispy, and will certainly have you smiling by it's conclusion.

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Bruno Mansini "The Golden Soul"

Country: Brazil
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, AOR
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 20, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. The Golden Soul (3:25)
2. Glory Of The Heroes (4:25)
3. Higher Source Of Wisdom (4:34)
4. Earthdance (3:06)
5. Future Destination (4:20)
6. Wonders Of The World (4:58)
7. Astonished Mind (4:22)
8. Enlightened Skies (5:00)
9. A Meeting Of Gods (4:26)
10. The Joy Of Love (4:38)

Total Time 43:14

Line-up: 
Bruno Mansini - all instruments and vocals
   With
Cauê Doktorcyzk - electric guitars

Description/Reviews: 

Distinct cultures and a plenty of musical genres explain – or at least point some possibilities – that the multi-instrumentalist Bruno Mansini created at "The Golden Soul", the third album of its career, available in CD and virtual format next august. This is such a emblematic release to the artist, born and raised in São Paulo, who sings every notes and plays all the instruments in 10 tracks, which contains references to progressive rock in harmony with hard rock, brazilian musical elements, besides soft remembrances of heavy metal,  70ies and 80ies sonorities.
Produced by Mansini on its own, "The Golden Soul" is the last album of a trilogy, which previous ones are "Secrets of Green" (2015) and "Dreams form the Earth" (2013). The journey to inner comprehension and all the stages to reach an utter consciousness form the lyrical concept that unites the three releases. For this purpose, Mansini deals with the search for fellings and emotions' comprehension, always with a optimist perspective and attached to the great men's values.
The lyrical concept that dialogues about spirituality and self knowledge have its whole purpose when contextualized together with the sound of "The Golden Soul", full of atmospheres and timings, all involved in a crystalline production.  Deep and remarkable, these songs offer to the listener Mansini's plural references in progressive layers, as far as each instrument appears detailed. Graduate in Music, he's also the responsible for the entire writing and recordings of the album.
Mansini points "The Golden Soul" as an album with many autobiographical moments, when the artist enhance his impressions about life and perceptions about many subjects through distinct musical esthetics. The guitars, for example, were recorded by  Cauê Doktorczyk, where resides the new influencies of hard rock and heavy metal, as far as the percussive work reminds the 70ies progressive rock universe and the pop music of the 80ies (AOR), besides the oriental sonority by using the Sitar,  Tabla, Derbak e Riq.
However, Mansini never deny his roots, the progressive rock, and still keep "The Golden Soul" pretty closer with the kind of sound bands of the 70ies like Yes did. (progrockmetal.blogspot.com)

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Throes Of Dawn "Our Voices Shall Remain"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Atmospheric/Progressive/Gothic/Post Metal
Label: Argonauta Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 20, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Mesmerized (9:25)
2. We Used To Speak In Colours (8:45)
3. Lifelines (7:46)
4. The Understanding (9:47)
5. Our Voices Shall Remain (6:35)
6. One Of Us Is Missing (9:18)
7. The Black Wreath Of Mind (14:24)

Total Time 66:00

Line-up: 
Henri Koivula: vocals
Jani Heinola: guitars
Juha Ylikoski: lead guitars
Harri Huhtala: bass
Henri Andersson: keyboards
Juuso Backman: drums
   With
Henri Koivula: :saxophone (6, 7)

Description/Reviews: 

As one of the first Finish Progressive/Melodic Black Metal bands in the 90’s, their sound has truly evolved into a magical combination of Atmospheric/Progressive/Gothic/Dark Metal elements. Featuring over 65 minutes of music, the seven tracks presented in “Our Voices Shall Remain” will transport the listener to very emotional melodic realms.
Slowly building up with the hypnotic atmosphere of “Mesmerized”, the band creates a very subtle dreamy vibe thanks to the distant guitars and bass guitar line. The band’s earlier Black Metal days are still infused in the music, as songs like “We Used to Speak in Colours” start off quite heavily and slowly mellow into the album’s groove. Only using clean vocals, Henri Koivula, manages to sound a bit like Jukka Vuorinen from Decoryah, adding an extra layer of emotions to the music, tracks like “Lifelines” are a perfect example of this.

Read the full review at infernalmasquerade.com

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Pencarrow "Dawn Simulation"

Country: New Zealand
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 20, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Brace Yourself For Impact (14:46)
2. Soul Paralytic (6:27)
3. Becoming (9:13)
4. Mount Street Cemetery (6:59)
5. Catching Leaves (7:46)
6. At Last, Omniscience (17:45)

Total Time 62:56

Line-up: 
Tonnie Ten Hove - Vocals, Guitars
Todd Thompson - Bass
Anthony Rose - Keyboards
Justin Chorley - Drums

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Ideology "Ideology"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: August 19, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Oxygen (9:34)
2. Synergy (1:39)
3. Inhale (Attritionem) (7:31)
4. Exhale (Patefaction) (5:54)
5. Circuitry (1:36)
6. Bliss (5:56)
7. Hazard (1:16)
8. Eyes Up! (5:21)

Total time 38:47

Line-up: 
Wesley Berger - Vocals
Mike Salow - Guitars
John Whitaker - Guitars
Luke Ibach - Bass
Charlie Engen - Drums

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The New Fall Of Man "The New Fall Of Man"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: August 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Prelude To Madness (0:53)
2. Where The Madness Drives Us (5:06)
3. Defeat This (3:53)
4. In Memory Of Virtue (7:09)
5. Lydia (5:30)
6. Roll The Stone (5:55)
7. Usurper (10:35)
8. All In Vain (5:29)

Total Time 44:30

Line-up: 
Matthew Eastland - Vocals, Guitars
Jason Baldwin - Lead Guitars
Mike Burnham - Bass
Rob Labig - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

The New Fall of Man's sound is a bit of a challenge to describe. It’s metal, for sure, but the band makes no attempt to fit to any specific sub-genre. They have a plethora of disparate tastes and influences, and the only formula they follow is to write the music they want to hear: metal with a hint of doom, progressive, and dark folk, with themes of violence, vengeance, forgiveness, individualism, and apocalypse.

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Audio'm "Audio'm"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 18, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Stolen Love Bite (14:46)
2. Mourning Dove (13:24)
3. The Human Race (6:24)
4. Dead Quiet (9:08)
5. Run Away (9:01)
6. Friend-Less-R (8:48)

Total time 61:31

Line-up: 
Marco Fabbri - drums
Michel Cayuela - keys
Mathieu Havart - keys
Simon Segura - bass
Gary Haguenauer - lead guitar
Dominique Olmo - rhythm guitar
Emma Boudeau - viola da gamba
Lyse Mathieu - flute
Emmanuelle Olmo-Cayuela - vocals

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Blista "Cataclysm"

Country: Ireland
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Format: digital
Release date: August 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Only A Few Days Left
2. Advice From The Devil
3. Thantophobia
4. Lucifer; [Part One]
5. Last Monday Ever
6. Dying With Friends
7. Lucifer; [Part Two]
8. Mr Asteroid
9. 20 Bar Blues
10. It's All Over
11. Lucifer; [Part Three]
12. Only A Few Moments Left
13. The Afterlife

Line-up: 
Evan O'Malley: Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Vocals

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Arthur Offen "Seven Wonders"

Country: USA
Genre(s): AOR, Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Into The Great Beyond (4:56)
2. Temple Giant (3:45)
3. The High Road (6:18)
4. The Last Invasion (5:45)
5. T'was Meant To Be (3:04)
6. Wearing That Crown (4:04)
7. Grail Cycle (13:58)
8. Seven Wonders (6:59)

Total time 48:49

Line-up: 
Arthur Offen (Air Raid) - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Rick Hinkle (Air Raid) - Guitars, Mandolin, Ukulele, Keyboards
Spencer Kilpatrick - Guitars
Jimmy Porter - Drums
Chris Cornish - Backing Vocals

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New Sun "Transitory"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016 (digital) September 6, 2016 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Gravity Well (2:40)
2. Vigilance (4:47)
3. The Beguiler (5:06)
4. Espiritu (6:53)
5. Transitory (8:54)
6. Slipstream Day (6:13)
7. Down By Sea (4:58)
8. Eddies In The Stream (6:31)

Total Time 46:02

Line-up: 
Chris Trujillo- drums, vocals
Alex Kley - bass
Christopher Scott Cooper - guitars, vocals, keys
    With
Gustaf Fjelstrom (Maximum Indifference)-bass
John Hasty (BTG Group)-drums
Benito Cortez (Dan Hicks)-violin
David Brewer (The Fire/Molly's Revenge)-pipes/whistles
Rebecca Lomnicky (The Fire)-fiddle
Joel M. Wilson-bass
Martin Birke (Genre Peak)-elec drums/synths
Susan Faye Ness-vocals

Description/Review

Here we have eight compositions ranging anywhere from two and half minutes to almost nine. I have to say the music of New Sun is hard for me to describe in words. As I listen I’m filled with certain feelings or emotions but they’re a jumble. Cooper and friends create music that incorporates a melodic vibe that is contrasted by angular minor musical motifs, think mixing Kansas with King Crimson. It’s a unique sound that’s been crafted over the years to where they clearly don’t sound like anyone else, but rather blends or mixes musical styles into one that is simply the sound of New Sun. And that’s a good thing. Three or four of these compositions also bring together an almost ethnic or Worldbeat vibe that reminded me of some of Peter Gabriel’s musical efforts. But again the music may remind me of someone, without ever actually sounding like them. It’s a crafty thing they do. Instrumentally there are lots of acoustic sounds that run throughout the album. These acoustic sounds play nicely against the electric and go a long way to “soften” the tone, taking it a few steps back from simply being heavy or aggressive music. It’s actually a long way from that because even though there are a few crunchy riffs here and there they’re more than balanced by the myriad of other instrumental sounds that pervade these tunes. This is a very satisfying listen in so many ways and would say it contains some of New Sun’s most accomplished music on many different levels. I liked it a lot and highly recommend it to old and new fans alike.  (Jerry Lucky)

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Slychosis "Slychosis V"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Fusion
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016 (digital), November 2016 (CD)
Tracklist: 

1. Samsara (6:05)
2. Pictures Move (6:07)
3. Waiting For The Sun (5:05)
4. Greed (7:27)
5. Huh? (5:26)
6. Pain (6:46)
7. Frozen Moment In Time (8:18)
8. Alchemy (5:00)
9. The Steve Howe Guide To Elevator Snobbery (2:52)

Total time 53:06 

Line-up: 
Gregg Johns - lead guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals, mandolin
Tony White - lead vocals, guitar, percussion
Jim Logan - saxophone, wind controller, keyboard, percussion, vocals
Jeremy Mitchell - drums, percussion
Jimbo Richardson - drums, percussio.
   With
John Goodsall (Brand X, Atomic Rooster, Fire Merchants) - lead guitar (5)
Kenneth Beanblossom
Troy Craft
Martha Johns
James Walker
Richard "Boner" Johnson

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Dwiki Dharmawan "Pasar Klewer"

Country: Indonesia
Genre(s): Ethnic, Jazz, Fusion
Label: Moonjune Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
CD 1
1. Pasar Klewer (12:13)
2. Spirit Of Peace (8:55)
3. Campuhan (12:57)
4. Forest (8:00)
5. London In June (4:58)

CD 2
6. Lir Ilir (11:38)
7. Bubuyu Bulan (8:31)
8. Frog Dance (10:54)
9. Life Itself (6:59)
10. Purnama (6:49)
11. Forest (Instrumental) (7:59)

Total time 99:53

Line-up: 
Dwiki Dharmawan - acoustic piano
    With
Yaron Stavi - upright bass, bass guitar (10)
Asaf Sirkis - drums, udu clay percussion & konakol singing (2)
Mark Wingfield - guitar (1, 4, 9, 11)
Nicolas Meier - glissentar (2, 5, 6), acoustic guitar (8, 10)
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet (2, 7), soprano sax (3, 8)
Boris Savoldelli - vocals (4, 5)
Aris Daryono - vocals, gamalan percussion, kendang percussion, rebab 3-strings violin (1, 2, 3, 6)
Peni Candra Rini - vocals (6)
Gamelan Jess Jegog led by I Nyoman Wydod - gamelan orchestra (3)
balinese frogs - (8)

Description/Reviews: 

This vibrant, acoustic piano-driven two-CD set features the cream of Britain's younger expat crop, blending with Indonesian musicians to create a passionate, seamless cultural cross-pollination. Pasar Klewar's exhilarating opening title track possesses a microtonal-informed melody drawn unmistakably from Dharmawan's cultural roots; but its modal nature also affords the pianist and his band mates the freedom to explore everything from Metheny-esque landscapes (though Wingfield's heavily overdriven electric guitar provides a completely non-Metheny vibe during his light-speed solo) to a mid-song shift in mood, where Stavi and Sirkis drive Dharmawan's post-Coltrane, Tyner-via-Beirach-through-Corea exploration of spiritual freedom with similar passion and fire.

Daryono takes an impressive vocal/rebab (three-stringed violin) solo before some empathic three-way interplay amongst the core trio leads to a thoroughly musical drum solo reaching deep into the heart of the song before Stavi and Dharmawan re-enter, bringing this twelve-minute epic to a finish with another brilliant piano solo of grand proportions. Cross-pollinated with Wingfield's additional fiery interaction, the music builds to such a climactic peak that, when it suddenly comes to a stop, the band members shouting "Yeah!!" is left to conclude the track, reflecting the energy clearly felt in the studio.
Its overall freedom may come as a surprise to fans of the more easily digestible So Far, So Close...though that's not to suggest Pasar Klewar is lacking in beauty, flat-out lyricism or eminent appeal.

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Fred Crase "Of Old Dogs And Men"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Waters (6:43)
2. 4266 (5:19)
3. Words (6:51)
4. Slide (1:45)
5. Dad (8:19)
6. Shapes (7:10)
7. Africa (5:02)
8. Escape (8:42)

Total time 49:51

Line-up: 
Fred Crase - Vocals, all instruments

Description/Reviews: 

Fred Crase uses his impressive vocal range and multi-instrumental prowess to tell stories of birth, death, and the struggles in between. From the prog-metal stylings of "Words" and "Shapes" to the gospel-tinged "Dad," from the electronica-influenced "Escape" to the crushing heaviness of his cover of Toto's "Africa," it is an album with a little something for everyone.

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Last Scattering "The Deuce"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 16, 2016 (digital), September 2016 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. The Wayfarer (8:43)
2. Mist (4:40)
3. Harbinger (8:09)
4. Caves (1:19)
5. Limey (8:38)
6. Vagabond (1:33)
7. One More Fire (6:11)
8. The Encounter (5:58)
9. The Sleep (5:04)
10. The Blur (1:55)
11. The Loss (8:24)

Total time 60:34

Line-up: 
Anthony Puddu - vocals
Dervish Kucukovic - guitar
Omar Badawi - guitar
Andy Dmytryshyn - bass
Fahim Safi - drums

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Flor de Loto "Árbol De La Vida"

Country: Peru
Genre(s): Progressive Folk Rock/Metal
Label: Azafrán Records
Format: CD
Release date: August 15, 2016
Tracklist: 

1. Quinta Dimensión
2. Odisea
3. Supernova
4. Regression
5. Elementos
6. Fragilidad
7. Décimo Planeta
8. Ciudad De La Muerte
9. Cruz Del Sur
10. Árbol De La Vida
11. Bonus track - Regression (Spanish version)

Line-up: 
Alonso Herrera - Guitar, Vocals
Alejandro Jarrin - Bass
Junior Pacora - Wind Instruments, Flute, Charango
Alvaro Escobar - Drums, Percussion, Cajon
Pierre Farfán - Guitar
   With
Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire) - Vocals (4)
Elvira Zhamaletdinova - Violin
Gabriel Iwasaki - Keyboards

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Regression
Fragilidad
Cruz del sur

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Marcelo Menne "Symptoms Of Life"

Country: Argentina/USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: digital
Release date: August 15 , 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Metal Fortress (5:07)
2. Symptoms Of Life (4:20)
3. Time Passed Midnight (4:20)
4. Exotic Nightmares (4:42)
5. Maelstrom (4:59)
6. Identity Crisis (7:21)
7. When You Touch Me (3:52)
8. Calling For You (4:05)

Total Time 38:46

Line-up: 
Marcelo Menne - guitars, programming

Description/Reviews: 

Symptoms Of Life is an album that is comprised of 9 songs ranging from progressive rock/metal, rock ballads and a classical guitar piece. This album is set in a faster and more progressive style than what Untold Stories showed.
Symptoms Of Life, will take the listener as far as possible from the 4/4 time signature on almost every song. 

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Barrel Cacti "The Cycle"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: August 15, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. One Day (6:07)
2. God's Not Enough (5:30)
3. Control (5:42)
4. Death Is A Sentence (7:22)
5. The Isle (6:45)
6. Nothing At All (3:33)
7. The Cycle (6:24)

Total time 41:23

Line-up: 
Matt Kerr - Vocals
Isaac Mosebrook - Guitars, Bass, Backing Vocals
Sean Clees - Keyboards
Eric Scott - Drums, Backing Vocals
   With
Jared P - Trumpet

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Griot "Gerald"

Country: Portugal
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 14, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. The Drive (Chapter I)   
2. Through the Haze (Chapter II)   
3. Into the Fold (Chapter III)   
4. The Curtain Falls (Chapter IV)   
5. Fadeaway (Chapter V)

Line-up: 
João Pascoal – Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Programming
Sérgio Ferreira – Drums, Percussion
   With
Nuno Aleluia – Vocals (tracks 1,3,4 and 5)
António Branco - Backing Vocals (tracks 1,3,4 and 5)
Pedro Marques - Backing Vocals (track 5)
Eduardo Ferreira – Violin (tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)
Carolina Resende – Violin (tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)
Rita Fernandes – Violoncello (tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)
Paulo Bernardino – Clarinet (track 3)
Andy Panayi – Tenor Saxophone (track 2)
André Loureiro – Flute (tracks 2,3,4 and 5)
João Baião – Acoustic Steel String Guitar (track 3 and 5)
Alexandre Veiga – Electric Guitar (tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)
Filipe Salgueiro – Electric Guitar (track 5)
Bruno Miguel – Electric Guitar (track 2)
Vikram Shankar – Synthesizer (track 1)
Diogo Santos – Moog Synthesizer (track 5)
André Barros – Piano (track 5 introduction)

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