Cymbalic Encounters "Incandescent Spirits"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: November 30, 2023
Tracklist

1. Exploring Minds In The Vastness Of Possibilities (4:47) 

2. Electro-Luminenscence Pulse (4:11) 

3. Incandescent Spirits (2:48) 

4. Voltaic Currents (3:18) 

5. A Surge In Electricity (5:29) 

6. Random Reaction (4:58) 

7. Electrolytes (5:19) 

8. Electrical Permittivity (5:06) 

9. When Sparks Ignite (3:20) 

10. The Disappearing Future (3:59) 

Total Time 43:15

Credits

*Credits update/corrections soon!

Mark Murdock (Masheen Messiah, The ID, The New Empire) - drums/synthesizer/fretless bass

  With

Joe Berger- lead guitar

Tim Pepper (The ID) - vocal

Dave Juteau - guitar on 1 & 4

David Rambeau -  guitar on 5

Preston Murdock - lead guitar on 9

Charles Lambiase - fretless bass on 9

Music and Lyrics composed by Mark Murdock

Description/Reviews:

“Incandascent Spirits” is the sister record to “Electricus” just recently released by CE, offering a mixtures of prog vocal songs and instrumental songs that are in tradition with the experimental side of Cymbalic Encounters.

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Helga "Wrapped in Mist"

Country: Sweden/UK
Genre(s): Progressive/Post/Folk Rock/Metal
Label: Season of Mist - SOM688
Format: CD,digital,vinyl
Release date: November 24, 2023
Tracklist

01. Skogen mumlar (04:23)

02. Burden (04:58)

03. Water (03:55)

04. If Death Comes Now (03:58)

05. Farväl (04:34)

06. Alive Again (03:36)

07. Vast and Wild (04:04)

08. Som en trumma (04:26)

09. Mountain Song (05:34)

10. Wrapped in Mist (06:41)

Total: 46:07

Credits

Helga Gabriel - Vocals

Ryan Fairclough - Bass

Cameron Gledhill - Guitar

Cai Sumption - Guitar

Sami Javed - Drums

    With

Damian Bolotin - Violin (1, 7, 10)

Antonio Guerra - Grand piano (7, 9)

Mafram do Maracanã - Percussion (1,10)

Bruno Migliari - Double bass (1, 9, 10)

Luiz Felipe Netto - Acoustic guitar  (4, 10), additional electric guitars, keyboards and string arrangements)

Ayran Nicodemo - Violin  (1, 7, 9, 10)

Bruno Serroni - Cello  (5, 7)

Joe Zeitlin - Cello  (1, 5, 7, 9, 10)

Cover Artwork:

David Thiérrée (Artwork)

Ester Segarra (Photography)

Per Wiberg (Layout)

Description/Reviews:

HELGA draw on many different influences: Swedish folk, progressive metal, post-rock, pop, black metal. Their debut album, ‘Wrapped in Mist’, summons formidable drumming, spectral strings and chugging riffs into lamentations on mortality and metal health.

For fans of Opeth, Anna Von Hausswolff, Alcest, The Gathering, Silver Mt. Zion, Myrkur, King Crimson

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Giuseppe Petrucci Instant Curtain "State of Art"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Canterbury
Format: CD,vinyl,digital
Release date: November 22, 2023 (digital), February 2024 (CD,vinyl)
Tracklist

1 - Leave Me Behind (6:06)

2 - Bitter Sweet (3:45)

3 - Civil Surface (4:17)

4 - Retain All The Strain (4:50)

5 - Four Until Late (3:50)

6 - Perpetual Retain (6:08)

7 - Talk To Me (to Her And All The Lost) (3:41)

Credits

Giuseppe Petrucci - electric and acoustic guitars, electric bass, Rhodes piano and synthesizers

Carlo Maria Marchionni - drums, electric bass, piano, synthesizers

Massimo Gerini - vocals

All songs written by Giuseppe Petrucci

Images and graphics by Antonello Andreani

Publisher: MICIO POLDO

Distribution: G.T. MUSIC DISTRIBUTION di Antonino Destra

Description/Reviews:

An album that echoes the music closest to the German cosmic music of the 70s with a nod to the Canterbury Sound and "rock in opposition".

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Voyager-X "Magic"

Country: Germany  
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Dr. Music Records
Format: CD,digital
Release date: March 22, 2024
Tracklist

1. Janus Face (4:42) 

2. Hypnotize You (4:38) 

3. Magic (4:31) 

4. You Crossed My Way (6:00) 

5. I Recognize You (4:32) 

6. Don’t Lose The Path (5:25) 

7. C’mon Live Your Dreams Together (3:57) 

8. Walk On The Dead Line (4:23) 

9. Crime Of The Century (5:21) 

Total Time 43:29

Credits

Mario Gansen: Vocals

Stephan Baumgärtner: Guitar

Jörg Schreiber: Bass

Chris Mordek: Keyboards

Peter Webert: Drums

Recorded and mastered by Rainer Deckelmann at Deckelmann Studio, Zirndorf, Germany, 1997

Digitally remastered by Romin Katzer at Tonstudio Katzer, Nuremberg, Germany, 2021

Description/Reviews:

VOYAGER-X ignite a magical mixture of Progressive Metal, Melodic and Hard Rock on their album “Magic”. Listening to the nine songs, the listener literally floats away to times when musical virtuosity and vocal art still harmonized perfectly, and bands such as Van Halen, Survivor, Marillion or Saga dominated the charts. VOYAGER-X skillfully built the bridge from Classic Bombast and Artrock to more modern sounds with their sophisticated Rock music. Actually, the album “Magic” was supposed to have been released in 1997, but shortly after the recording of the songs in Deckelmann Studio in Zirndorf, Germany, the musicians decided to put their band, then still called VOYAGER, on ice due to their life circumstances at that time, taking them all around the globe. The group then awoke from this deep slumber just after the original line-up met during an event in 2019, and the idea came up to continue what ended so abruptly 22 years earlier after an exciting decade of intensely lived Rock ’n’ Roll Lifestyle. Due to other bands using the name in the meantime, the band was renamed to VOYAGER-X. Political and still current events are processed in the lyrics, penned by singer Mario Gansen (ex-Grim Reaper, ex-Dynasty). The musicians see themselves as entertainers with a particular claim, taking their audience on a journey through their own Rock history with their varied program. Therefore, friends of great Melodic Rock in the style of Queensrÿche, Fates Warning or Savatage can now look forward to the release of the extraordinary album “Magic”, which was also remastered by Romin Katzer.

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French TV "A Ghastly State of Affairs"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Cuneiform Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 17, 2023
Tracklist

1. Every Morning I Wake Up and Take My Hat Off To All The Beauty In The World

2. Baby, You Fill Me With Inertia

3. Drunkard's Train to Westchester

4. The Mayor of Ding Dong City

5. My Boys Awake At Night 'Cuz They Nocturnal

Credits

Mike Sary : bass, loops, samples

Katsumi Yoneda (TEE): guitars

Patrick Strawser (Volare): keyboards

Fenner Castner : drums

   With

Kenji Imai : flute

Warren Dale : saxes

Ludo Fabre : violin

Description/Reviews:

The new album displays their ingenious knack for tricky arrangements, blazing solos, surprising left-turns, and their ability to tell a well-crafted yarn musically without words. Blending elements of progressive rock, fusion, cartoon music, and Rock-in-Opposition, the music of his group can be simultaneously hilarious and highly challenging, making it one of the most original American prog rock outfits.

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Pestilent Empire "Pestilent Empire"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: digital
Release date: November 17, 2023
Tracklist

1. The Infiltration Of A Clandestine Government Facility (10:24) 

2. A Visitors Deception Of Peace (8:50) 

3. An Insular Opulence (6:06) 

4. The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel (6:54) 

Total Time 32:14

Credits

Chris Palermo - Guitars, Bass, Synths, Composition, Arrangement, Drum Programming

Mix/Master: Zeuss @zeussproducer

Album Art: Andrew Tremblay @actremblayart

Logo: @poisondust

Description/Reviews:

Pestilent Empire’s full, four-song album takes listeners through a narrative labyrinth of instrumental prog, cascading them through unexpected twists and turns, yet never drowning in its own musical complexity. It's an ecosystem of sound that's both intricately detailed in multifaceted instrumentation and melodic storytelling. Pestilent Empire is a ripping genre blender with tasteful riffage and thought provoking soundscapes that takes the listener on a cinematic musical journey. Its unorthodox melodic movements are an odyssey of sound much akin to a movie or video game soundtrack. From themes of alien invasions and climate crisis to cathartic earworm hooks, this album is the Whitman’s Sampler of instrumental prog. (FFO Between the Buried and Me, Animals as Leaders, Intervals, Scale the Summit)

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Temic "Terror Management Theory"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Season Of Mist SOM772
Format: CD, digital,vinyl
Release date: November 17, 2023
Tracklist
01. TMT (02:03)
02. Through the Sands of Time (07:01)
03. Falling Away (04:58)
04. Count Your Losses (06:13)
05. Skeletons (07:01)
06. Acts of Violence (05:53)
07. Friendly Fire (05:58)
08. Paradigm (06:34)
09. Once More (05:46)
10. Mothallah (07:28)

Credits

Fredrik Bergersen (Maraton, 22) – Vocals

Eric Gillette (The Neal Morse Band) – Guitars and Backing Vocals

Simen Sandnes (Shining, Arkentype)  – Drums and Percussion

Diego Tejeida (Haken) - Keyboards and Sound Design

   With

Jacob Umansky– Bass guitar

Mosaic Gospel Choir (10)

Garden State Threshold Choir (10)

Artwork by Hicham Hamzi / H-Hich Design

Description/Reviews:

It wasn’t until the world shut down in 2020, that keyboardist Diego Tejedia and guitarist Eric Gillette got around to starting a band together.

Their idea wasn’t exactly simple: orchestrate their love for high-energy electronica and killer melodies into a modern prog-metal band. But by recruiting vocalist Fredrik Bergersen Klemp and Simen Sandnes on drums, TEMIC managed to pull that concept off.

‘Terror Management Theory’ is layered with twists and turns. “Count Your Losses” crushes out tech riffs by the ton, while “Falling Away” drifts down a blackhole of starry-eyed synths. At the end of this labyrinthine album lies “Mothalah”, a 7-minute epic that never stops reaching for the sky, led by heroic falsetto.

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Deorbit "Retrogradient"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: November 10, 2023
Tracklist

1. Retrogradient - 3:16

2. Perihelion - 4:29

3. Terrakinetic - 4:44

4. Lunambulant - 4:04

5. Glaciovore - 2:57

6. Calderasure - 4:09

7. Senescence - 4:49

8. Stratolith - 5:06

9. Deorbit - 6:54

Album Length: 40:32

Credits

James Becker - Bass, Cello

Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Hammered Dulcimer

Hurdy Gurdy - Synth, Violin

Antonio Ninham - Drums

Recorded by Scott James LaShay and Dylan Patterson

Mixed by Dylan Patterson

Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiral Sound

Artwork by James Becker

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Confusion Field "Future Impact of Past Diversions"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 10, 2023
Tracklist

1. Atom Child (5:19) 

2. Secondhand Escape (3:51) 

3. Do Not Engage The Enemy (5:24) 

4. Phoenix Learns To Fly (4:14) 

5. To The End Of The Hex (4:53) 

6. Defence Solution (4:17) 

7. Tomorrow Started Yesterday (6:02) 

8. The Waiting Room (3:58) 

9. Factory Shadow (10:48) 

     I - The One Who Never Sleeps

     II - Lion Park Trail

     III - What If...

Total Time 48:51

Credits

Tomi Kankainen: lead & backing vocals, bass, keyboards, guitars

   With

Petri Honkonen: drums

Markus Jämsen (Swallow the Sun): guitar solos (1, 2, 5, 8)

Janne Liekkinen: backing vocals (3, 6, 7, 9)

Music and lyrics by Tomi Kankainen, except Tomorrow Started Yesterday lyrics by

Mikko Nurmi & Tomi Kankainen

Recorded in various different places during 2020-2023

Drums recorded at Damn Sound Studios by Juho Kunelius, except

Secondhand Escape drums recorded at Proxtamusic Studios by Miika Tarvainen

Reamping by Tuomo Laulainen

Mixed by Konsta Vehkala

Mastered at Tower Studio by Brett Caldas-Lima

Artwork by Tomi Kankainen

Artist photo by Ville Hartikka

Description/Reviews:

Confusion Field is a blend of many musical influences from the world of prog, pop and metal. Musically Confusion Field is a mix of old and new, light and heavy, with a hint of northern melancholy. Lyrical themes deal with escapism in its different forms.

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David Cross Band "Ice Blue, Silver Sky"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Noisy Records
Format: CD,digital
Release date: November 3, 2023
Tracklist

1. Nurse Insane (7:44) 

2. Calamity (9:49) 

3. Nowhere (7:57) 

4. Exiles (14:42) 

5. Karma Gain (5:36) 

6. Over Your Shoulder (5:26) 

7. Starless (14:06) 

Total Time 65:20

Credits

David Cross (King Crimson, Radius) - electric violin

Jinian Wilde - vocals, guitar, flute

Mick Paul - bass

Steve Roberts - drums

   With
David Jackson (VDGG) - saxophone (3,5)

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Taster

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A Flying Fish "El Pez Que Voló - ACT I"

Country: Mexico
Genre(s): Progressive Pop/Rock Musical
Label: Apollon Records
Format: CD,digital
Release date: November 3, 2023
Tracklist

1. Obertoora (2:45) 

2. Genezees (9:28) 

3. Teezûck (4:51) 

4. Fear Thyself (1:47) 

5. Twin Snails (4:57) 

6. Upon A Star (3:23) 

7. Holy Fruit (3:25) 

8. A He̊-Kuree Dream (4:09) 

9. Mama, Papa! (4:08) 

10. Destiny Calls (3:33) 

Total Time 42:26

Credits

Râhoola – keyboards, piano, guitars, bass, fx, programming of drums, choir & orchestra

CAST MEMBERS (In order of appearance)

Râhoola ………………………...……… As himself

Namazöoh ………………………. Margil Vallejo

Aleekãnto ……………..……….… Myrthala Bray

Da̐oom ………………………….... Göran Setitus

Teezûck/El-Gabǎal ………….…..………. Râhoola 

Frauzz ……………..………………. Laura Vargas

Dollos …………….………………….. Viin Angelini

Lo̍ohna …………………………….. Francia Sofía

He̊-Kuree ………………..………..…….. Luis Mora

    With

The Flying Chorus ……..…...……..Râhoola, Margil Vallejo, Myrthala Bray & Viin Angelini

Original Concept, Story and Script by Râhoola

Music, Orchestration, Recording, Edit and Mix by Râhoola

Jesús Vergara – Composer of “Hikuri”, “Cocay” & “Ekk” sampled in “Holy Fruit” (“Ekk” co-written with Râhoola)

Produced in CIRCODENSO, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México between August 2014 and November 2022

Mastered in PSICOFONIA STUDIO by Charles A. Leal

Cover Concept by Râhoola

AI Artworks generated by Râhoola

Design by nu studio

Description/Reviews:

The EPQV series feature a capricious, free mixture of musical styles, genres, production values and aesthetics, which serve as narrative devices to highlight moments, characters & emotions across this highly unconventional sonic expedition.

Act 1 - "The Nest" introduces Teezûck, the strange son of a bird and a fish who lives depressed in the dark depths of the sea. One magical night he receives a stellar gift: an oneiric vision, a call to face his inner fears and seek his true destiny. Themes such as overprotection, toxic victimhood, altered states, maturity and the flow between divinity & delusion are explored within this eclectic, fantasy-fueled extravaganza.

For fans of Danny Elfman, Devin Townsend, Frank Zappa & Devil Doll

An artistic syncretism based on Christian & Buddhist texts through a Jungian approach of multicultural interweaving.

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John Lönnmyr "Aftonland"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Red Round Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: November 3, 2023
Tracklist

1 Ekipaget (the Coach)

2 Aftonland (Evening Land)

3 Borck

4 Traktatet (the Treadise)

5 Spjutet (the Spear)

6 Vargtimmen (the Hour of the Wolf)

7 Gycklaren (the Jester)

8 Nostalghia

Credits
John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra): rhodes, organ, mellotron, synthesizers, bass, guitar, percussion

Matias Jarlhed: drums (2, 5, 7)

Johan Björklund: drums (1, 6)

Pontus Torstensson: drums (4, 8)

Anders Brisman: bass (5, 7)

Elof Hanson Svensson: guitar (2, 5, 7)

Thomas Rundström: guitar (1)

Kristin Lidell: trumpet (6)

Maria Palmqvist: voice (8)

Per Laang: saxophone (2)

Recorded at Red Round Studio,Studio Katakomb, Smell the Glove recordings and Eternal

Darkness

Composed, mixed and produced by John Lönnmyr

Mastered by Hans Olsson at Svenska Grammofonstudion

Cover painting by David Palmqvist

Photo by Kristin Lidell

Description/Reviews:

The instrumental album ”Aftonland” is a deep dive into progressive rock, channeling the 70s, with inspiration from bands like King Crimson and Jethro Tull, and a modern Nordic twist reminiscent of Opeth and Anekdoten.

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Spjutet

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Harpo Jarvi "Bangus" EP

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Starhenge Records (сassette)
Format: сassette, digital
Release date: November 3, 2023
Tracklist

1. Big Bangus (12:02)

2. Baby Bangus (6:55)

Total time: 18:57

Credits

Ernesto Doural - drums

Nick Johnson - bass, guitar, synth

Jim Miles - piano, fender rhodes, hammond organ, synth

Album art by ℵ₀

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Cymbalic Encounters "Electricus"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: November 1, 2023
Tracklist

1. Within The Lightbulb's Glow (4:20) 

2. Electricus (4:06) 

3. Circuits And Codes (4:38) 

4. Electro-Static Particles (4:13) 

5. The Flying Boy Experiment (4:28) 

6. Experiments In Static Electricity (4:23) 

7. Rubber Sole (3:08) 

8. The Hindenburg (The Future Of Human Missions) (4:22) 

Total Time 33:38

Credits

Mark Murdock (Masheen Messiah, The ID, The New Empire) - drums, keyboards, synth fretless bass

   With

Joe Berger - lead guitar (2, 3, 4 & 8)

Tim Pepper (The ID) - vocal (1,3 & 5)

Charles Lambaste - fretless bass (8)

Dave Juteau - guitar (1,2 & 3)

Preston Murdock - guitar solo 1 (3)

David Rambeau - guitar (6)

All songs composed by Mark Murdock

Mixed and Mastered by Joe Berger at R&B Studios, Okachimachi

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