Heylel "Nebulae"

Country: Portugal
Sub Genre:  Alternative, Progressive Rock, Gothic
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Hope - 1:54
2. The Prophet - 4:24
3. Watcher of the Light - 4:30
4. Alter Ego - 3:53
5. The Sage - 4:36
6. Deeper - 4:56
7. Wings of Eternity - 4:01
8. I Talk to the Wind - 6:28
9. The Great Abstinence - 5:34
10. Sometimes - 2:54
11. Embrace the Darkness - 3:37

Line-up: 
Filipe Braga - Drums
Narciso Monteiro - Guitars, keyboards, whispers and growls
Ana Batista - Vocals
Sérgio de Meneses - Bass, backing vocals

Description/Reviews: 

The band’s debut album is undoubtfully inspired by its creator’s quest for enlightenment and meaning. “Nebulae” is a conceptual vision over life and death, seen in the form of a star’s life-cycle. The record is presented with eleven tracks divided into four chapters, from birth to extinction, creating intense emotional passages through each life stage.
“Nebulae” delivers a strong and dark but yet hopeful atmospheric sound, sometimes almost resembling a movie soundtrack. It combines all their progressive rock influences, including a cover for King Crimson’s “I talk to the wind” and ELP’s “The Sage“, with more contemporary alternative sounds, ranging from the exploding power of “The Prophet” and the ultra heavy guitars on “Watcher of the Light“, to smooth and peaceful sounds like “Deeper” or “Wings of Eternity“, with this last one adding a baroque feel.

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Slowfrog "Quaquaversum"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Art Rock
Label: Kiwisound Records
Format: digital
Release date: June 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Into The Water 04:28
02. Shit City 04:28
03. Al Courage 03:33
04. I've Told 03:13
05. Fast Car 01:39
06. Man Behind 04:17
07. She's So Nice 03:55
08. System 04:16
09. Plastic Plate 04:01
10. Left Or Right 04:38
11. Woman Cries 02:55
12. Bridge Waltz 03:21
13. Lay Down 03:31
14. One Day 03:37

Line-up: 
Andreas Jandrasits
Richard Hal
Jakrobad
Kari Kurka

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Hybrid Circle "A Matter of Faith"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Son of Galileo 01:35
2. My Twins 03:55
3. The Impossible 03:48
4. Age of Rationality 04:18
5. Science Fiction 03:25
6. The Parallax 04:10
7. Digi-Christ 03:18
8. Eternity 03:55
9. Trial of Trust (Arrival On Titan) 03:21
10. Trial of Trust (Colony of Salvation) 02:14
11. Trial of Trust (The Giant Leap) 05:24
12. Headup (Deftones cover) 04:32

Line-up: 
Antonio Di Campli - Vocals
Simone Di Cicco - Guitar, Backing vocals
Alessandro Mitelli - Guitar
Giuseppe Costantino - Keyboards, Samples
Matteo Mucci - Bass
Vittorio Del Prete - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Fantastic new album from these Italian masters of ultra heavy, rhythmically complex wild cyber metal with a ton of electronic elements for contrast. Clean and harsh vocals combine really well with this band. An absolute must have for fans of bands like Scar Symmetry.(progmetalzone.com)

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Minor Giant "On The Road"

Country: Netherlands
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Festival Music (F2)
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
1 On The Road (12.34)
2 Dream With Eyes Wide Open (10.22)
   I - The Door
   II - The Old Road
   III - Upside Down
3 Lead Me Home (3.52)
4 Hand In Hand (6.32)
5 We Are Strangers Here (4.46)
6 The Last Road (15.46)

Line-up: 
Rindert Lammers: keyboards
Roy Post: drums and percussion
Jordi Repkes: guitars and vocals
Harry den Hartog (ex-PBII): bass
Jos Heijmans: keyboards and vocals

Description/Reviews: 

The album consists of six tracks varying in length from three to fifteen minutes. ‘On The Road’ deals with the different roads people choose in life. The lyrics are about the hope and strength everybody needs in our travels through life. The final track ‘The Last Road’ concludes this spiritual voyage, and after revisiting some themes from the previous tracks, the album concludes with an optimistic end full of hope for the future. 

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Margin "Psychedelic Teatime"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Psychedelic
Label: Madvedge Records
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. A Mysterious Cup of Tea - Part 1 (6:33) 
2. A Mysterious Cup of Tea - Part 2 (4:50) 
3. A Mysterious Cup of Tea - Part 3 (6:50) 
4. A Mysterious Cup of Tea - Part 4 (2:16)
5. A Mysterious Cup of Tea - Part 5 (2:59)
6. Psychedelic Underground - the Short Trip (3:36)
7. Landscapes on the Sky (8:05) 
8. Last Exit to Pluto (10:41) 
9. Psychedelic Underground - the Long Trip (10:38)

Line-up: 
Lutz Meinert - vocals and various  instrumnets
Carola Meinert - female vocals on "Psychedelic Underground" and "Landscapes on the Sky"
Arne Spekat - acoustic guitar on "A Mysterious Cup of Tea" and "Landscapes on the Sky"

Description/Reviews: 

Because if the different parts of the predominantly as longtracks realized titles flow together, musical structures are falling apart and new structures will develop and melodies, sounds and noises fuse together, the spirit of Pink Floyd seems to blow through the notes. However, despite the significant psychedelic influence Margin keeps his autonomy by melting psychedelic art rock with progressive rock in a homogenous and unique way. Therefore the debut "Psychedelic Teatime" from Margin is not only in the tradition of the great psychedelic art rock in the heyday from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, but also proves to be likewise a  reference album for contemporary psychedelic prog.

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Land of Nubia "Kosmopolite"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Post-Rock/Metal
Release date: 30 June 2014
Tracklist: 
01.Cambrian 09:30
02.Solarize 04:17
03.Delta 05:46
04.Megaliths 03:58
05.Mighty River 08:22
06.Skydive 09:00

Line-up: 
Jeff Peaks - Guitar, Synthesizer
Dave Savard - Bass, Synthesizer
JF Noël - Drums, Guitar

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JPL "MMXIV"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Quadrifonic
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Je suis roi - 9.33
2. Invisible death - 5.41
3. Le dernier souffle de vent - 7.22
4. Mad science - 8.00
5. Lifelines - 5.07
6. L'un contre l'autre - 6.18
7. SuperHero - 6.09
8. MMXIV - 11.43

Line-up: 
Jean Pierre Louveton

Description/Reviews: 

Jean Pierre Louveton, aka JPL, is the leader of Progressive Rock bands Nemo and Wolfspring. MMXIV is his fifth solo album since 2002.

We are in 2014, and unfortunately man did not loose his taste for war, power and money. Times have changed, but poverty and wealth remain, and chains that divide people never broke. The kings and the villeins descendants coexist on their own side of the path, and the future seems as black as it was in the beginning.
Upon this concept that connects middle-age and modern life, JPL music is sailing from an era to the other, mixing medieval themes and furious guitars, from-another-age melodies and heavy rhythms. The essence of Progressive Rock in short ! A musical trip as much as a reflection on our common destiny.

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Eira "Lacrimosa"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Progressive/Black/Death Metal
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Footprints In The Falling Snow 06:13
2. Three Candles 07:05
3. Bereavement 11:02
4. Flicker 04:02
5. Vagabond 07:17
6. Deliquescent Moon 03:16
7. Where Silent Ghosts Wept 07:15
8. In The Absence Of Light 07:25
9. Lacrimosa 10:44

Line-up: 
Tom Gerwitz - Guitars, Vocals
Derek Schultz - Bass

Description/Reviews: 

Stylistically, this band has clearly grown a lot since the last release, though Eira still remain in their pocket of undeniable early-Opeth inspiration. The interplay between heavy and soft passages is outstandingly tasteful and not quite as contrived on this one, with some honestly neigh-perfect clean singing bits. A great deal of the chord driven passages from their previous offering have been replaced with more riffage, and the overall sound is more aggressive when the need calls. Also, can we talk about how much better the drum tone is on this one, despite being electronic (I believe)? Overall, though, there is one change that has been made abundantly clear:
This is a far more melodic Eira.

 Read the full review at forgedmetalzine.com

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Active Heed "Higher Dimensions"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. The War of Tempos  - 4:00
2. Far Escape - 6:02
3. A Little Bit Expired - 4:30
4. Gaps in Time - 3:50
5. Multiple Replies - 6:34
6. The Numbers of God - 5:34
7. Crop Squares - 4:06
8. A Pet Called Prime - 4:22
9. No Speed Limit - 6:50
10. Kick-Ass Grammar - 4:12
11. Ternary Level One - 5:26
12. Not Left and Not Taken - 9:50

Line-up: 
Umberto Pagnini: Music and Lyrics
Cristiano Roversi (Moongarden, Submarine Silence): Keys, Bass, Arrangement and Production
Gian Maria Roveda: Drums
Mirco Ravenoldi: Guitars
Per Fredrik Åsly (PelleK): Vocals

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Artificial Waves "Changes"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental Post Rock
Format: digital
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
01 - Moving Phase 1:02
02 - Lunation 6:14
03 - Falling Sky 6:39
04 - Extrapolation 8:32
05 - Requiem 6:02
06 - Days Gone Bye 1:15
07 - Walking Dead 5:48
08 - Winter Ambience 2:26
09 - Eternal Loop 5:42
10 - Foggy Rainbow 5:23

Line-up: 
Alexey Pereverzev – guitar, keyboards, samples
Arthur Kudrov – guitar
Dmitry Kaleev – bass
Ilya Kosharov – drums

Description/Reviews: 

Artificial Waves is Moscow band experimenting with contemporary instrumental music such as postrock, postmetal, mathrock etc.

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Seven That Spells "The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO"

Country: Croatia
Sub Genre: Psychedelic
Label: Sulatron Records
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. In II 
2. Io
3. One 
4. Burning Blood 
5. Out II

Line-up: 
Nikola Babić – drums 
Jeremy White – bass, voc 
Niko Potočnjak – guitar 
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Albin Julius - synths, hammond, kazoo 
Nikola Urošević - throat singing

Description/Reviews: 

Seven That Spells have garnered quite a reputation on the underground psych scene and from the basis of this album alone it is easy to see why. Hailing from Croatia but with a strong founding in Japanese culture, they deliver a heady dose of deep psych that you may just want to find somewhere safe to lie down to first before listening.

Not that this is obvious from opening track 'In II' whose kaleidoscopic guitar riff signals a descent into the madness that follows. It's all rather run of the mill and basic but that's the trick you see. It completely disarms you whilst also taking on the role of an introductory flight into space. 

 Read the full review by Martyn Coppack at echoesanddust.com

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The Lost Generation "The Lost Generation"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Musea
Release date: June 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
1 - Lost Generation - (1'37)
2 - Ladder To The Stars - (5'07)
3 - No Child Left Behind - (4'27)
4 - Drawn To You - (5'08)
5 - Bathtub Gin - (6'44)
6 - Midsummer's Hell - (2'11)
7 - Blank Mind Over Black Fields - (5'34)
8 - Pagan Ache - (4'01)
9 - Touch Of Simplicity - (3'00)
10 - Wishful Thinking - A New Found Generation - (5'07)

Line-up: 
Matteo Bevilacqua

Description/Reviews: 

The Lost Generation is the new project from Diaries Of A Hero's bass player Matteo Bevilacqua. The British musician takes a step away from his heavy-metal background, and explores different musical paths, following the footsteps of bands such as PT, Anathema, POS and the softer side of Opeth. The self-titled first album examines various themes focusing mainly on the conditions the youth are living in, and the overall tension that peeked in the 2011 London Riots. Like all concept-albums, it needs to be observed as a whole to fully capture the journey the listener is invited to follow as the musical genres intersect with one another. Progressive rock leads the way to ethereal acoustic sections, electronic experimentations and even a bluegrass track, but the atmosphere is one, undoubtably traveling on the same train that terminates where it began, leaving the listener with no question that the creativity displayed here is only just the beginning...

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Slugdge "Gastronomicon"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive /Sludge/Black /Death Metal
Release date: June 28, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Dark Side of the Shroom (Intro) 02:55 
2. Gastronomicon 07:57 
3. Lettuce Prey 07:23 
4. The Sound of Mucus 05:22 
5. Slimewave Zero 04:33 
6. Invertahate 05:22 
7. Salters of Madness 06:31 
8. Pax Aranea 05:56 

Line-up: 
Kev Pearson
Matt Moss
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Laurence Beer - additional vocals and lyrics on Pax Aranea

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Cloud Atlas "Beyond the Vale"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Release date: June 28, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Searchlight
2. Siren song
3. Let the Blood low
4. Falling
5. The Grieving
6. Stars
7. Journeys End
8. I'll take care of you (a song for P)

Line-up: 
Heidi Widdop (ex-Stolen Earth) - vocals, hand percussion, whistle
Martin Ledger - guitars
Stu Carver (ex-Mostly Autumn) - bass
Neil Scott - drums
Dave Randall - keyboards

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Disforia "The Age of Ether"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Power Metal, Progressive Metal
Release date: June 28, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Essence - 1:25
2. Chaos - 4:25
3. Dream Eater - 5:17
4. Creator's Creator - 9:12
5. Infection - 1:37
6. Half/Life - 9:14
7. Beyond the Walls of Misery - 8:05
8. Lunar Sunrise - 8:00
9. The Dying Firmament - 5:23
10. The Ethereal - 4:37

Line-up: 
John Yelland - Lead Vocals
Chad Anderson - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Austin Bentley - Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Orchestral Composition and Programming
Dayton Andersen - Guitar & Backing Vocals

Casey Frederick - Drums
   With
Britney Slayes (Unleash the Archers) - Vocals (8)
Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) -

Description/Reviews: 

“Progressive” might be a slight misnomer in the sense that, when deconstructed, there’s nothing on here that you haven’t heard before, and let’s face it, we live in an age where just about every metal act that eschews linear song structure in favor of multi-layered instrumentation and expansive lyrical narratives ends up with the ‘prog’ tag. At the risk of getting overly pedantic about it, let’s just go ahead and call Disforia a “smart metal” band not entirely dissimilar to the likes of Pharaoh and Into Eternity (insofar as their sound is built upon a foundation of alternating contrasting-yet-complementary elements that run the gamut from power to melodic death metal). It’s not the sine non qua of the subgenre but it’s intricate and engaging enough to get geeks the world over very giddy.

 Read the full review by Neil Pretorius at metal-observer.com

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Bear the Mammoth "Yamadori"

Country: Australia
Sub Genre:  Instrumental Post Rock, Math Rock
Release date: June 28, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Cloverlea 02:38
2. What’s Yours Was Mine Is Never Leaving 07:46
3. The Bonding Leech 08:46
4. Glycine 08:44
5. Hieronymus Bosch 09:41
6. Molly 09:19

Line-up: 
James Kershaw - Guitars
Ben Sharpe - Guitars
Stephan Evans - Bass
Chris Lobo - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Track #1 ‘Cloverlea’ is an ambient intro that feels sort of spacey..until you hear the guitar slide up and down shifting in-and-out of its sustained note/feedback. Then I realised it was a guitar and not some keyboard/synth thing..very clever.
Drums come in and it’s track #2 ‘What’s Yours Was Mine Is Never Leaving’ and it’s more of that roomy/reverby guitar stuff until the bass comes in all dirty and carrying rhythm and melody with it. I’m hooked at this point. At around the 3 minute mark things turn sort of dark and the guitars start strumming instead of picking and the drumming gets a little Tool-ish. Not in complexity..but in feel. Rhythms continue, band follows, pattern builds momentum and this is getting all kinds of wonderful!
Now an interesting thing occurs at about the 5 minute mark. It seems the band has stopped and then there’s a 4-count on the hi hats and they start up again but with what sounds like a whole different song. A proggy one. A nearly 8 minute journey ends with a high and a bit of a surprise. Did not see that coming.

 Read the full review at myindieaustralia.wordpress.com

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Autocatalytica "Autocatalytica"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Extreme Avant Metal
Format: digital
Release date: June 28, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Oxygonical 04:04
02. Thunder Squirrel 04:50
03. Russian Pharmaceuticals 08:27
04. Dweller On The Threshold 08:08
05. Heavier & More Melodic 05:58
06. Flesh Pillow 08:33
07. Toxic Rodent Waterfall 09:16

Line-up: 
Eric Thorfinnson: Guitar, Vocals
Erik Sorensen: Guitar
William Purcell : Bass
Emmett Ceglia: Drums

Description/Reviews: 

The debut album from Boston based me(n)tal patients Autocatalytica is almost beyond description. If you pick a dichotomy, light/heavy, fast/slow, stable/unstable for example, it will apply to this record.
Each track will hit you like a wall of sound at times. Opener ‘Oxygonical‘ jams in with dissonant, droning feedback before it slaps you in the face with some inhumanly fast drumming. It is an utterly glorious mess of riffs upon riffs, stabbing rhythms and rasping, unhinged vocals. Comparison between Autocatalytica and Dillinger Escape Plan have been made in past and while they’re right to a certain extent, this doesn’t quite capture how disparate some of the elements are. Think Mutation with some of the flair of Kvelertak and you aren’t even in the right sport, let alone ballpark.

 Read the full review by Jay Hampshire at hitthefloor.com

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Vintersorg "Naturbål"

Country: Sweden
Sub Genre: Progressive Folk Black Metal
Label: Napalm Records
Release dates: June 27, 2014 (G/A/S, FIN & Benelux), June 30, 2014 (UK & EUROPE), July 2, 2014 (ESP/SWE/NOR), July 8, 2014 (US/CAN)
Tracklist: 
1. Ur aska och sot
2. Överallt och ingenstans
3. En blixt från klar himmel
4. Lågornas rov
5. Rymdens brinnande öar
6. Natten visste vad skymningen såg
7. Elddraken
8. Urdarmåne
9. Själ i flamma

Line-up: 
Vintersorg - vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards
Mattias Marklund - guitars

Description/Reviews: 

"Naturbål" ("Nature's Bonfire") is yet another groundbreaking Folk Metal record in the discography of the Swedish mastermind whose characteristic vocals and unique songs have left their mark on a whole genre. Folkloristic tunes merge with technical guitar riffs and multilayered melodies. Anthem-like refrains provide the finishing touches to this sweeping symbiosis. The songs combine the best of two worlds -- elements of Vintersorg's early works and the technical standard of the later years. Vintersorg is undoubtedly a visionary and offers a brilliant, consistent and sweeping album that is the perfect journey through all the periods of his work. 

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Whispers In Crimson "Suicide In B Minor"

Country: Iran
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: June 26, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Suicide in B Minor 08:38
2. Nightmare Within a Dream 10:34
3. Project Sinister 07:32
4. Do You Believe? 06:02
5. Coming Home 06:09
6. Us for Fools (To Iran) 08:52
7. Cask of Amontillado 07:26

Line-up: 
Amirali Nourbakhsh: Guitars, vocals on 5
Hadi Kiani: Keyboards except on 1
Herbie Langhans Vocals except on 5
Jalal Gholami: Bass on 1,2,4,6
Arash Moghaddam: Drums on 2,3,5,7
Dara Darai: Bass on 5,7
Abolkhanjeh Fatmeshekanjeh: Drums on 1,4,6
Mohsen Yousefi: Keyboards on 1
Kasra Saboktakin: Bass on 3

Description/Reviews: 

The sound of Whispers In Crimson incorporates a blend of progressive metal, 80s heavy metal, 70’s progressive and hard rock and then just Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio.

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Saga "Sagacity"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock, AOR
Label: earMusic
Release date: June 27, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Let It Slide-  4:49 
2. Vital Signs - 3:27 
3. It Doesn't Matter Who You Are - 3:59 
4. Go With the Flow - 5:26 
5. Press 9 - 3:48 
6. Wake Up - 2:34 
7. Don't Forget to Breathe - 3:24 
8. The Further You Go - 4:04 
9. On My Way - 5:15 
10. No Two Sides - 3:58 
11. Luck - 3:39 
12. I'll Be - 6:21

Line-up: 

Michael Sadler - Vocals
Ian Crichton - Guitar
Jim Crichton - Bass/Keys
Jim Gilmour - Keyboards/Vocals
Mike Thorne - Drums

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Split Bearing "Welcome To The Present"

Country: Czechia
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal/Rock
Label: IFA music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 27, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Shattered 08:14
2. Into The Void 07:40
3. Angels Of Death 06:39
4. Innocence 06:38
5. The Road 07:37
6. Another Life 07:43
7. Separate Ways 07:01
8. Judgement Day 09:06
9. Better Places 05:21

Line-up: 
Petr Duliškovič - vocals
Mirek Řezníček - guitars, sampler
Vašek Bezkočka - bass
Jiří M. Lýsek - drums

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Dot Legacy "Dot Legacy"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Alternative, Stoner, Post Rock, Psychedelic
Label:  Setalite Records
Release date: June 27, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Kennedy (04:15)
2. Think of a Name (04:56)
3. Days of the Weak (04:10)
4. The Passage (02:24)
5. Pyramid (05:02)
6. Gorilla Train Station (07:21)
7. Rumbera (07:22)
8. The Midnight Weirdos (08:38)
9. 3 am (01:42)

Line-up: 
Arnaud Merckling – Guitar
Jean-Suliac Defontaine – Guitar, Vocals
Damien Quintard – Bass, Vocals
Romain Bat - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

One of a reviewer’s favourite dreams – and, in equal measure, worst nightmares – is to occasionally stumble across a band who are difficult, if not downright impossible, to categorize.
Dot Legacy Album ArtworkSuch an outfit are Parisien quartet Dot Legacy, and this eclectic self-titled debut, which veers between post-rock synchopation, stoner, ambient noise, psychedelia and even jazz, world music and hip hop to produce an album that inherits an avant-garde musical orbit lying somewhere between Russian Circles, Sleep, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Kyuss.
It’s original.  It’s innovative.  It’s brave and daring.  It’s challenging. It’s defiant.  It’s entrancing.  It’s beautiful. (planetmosh.com)

Also read the review at metal-temple.com

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Destined For Asylum "Suppressed Aggression"

Country: Australia
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: June 26, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Intro 00:53
02. Faith 03:46
03. Blood 04:45
04. What Have I Become 03:22
05. Blow The Fuse 03:56
06. Don't Say It 04:20
07. Dead To Me 02:54
08. The Fall 03:28
09. Flawless 05:04
10. Blood Part 2 04:40
11.Self Sacrifice 04:34
12. Dreams 04:18

Line-up: 
Mark Palmer - Vocals
Alex Campbell - Guitars
Stephen Wilson - Guitars
Jasper Moy - Bass
Adam Minehan - Drums

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AtmaNova "Stella"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Instrumental Post/Progressive Rock
Label: self-released
Format: digital
Release date: June 26, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. The Desperate 05:16
2. Mandala 09:04
3. Amygdala Hijack 08:07
4. Life In Film 09:05
5. Listen 09:56
6. Shifting_Waking 07:12
7. Rothko 12:02
8. Magnetic Drift 13:32
9. And We Gather Here Today... 03:44

Line-up: 
Trevor Holden

Description/Reviews: 

The music is a blend of Post-Rock and Prog Rock. Every song is pretty much in Theme and Variation form, where the initial theme goes through a multitude of variations on itself, morphing through different moods throughout each piece.

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Eatliz "All Of It"

Country: Israel
Sub Genre: Art Rock, Alternative, Pop
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 25, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. One Of Us 04:08
02. Miserable 04:47
03. Bees 05:00
04. Lilith 04:09
05. Misanthrope 04:31
06. A Giant Fall 03:45
07. Heavenly 04:15
08. A Visit To Dendroida 03:29
09. Potion 04:02
10. Last Bite 04:41

Line-up: 
Sivan Abelson - Vocals
Omer Hershman - Guitars
Guy Ben Shetrit - Guitars, Keyboards
Noam Shaham – Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Omry Hanegby - Drums
   With
Hadar Green - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Itamar Ziegler - Keyboards, Bass, Percussion, Programming, Vocals
Tom Darom - Keyboards (7)
Gadi Peter - Drums (8)

Description/Reviews: 

All Of It is comprised of ten lushly arranged tracks, including "Miserable," and runs almost 43 minutes. Arrangements are complex -- almost progressive -- and the percussion and rhythm sections are most outstandingly produced. English lyrics again dominate Eatliz' music. Listen for the thick bass lines and drums that punctuate the album from the opening track "One Of Us" onward through the album. This sound is perhaps most evident in the lush arrangement of "Bees." Listen also for the lush harmonies and dense synth washes that join Sivan's vocalize that soar across the top of this outstanding track.

 Read the full review by at musicaldiscoveries.com

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A Secret River "Colours Of Solitude"

Country: Sweden
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Release date: June 25, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Blinding light
2. No way to say goodbye
3. Starbomb
4. Colours of Solitude
5. Are you coming with me
6. A place to start
7. Passing grace
8. On the line

Line-up: 
Andreas Ålöv - Bass and lead vocals
John Bergstrand - Drums, percussion and vocals
Mikael Grafström - Guitars and vocals
Björn Sandberg - Keyboards and vocals

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Progstreaming
No Way To Say Goodbye

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Soap Revelations "Dreamachine"

Country: Colombia
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: June 25, 2014
Tracklist: 
01.Respira 02:28
02.These windows show us the distant future 03:37
03.Structures 04:38
04.Efflorescent 04:14
05.The Dreamachine - Part I 05:27
06.Fractal 04:07
07.Mar de Espejos Rotos 07:11
08.Oscillating 03:10
09.The Dreamachine - Part II  06:00
10.Panacea 06:41
11.Lucienne 06:21

Line-up: 
Juan S. Ramirez - Instruments
   With
Juliana Castrillón - Vocals on Track 2
Jose Carlos Muci - Guitar solo on Track 9

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Etched in Stone "The Failure of Modern Man"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Release date: June 24, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Of Intelligent Design 01:46
2. Fissuræ Moralis 06:44
3. The Liar and the Thief 03:45
4. At the Altar of Lethe 05:58
5. Only Silent, Still 07:59
6. Treason 03:01
7. Paragraph II 04:37
8. 194.04 02:22

Line-up: 
Brian Lewis - Vocals
Eric Wolford - Guitar
Travis Miller - Guitar
Michael Salet - Bass
Nathan Andersen - Keys
Aaron Jones - Drums

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Phish "Fuego"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Prog Related, Jamband
Release date:  June 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Fuego (9:15)
2. The Line (5:21)
3. Devotion To A Dream (5:47)
4. Halfway To The Moon (6:34)
5. Winterqueen (4:21)
6. Sing Monica (3:13)
7. 555 (5:41)
8. Waiting All Night (4:58)
9. Wombat (3:18)
10. Wingsuit (6:05)

Line-up: 
Trey Anastasio - guitar, vocals
Page McConnell - keyboards, vocals
Mike Gordon - bass, vocals
Jon Fishman - drums, vocals

Description/Reviews: 

Fuego asserts itself right off the bat with its fiery nine-minute title track. The long-simmering, shape-shifting rock anthem showcases Anastasio's distinctive guitar shredding and the band's impressive gift for syncopation and exuberant climaxes. Throughout Fuego, Phish embarks on a series of genre exercises: There's straight-ahead gospel-infused rock ("Sing Monica"), slinky cow-funk ("555") and airy, Latin-infused pop ("Waiting All Night"). The record culminates in another fantastic highlight, "Wingsuit," a dreamy lullaby that soothes with the mantra "And it feels good" before swelling to a three-guitar solo in its grandiose finale. (Peter Yang at npr.org)

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Stream

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Arc "Umbra"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: DiN
Release date: June 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
01 Arcadia (14:24)
02 Proxima Obscuro (13:32)
03 Umbra (18:07)
04 Autostratus (11:44)
05 Panthera (10:01)
06 Cherry Bomb (10:34)

Line-up: 
Ian Boddy: Analogue modular, keyboards, Ableton Live
Mark Shreeve: Moog modular, sequencing, keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

A powerful album of Berlin School style. And as in all good Berlin School filled by mysticism and of Gothicism, and this one is awesome trust me, the rhythm arises from a troop of baroque noises and gallops to lose breath under the bites of sonic beasts before trying a refuge in a short moment of ambiospherical illusion and to rush again beneath another skin and a new sonic big top always so threatening, always so nerve-racking. An album where the shadows of sequences and of Gothic melodies haunt structures of complex rhythms which never stop seducing the ear.

 Read the full review by Sylvain Lupari at synthsequences.blogspot.com

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4 tracks

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Mastodon "Once More 'Round the Sun"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: June 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
01 Tread Lightly
02 The Motherload
03 High Road
04 Once More 'Round the Sun
05 Chimes at Midnight
06 Asleep in the Deep
07 Feast Your Eyes
08 Aunt Lisa
09 Ember City
10 Halloween
11 Diamond in the Witch House

Line-up: 
Troy Sanders - lead vocals, bass guitar
Brent Hinds - lead vocals, guitars
Brann Dailor - drums, percussion, lead vocals
Bill Kelliher - guitars, backing vocals

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High Road

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Tim Bowness "Abandoned Dancehall Dreams"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Prog Related
Label: InsideOut
Release date: June 23, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. The Warm-Up Man Forever
2. Smiler At 50
3. Songs Of Distant Summers
4. Waterfoot
5. Dancing For You
6. Smiler At 52
7. I Fought Against The South
8. Beaten By Love

Line-up: 
Tim Bowness (No-Man, Henry Fool)
   With
Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson)
Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree)
Anna Phoebe (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Blackfield)
Stephen Bennett
Michael Bearpark
Pete Morgan
Andrew Booker
Steve Bingham
Andrew Keeling: string arrangements

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AnovA "Omnis"

Country: Multinational
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: June 21, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Tartarus 04:45
02. Magatama 05:00
03. Sword 03:30
04. Red Sea 03:51
05. Daedalus 04:21
06. Overflow 03:50
07. Hisou 09:28
08. Recursion 03:51
09. Unforgiving Blue 05:49
10. Ride This Squall - Part 1 05:49
11. Ride This Squall - Part 2 06:47
12. Ride This Squall - Part 3 03:30

Line-up: 
Luke Bowyer: Bass, Electronics
David Lewis: Vocals, Drum Programming
Yoshiaki Nishite: Guitar, Electronics, Drum Programming

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Monuments "The Amanuensis"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Century Media Records
Release date: June 23, 2014 (UK/Europe/Aus/NZ) and July 8, 2014 (North America)
Tracklist: 
1. I, The Creator
2. Origin Of Escape
3. Atlas
4. Horcrux
5. Garden Of Sankhara
6. The Alchemist
7. Quasimodo
8. Saga City
9. Jinn
10. I, The Destroyer
11. Samsara

Line-up: 
Chris Barretto - vocals, saxophone
John Browne - guitar
Olly Steele - guitar
Adam Swan - bass
Mike Malyan - drums, samples

Description/Reviews: 

“The Amanuensis”, at least the title, was inspired by author David Mitchell’s novel, “Cloud Atlas”. The complex story lines are the perfect analog for Monuments. Musically, the group weave in and out of themes, motifs, and professor-like note calculations with graceful ease. But lyrically “The Amanuensis” comes from a very different place. “The album is about the Samsara cycle,” reveals Browne (guitar). “The cyclical existence of life that we are all bound to.”

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Neil Thomas "Devadatta"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Release date: June 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Adrenalinized 4:05
2. Time Bomb 4:17
3. The Unlikelihood of Intimacy 4:19
4. The Dragon King's Daughter 10:20
5. Charm Offensive 6:44
6. Deliberate Self Harm 3:44
7. Random Acts of Kindness 4:30
8. Moral Compass 10:09

Line-up: 
Neil Thomas

Description/Reviews: 

'Devadatta' is the follow up album to 2010's 'A Century of Lullabies'. Much like it's predecessor, it's another concept album (with more than a nod to the progressive rock genre) mixing stark imagery, social commentary and humanist philosophy to create a tapestry of vivid soul-searching and storytelling. There is immensely detailed substance to this album, which ultimately means that a single listen through is not going to be enough. With catchy choruses and hooky melodies there's plenty to compel the discerning listener to keep hitting the play button over and over again, each time peeling back the layers. From the driving rock thunder of the opening track, 'Adrenalinized', to the acutely intimate 'Charm Offensive', the album offers an array of emotion. Do not be fooled by the number of tracks either. Both 'The Dragon King's Daughter' and 'Moral Compass' are both over 10 minutes long - broken down into suites, they give the impression that you are actually listening to ten or twelve songs, rather than eight. 

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Blueblut "Hurts So Gut"

Country: Austria
Sub Genre: Avant Prog, Psychedelic
Format:  CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: June 21, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. You Think 03:40
2. Bondàge 03:30
3. Fuckhead Toothbrush 08:13
4. Apocalypso 03:16
5. Big In Iran 01:28
6. noASMR 09:26
7. Monky Buh 01:34
8. Verpratert 05:56
9. Posetiv Enough 00:57
10. Calypsoma 03:47
11. Erde, Wind & Pfurz 02:23
12. Lullabye 03:42

Line-up: 
Pamelia Kurstin - theremin, vocals, percussion
Chris Janka - guitar, vocals, percussion
Mark Holub - drums, vocals, percussion
   With
Willi Landl - vocals on 4 and 10

Description/Reviews: 

Floating somewhere between psych and avant-rock, Blueblut’s chameleon-like players make a myriad of musical colours. Kurstin takes the role of ethereal ocean siren and walking jazz bassist, Janka of a thrash punk mathrocker and Holub seething at the back, builds and bubbles with grooves and rock energy tearing apart Blueblut’s emerging musical language and inventing new pathways. 

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