Little King "Lente Viviente" EP

Country: USA 
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital 
Release date: September 26, 2025
Tracklist

1. Catch and Release - 3:22

2. Dawn Villa - 3:42

3. Who’s Illegal? - 3:56

4. Kindness for Weakness - 3:21

5. Sweet Jessie James - 2:42

6. Pass Through Filters - 4:50

7. The Living Lens - 3:37

Album Length: 25:34

Credits

Ryan Rosoff - Guitars and Vocals

David Hamilton - Bass and Cello

Tony Bojorquez - Drums

Laura Sadie Bette - Backing Vocals (4 & 7)

Lyrics and Music by Ryan Rosoff  
Recorded from April to June, 2025, at Cimamusic in Tucson, AZ, by Ricky Wascher Tavares 
Mixed by Daniel Salcido in July of 2025 at Command Space Audio in Los Angeles
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering

Description/Reviews:

The record features seven new micro-epics of progressive and hard rock with hooks and strong melodies. Each song is essentially complex and involved, but comes in under 4 minutes, except “Pass Through Filters.” At the same time, the complexity gives way to space and breath…the push and pull of each song works in a way to bring the listener back again and again for a full audio experience. These songs make you think, make you bob your head, and hopefully make you hit the ”Add to Library” button!

Lyrically, "Lente Viviente" (Spanish for “Living Lens,” a play on Rosoff’s Video Memoir production company, LivingLens Memoirs) explores the delicate dance between memory and presence, perception and truth. The songs span a wide emotional arc—from reflections on childhood and lasting friendship (“Catch and Release,” “Dawn Villa”) to meditations on immigration and identity (“Who’s Illegal?”), aging and addiction (“Pass Through Filters”), and the blurred line between strength and vulnerability (“Kindness for Weakness”). At its core, the album asks how we see ourselves—and each other—through the ever-shifting lens of time, emotion, and experience. Tied together by dynamic arrangements and textured performances, "Lente Viviente" is both personal and universal, an honest portrait of life’s sharp edges and soft light.

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Catch And Release

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Glutton "Skiva heter Vishnu!"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Apollon Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 12, 2025
Tracklist

1. Ørkensur (7:50) 

2. Hallux Valgus (11:32) 

3. Elskotisk (8:27) 

4. Rematusenogennatt (10:01) 

Total Time 37:50

Credits

Eirik Ørevik Aadlan - guitars

Ola M. Bruland - bass

Jonas E. Hollund - drums

Description/Reviews:

Glutton returns with "Skiva heter Vishnu!"—the instrumental punk-jazz-prog album nobody asked for, but everyone deserves. After five years, the trio ditches vocals and communicative efforts entirely, delivering tracks like "Hallux Valgus," "Ørkensur," and "Rematusenogennatt" with absurd seriousness and delightfully misplaced confidence.

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Ørkensur

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Syrinx "Time Out of Place"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal Opera
Label: Ocula Records
Format: CD,digital,vinyl
Release date: September 9, 2025
Tracklist

1. Mitosis (Second Light)

2. 1875

3. The Master's Host

4. Solace Within

5. The Knowing

6. A Waking Dream

7. Shades of Your Purpose

8. Unraveler

9. It Left

Credits

Graham McGee: Guitars, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals

JP Abboud: Lead Vocals

Seth Lyon: Drums

Bobby Shock: Bass, Synthesizers

   With

Lady Chanelle McGee: Additional Vocals

Recorded by Felix Fung at Little Red Sounds Dec 2024/Jan 2025

Additional recordings done by Graham McGee at Othello Studios and Bobby Shock at Shock Manor New Jersey

Mixed Analog by Nathan Jackson and Syrinx at MDC Studios Toronto

Mastered by Brock Mcfarlane CPS Mastering May 2025

Goblin, Back Cover and Font by Yodth Gnosis

Cover art by Chronic Creative and Graham McGee

Layout by John Gianelli

All songs written and Performed by Syrinx

Description/Reviews:

"Syrinx deliver their sophomore LP Time Out of Place — a modern-day rock opera that pushes the boundaries of heavy metal and classic prog rock! Glistening ethereal sounds, heavy moods with unforgettable hooks! Music with cerebral depth! Recorded fully on analog gear with no computer or A.I trickery! For fans of Rush, Genesis, Queensrÿche, Judas Priest, Fates Warning.

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Roland Bühlmann "H59 - Schallbilder"

Country: Switzerland
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: September 7, 2025
Tracklist

1. Betterave Et Nuages (0:49) 

2. Blaue Stunde (1:11) 

3. Boom (0:46) 

4. Budokan (1:00) 

5. Peacock (0:54) 

6. Complexity (0:45) 

7. Das Meer Am Bahnhof (0:44) 

8. Disappear In The Color Box (0:47) 

9. Traumwelt (0:39) 

10. Endless For A Moment (0:55) 

11. Lead And Cords (1:05) 

12. Everything Is Moving (1:04) 

13. Fat Colored Death In The Garden Eden (0:48) 

14. Brave New World (1:05) 

15. Green Meditation (1:02) 

16. Green Passage (1:04) 

17. Gulls And Owls (0:47) 

18. Hausgeister (0:57) 

19. Higher Power (0:48) 

20. Invisible Dance (0:37) 

21. Landscapes And Dark Rooms (1:09) 

22. Lower Layer And Upper Pleasure (0:59) 

23. Luft (0:58) 

24. Magic (0:48) 

25. More Than Grooves (0:53) 

26. Motion (0:48) 

27. Nachtspaziergang (0:47) 

28. Never Mind (0:44) 

29. Playing Outside (1:06) 

30. Rage Against Everything (1:02) 

31. Rainy And Sunny Days (0:58) 

32. Rendezvous (0:51) 

33. The Cosmic Sun (1:13) 

34. Screaming (0:55) 

35. Confession Of A Cactus (1:07) 

36. Sixth Heaven (0:55) 

37. Sounds From The Workbench (1:02) 

38. Suffering (0:58) 

39. Summer Loops (0:55) 

40. Sunny Waiting Room (0:48) 

41. Taste Of Light (1:05) 

42. Good Vibes (1:04) 

43. The Ugly Curtain (0:55) 

44. The Way To Vinyl (0:56) 

45. Tonbilder (0:55) 

46. Undiscovered Affection (0:50) 

47. Wallpaper And Waterbucket (1:31) 

48. White Plastic Mouse (0:43) 

49. Without Ambitions (0:53) 

50. Wunderwelt (0:44) 

51. Schallbild (0:58) 

52. Zauberstock (1:19) 

53. Zoo (0:50) 

54. Explosion (0:44) 

55. The Place Of Return (0:46) 

56. Dreaming Ball (0:46) 

57. Origin (1:01) 

58. Movement (0:53) 

59. Magenta World (1:04) 

Total Time 54:40

Credits

Roland Bühlmann: electric, nylon, and bass guitars, Aeon Sustainer, Korg MS-20, Logic

software synthesizer, kalimba, and various objects as percussion.

Composed, Produced and Mastered by Roland Bühlmann

Paintings by Antonius Kurz.

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Crypto Knight "Shifting Sands" EP

Country: UK/USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 5, 2025
Tracklist

1. Shifting Sands (7:07) 

2. Sleeping Horses (7:24) 

3. Slow Burn (8:18) 

4. Fire Breather (7:12) 

Total Time 30:01 

Credits

Dave Johnson (The Forgotten Man) - Music, Production

Tim Malugin - Vocals, Lyrics 

Description/Reviews:

Shifting Sands – A dreamy atmospheric opener that evokes the relentless movement of time and fortunes, layered with shifting dynamics and haunting vocals.

Sleeping Horses – A hypnotic, slow-building epic that gallops through multiple guitar styles and sonic textures.

Slow Burn – A simmering, emotionally charged track that fuses ambient passages with intricate guitar work and introspective lyrics.

Fire Breather – The EP’s fiery finale, bursting with primal energy, and a cinematic scope that leaves a lasting impression.

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Green Carnation "A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Season of Mist
Format: CD, digital,vinyl
Release date: September 5, 2025
Tracklist

1. As Silence Took You (7:12)

2. In Your Paradise (7:04)

3. Me My Enemy (7:17)

4. The Slave That You Are (6:16)

5. The Shores of Melancholia (5:38)

6. Too Close to the Flame (9:16)

Full runtime: 42:44

Credits

Kjetil Nordhus - Vocals

Tchort - Guitar

Bjørn Harstad - Guitar

Stein Roger Sordal - Bass

Kenneth Silden - Keyboards

Jonathan Alejandro Perez – Drums

   With

Ingrid Ose - Flute on “In Your Paradise” & “Me My Enemy”.

Grutle Kjellson (Enslaved) – Harsh Vocals on “The Slave That You Are”.

Henning Seldal – Percussion on “Too Close to the Flame”.

Produced by Endre Kirkesola, Stein Roger Sordal & Kjetil Nordhus.

Sound Engineering by Endre Kirkesola.

Mixed by Endre Kirkesola at DUB Studio, Kristiansand, Norway.

Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at DUB Studio, Kristiansand, Norway.

Cover Art by Niklas Sundin (https://www.nsundin.com/)

Description/Reviews:

A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia is Green Carnation’s latest album, the first in a trilogy that is sure to please longtime fans of the band’s epic, landmark release, Light of Day, Day of Darkness. The Shores of Melancholia feels of two worlds; a level of immediacy combined with this insistent feeling that, yes, something substantial is indeed brewing within Green Carnation’s creative minds.

The album opens up with two back-to-back bangers that incorporate the catchy rock arrangements that helped define the band’s Blessing in Disguise era. “As Silence Took You” and “In Your Paradise” are melodic, with strong hooks and choruses that welcome listeners to Green Carnation’s newfound heaviness.

“Me My Enemy” starts out slow, anchoring a spacey, almost jazz fusion groove from drummer Jonathan Alejandro Perez with a bass line from Roger that’s impossible to deny. This song features some of the album’s most notably memorable lyrics, as well, as Nordhus delivers what’s perhaps the album’s definitive vocal performance. This song’s dark melancholy is juxtaposed against “The Slave That You Are,” an aggressive throwback to Green Carnation’s underground past that features guests vocals from Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson.  

Elsewhere, the album’s title track feels mysterious and moody, a song with a vibe that matches the evocative cover art from former Dark Tranquility guitarist Niklas Sundin. “The Shores of Melancholia” retains a chorus that’s striking and dynamic, thanks to the subtle keyboard playing of Kenneth Silden. Finally, “Too Close to the Flame” brings the album to a fittingly grand finale, clocking in at nearly 10 minutes, with some of the album’s most progressive arrangements. At the same time, however, the song breezes by with a natural sense of song craft that’s sure to make Green Carnation fans want to replay their journey to The Shores of Melancholia from the very beginning.  

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The New Grove Project "Epiqurium"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Instrumental Symphonic
Label: New Grove Music
Format: CD,vinyl,digital
Release date: September 2, 2025 (digital)
Tracklist

1. Epiqurium 1

2. Epiqurium 2

3. Epiqurium 3

4. Epiqurium 4

5. Epiqurium 5

6. Epiqurium 6

7. Epiqurium 7 

Credits

Robert Webb (England): Keyboards, Orchestral Synthesis and Webbotron

André Schornoz: Bass

Timo Vuoppola (Fouette): Guitars

Mattias Olsson (Änglagård): Drums and Percussion

Composed by Per Sundbom.

Additional compositions and arrangements by Robert Webb

Engineered by Robert Webb at Garden Shed studios, Greece

Produced by Robert Webb, Per Sundbom and Ingemar Hjertqvist

Cover design by Dan Pettersson/DP Bild

Images by Per Sundbom

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