Baro prog "Prog-jet IV: Aionverse"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock Opera
Label: Andromeda Relix
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 22, 2025 (CD), May 30, 2025 (digital)
Tracklist

1. Creator's Farewell (7:10)

2. Flow of Life (12:54)

3. Biz-R World (6:36)

4. Crossing Pathways Part. a (0:51)

5. Mom and D(e)ad (9:03)

6. Crossing Pathways Part. b,c (4:25)

7. Crossing Pathways Part. d,f,g (13:02)

8. Crossing Pathways Part. h (1:25)

Credits

Alberto Molesini aka Baro (Marygold) - lead and backing vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards

Gigi Murari - drums & percussions

Elena Cipriani - backing vocals 

   With:

Iacopo Meille (Tygers of Pan Tang...) - vocals as Larry

Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn, Ayreon) - vocals as Mom 

Titta Donato - vocals as the Elder

Andrea Damato - vocals as the Bug

Meghi Moschino (Quanah Parker) - vocals as Life

Nicola Rotta, Baxnug, Max Basaglia - guitars

Andrea Vilardo (Moto Armonico, Blind Golem) - vocals as Creator 

Paolo Zanella - piano 

Giacomo “Jack” Molesini - jambé

Gabriel Bellorti - violin

Description/Reviews:

A rock opera with 8 characters conceived and directed by Alberto Molesini, aka Baro, with ample space left for 14 guests including performing singers and musicians. Mature progressive rock with jazz, techno and world music contaminations, extensive use of vocal polyphonies with the aim of making complex compositional and sound architectures usable and fluent. 

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Trailer SIDE B
Creator's Farewell

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Darrel Treece-Birch's Atlantea "Life!"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Lion Music
Format: digital
Release date: August 15, 2025
Tracklist

1.Millennium 

2.Round And Round 

3.Light In The Darkness 

4.BeRer Way 

5.Laniakea 

6.Life 

7.Three Lights 

8.The Robins That Flew Away 

Credits
Darrel Treece-Birch (TEN, Nth Ascension): Drums (1-8), Bass (1, 3, 4, 7,, Electric Guitars (1-8), Guitar Solos (3, 7), Acoustic Guitars (3, 5, 7), Mandolin ( 7), Keyboards (1-8), Vocals (3), Backing Vocals (2, 3, 4)

Stephane Honde: Vocals (4)

Lars Eric Mattsson: Guitar Solo (7 part 4)

Tony Mitchell: Vocals & BV’s (7)

Eoin de Paor: Vocals & BV’s (2, 5, 6), Bass Guitar (2, 5, 6), Additional Guitars & Solo’s ( 2 & 5)

David Reed-Watson: Vocals & BV’s (2, 6, 11)

Dann Rosingana: Guitar Solos (1 & 2)

Alexandre Santos: Guitars & Solo (6)

Kayleigh Treece-Birch: Vocals (3) Backing Vocals ( 3 & 6)

Martin Walker: Additional Guitars (2)

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Millennium

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People Of The Sun "People Of The Sun"

Country: New Zealand
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: June 27, 2025
Tracklist

1. The Call

2. Lisurgen

3. The Seed

4. Elders

5. 10,000 Things

6. Sky 

7. Last Song (Keep Burning)

Credits
Joseph Anderson
Djordje Nikolic
Tom Scrase

Mixed by Lee Prebble at The Surgery in Pōneke

Art by Kyoko Shirai

Descriprion/Reviews

This powerhouse trio melds rock, soul, jazz, and indigenous sounds into a fierce and evocative new form. 

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Ujig "Delta"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label: Luminol Records
Format: vinyl,digital
Release date: June 6, 2025
Tracklist

1. Deedoo (7:03) 

2. Make Make (7:06) 

3. All The Things It Is (7:01) 

4. Maybe (5:01) 

5. Zorua (7:24) 

6. Sema Beyaz (5:46) 

7. Prospettive (5:02) 

8. Sema Beyaz (5:46) 

Total Time 50:09 

Credits

Konstantin Kräutler - drums

Edoardo Maggioni - keys

Marco Leo - guitars

Cesare Pizzetti - bass

    With

Lorenzo Cimino - trumpet (1) 

Fabrizio Bosso - trumpet (3,6) 

Paola Folli - voice (6) 

Description/Reviews:

Today more than ever, Ujig stand out for a unique fusion of progressive jazz, electronic contaminations and bold improvisations. Each song is a sound journey that reflects the group's philosophy: breaking the mold, exploring new dimensions and challenging conventions. And above all, valorizing differences, the band claims: «The Delta is the symbol of difference in mathematics. Difference is the uniqueness of every human being, Difference and one's uniqueness are a wealth and a treasure that must be preserved and defended in a world that tends more and more towards homologation».

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Deedoo

Make Make   

All The Things It Is  

Zorua 

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Diego Petrini "La materia del suono"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: AMS
Format: CD,digital
Release date: June 20, 2025
Tracklist

L’ARMONIA DELLA NATURA

1. Come  in mare le onde (8:23) 

2. Alla deriva (6:51) 

3. Macchia verde (2:36) 

4. Immagini al tramonto (5:55) 

5. Etere (7:38) 

6. Sangue Freddo (4:17) 

SULL’ARTIFICIO DELL’UOMO

7. Fragole di Cinabro (4:01) 

8. Antropomorfa (3:37) 

9. Sublimazione (3:23) 

10. Mimesi (5:00) 

11. La Plastica (7:52) 

12. Ciò che Trascende (5:44) 

Total Time 65:17

Credits
Diego Petrini (Il Bacio della Medusa) -  drums, keyboards

   With

Eva Morelli (Il Bacio della Medusa) - flute, saxophone 

Giorgio Panico - fretless bass

Andrea Morelli (Il Bacio della Medusa) - electric guitar

Claudio Ridolfi - accordion
Alvaro Fella (Jumbo) - vocals (12)

Description/Reviews:

With “La Materia del Suono” (The Matter of Sound), his first solo record, the multi-instrumentalist from Perugia allows his creativity to literally explode and flood into a mixture of music genres that is no other than the true spirit of progressive rock.

We are dealing with a cinematic concept album, the result of a compositional process that began years ago on the piano, an instrument that in fact dominates the stage from the first to the last note over a mainly jazz-rock and fusion rhythmic-melodic core. Countless contaminations are to be found throughout each track: classical, lyrical, ethnic, folk, and rock music, with several Moog and Mellotron performances that pay tribute to the Scandinavian prog, while flute and saxophone – played by Eva Morelli from Il Bacio della Medusa – frequently evoke jazz-rock and 1970s progressive music.

The album is fully instrumental, with the exception of the closing “Ciò che trascende” (What Transcends) whose lyrics are sung by the legendary Jumbo’s unmistakable vocalist Alvaro Fella, and explicitly invite the listeners to be always themselves and to constantly ask existential and philosophical questions in an increasingly materialistic and cold world.

With “La Materia del Suono” Diego Petrini eventually manages to make his few guest musicians sound like an orchestra, and proves himself to be a quite unique musical talent!

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exo-X-xeno "Luminous Voyage"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital 
Release date: June 19, 2025
Tracklist

01. The Event Horizon 

02. Vitruvian Man

03. At the Water's Edge

04. Onward, Love

05. Reaching for Beyond

06. Into the Night

07. Live Life

Credits

Craig Maher: Guitars, Lead Vocals

Billy Sherwood (Yes, Circa:, Arc Of Life, Conspiracy): Bass, Backing Vocals

Patrick Moraz (Yes, The Moody Blues): Keyboards

Jay Schellen (Yes, Circa:, Arc Of Life, Conspiracy, GPS): Drums

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Reaching for Beyond 
Onward, Love

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Yak "The Pink Man & The Bishop"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD
Release date: July 2025
Tracklist

1. The Pink Man & The Bishop (5:14)

2. Crimson Camel (6:46)

3. Heaven's Gate (4:57)

4. Long, Long Ago (7:54)

5. Maddox Street (4:37)

6. The Best Years (7:44)

7. Aragorn (Extended Version) (Bonus Track) (6:54)

8. The Flight of the Noldor (Bonus Track) (9:54)

Total Time 54:00

Credits

Martin Morgan - everything

   With:

Gary Bennett - bass (7)

Dave Speight - drums (7)

Artwork by Brooke Schmidt

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Babal "Running In The Gutter"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Fruits de Mer Records
Format: CD,digital,vinyl
Release date: August 8, 2025
Tracklist

1. One Big Family (5:19) 

2. The Best Restaurants (8:55) 

3. The World That We Know (8:05) 

4. Cake Music (7:36) 

5. We Shall Be Fables (5:38) 

6. Running In The Gutter (9:07) 

Total Time 44:40

Credits

Karen Langley – vocals, arrangements

Rob Williams – guitar, guitar synth, programming

Jon Sharp – drums

    With

Paul Smith – acoustic bass

Chris Gill - bass 

Description/Reviews:

BABAL have come up with a blend of songs that illustrate the band’s improvisational skills, still retaining musical ideas that weave poetry and dynamic vocals that are at the band’s core.

 Opening track “One Big Family” is a full-on attack on social media; the rise of the biggest brain-washing experiment in history; “eye sockets sore, mind in chaos, thoughts flying round, like a bird in a cage, manic with facts and terrible rage! Nowhere to go, I can’t turn the page!”.

“The Best Restaurants” is a sharp take on poverty consciousness and opposing huge wealth, and a vain hope that religions may save us, but very probably not. ”All I saw was a crowd of starving souls, chewing at their wishes”.

“The World that we Know” is a plea for the World to wake up to the real possibility of extinction, “I wanna green world! I wanna green world! I want it to smell good; I don’t want it to stink like it does at the moment! Open your arms and let it in!”.

“Cake Music” is a satire on the virtues of neo-liberalism, “recycle now and do your bit! Be a match when the fires are lit; move a little closer to the cholera pit!”

“We Shall Be Fables” is a song that lulls the listener, yet reminds us ultimately of our mortality (one of Karen’s recurring lyrical themes), “life is eating us up, we shall be Fables, when the noon-tide beckons and the reaper reckons; we shall be Fables”

Title track, “Running in the Gutter” is a love song, poignant yet hopeful that love can still make the difference in all our lives; “you won’t applaud, it has a drive, it’s not a lot till love arrives! Love is not a number, it lives, it dies, running in the gutter, it doesn’t strive”. We can all get there, no matter how far down in the gutter we are.

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Dice "Awen Energy From Outer Space"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Scene Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: July 18, 2025
Tracklist

1. Chasing The Sun (11:55) 

2. Burning Paper (9:45) 

3. Living In This Mad World (13:03) 

4. Lost In Time (8:38) 

5. Awen Paper Outro (Dreamscene 27) (4:15) 

6. Deep In Outer Space (12:03) 

Total Time 59:39

Credits

Christian Nóvé - vocals, keyboards, bass

Ramona Nóvé - background vocals

Yannick Franke - guitars

Tom Tomson - drums

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Sargassus "Vitruvian Rays"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Black Metal
Label: Inverse Records
Format: CD,digital
Release date: June 13, 2025
Tracklist

1. Spirit Of Gravity (3:58) 

2. Carving The Veins Of God (5:51) 

3. The Lone Idunn Grows In Shade (5:46) 

4. Judgement Of The Four (6:05) 

5. Pahat Veräjät (5:03) 

6. On The Shoulders Of Atlas (4:36) 

7. Vitruvian Rays (6:29) 

8. Zealot (6:14) 

Total Time 44:02 

Credits

Matias Stenman - Vocals

Teemu Leskinen - Guitar

Matias Rokio - Drums

Mertta Halonen - Bass

Mix & master by Joona Muistola at HAW Studios 

Vocal production by Kimmo Jankkari at Raging Cannon Osk studio

Artwork by Matias Stenman 

Description/Reviews:

 It is an extreme variety of the form that is explored here, and in this case delivered by a band that appear to be rather fond of applying a number of contrasting elements in their compositions. At the most extreme, we get passages of high tempo and high intensity escapades alternating with gentle, light toned and flowing escapades of frail and serene beauty here, the latter often being more minimalist in approach as well as execution. In between we detour into atmospheric laden, dark toned metal landscapes, a little bit of thrash metal oriented passages come calling too, with off kilter and quirky sections that flirt a bit with a more traditional variety of progressive metal included but also majestic, powerful and Wagnerian types of extreme metal being a paid a visit or two. That we have an instrument detail or two with a possible folk music inspiration  may be worth noting too. Atmospheric laden, melodic backing vocals is a feature throughout, and while the lead vocals very occasionally may have a similar form of delivery the main parts of the lead vocals revolve around a style that is twisted, distorted - or both. An album to seek out by those who enjoy a more inclusive, borderline experimental and contrast-oriented variety of extreme progressive metal. (Olav M. Bjornsen at progressor.net's facebook)

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