The Dreaming Tree “Silverfade”

Country: UK
Genre(s): Alternative, Progressive Rock
Label: Bombsite Productions
Format: CD
Release date: May 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Yesterday's Tomorrow
2. Heart Shaped Bruises
3. Yours To Find
4. Forever Not Forever
5. Cherry Winters
6. Autumn Haze
7. Higgs
8. Jaded Summer Long
9. Every Minute Lost
10. Loose It Off
11. Song in 7
12. The Ocean
13. Kosovo
14. Zero To Type One

Line-up: 
Chris Buckler - Vocals
Dan Jones - Guitars
Neil Ablard - Drums & Percussion
Steve Barratt - Keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

"Silverfade" bounces from style to style, never staying put in a single sound, which allows the record to not become one long, dingy slog, which is a problem that permeates a lot of alternative rock.  "Yesterdays Tomorrow" opens the record, unexpectedly, with a piano figure, and when the guitars do come in, they are not the thick and low slurry you would expect.  They are still fuzzy, but they sit in the mix with a sharper bite, and they flick out washes of chords to give heft to the composition, which is clearly not written solely for the guitar to dominate.

 Read the full review at bloodygoodmusic.tk

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Vincentium "Composing The Universe"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Electronica, Progressive Symphonic Metal
Format: digital
Release date: May 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Tides Through The Tempest 12:18
2. Tides of The Cerebral 09:43
3. Prelude to Quantum Implosion 12:28
4. Actulisation of Ephemerality 13:07
5. Tides of The Spiritual 32:13

Line-up: 
Vin Black

Description/Reviews: 

It is a fusion album and is inspired by many genres and sub genres, including progressive, symphonic, avant garde and experimental metal, djent, classical music, jazz, fusion jazz, funk, electronica, trance and film score music. The musician calls the genre of this album Progressive Symphonic Electronica Metal (Psem). Composing The Universe is the first installment in a Psem album Trilogy.

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Mandala "Midnight Twilight"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Prog Folk
Label: Autumnsongs Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. There's A Wind That Blows - 6:44
2. The Dark Waltz - 4:59
3. Into The Night - 3:02
4. Midnight Twilight - 2:26
5. Sun - 4:44
6. I Have Fallen - 4:08
7. Dreaming - 6:55
8. Ghizou - 7:01
9. Within - 4:41
10. Fire Is Mine - 5:52

Line-up: 
Rhys Marsh - voice, guitar, mellotron, sitar, rhodes, rebab, pedal steel
Francis Booth - bass guitar
Will Spurling - drums, percussion, tablas
    With
Anna Giddey - violin
Natalie Rozario - cello
Peter Keserue - harmonium

Description/Reviews: 

Eighteen years in the making, Mandala's debut album Midnight Twilight is an exhilarating combination of Western and Eastern folk music, mixed with heavier forms of progressive rock, and smothered in an early-1970s production glow.
Mandala was formed in London in 1997, but after playing hundreds of concerts across Europe and North America, they disbanded in 2006 without recording an album.
Reunited in 2014, the band finally recorded its debut album (featuring songs written between 1997 - 2005). 

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Graal "Chapter IV"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Hard Rock
Label: Jolly Roger Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 4, 2015 (Italy), May 25, 2015 (ROW)
Tracklist: 

1. Little Song - 02:56
2. Pick Up All The Faults - 05:29
3. Shadowplay - 04:45
4. Revenge - 05:39
5. The Day That Never Ended / Stronger - 08:29
6. Guardian Devil - 03:32
7. Lesser Man - 05:46
8. Last Hold -  05:48
9. Goodbye - 08:49
10. A Poetry For A Silent Man - 02:59
11. Northern Cliff - 05:56

Line-up: 
Andrea Ciccomartino - Vocals, Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar
Francesco Zagarese - Lead Guitar
Danilo Petrelli - Keyboards
Michele Raspanti - Bass
Alex Giuliani - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Graal has warped into the past. Their sound is this retro-fitted classic hard rock that sounds somewhere between 1978 and 1983, complete with touch of keyboards sounding like a Hammond. It's what some might characterize as proto-metal, but it's being played in the 21st century. I'm also sure there's more than a few people who will read this and only see "retro' and think old. But they would be wrong.
In the wrong hands, Chapter IV would probably sound old to some. But Graal has a keen sense of the roots of classic hard rock and metal. Whether it's the fundamental groove of the rhythm section, the swirl of keyboards, an abundance of clean but stinging guitar, or smooth melodies and vocal harmonies, the band works the elements like craftsman. This music may not captivate the idiot youngster trying to keep his pants up. But those who have a sense of history will get this music.

 Read the full review by at dangerdog.com

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Fractals "Seclusion"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 3, 2015 (digital), May 31, 2015 (CD)
Tracklist: 

1. Seclusion 04:57
2. Solaris 04:58
3. Ceaseless 05:29
4. Illusive Objects 03:54
5. In Absence 03:48
6. In Absolution 03:04
7. As Time Will Show 04:20
8. Into Obscurity 03:28
9. Apex 05:26
10. Escape the Implication 04:07
11. Haunted 03:36
12. Darkness Into Light 04:46

Line-up: 
Tom Douglass - Guitars
Levi Miah - Guitars, Bass, Programming

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The Mood Manual "Authentic Tensegrity"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 3, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Feeling Symbol 04:01
2. Concrete Stiletto 04:07
3. Architect 04:28
4. Haunting Premonition of the Analog Evolution 01:11
5. Heresy 06:41
6. Black Massasauga 06:26
7. Gold Mine 10:22
8. Kelvin 1337 01:21
9. Ï 03:58
10. Tech Tonics 04:41
11. Alchemy 13:20

Line-up: 
Tyler Kundinger: Vocals, Guitar, Electric Fddle
James Fabry: Bass, Vocals
Andrew "Gio" Giordano: Drums, Percussion
Matthew McHugh: Guitar
   With
Carolyn Marie Horst : Saxophones, Keyboards
Diana W Sussman: Vocals, Keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

"Hard rock" and "Underground", eh? Not descriptions you'll have seen for a while I'm sure. Back in the day, before journos splintered metal and prog into far too many daft sub-genres, there were essentially three types of rock music: Heavy Metal (led by Black Sabbath) Hard Rock (led by Deep Purple), and Underground (what became Prog Rock). This American band sounds like a modern amalgam of those three tropes, making their music sound ancient and up-to-date at the same time. Get the patchouli out! (Roger Trenwith at weekendprog.blogspot.com)

 Also read the review by Kent Heberling at thosewhodig.net

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Groove Think "Intellect"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: May 2, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Canticulum 01:52
2. Lemnos 03:44
3. Trapped Under The Ice 05:26
4. Together Again 03:51
5. Within This Space 04:13
6. The Mercenary 04:43
7. High Strung 05:39
8. Protege 08:17
9. Night and Day 01:26
10. Memento Mori 13:02

Line-up: 
Frederick Jones - Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Corey Isaacks - Bass, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Mike Krieger - Drums, Aux Percussion, Backing Vocals
   With
Marcus Wilcher - Saxophone
Jack Van Norman - Keys
Violin - Jeff Elliott
Trumpet - Evan Santiago

Description/Reviews: 

Groove Think is an innovative, progressive rock trio based in Austin, TX that fuses elements of funk, jazz, and groove. The album is based upon a semi-totalitarian, futuristic world in which information has been made available through a device called "The Intellect." After implanted into the arm, the device allows humans to upload, download, and store information directly. The album pivots around 2 individuals: the creator and a user. Through their eyes, emotions, and experiences, the album plays through technological driven themes of dependency, isolation, cognizance, liberation, and other motifs. The music itself is our most exploratory yet--aggressive, abrasive, technical, and moody. We hope it embodies what most think of when a progressive concept album comes to mind.

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Gentle Knife "Gentle Knife"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Bajkal Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 2, 2015
Tracklist: 
01. Eventide
02. Our Quiet Footsteps
03. Remnants of Pride
04. Tear Away the Cords that Bind
05. Beneath the Waning Moon
06. The Gentle Knife
07. Epilogue Locus Amoenus
08. Coda Impetus

Line-up: 
Astraea Antal - flute, winds and visuals
Pål Bjørseth - keyboards, vocals, trumpet
Odd Grønvold - basses
Thomas Hylland Eriksen - sax and woodwinds
Håkon Kavli - vocals, accoustic guitar
Eivind Lorentzen - guitars and synths
Melina Oz - vocals
Ove Christian Owe - guitars
Ole Martin Svendsen - drums, percussion
Brian M. Talgo - samples, words, and visions
   With
Ole Michael Bjørndal - additional guitars (1, 4, 5, 6, 8)

Description/Reviews: 

Gentle Knife is a Norwegian progressive rock band counting 10 members. With both male and female vocals, guitars, synths, mellotron, woodwinds and everything else you would or would not expect, the band combines the mood of the ‘70s with a modern take on the genre. Gentle Knife's self-titled conceptual debut album takes you from the clamor of the big city, into an alluring forest. The journey is supposed to renew your energy, but somewhere deep in the forest, you are drawn away from the path, and into the unknown...

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Transience "Temple"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 1, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Anglophobia 03:31
2. Disillusion 04:27
3. Nails 07:42
4. Skirmish 04:46
5. Sister 05:59
6. Endless Change 06:08
7. The Pine Bluff Variant 09:02
8. Thalidomide 04:57
9. Trevelyan 01:14
10. Peoples Temple 08:35
11. Shining Lights 06:44

Line-up: 
Rob Cuzens - Vocals
Tim Davies - Guitars and Programming
Luke Mastrocola - Drums
Lincoln McGregor-Smith - Guitars, Vocals and Programming
Bob Parry - Guitars
Andrew Thomas - Bass
   With
Nick Coulter - Saxophone on tracks 3 and 7
Xani Kolac - Electric and acoustic violin on tracks 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 11
Eric Machel - Guitar on track 6
Dean Thomson - Drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 11
Daniel White - Vocals on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10

Description/Reviews: 

6-piece Transience combines soaring melodies, warped time signatures, crushing
grooves and expansive atmospheres to create their own take on progressive rock and metal.

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Katagory V "Resurrect the Insurgence"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Power Metal
Format: digital
Release date: May 1, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Ascension - 01:12
2. Crash Down - 05:53
3. Sinister Seduction - 05:42
4. Far Too Long - 06:12
5. My Insurrection - 07:16
6. Get Awesome - 07:41
7. Sins of the Son - 05:46
8. I Am Change - 06:46
9. The Search For Control - 09:26
10. Writings on the Wall - 05:58

Line-up: 
Albert Rybka – Vocals
Dustin Mitchell – Bass
Kris Krompel – Guitar
Marc Hanson – Guitar
Matthew “Bizzaro” LeFevre – Drums
   With
Jordan Jennings: Keyboards
Norman Skinner, Shane Provostgaard, John Yelland: Background vocals

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