Midas Fall "The Menagerie Inside"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Pop, Post Rock
Label: Monotreme Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Push
2. Afterthought
3. Circus Performer
4. Counting Colours
5. Low
6. The Morning Asked and I Said No
7. Half a Mile Outside
8. Tramadol Baby
9. A Song Built From Scraps of Paper
10. Holes

Line-up: 
Elizabeth Heaton - vocals, guitar, synths
Rowan Burn - guitar, piano
Steven Pellatt - drums, percussion
Chris Holland - bass

Description/Reviews: 

Midas Fall focus on the more contemplative side of progressive rock, continuing where the Gathering and Anathema have gone recently, but veering off in their own direction. The key difference is singer Elizabeth Heaton, whose tender voice brings sensitivity to the music, often echoing the likes of Loreena McKennitt and Elizabeth Fraser.
  As a result Midas Fall’s new album The Menagerie Inside bridges prog and dreampop in a way that hasn’t quite been done this way before. Arrangements are sprawling, often reminiscent of Isis, but that distinctly feminine side makes the music feel so much more welcoming and alluring. (Adrien Begrand at popmatters.com)

 Also read full review by Lance Turner at echoesanddust.com

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Push
Circus Performer

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Becoming The Lion "Division"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive/Post Metal
Format: digital
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Division Of Body And Mind (5:14)
2. Isolate From Reality (4:02)
3. Distressed But Not Alone (1:34)
4. Enmity For Ego (2:16)
5. Abandoned Yet Breathing (5:15)
6. Compelled By Reason (4:38)
7. Exhaustion Breeds Deception (4:42)
8. Revitalize The Catalyst (4:30)
9. Repressed To Egress (4:33)

Total time 36:44

Line-up: 
Ross Blomgren - Guitar, Bass, Drums.
Dennis Paterkiewicz - Drums
Chris Walls - Bass

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The Dear Hunter "Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Prog Related
Label: Equal Vision Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Rebirth (2:51)
2. The Old Haunt (4:36)
3. Waves (4:12)
4. At the End of the Earth (5:16)
5. Remembered (3:50)
6. A Night on the Town (9:00)
7. Is There Anybody Here? (6:42)
8. The Squeaky Wheel (4:35)
9. The Bitter Suite IV and V: The Congregation and the Sermon in the Silt (5:40)
10. The Bitter Suite VI: Abandon (5:32)
11. King of Swords (Reversed) (5:07)
12. If All Goes Well (4:41)
13. The Line (3:37)
14. Wait (3:20)
15. Ouroboros (5:25)

Line-up: 
Casey Crescenzo - vocals, piano, guitar, bass, arrangements, direction
Nick Crescenzo - drums, percussion, vocals
Robert Parr - guitar, vocals, keyboards
Nick Sollecito - bass
Maxwell Tousseau - guitar, keyboards, aux. percussion, vocals
Andrew Brown - keyboards, vocals

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A Night on the Town
Waves
Wait


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Riverside "Love, Fear And The Time Machine"

Country: Poland
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: InsideOut
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened By a Hat?)
2. Under the Pillow
3. #Addicted
4. Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire
5. Saturate Me
6. Afloat
7. Discard Your Fear
8. Towards the Blue Horizon
9. Time Travellers
10. Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching)

Line-up: 
Mariusz Duda - vocals, bass & acoustic guitar
Piotr Grudzinski - guitars
Michal Lapaj - keyboards
Piotr Kozieradzki - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Mariusz Duda checked in with the following comment about “Love, Fear and the Time Machine": “On the new album I wanted to combine the 70s and the 80s. The 80s were a decade of musical growing up for me. We don't sound as retro and 70s as before, we moved forward, we sort of demolished the previous foundations and build new ones. Despite the huge dose of melancholy and nostalgia, there is a new space, the songs are arranged with more flow and at the same time they have never been so concise and to the point before. The lyrics on "Love, Fear and the Time Machine" talk about a transformation. About making an important, perhaps life changing, decision everyone has to make at some point in their lives. What happens to us when we have to make it? On the one hand we're excited by the change, we feel free, liberated, and on the other we fear the unknown, we are afraid of what might happen to us. We go back in time and we go forward in time in our heads. And all that happens when we have to decide something important. The first of the songs on the album is called 'Lost', the last one, 'Found'. If we sometimes get lost in life, it is to go through something and be found again on the other side, to be reborn as someone better and more valuable. I would like this album to be one of those that one day simply becomes your best friend.”

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Discard Your Fear
Found
Teaser

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Amorphis "Under The Red Cloud"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Tech/Extreme Progressive Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Under The Red Cloud
2. The Four Wise Ones
3. Bad Blood
4. The Skull
5. Death Of A King
6. Sacrifice
7. Dark Path
8. Enemy At The Gates
9. Tree Of Ages
10. White Night
11. Come The Spring (Bonus track)
12. Winter’s Sleep (Bonus track)

Line-up: 
Tomi Joutsen
Esa Holopainen
Tomi Koivusaari
Niclas Etelävuori
Santeri Kallio
Jan Rechberger

Description/Reviews: 

1. Under The Red Cloud
Far from the in-your-face opening of the previous album, the title track starts with a soft piano intro, interspersed with subtle guitar lines and building up without any haste. Yet by the time the vocals set in, much has already happened. The organic development continues, with Tomi´s voice at first taking a secondary role to the guitars before gradually assuming domination. The stellar keyboard/guitar solo confirms that Amorphis are again at the top of their game: while this first impression reminds me in many ways of the best stuff on Skyforger (my favorite Amorphis album so far), it is heavier and far more diversified.

 Read the full track-by-track review by Tina Solda at stalker.cd

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Death Of A King
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Dwiki Dharmawan "So Far So Close"

Country: Indonesia
Genre(s): Fusion
Label: Moonjune Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 4, 2015 (digital), September 23, 2015 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Arafura (7:07)
2. Bromo (5:28)
3. So Far So Close (4:26)
4. Whale Dance (5:22)
5. The Dark Of The Light (3:41)
6. Jembrana's Fantasy (9:19)
7. NYC 2050 (4:58)
8. The Return Of The Lamafa (5:36)

Total time 45:57

Line-up: 
Dwiki Dharmawan - Fender Rhodes piano, Mini Moog, Hammond Organ, synth, acoustic piano, vocals
    With
Jimmy Haslip - bass guitar
Chad Wackerman - drums
Dewa Budjana - guitar (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8)
Tohpati - guitar (tracks 3, 4, 5)
Jerry Goodman - violin (track 1)

Description/Reviews: 

On his debut for MoonJune, listeners are treated to an exotic musical mélange of the highest order. Featuring fusion and progressive rock luminaries, "So Far, So Close" features adventurous compositions, arrangements and performances. Lovers of fusion's "golden era" (mid-'70's through the mid-'80's) will find plenty to keep them enthralled throughout this sizzling session, as Dwiki and company never let off the gas while scaling high-altitude sonic terrain in effortless fashion.

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Forest Field "Angels?"

Country: Netherlands
Genre(s): Ambient, Progressive Rock
Label: Rock Company
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 4 , 2015
Tracklist: 

01 Broken Wings (4:45) 

02 Angels (5:08)

03 Left At Cloud 9 (2:40) 

04 It Looks Like Rain (6:19)

05 Angel With A Dirty Face (5:23)

06 Message For A Messenger (6:19) 

07 The Zoo (6:16)

08 Lovers Lane (4:20) 

09 Change Me (5:31)

10 In Excelsis (5:22) 

11 Spot On The Sun (4:39)

Line-up: 
Peter Cox  - all instruments, voices (3, 6)
Phil Vincent - vocals

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EPK

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Summer Effect "Nothing But Hope"

Country: Indonesia
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock, Progressive Rock
Label: Fluttery Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Pre (2:48)
2. Early Morning (4:02)
3. Nothing's Ever Good Enough For You (4:07)
4. Silence Is a Language Too (3:56)
5. Nothing But Hope (4:57)
6. Holiday (7:30)
7. Everybody's Happy (5:35)
8. Standing In the Shadows (3:10)
9. Destiny (5:22)
10. It Is Difficult to Concentrate (3:41)
11. Jump From the Edge (4:41)
12. Repeat, Replay & Over Again (5:31)

Total time 55:20

Line-up: 
Aroel - Guitar, keys
Ibo - Drums, keys

Description/Reviews: 

The new album “Nothing But Hope” has interesting, unique and colorful nuance in each of its song. It has a comfortable sound between instrumental, rock, post-rock, alternative, experimental. Ibo says “We maintain the minimalism and dynamic of our musical nuance. It has more acoustic elements combined with an electric guitar harmonies, distortion, keyboard, as well as several other instruments.” These instruments sometimes get deeper as in the song “Nothing’s Ever Good Enough For You” and sometime they follow more energetic approach.

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Anacondia "L'Orizzonte degli Eventi"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Symphonic
Label: Lizard Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 3, 2015 (digital), October 2015 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Eroi Di Solitudine (7:39)
2. Nel Silenzio (3:26)
3. Ideale O Verita (6:01)
4. Come Un Fiume In Piena (5:53)
5. Un Foglio Bianco (5:52)
6. Gerico (8:47)
7. Il Colore Dell'aria (7:01)

Total time 44:39

Line-up: 
Gabriele Ramilli: vocals
Andrea Canonico: piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Antonio Sergi: drums, percussion
Walter Marocchi: guitars, backing vocals
Vincenzo Valerio: bass
Nicoletta Bartola: sax, flute, backing vocals

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Perfect Aquarium "Perfect Aquarium"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: September 3, 2015
Tracklist: 
01. Hello - 02:42
02. Crown - 03:33
03. Sun - 04:14
04. Choose a Flower (Parts I & II) - 04:51
05. The Descent - 02:00
06. Onism - 05:19
07. Euphoric Tsunami - 07:06
08. Infinitesimal - 04:44
09. Omniscience - 12:02

Line-up: 
Liam Bernard: Lead & Classical Guitar
Ben Saldich: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Isaac Roth: Bass, Vocals
Frank Klopotowski: Drums, Vocals
  With
Ella Garcia: Vocals (8)

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