Windom End "Perspective Views"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Marquee - BELLE-203291
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 25, 2020 (CD)
Tracklist: 
Disc 1:
1. The Dream (10:58)
2. Starless Sky (8:07)
3. Walk this way (7:33)
4. Within the Shadows (2:49)
5. Revolution (9:24)
6. Ghost of the Past (10:22

Disc 2 (bonus disc):
1. Equality (11:45)
2. Differently Alike (7:26)
3. Found Home (6:08)

Line-up: 
Mikael Arvidsson - Vocals
Pierre Stam - Bass
Tomas Nyström - Guitar
Tobias Lundgren - Drums
   With
Erik Göransson - Additional Keys and solos

Media/Samples 
Teaser

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Orchestre Celesti "ContraXt"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Symphonic
Format: digital
Release date: April 25, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Keep It Short & Stupid (2:38)
2. Phygital Symphony - 1st Movement (clarinet & glockenspiel) (5:42)
3. Phygital Symphony - 2nd Movement (piano & viola) (4:59)
4. Phygital Symphony - 3rd Movement (oboe & trumpet) (6:11)
5. Phygital Symphony - 4th Movement (piano & glockenspiel) (5:32)
6. Phygital Symphony - 5th Movement (flute, clarinet & trumpet) (6:18)
7. 12 Steps In The Dark (4:16)
8. Mother Eats Oranges (Moog Grandmother Improvvisations - A Deserved Rest - 4 Segments) (9:59)

Total Time 45:35

Line-up: 
Federico Fantacone

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Kalevi Hämäläinen Group "First Days of Summer"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label: Eclipse Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Grasshopper (6:04)
2. Flying Desires (5:13)
3. Exit 68 (6:51)
4. Sense Of Urban (7:37)
5. Midnight Sun (7:18)
6. For Better Times (4:49)
7. Phellooti (5:42)
8. First Days Of Summer (7:51)

Total Time 51:25

Line-up: 
Kalevi Hämäläinen - piano, compositions
Ilmari Hämäläinen - drums
Juho Koskivirta - guitar
Valtteri Rouhiainen - bass

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Arithmetic Overflow "Expanding the Mind"

Country: Brazil
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive/Post Metal
Format: digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Expanding The Mind (5:05)
2. The Dark Side Of The Light (5:59)
3. Human Iteration (4:19)
4. Progressive Code (5:13)
5. Mellow Tragedy (5:48)
6. Discovering The Light's Path (5:56)
7. Colossal (9:22)

Total Time 41:42

Line-up: 
Marcos Sena - Guitar
Iury Dias - Drums
Hálamo Reis - Bass, Guitar

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Koronus "Eye of the Monolith"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Format: digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Discovery (8:12)
2. Monolith (7:49)
3. The Deep (5:24)
4. Darkness (5:45)
5. The Primordials' Gift (7:26)
6. Gaze (5:40)
7. Wrath (6:21)
8. Escape From Hell (5:21)
9. Exiled (13:46)

Total Time 65:44

Line-up: 
Kyle McGinley - vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards
Vishnu Vijayan - bass

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Deezer

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Mantric "False Negative"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Eclectic Progressive Alternative Rock/Metal
Label: Solid State Records, Tooth & Nail Records
Format: digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Polyanna (04:38)
2. Itching Soul (03:59)
3. Queen Fatigue (05:27)
4. Norwegian Dastard (05:58)
5. Blame the Beggar (04:05)
6. Dawn (06:22)
7. The Towering Mountain (04:56)
8. Every Day is Independence Day (03:45)
9. Darling Demon (05:53)
10. Starmonger (08:38)

Total Time 53:42

Line-up: 
John Mjaaland (Extol)
Tor Glidje (Extol)
Ole Sveen (Extol)

Description/Reviews: 

The first three songs hit you (“Itching Soul” should be played on prog radio) and you’re thinking “ok how can this get any better?” That’s when Mantric twists into a modern version of the Beach Boys whilst channeling Failure on the song “Norwegian Dastard.” ... “Down” is a fuzzed out asskicker which still holds to Mantric’s odd style. “The Towering Mountain” is a mix of blasting punk metal and Motorpsycho on acid. It proves that Mantric isn’t about to stop trying different things.

Read the full review by Rob at progressivemusicplanet.com  

Also read the review by Mike Reitemeier at thenewfury.com

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Polyana
The Towering Mountain
Stream
Deezer

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Elder "Omens"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Progressive Rock
Label: Armageddon Shop (US), Stickman Records (EU)
Format: CD, vinyl, digital, cassette
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Omens
2. In Procession
3. Halcyon
4. Embers
5. One Light Retreating

Line-up: 
Nicholas DiSalvo – Guitars, vocals, keyboards
Michael Risberg – Guitars, keyboards
Jack Donvan – Bass
Georg Edert – Drums
   With
Fabio Cuomo – Keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

Omens, the band's fifth full-length record, is the newest pillar in the construction of their own musical universe. With it, Elder further embrace experimentation in their brand of progressive psychedelic rock in which atmosphere, melody and structure are created and transformed again and again.
Following 2017's Reflections of a Floating World and the 2019 experimental EP The Gold & Silver Sessions, it was anyone's guess what the band's next full-length might have in store. Having cemented their own sound – a dense yet lucid brand of heavy rock full of unexpected flourishes and progressive jaunts - the latter EP showcased an exact opposite side of Elder, more rooted in sparse krautrock and even jazz-tinged jams. Omens answers this speculation with a contradiction that embodies the spirit of Elder: somehow, there's even more everything.
In five cinematic songs, lush, intricately interwoven melodies grow and dissolve into spaced-out jams. Massive riffs thunder down into a churning sea of psychedelic sounds and unpredictable grooves carry away the listener. Elder paints pictures with their music, and Omens shows the band experimenting with an even more colorful palette – with good reason.
This is music for a vacation from reality – or to lose oneself in another world. And yet Omens is not purely an exercise in escapism, but also reflects the increasingly bleak, confusing and antagonistic times in which it was written. Composed as a concept album spanning the lifespan of a civilization, the album also reads as a commentary on our own society hell-bent on profitability at the expense of our own lives and environment. 

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Katatonia "City Burials"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Peaceville Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Heart Set To Divide (5:29)
2. Behind The Blood (4:37)
3. Lacquer (4:42)
4. Rein (4:20)
5. The Winter Of Our Passing (3:18)
6. Vanishers (4:56)
7. City Glaciers (5:30)
8. Flicker (4:44)
9. Lachesis (1:54)
10. Neon Epitaph (4:31)
11. Untrodden (4:29)
12. Fighters (3:37) - digital bonus track

Total Time 52:07

Line-up: 
Jonas Renkse - Vocals
Anders Nyström - Guitar
Roger Öjersson (Tiamat) - Guitar
Niklas Sandin - Bass
Daniel Moilanen - Drums
   With
Anni Bernhard - Vocals (6)

Description/Reviews: 

With the winds of a new direction steering the band on their latest journey, City Burials stands as Katatonia’s new triumph of deep & enigmatic progressive rock – the fruits of a rejuvenating and profound chapter in the band’s legacy; a catalyst for its creators, with a collection of moments constructed out of the fragments of an ever-evolving life. Compiled into one of their most important modern works and statements to date, the finely-honed instrumentation provides a multi-textured backdrop with the voice of Jonas Renkse guiding us through these latest trials of loss and ruin.The proof of Jonas and Anders’ enduring artistic bond is displayed throughout City Burials’ absorbing 58 minutes of meticulously crafted melodies and inspired, idiosyncratic arrangements.  From the spine-tingling dynamics of opener “Heart Set To Divide” through and the simmering menace of “Lacquer” to the wildly evocative sorrow-scapes of “City Glaciers” and the exquisitely delicate “Vanishers”  Katatonia’s eleventh studio album is a showcase for a partnership that was magical from the very start.

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Behind The Blood
Lacquer
The Winter Of Our Passing

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Notion Blue "The Son, The Liar, and the Victor"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Memories (1:31)
2. The Gathering/Overture (4:47)
3. Always Tomorrow (4:27)
4. The Liar (5:40)
5. Keeping Apart (5:41)
6. Doubt is Not a Destination (5:36)
7. I See the Light (4:03)
8. Passing (4:20)
9. Homecoming (3:13)
10.Gates of Heaven (3:11)

Total Time 41:09

Line-up: 
Max Barbi - vocals, synth, keys
Luke Chase - vocals, guitar, bass
Gabe Chase - vocals, drums, percussion
   With
Emily, Katie, and Deborah Barbi - additional vocals (8, 9)

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Compass "Our Time On Earth"

Country: UK
Genre(s): AOR, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Label: Escape Music - ESM342
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 24, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Skies Of Fire (8:44)
2. Our Time On Earth Pt I (9:23)
3. Caught In A Frame (5:26)
4. Neon (7:19)
5. The Preacher And The Pigeon Feeder (6:12)
6. Another Life Suicide (5:38)
7. A Warning From History (10:38)
8. Our Time On Earth Pt II (4:13)

Total Time 57:33

Line-up: 
Ben Green - Vocals
Steve Newman - Guitar, Keyboards
David Bartlett - Bass
Toni Lakush - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

...melodic hard rock forms the foundation of most every song here. Yet, many arrangements have some light complexity and obvious intrigue that suggests progressive rock. 

Read the full review by Craig Hartranft at dangerdog.com

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Another Life Suicide

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