Paralydium "Worlds Beyond"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Frontiers Music Srl
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Enter Paralydium (1:50)
2. Within The Sphere (5:15)
3. Synergy (7:25)
4. Finding The Paragon (5:38)
5. Crystal Of Infinity (4:22)
6. Awakening (2:08)
7. The Source (6:25)
8. Into Divinity (5:06)
9. Seeker Of The Light (7:28)

Total Time 45:37

Line-up: 
John Berg - Guitars
Georg Härnsten Egg - Drums
Jonathan Olsson - Bass
Mikael Blanc - Keyboards
Mikael Sehlin - Vocals

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Finding The Paragon 

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Dim Gray "Flown"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Art Rock
Format: digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Again (3:24)
2. The Wave We Thought We'd Ride Forever (4:37)
3. Closer (5:57)
4. Rath (3:32)
5. Wandering (4:00)
6. Flown (1:40)
7. Light Anew (5:26)
8. Yore (2:22)
9. Song For E. (3:03)
10. Dreamer's Disease (6:01)
11. Ouroboros (6:02)
12. Black Sun (6:04)

Total Time 52:08

Line-up: 
Oskar Holldorff - Vocals, keyboards
Håkon Høiberg - Guitars, vocals
Tom Ian R. Klungland - Drums, vocals
Robin Kirknes Andreassen - Bass
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Ellen-Martine Gismervik - Cello, bass
Elisabeth Turmo - Violin, Hardanger fiddle

Description/Reviews: 

Oslo-based art rockers Dim Gray play melody-driven songs in a post-progressive soundscape. Dim Gray incorporate elements from folk music into a forward-thinking aesthetic, in a sound that evokes a blend of Radiohead and Fleet Foxes. A wide and ever-changing palette of sounds and ideas is rooted in the constants of aching vocals and trembling guitars.

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Stream
Again (live)

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Arabs in Aspic "Madness and Magic"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Retro Prog
Label: Karisma Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. I Vow to Thee, My Screen
2. Lullaby for Modern Kids, Part 1
3. Lullaby for Modern Kids, Part 2
4. High-Tech Parent
5. Madness and Magic
6. Heaven in Your Eye

Line-up: 
Jostein Smeby - guitars, vocals
Stig Jørgensen - organs, vocals
Erik Paulsen - bass, vocals
Eskil Nyhus - drums
Alessandro G. Elide - percussion, gongs

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Bandcamp

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The Foragers "Ambassador"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. White Horse (4:31)
2. Forever Changed (5:09)
3. Blood Diamonds (5:03)
4. Bohemian Groove (2:54)
5. Festive Time (4:14)
6. Garden In Japan (2:45)
7. Demon Bite (2:56)
8. I Kbal Speen (3:15)
9. II Angkor Wat (2:30)
10. III Amrita (5:47)
11. Earth Elevator (2:32)
12. Ambassador (5:38)

Total Time 47:14

Line-up: 
Shane Pesanka - Vocals, Flute, Keyboards, Violins
Michael Dupont - Guitars, Bass
Michael Naquin - Drums

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Bandcamp (name your price)

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Jupiter Hollow "Bereavement"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. L’Eau du Papineau
2. Scarden Valley
3. The Rosedale
4. Kipling Forest
5. The Mill
6. Mandating our Perception
7. Sawbreaker
8. Extensive Knowledge
9. Solar Gift

Line-up: 
Grant MacKenzie - guitar, bass, synth
Kenny Parry - vocals, drums, synth, piano

Media/Samples 
The Rosedale

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Behold... The Arctopus "Hapeleptic Overtrove"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Technical Avant Prog Math Rock/Metal  
Label: Willowtip Records
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Quithtion (0:29)
2. Adult Contemporary (2:05)
3. Telepathy Apathy (2:03)
4. Blessing In Disgust (2:58)
5. Forgotten Explanations (5:18)
6. Other Realms (Instrumental) (6:45)
7. Perverse. Esoteric. Different (6:43)
8. Hapeleptic Perspective Respect (4:48)
9. Quithtion Overtrove (0:48)

Total Time 31:57

Line-up: 
Colin Marston - Warr guitar
Mike Lerner - guitar
Jason Bauers (Psyopus) - percussion

Description/Reviews: 

The band’s weapons, once again, are absurd technicality, inspiration drawn from avant-garde composers like Arnold Schoenberg, and an utter disregard for traditional understandings of tonality and melody. On Hapeleptic Overtrove, Marston and company focus on dizzying intricacy and speed a bit less than on previous efforts, but their newfound determination to eschew everything resembling standard percussion and unwillingness to part ways with their oddball technicality ensure they remain committed to their own brand of trailblazing strangeness.

Read the full review by Jackson French at metal-observer.com

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Hedvig Mollestad "Ekhidna"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label: Rune Grammofon - RCD2215
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. No Friends But The Mountains
2. A Stone's Throw
3. Antilone
4. Slightly Lighter
5. Ekhidna
6. One Leaf Left

Line-up: 
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen - guitar
Torstein Lofthus (Elephant9) - drums
Ole Mofjell - percussion
Erland Slettevoll (The Core) - keyboards
Marte Eberson (Highasakite) - keyboards
Susan Santos Silva (Mats Gustafsson ́s NU-ensemble) - trumpet

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Antilone

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Quantum "The Next Breath of Air..." EP

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Slipped (4:48)
2. The Next Breath Of Air... (7:43)
3. Dissonance (4:53)
4. Blank (5:42)

Total Time 23:06

Line-up: 
Anton Ericsson – Bass, Vocals
Oscar Lundin – Guitar
Samuel Walfridsson – Guitar
Marcus Lundberg – Drums

Description/Reviews: 

This EP is their debut release, and it’s full of promise- twists, turns, riffs, melodic, more aggressive, and expressive vocals, dense and germane lyrics, musical shifts from raging to tender to soaring to gentle, and a knockout rhythm section.

Read the full review by Stephen Conrad at progressiverockfanatics.wordpress.com

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Shem "No Songs, Just Sound"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Space Rock, Krautrock, Psychedelic
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 12, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Finistère (16:02)
2. Konvoi (7:53)
3. Säure (8:12)
4. Eins (18:53)
5. Fünf (13:31)
6. Encore (13:42)

Total Time 78:13

Line-up: 
Joel - Guitars
Alex - Guitars
Tobias - Bass
Alexander - Synthesizers, Saxophone
Benjamin - Drums, Percussions

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Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble "The Red Planet"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Symphonic
Label: R&D MultiMedia
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: June 12, 2020 (digital), June 28, 2020 (CD, vinyl)
Tracklist: 
1. Aseraeus Mons (5:52)
2. Tharsis Tholus (6:16)
3. Arsia Mons (6:10)
4. Olympus Mons (5:20)
5. The North Plain (6:53)
6. Pavonis Mons (7:13)
7. South Pole (7:35)
8. Valles Marineris (10:02)

Total Time 55:21

Line-up: 
Rick Wakeman (Yes, ABWH, The Strawbs) - Keyboards
Dave Colquhoun (DBA) - Guitars
Lee Pomeroy (It Bites, Archive, Headspace) - Bass
Ash Soan (Producers, DBA) - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

The album features 8 newly composed pieces, especially for this project, and harks back to Wakeman's critically acclaimed debut album “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” where there were 6 heavy keyboard pieces based around a central subject matter. It is a serious return to “Wakeman Prog”...
Rick has blown the dust off his favourite analogue keyboards and along with his with the latest keyboards, has used the same formula he devised when making his legendary albums “The Six Wive's of Henry VIII” and “Criminal Record.”

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Progstreaming
Tharsis Tholus (extract)
The North Plain (extract)
Arsia Mons (extract)

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