Frédéric L’Epée – Contre Courant
Fifteen pieces for solo electric guitar, no drums and no voice, which L’Epée presents as a therapeutic act. Cuneiform releases the recital that follows “12 pieces for solo electric guitar”, from 2023.
Rock Progressiu
Les novetats, cròniques, entrevistes i concerts de rock progressiu —rock progresivo, en castellà—, en català: des dels grans clàssics fins a les bandes que avui construeixen obres extenses i ambicioses, amb capes de so i estructures que trenquen el format cancó. Tótum Revolútum Press hi dedica seguiment i cobertura des del 2015.
Trion – Terra Tiempo
The Dutch trio with the Mellotron in its name returns thirteen years after Funfair Fantasy: twelve tracks, sixty minutes and only two songs with vocals, sung by the drummer.
Mr.Bison – The Garden of Forgotten Dreams
Eight tracks of Tuscan heavy psych and prog, mixed in Berlin by Richard Behrens: a concept album about the garden as refuge that opens up fully at track three.
The studio tracks from both “Keys to Ascension” albums reach vinyl for the first time on 29 January 2027
Spirit of Unicorn and Cherry Red gather the seven studio cuts from the 1996 and 1997 albums on double vinyl and CD, with new Roger Dean and Mike Inns artwork.
Devin Townsend releases the Groningen live recording of “The Moth” on CD and Blu-ray on 6 November, with a video for “Lexin”
“The Moth (The War – Live From Groningen)” captures the album’s live debut on 28 March 2025 at De Oosterpoort, and now gets its own release.
Neal Morse & The Resonance date “River of Light” for 27 November, twelve tracks about Terah, the father of Abraham
The band’s second album comes out on InsideOutMusic. It nearly became a double and ends up a single, with a disc of instrumentals in the limited edition.
Polyphia release “Be Not Afraid” on 23 October and play Razzmatazz Sala 1 on 22 November
The Texas quartet’s fifth album comes out on Rise Records with twelve tracks, and the Live Nation world tour stops at Razzmatazz with Perturbator.
Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery – The Roaring Waves
Eight years of work for the first joint album by the Genesis guitarist and the Marillion one: seven instrumental pieces about the sea, with a Soviet submarine in the middle.
Peter Hammill – Tears In Time
Eleven songs gathered from recordings made between 1991 and 2026 and reworked now. The album closes with a two-and-a-half-minute elegy for his dog.
Dream Unending release “Certain Uncertainties” on 30 October, six tracks with Leila Abdul-Rauf on trumpet on the title track and a guest from Magic Circle
The third album by the duo of Derrick Vella and Justin DeTore comes out on 20 Buck Spin with six tracks, an Arthur Rizk mix and a Benjamin Vierling cover.
Pure Reason Revolution – Terrifying Angels
Two years on from “Coming Up To Consciousness”, the British band build a record around two long pieces that take more than half of its fifty minutes. Mixed by Bruce Soord.
Gentle Giant gather six North American recordings from 1975 to 1980 on eight CDs, two of them missing from the vinyl box
Madfish expands “Front Row Center” with the 1975 Capitol Studios session and the New Paltz show. Eight hours of recordings and a 60-page book.
Members of Elder, Gavial and Gaffa Ghandi debut as SEK with five tracks about General Wallenstein and his stuffed horse
“Wallensteins Garage” arrives on 30 October through Exile On Mainstream, and carries a nine-minute instrumental about the Battle of Lützen in 1632.
Stefano Panunzi – Caravaggio
Two and a half hours, twenty-four tracks and more than twenty guests (Torn, Bowness, Travis, Jakszyk, Edwin) on a double album where Panunzi keeps his own keyboards out of the light.
Asia premiere the “Arcadia” video and “Indigo” lands on 6 November with John Wetton’s last songs
It is the band’s first studio album since “Gravitas” (2014) and it carries two final compositions by John Wetton, who died in 2017.
The Flower Kings trail “The Gods of Rome, Pt. 2” and “Hope” lands on 23 October with four tracks
The Swedish band’s eighteenth album has four songs and two of them run past the quarter-hour. The one the new single comes from runs twenty-eight.
Pye Dubois, the Max Webster lyricist who wrote the first “Tom Sawyer”, dies at 77
He died on 15 September at his home in London, Ontario. He wrote the lyrics to every Max Webster album and to four Rush songs.
Porcupine Tree are back in the studio for a new album they hope to finish next year, while King Crimson stays on hold
Porcupine Tree are already recording a new album and hope to have it finished by 2027, says Gavin Harrison, who also confirms King Crimson is currently inactive.
Mantra Machine – Echoes Forest
Six tracks and thirty-four minutes of Dutch instrumental psychedelia, with a Mellotron new to the line-up. It builds well for two thirds and then finishes in a hurry.
Juzz – Juzz II
The second album from the Pontevedra group: polished, melodic jazz rock, with a Metheny-leaning guitar solo at the centre of the long track and little to contradict it.
Celeste – Prince Of One Day
The seven tracks of the 1976 debut, same beds and same running times, sung again in English by Siobhán Owen. A comfortable way in, and not much more.
Pure Reason Revolution release “Terrifying Angels” tomorrow, with two tracks past the twelve-minute mark
Jon Courtney’s band put out their seventh album through InsideOut: seven tracks mixed by Bruce Soord, with Mariusz Duda and Kristoffer Gildenlöw on bass.
Angine de Poitrine win the 2026 Polaris Prize with “Vol. II” and collect it without saying a word
The masked duo from Saguenay take the award for Canadian album of the year and the song prize too, for “Fabienk”. They play microtonal math rock.
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson put $785,000 into the Neil Peart memorial, which now reaches a million
Two bronze sculptures at Lakeside Park in St. Catharines, Ontario. The memorial is expected to open in late 2027.
Enslaved and Sólstafir bring a twenty-one-date shared European tour to Razzmatazz 2 on 14 February 2027
Barcelona is the tour’s only Spanish stop when the two Norwegian bands go out together in February 2027. Tickets go on sale on 25 September.
Pharaoh Overlord release “7” on 20 November, with Aaron Turner and Richard Dawson on vocals
Five tracks of saturated synth-rock produced by Juho Vanhanen, of Oranssi Pazuzu. They’ve previewed “Arms Of None”, with a video.
ESP Project – Extra Sensory Perception
Tony Lowe, Peter Coyle and Mark Brzezicki meet again for seven pieces of melodic prog, impeccably produced and cut almost entirely to the same pattern.
Amour – The Space Before the T of Time
Two tracks and twenty-two minutes from the Namur instrumental trio: fifteen minutes of prog with a Latin pulse and a “Setsubun” that never stops changing tempo.
Pete Roth Trio – Group Chat
Bill Bruford, Pete Roth and Mike Pratt live: nine pieces recorded between late 2025 and early 2026, with Dvořák taken apart and a «Summertime» that’s hard to recognise.
Arthur Brown – Nature
Eight tracks and thirty-five minutes with Dan Smith on electronics. At eighty-four, Arthur Brown returns to his usual dislocated cabaret with a shorter record than he tends to make.
King Buffalo close a four-year gap with «Doomsayer», out 4 December
The Rochester trio’s seventh record comes out on 4 December on Stickman Records. «The Slick and the Dead» is the first preview, and pre-orders open Friday.
Zero Hour release «No Man’s Land» on 16 October, a two-song EP on their own label
Two new songs and instrumental versions of both, on CD and digital through CynNormal Lab Recordings. It’s the band’s first new material since «Agenda 21», from 2022.
Yes reschedule the «Fragile» tour Steve Howe’s surgery halted to May 2027
Nine new UK dates from 2 to 16 May, with old tickets still valid. Howe, three months after the operation: “I’m making progress, slowly.”
L’eveil – Wars of Abstraction
Forty-one minutes of solo acoustic guitar, no layers, no effects. Matthew Nichols brings metal phrasing to four ten-minute pieces, and sometimes runs short of air.
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Grimalkin
Sixth album in six years from Ted Leonard and John Boegehold’s quartet, with brass, strings and a bare piano ballad. The craft is impeccable and the ending falls short.
Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Empyrean
Raphael Weinroth-Browne builds a 44-minute record out of a single looped, layered acoustic cello — hypnotic at first, formulaic by the second half.
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
Green Carnation close their Rimbaud-inspired trilogy with three band tracks and a 17-minute orchestral suite performed with no distortion, bass or vocals at all.
TEMIC preview «Ashes», third track from «Ceiba», their album about loss out 2 October
TEMIC preview ‘Ashes’, the third track from ‘Ceiba’, their concept album about loss, out 2 October through Season of Mist.
Big Big Train: a conversation about identity, memory, loss and the need to keep moving forward
Gregory Spawton talks identity, loss and continuity ahead of Big Big Train’s first-ever Spanish show: 7 October at Razzmatazz 2, on the Woodcut tour.
Bjørn Riis closes the «Fimbulvinter» trilogy with «Divergence», four tracks out 13 November
Bjørn Riis closes the ‘Fimbulvinter’ trilogy with ‘Divergence’, four new songs out 13 November on Karisma Records.