Kimmo Pörsti – Somewhere Not Far From Here
Third solo record from The Samurai Of Prog’s drummer: eleven tracks of symphonic crossover, with eleven guests and four different lead singers.
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.
FatherSon – Pharmakon
Second album from father and son Kramarski: pop-rooted neo-prog about the technology that cures and poisons, and the first one with a flesh-and-blood drummer on it.
Enslaved release “Mið” on 30 October: eight tracks and the Norwegian band’s seventeenth album
Nuclear Blast put it out with eight tracks. “Mið” is Old Norse for “the centre”. The band present it in Bergen and Oslo at the end of the month, and play Barcelona on 14 February.
Hasse Fröberg’s HFMC are calling it a day: live album out 27 November, farewell shows in April 2027
Recorded in Uppsala in November 2024, the live album is out on FREIA Music on 27 November, followed by two farewell shows in 2027, in Germany and Sweden.
Haken – In A Fever Dream
Twenty-six minutes, five tracks and no bassist of their own: Haken arrive with a single guitarist, two guest bass players and three short pieces at the centre of the record.
Ian Anderson plays flute on “A Brighter Day”, the third advance from the Romanians Dirty Shirt’s album, out in January
Jethro Tull’s singer and flautist picked which song suited him from five demos he was sent. “Balkansylvania Vol. 1: Roots” arrives digitally in January 2027, with no physical edition until 2028.
Fiesta Alba – Drops of Sunshine in the City of Spectres
Five tracks and twenty-three minutes of Italian math rock with luchador masks, processed violin and African polyrhythms. One of the voices on the record belongs to nobody.
Charles Brown – Wind of the Northern Light
Eleven guitar and guitar-synth instrumentals signed by a Denver musician with forty years of craft behind him. The record never credits whoever keeps time, and somebody does.
Apotheus release the video for “Key Keeper”, the second advance from “The Complex Permutation”, out on 20 November
The quartet from Paços de Ferreira put out their fourth album, ten tracks, with no label attached. The first advance, “Boundaries”, is sung by Soilwork’s Björn Strid.
Tony Levin puts out “The Book Of BEAT”, 188 of his own photographs from the tours of the band playing eighties King Crimson
A 156-page book shot from the stage itself and from the wings. It is on sale at the merchandise stand on the North American tour and on the bassist’s own website.
Justin Hagberg joins Anciients full-time after playing the synths on “Beyond the Reach of the Sun”
Season of Mist announce that the 3 Inches of Blood keyboard player is staying with the Vancouver band. It began with an Alan Parsons cover: they asked for keys and he sent back fifteen tracks within hours.
Castle Mountain Moon – A Layman’s Guide to Unobtainium
Eleven tracks and sixty-four minutes from a Cologne duo who came out of software: a record about maps that never lets you get lost, and that is both its merit and its limit.
Quivira – Quivira
Eleven tracks and sixty-six minutes of symphonic prog from Topeka. The violin that brings them close to Kansas comes from the keyboards on ten of the eleven, and the guest who really plays one goes almost unnoticed.
Black Widow brings back “Our Lady of the Bones”, Malombra’s 1996 album, with a nineteen-minute track
The Italian label has put the Genoa band’s second album on its Bandcamp: eleven tracks from one of the names of nineties Italian dark sound. The title track runs 19:13.
Moonrise – No Rewind
Eight tracks and fifty-two minutes from Kamil Konieczniak’s project, who plays almost everything: Polish neo-prog seven years after “Travel Within”, with two guest voices and none of its own.
The Tangent – Was
Two discs and a hundred minutes telling the same childhood twice: once with lyrics and once as an instrumental suite, with The Nice’s “Five Bridges” as its starting point.
Stoned Jesus release “Songs to Moon”, the dark chapter of a trilogy that will end with two twenty-minute pieces
The Kyiv trio put out seven songs through Season of Mist. Igor Sydorenko places them next to “Led Zeppelin III” and Opeth’s “Damnation”, and has already said how the series ends.
ÄTZ – LIBRO I: dei deliri e delle profezie
Six tracks and sixty-two minutes made entirely in one room in Cagliari: ÄTZ’s debut ends in a twenty-five-minute suite of three dances.
Iapetus – The Mother Void
Seven tracks and sixty-nine minutes to close a trilogy opened in 2017: the American duo return with Fabienne Erni’s voice and an eighteen-minute closing epic.
Guerssen reissues five lost records, among them the Instant zeuhl album that survived in a dozen copies
Three imprints of the Lleida label bring back the album Pathé Marconi pressed in 1981 and never distributed, a record given away with a candy bar, and three more rarities.
Michel St-Père – Like Father Like Son
First solo album by Mystery’s guitarist: fifteen covers, not one composition of his own, and a “Shadow of the Hierophant” two and a half minutes shorter than Hackett’s.
Nick Fletcher – An Unfolding Of Miracles
Sixth solo album in six years and the second running to come out of reading Jung. Nine fusion instrumentals, two keyboard players who never meet, and a voice that waits until the end.
Seventh Wonder date their first album with Mattias Olofsson: “VII” arrives on 29 January
The first advance track from the album, out on 29 January through Frontiers, is also the band’s first original song with Mattias Olofsson, who replaced Tommy Karevik in February.
Tim Morse – The Fourth Crossing
Twelve instrumentals and one name on the credits, out in Berlin School country. The two pieces meant to carry the album are also the two shortest on it.
Nymue – Born From Dark Waters
A Dutch debut of two discs and nineteen tracks about Morgana, recorded in the studios of the Enschede conservatory with an orchestra, a choir and six guest voices. “It got a bit out of hand,” says the singer.
Giantsky – III
Erlend Viken, Soup’s singer, plays almost everything here and did the artwork as well. The one thing he can’t do alone is the strings, and they’re what decide the record.
Dream Theater are in the studio recording their seventeenth album
On 13 October they posted a photograph of the five of them at Ytse Jam Studios, captioned “#DT17 is underway”. No title and no date have been given.
“Tales Of Mystery And Imagination” turns fifty and Alan Parsons has made a new Dolby Atmos mix
Cooking Vinyl puts out four editions on 11 December, and the three-LP one is numbered and limited to 1,976 copies, the year of the album.
Nine Days’ Wonder – Nine Days’ Wonder (1971)
Four nationalities in Mannheim in 1971, two suites of fifteen and thirteen minutes and a green foam-rubber sleeve: the label puts one of krautrock’s strangest debuts back into circulation.
Bushman’s Revenge – Ah, Les Vaches!
The Norwegian trio announce a “pop” record and what they deliver is forty-four minutes with two interludes of a minute and a half and a “Purple Rain” that arrives by way of Sweden.
Big Big Train in Barcelona: a masterclass in symphonic rock
Big Big Train play Barcelona for the first time: two sets at Razzmatazz 2, with career highlights and “Woodcut” in full, and the photos from the show.
Slight Layers release “Present Unfulfilled”, six tracks written after an all-improvised double album
The Hungarian band put it out on 2 October through Psychedelic Source Records and has now posted the full stream. It mixes new songs with re-recorded live sessions.
VIII Strada – Città Totale
Third album by the Milan band VIII Strada: twelve minutes of new music, five live tracks and a remastered reissue of their 2008 debut, across a hundred and five minutes.
Leprous are recording in Stockholm the album that will follow “Melodies of Atonement”
They are at Ghost Ward studios and the drum parts are done. No title and no release date have been given, and updates will come through their Patreon.
Rick Wakeman plays Starmus in the Canary Islands with a piano and orchestra piece based on Hawking’s lectures
The science and music festival founded by Brian May and Garik Israelian runs in Tenerife and La Palma from 17 to 22 October. Wakeman performs with Moldovan violinist Rusanda Panfili.
Jack Donovan, Elder’s bassist, is home after open-heart surgery
The pneumonia he was admitted with in Portland was hiding a congenital heart condition. The postponed US dates still have no replacements and the February European run stands.
Devin Townsend releases “Harmonic Dharma” on 16 October, the sleep record he sold on the acoustic tour
It comes out under the DreamPeace name, the ambient project he set up against his insomnia, and he wrote it after a month on retreat following “The Moth”.
Taihr – Allicanto
German-Chilean septet from Cologne, second album and first for Tonzonen: seven songs written one apiece, new horns and a bird from Chilean myth pierced by an arrow on the sleeve.
Ok Goodnight – stop/go
Third album from the Boston quartet that came out of Berklee: prog with guest sax, clarinet and flute, ten songs that bleed into one another and Casey Lee Williams holding it all up.
Leoni Jane Kennedy – Synthetic
Debut album from the British guitarist Brian May and Roger Taylor gave a scholarship to at eighteen: seven songs road-tested for years, with the Hammond on “Sloe” and the guitar nearly always down in the foundations.