NeBeLNeST – Saalfelden 2007
The French band’s last ever concert, taped at the Saalfelden festival in August 2007 and issued by Cuneiform eighteen and a half years later. Mellotrons, sax and zeuhl bass.
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.
Musea puts “Buried Alive” on its Bandcamp, Änglagård’s last show before they split
The live album, recorded at the Variety Arts Centre in Los Angeles on 5 November 1994 and released in 1996, is available again thirty years on, in digital form.
Brand X – Theory of Nothing: Recorded Live 1977
The tapes of the 1977 North American show came out of Robin Lumley’s attic and Percy Jones has remastered them. Two discs, ten pieces and the crowd in between.
The Mars Volta preview “Voice In My Knives” from their first official live album in twenty-one years
“Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business” comes out on 20 November on InsideOut with thirteen tracks. It is the band’s first live record since “Scabdates”, from 2005.
The Mimas Paradox – Resonance
A Budapest duo’s debut: thirty-seven minutes of electronic prog about a lone voyage across the solar system. There’s a played bass on one track out of eight.
Tu-Ner – Rendezvous Rodeo
Tu-Ner’s second live album: seventy-seven minutes recorded in a single night in Vermont. Of the eleven pieces, three are King Crimson’s and only four are the trio’s own.
Alex Lifeson puts up $100,000 and the strings from Rush’s tour for two children’s hospitals
Strings For Kids sells the strings he has played on the Fifty Something tour. Net proceeds go to SickKids in Toronto and St. Jude in Memphis.
Crown Lands put out the “Casting Stones” EP and set an “Apocalypse” deluxe edition for 11 December
Three tracks cut at the “Apocalypse” sessions that never made the album. The deluxe, on two CDs, adds four live recordings from Chalet Studios and a live title track.
Steve Babb wrote “Black Light” while recovering from a brain tumour, and Glass Hammer release it on 6 November
A concept album set in 1979 that Babb wrote from end to end in the months after surgery. The band has put out a video for “Lost Horizons”.
Bjørn Riis puts out “Divergence” on 13 November, the four tracks that close the “Fimbulvinter” run
Karisma has it on CD, digital and marbled vinyl. The four tracks were written during the “Fimbulvinter” sessions and finish the run that album opened in 2025.
Opeth reissue “Deliverance” on 27 November, on CD and clear double vinyl
Music For Nations and Sony are putting “Deliverance” out again on 27 November on CD and a limited clear double vinyl. Pre-orders are open at Burning Shed.
Drowning Steps – The Bravery of a Tireless Mind: Book One
Five tracks and thirty-seven minutes from the Brazilian duo, with an opening piece of fifteen minutes and forty-nine seconds and three of the five songs sung by guests.
Stick Men – Let’s THRAK Again
The trio’s first studio album in ten years is dedicated to King Crimson’s “THRAK” and comes in two complete mixes: same material, two different running orders.
Mariusz Duda turns Lunatic Soul into a quartet and announces an album and a first tour for spring 2027
Mateusz Owczarek (Lion Shepherd), Michał “Fox” Król and Michał “Malina” Maliński (Hey) complete the line-up. Until now Lunatic Soul was a studio project and had never played live.
Giant Sky – III
Erlend Aastad Viken, of Soup, closes the Giant Sky trilogy with eight tracks cut in 2024 and a guitar from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on the final song.
The Fierce and the Dead – Regional Theatre
The Londoners’ fifth album is the first with a full-time keyboard player: ten songs that don’t reach forty minutes and trade the long build for the chorus.
Igorrr play seventeen European shows between March and April 2027, with Secret Chiefs 3 and Fange
From Aix-en-Provence on 13 March to Strasbourg on 4 April, by way of Istanbul, Sofia and Bucharest. Nothing in Spain, and the support acts sit out the opening night.
O.R.k. add eleven November dates across the Netherlands, the UK, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland
The quartet built around Colin Edwin and Pat Mastelotto are still touring “Firehose of Falsehoods”, out on 21 March 2025 on Kscope. The calendar has nothing in Spain.
Radar Festival moves to a former steelworks and opens its 2027 bill with Textures, Arcane Roots and Conjurer
30 July to 1 August at Magna in Sheffield. The headliner, announced earlier, is Mick Gordon, playing the “Doom” soundtrack in full for the first time.
Alcantara – Tamam Shud
The second album by Sicily’s Alcantara: six tracks of Mediterranean space rock sung half in Italian and half in English, issued on vinyl first and only later on the platforms.
Kraanerg – Aria for Labellum Tongues
Nat Bergrin writes every note and leaves only bass and drums free: sixty-four minutes of chamber music with violin, two saxophones and a rock rhythm section.
Boss Keloid release “Float & Aperture” on 23 October, five years after “Family The Smiling Thrush”
Seven tracks on Church Road Records, with “Pedestal” as the second preview after “Landslide”. It is the Wigan quartet’s first album since 2021.
Peter Hammill books five German shows for spring 2027, and nothing in Spain
Stuttgart, Bonn, Rüsselsheim, Nuremberg and Berlin between 27 April and 3 May. They are his first dates since “Tears in Time” came out.
AetheR – III
Third album from Italian quartet AetheR: six tracks running from a piano miniature to a ten-minute finale, with Andrea Serino’s Fender Rhodes as the house colour.
I Sincopatici – La Corazzata Potëmkin
Francesca Badalini’s Milan quartet scores the centenary of “Battleship Potemkin”: five movements, forty-one minutes and no period pastiche.
Camel – Earthrise: Live at the Marquee 1974
The Marquee show of 30 October 1974, complete and on its own for the first time: two CDs, fourteen tracks and a band that hadn’t finished “The Snow Goose” and was already playing three pieces of it.
Kavus Torabi – October By Name
Six songs and thirty-three minutes that the Gong frontman played and recorded entirely on his own, bass always last. It closes the trilogy “Hip To The Jag” opened in 2020.
Rise Above Dead get their original singer back and release “Voidmass” on 27 November
Andrea Rondanini sings on it again and the first advance track is “Drowning Slowly”. Six tracks through Argonauta Records.
Yes put out “Aurora” with the whole record in instrumental form and premiere the “Ariadne” video
The digital deluxe edition came out on 2 October through InsideOut and adds the ten songs without vocals. The original album is from 12 June.
Rafael Pacha – Not Normal After Music
Eighteen and a half minutes of “Plowman of the Sky” carry the album on which Rafael Pacha trades Celtic folk for fusion. He plays zither, viola da gamba, electric violin and whistles on it.
Kavus Torabi closes a trilogy with “October by Name”, six songs he recorded on his own
Gong’s guitarist and singer put it out on 2 October through Believers Roast and Bad Omen. Thirty-three minutes, six tracks, and the bass always recorded last.
Devin Townsend explains he went back on stage after losing money on “The Moth” and splitting from his partner of thirty-six years
He said it on the “Sixty Scales And The Truth” podcast on 29 September. The acoustic Metamorphosis tour reaches Salamandra on 10 October.
Rob Harrison – Overflow
Z Machine’s saxophonist records an album about water almost single-handed, with glass bottles and water percussion. Two of the eight tracks are the same piece reversed, and that doesn’t hold.
Fistfights With Wolves – Sea Shanties For Future Sailors
The San Diego sextet fits chamber music, math rock and jazz into nine tracks and thirty-four minutes, with two voices that never stop. That’s also the one thing they can’t vary.
Molstone – Master Of Illusion
Molstone’s first album arrives twelve years after the band formed, written by the man who sang on the first two Flamborough Head records. Dutch neo-prog with craft, and with a catalogue feel.
Disillusion lose their guitarist and their keyboard player: Ben Haugg and Freddy Ruckert are out, and the announced dates stand
Haugg had been in since 2016 and Ruckert since 2018. The band say the decisions were a long time coming and that every announced show will go ahead.
Odd Logic – Mortal Heirloom
Ninth album from the Tacoma one-man band: six tracks, forty-three minutes of melodic progressive metal, seven years after “Last Watch Of The Nightingale”.
The Tirith – Quetzalcoatl
Fourth studio album from the Loughborough band who were called Minas Tirith in the seventies: twelve tracks, sixty-nine minutes of hard rock with keyboards, nearly all of it mid-tempo.
Hats Off Gentlemen… It’s Adequate – Parallel Lives
The British band’s ninth album stacks spoken-word verses, metre changes and bass flute into a record about mental wear, and closes on nine minutes of consolation.
Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar 4
The fourth instalment of the series Thelen began in 2015, cut across eight cities from Bucharest to Krefeld, with Eivind Aarset on all eight tracks.