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.
The Indiana band put out the last track before the album, due on 15 January, and confirm they are back in the studio with David Bottrill for what comes after.
St. Catharines council has approved the plan: $800,000 for the installation and $200,000 for maintenance. The work is expected to take about a year.
Seventh album from the British composer: seven thresholds, four guest voices and, for the first time, every instrument played by him alone.
Steven Wilson releases “On Chapel Slope”, the second preview of “Requiem for a Village” (out 6 November), with a video directed by Mike Bennion.
The six UK and German dates set for November shift to March 2027. The band say some important elements of their plans have changed.
Second album from the international quintet built around Tejeida and Gillette: eleven tracks about loss, with the three longest of them stacked into the back half.
The Braga four-piece booked the studio with nothing written and came out with seven tracks, cut in Porto with Jaime Gomez Arellano at the desk.
Ninth album from the Reutlingen trio: four tracks, forty-four minutes, and a guest organ doing most of what is new about their instrumental space rock.
Nick Barrett talks identity, financial risk and creative freedom ahead of Pendragon’s return to Barcelona, playing Apolo 2 on 3 November as part of a short tour.
Real World releases “o\i” on 27 November. Thirteen songs that complete a twenty-five-track set with “i/o”, and Gabriel calls it the longest album he has put out.
Association P.C., a Dutch group formed in 1969 by drummer Pierre Courbois, Jasper van ’t Hof and the German Toto Blanke, one of the first jazz-rock groups in Europe.
Embryo, a Munich group formed in 1969 by Christian Burchard, one of the most eclectic in krautrock, which moved towards jazz-rock and fusion with the music of Africa and the Middle East.
Nova, an Italian group born in 1975 from Osanna and Cervello, based in London and influenced by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Return to Forever.
Arti e Mestieri, a Turin group formed in 1973, a reference of Italian jazz-rock with the debut Tilt (1974), are still active with founding drummer Furio Chirico.
Perigeo, a Rome quintet that opened up a path of its own in Italian jazz-rock between 1972 and 1976, with five albums on RCA Italiana.
Dzyan, a German group from Mannheim that fused jazz-rock, krautrock and Asian music between 1971 and 1974, in the orbit of the krautrock scene of the time.
Isotope, a British jazz-rock quartet formed in London in 1973 by guitarist Gary Boyle, with Hugh Hopper (ex-Soft Machine) on bass from 1974.
Subterranean Masquerade, an Israeli band founded in 1997 by Tomer Pink, blend progressive metal with Oriental elements; in December 2025 they changed their name to Submasq.
Distorted Harmony, a Tel Aviv band formed in 2009 by keyboardist Yoav Efron, combines progressive metal with harmonies close to jazz and modern classical music.
Orphaned Land, a Petah Tikva band formed in 1991 by Kobi Farhi, blend progressive metal with traditional Jewish and Oriental music; pioneers of so-called “oriental metal”.
Ars Nova, a Japanese instrumental symphonic progressive rock band formed in 1983, was for years an all-female group led by keyboardist Keiko Kumagai.
Vermilion Sands, a Japanese symphonic rock band formed in 1986 by singer and flautist Yoko Royama, who died in 2004; the group reactivated in 2013 with “Spirits of the Sun”.
Novela, an Osaka band active between 1979 and 1986, born from the merger of Schéhérazade and Sansuikan, with keyboardist Toshio Egawa as a key figure of Japanese symphonic progressive rock.
Methexis, the solo project of Greek musician Nikitas Kissonas (a former member of Verbal Delirium), has four albums released since 2011 and collaborations with musicians from The Enid and Änglagård.
Ciccada, an Athens sextet formed in 2005, combines flute, keyboards and female vocals in folk-rooted progressive rock inspired by Gentle Giant, Gryphon and Renaissance.
Verbal Delirium, a neo-prog band from Athens founded in 1999 by John “Jargon” Kosmidis, with four studio albums released between 2010 and 2022.
Socrates Drank the Conium, a Greek band formed in 1969 around Yannis Spathas and Antonis Tourkogiorgis, best known for the album “Phos” (1976), recorded with Vangelis.
Comedy of Errors, a Glasgow band formed in 1984 around Jim Johnston, remained practically inactive until it resumed its career with Disobey (2011); six albums released since then.
Abel Ganz, a Scottish band from Glasgow formed in 1980, are one of the historic groups of British neo-prog; on hiatus between 1996 and 2006, they remain active and tour Europe.
Jump, a band from High Wycombe formed in 1990 around John Dexter Jones, maintains a continuous recording career within British neo-prog, with fourteen studio albums released up to 2020.
Mostly Autumn, a York band formed in 1995 around Bryan Josh, combine progressive rock and Celtic folk; fifteen studio albums released, the latest in 2025.
Solstice, a Milton Keynes band formed in 1980 around guitarist Andy Glass, blend progressive rock and folk from Silent Dance (1984) onwards; they continue to release new albums.
Twelfth Night, a Reading band formed in 1978, was described by the BBC as the most important group in the town in the 1980s thanks to albums such as Fact and Fiction (1982); inactive since 2022.
Pallas, a Scottish band from Aberdeen formed in 1976, are one of the reference groups of 1980s British neo-prog thanks to the concept album The Sentinel (1984); they remain active.
Spirogyra, a progressive folk band formed in Bolton in 1967 and re-formed in 1969 at the University of Canterbury, released St Radigunds (1971) with Barbara Gaskin on vocals; they reunited between 2004 and 2018.
Comus, an English band formed in 1969 in Bromley, Kent, fused acoustic folk and dark-themed progressive rock on the album First Utterance (1971); they reunited in 2008 and remain active.
The Wilde Flowers, a Canterbury band formed in 1964, never released an album in their lifetime, but their members went on to found Soft Machine and Caravan, the direct origin of the so-called Canterbury scene.
Wheel, a Helsinki band formed in 2015 around guitarist and singer James Lascelles, has released three progressive metal albums between 2019 and 2024.
Steven Wilson, leader of Porcupine Tree, has maintained a solo career of his own since 2008 with eight studio albums released and a ninth, Requiem for a Village, due on 6 November 2026.
Spiritbox, a Canadian group founded in 2017 by Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer (ex-iwrestledabearonce), fuses metalcore with electronic and progressive elements.
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