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Progressive and very melodic at the same time. Torzewski's debut solo album is full of memorable melodies and expresses many different feelings, emotions...  Check it out! (CD Baby)

Here’s how it begins

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New Riverside! Their 6th studio album. Listen with your free account.

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New Riverside!

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Brighter Skies by FreddeGredde

Brighter Skies by FreddeGredde

When you consider that this is one young man, with help only on drums from the drummer of Jolly, this is quite a spectacular tune.

He is known for his very creative one man show YouTube videos of medleys of video game, cartoon, fairytale and TV themes.

But this is taking those considerable talents and applying them to prog.

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Lord of Mushrooms

Interestingly enough, I discovered this group via my IZZ Custom Radio iHeart station recommendations. They sound like a good blend of metal and prog. Check them out here or on your music service.

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Good To the last drop!

Their best yet. Find it on your music service

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NEW MAGIC PIE!

King For A Day by Magic Pie

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Every progger should hear this

For the first time ever prog icon Neal Morse came into a recording session with his long time friend and collaborator Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Bill Hubauer and Eric Gillette...with NOTHING! He had no prepared material at all. Neal comments, "I wanted to see what it would be like to create freely in the room with no preconceived notions. It was quite a risk!" On previous albums, like the Testimony album for example, Morse had the entire album written in advance. "I used to be rather paranoid about whether things would turn out in the short space of time we had available...so I would fill all the space in advance!" This album was totally different. "I made a lot of room for the other guys to create and express themselves and the result is outstanding! We wanted to experiment, do something a bit different, and see what everyone is capable of...we found out...in SPADES!" The results are obvious! This was a "grand experiment" that produced something far beyond anyone's expectations!

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The Game of Ouroboros by THEO

A futuristic concept album you may like.

THEO is a progressive rock projekt led by Jim Alfredson, otherwise known as the keyboardist for the great modern organ jazz trio Organissimo.

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Kayros

This may just hold the record of being the longest prog track ever (without being titled as a suite). And this is just one of the tracks on the album. When you have a half hour or so to absorb and emerse yourself in it, click the button (trust me, it’s worth your time).

Kayros by Blank Forest

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Spotify

Waiting For The Noise

The album kicks off with the instrumental Quietus, which is a rather dark song filled with keys, drums, loops, guitar melodies, shredded guitar solos and a talking voice in the background. This song sets the tone for the rest of the album, as it gives me a feeling of industrial progressive rock with characteristics of bands like Riverside and Satellite. Follow up track Signal To Noise is probably the best song of the album, starting with piano and fragile vocals, before it erupts into a heavier track filled with guitar layers and keyboards. The guitar solo in the middle of the song is amazing and really gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it. Sometimes this song has the fell of Riverside, but also of “old” Porcupine Tree material. Fade In/Out is a complex song, divided into three parts and it is a really melodic song and utterly reminds me of songs from the last two albums of the German prog rockers RPWL; even the voice of Richard de Geest has similarities with the voice of Yogi Lang! Two minutes before the end of the song, a heavy riff changes the key and the melody of this great song completely, before Fade In/Out ends rather eloquently. I am sad to say that the only song I really cannot appreciate is the rather mellow, ballad-like Fragile as it is, in my humble opinion, too laid back and actually kind of boring. The saxophone solo on Fragile is also not really my cup of tea. Headlong is another instrumental song and again this one is dark and rather heavy, due to the drums, bass guitar riffs and the edgy guitar riff. The album ends with the shortest track, Coda, a rather mysterious song that could easily be used for a thrilling science fiction movie. (Background Mag)

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These guys are all over the map, but some of you may like that. Go to Bandcamp to hear the whole release, if this teaser peaks your interest.

Quiet World, the Metal Blade-debut from Boston-based prog metal/art-rock trio, is a heady, genre-scorning horn of plenty that's as unnervingly pop-friendly as it is endlessly knotty and impenetrable. Comprised of three Berklee College of Music grads -- Robert Edens (vocals), Myles Yang (bass), and Max Harchik (guitar) -- it should come as no surprise that Native Construct has chops, and the seven songs that comprise the band's first studio outing offer up a veritable AP course in composition and technique. An intoxicating amalgamation of Queen, Mr. Bungle, and Between the Buried and Me, Quiet World features moments of operatic, musical theater-inspired bedlam paired with djent-fueled blasts of spiny fusion-metal ("Mute"), trippy space rock noodling ("Chromatic Lights"), vaudevillian electro-rock ("The Speak of the Archon"), and thrashy, power pop-kissed, sax-fueled free jazz ("Passage"), resulting in something akin to what might be playing behind the smoke-and-cinder-strewn backdrop of a post-apocalypse weather channel forecast. The pure pop moments that flow beneath all of the metal Steely Dan posturing can be a bit jarring sometimes -- they often just explode, big bang-style, out of the ether -- but Edens, Yang, and Harchik are such wizards on a technical level that it's impossible not to marvel at all of their handiwork -- witness the spell-binding, 12-minute closer "Chromatic Aberration" that somehow manages to incorporate every trick in the band's considerable arsenal and remain eminently listenable. Quiet World is a splendid and maddening confection; a mathy, sugary sweet, geek-metal buffet with all the fixins', and then some. Bring a change of clothes.  (All Music)              

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The BIG advantage to having Spotify premium, is being able to simulate the rich CD listening experience, with albums like this, in gapless streaming or offline playback on your home computer. Killer!

For Proggers, where we listen to a lot of concept albums that seamlessly flow from one track to the next, it’s definitely worth your $10 a month. For home listening in particular, Spotify beats them all (IMHO). Mobile gapless is pretty flawless as well. Just saying...

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More Listening Choices

Just released and sounding great.

The band is made up of former memebers of RPWL, Magenta, Alan Parsons

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SOS is Vincent L. Gadreau’s solo project. Founder of Canadian prog rock band Inner Odyssey.

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Been listening to this for my morning prog shot. Nice!

First track is a free DL and you can get a free DL of Rise to Meet You, from their previous CD, at Last.fm

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I'm guessing these guys are animal lovers.

None the less, some fine, jazzy at times, prog sounds here.

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Some fine instrumental prog.

You can download this and the first album, for free or donation of your choosing, here