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Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 12. 2. 2021Production: Romesh GogandodaAlbum length: 44.16 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Inglorious are a British hard rock outfit from the newer school. Formed in 2014, they came out…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: February 12, 2021Production: Joel HoekstraAlbum length: 52.53 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Joel Hoekstra is back with his "thirteen" project and a new album, "Running Games". We're…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: February 12, 2021 (reissue) / September 21, 2004 (release date on The Laser's Edge)Production: RiversideAlbum length: 53.11 min.Genre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "Out of Myself" is the studio…

Label: Rat Pak RecordsRelease date: February 5, 2021Production: Tod La Torre & Craig BlackwellAlbum length: 44.35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Todd La Torre is an American musician who made his name over the last decade…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: November 27, 2020Production: John PetrucciAlbum length: 149.51 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 When the talk turns to Dream Theater, it's clear there's not much room left for cracking…

Label: Insideout RecordsRelease date: December 10, 2020Album length: 103.52 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Riverside hardly need an introduction these days. The prog rock powerhouse, well known and highly respected beyond…

Self-releasedRelease date: Feb. 1, 2021Production: Dražen KecmanAlbum length: 35.50 minGenre: Death Metal/Thrash MetalRating: 9.0/10 The year is 2021, and Slovenian extreme metallers Decatholicize from Maribor are back! This is a…

Self-releasedRelease date: July 21, 2020Production: IQAlbum length: 133.58 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 »A Show of Resistance« is the latest live album from the cult English neo-prog heroes IQ, whose loyal fans have…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 1/29/2021Production: Michael Schenker & Michael VossAlbum length: 45.02 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 The great Michael Schenker is back. This time with an album he's…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 22. 1. 2021Production: Wig WamAlbum length: 47.31 minGenre: Melodic Rock / Glam MetalRating: 8.0/10 Wig Wam, the Norwegian rockers who kicked up a whole lot of dust on the scene in the early…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 29. 1. 2021Production: Iñaki MarconiAlbum length: 42.05 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 So what do you do with the new Soen album? It's good. No debate there. But it's also proof…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: January 29, 2021Production: Andy SneapAlbum length: 52.16 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 The year is 2021, Accept, and? A new album. Accept, founded in 1968 by Udo Dirkschneider and…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Brian Tatler & Rasmus Bom AndersenAlbum length: 60.53 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 “Lightning To the Nations” is considered a cult heavy metal…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: January 22, 2021Production: Steve Hackett & Roger KingAlbum length: 51.15 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Legendary English guitarist Steve Hackett, who helped make progressive rock…

Label: Inideout MusicRelease date: 9/25/2020Album length: 127.13 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 “Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings – Live At Hammersmith” is the new live album from the legendary…

Label: Caroline InternationalRelease date: 1/22/2021Production: Steven WilsonAlbum length: 42.02 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 People had been talking about »The Future Bites«, the sixth album from Steven Wilson, the…

Label: SPV / Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: January 22, 2021Production: Ben GrosseAlbum length: 48.15 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 10/10 The Dead Daisies are a proper rock supergroup. Under this name, the musical Hercules figures of…

Label: Massacre RecordsRelease date: 27. 11. 2020Production: Jaded HeartAlbum length; 52.14 minGenre: Hard Rock/Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 These days Jaded Heart are a kind of cult, overlooked hard rock royalty, doomed to rule the…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020Album length: 62:04 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 And here's yet another live album from our well-known, wicked heavy rock'n'roll uncles Blue Öyster Cult!…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020 (reissue)Producers: Steve Schenck & Richie CastellanoRunning time: 78.08 min (LP/CD) / approx. 120 min (DVD/Blu-ray)Genre: Heavy Metal/Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 …

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production: W.E.T.Album length: 41.45 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Unlike plenty of today's acts who, just like W.E.T., dabble in the territory of hard rock, melodic rock…

Label: Warner Music GroupRelease date: 4. 12. 2020Production: BlackfieldAlbum length: 30.18 minGenre: Art Rock / Pop / Alternative RockRating: 7.0/10 Blackfield is a project born from the collaboration between Israeli pop star and…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: Michael PalaceAlbum length: 47.25 minGenre: AOR/melodic rockRating: 9.5/10 Behind the name Palace hides Swedish composer, producer, vocalist and…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: Unruly ChildAlbum length: 52.05 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 Unruly Child are a band that fans of melodic rock, and of rock that likes to experiment and hunt…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: December 4, 2020Production: Piet SielckAlbum length: 56:28 minGenre: Power Metal/Heavy MetalRating: 10/10 There's hardly anything new left to say about Iron Savior – the power metal legends from…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: PersuaderAlbum length: 44.04 minGenre: Power Metal/Thrash MetalRating: 8.5/10 Persuader are a Swedish heavy metal outfit that formed way back in 1997 in Umeå.…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: December 4, 2020Production: Dushan PetrossiAlbum length: 61.01 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 After four years, Iron Mask are back with their seventh studio album overall, “Master of Masters.”…

Label: Bloodfish MusicRelease date: 8/31/2018Production: Gabriel MoffatAlbum length: 89.04 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "Infernal" was the long-awaited ninth studio album from the brilliant American musician Phideaux…

Label: Amplified DistributionRelease date: 11. 12. 2020Production: Antoine FafardAlbum length: 50.15 minGenre: Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 This is jazz! And real jazz, the kind with no pegged-down templates, is always "weird." Which,…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 4. 12. 2020Production: Markus TeskeAlbum length: 61.08 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 These days, Vanden Plas are basically a living relic of the once-thriving progressive metal…

Label: White Star RecordsRelease date: 20. 11. 2020Production: Kepler TenAlbum length: 64.20 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Kepler 10, once known as KOI-72, is a Sun-like star in the constellation Draco, some 608…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 22, 2020Production: Sam VallenAlbum length: 47.46 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Progressive RockRating: 8.0/10 “Rise Radiant” is the fifth studio album from Australian prog metallers (and…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: September 15, 2017Production: Sam VallenAlbum length: 61.54 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 "In Contact" was the fourth studio album from Australian prog heads…

Label: Blue Élan RecordsRelease date: March 31, 2019 / July 31, 2020 (reissue)Production: Michael T. FranklinAlbum length: 52.15 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 "1000 Hands" is the fifteenth solo album from former Yes…

Label: Samo RecordsRelease date: 26. 10. 2020Production: Samo ŠalamonAlbum length: 64.24 minGenre: Contemporary JazzRating: 9.5/10 Samo Šalamon is a musical phenomenon. And not just when we're talking about the Slovenian music scene…

Label: CelinkaRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Gaber Radojevič, Drago Popovič & Jan BarucaAlbum length: 23.31 minGenre: Singer/SongwritterRating: 8.0/10 At the start of this October, Rudi Bučar put out his sixth studio…

Label: Karisma RecordsDate: October 23, 2020Production: WobblerAlbum length: 45.51 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Norwegian prog rock revivalists Wobbler, who started their climb to the top of the modern progressive rock…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 10, 2020Production: Žiga Fabbro & Samo TurkAlbum length: 36.04 minGenre: Ethno/Folk/JazzRating: 8.0/10 Samo Turk and Žiga Fabbro are two musicians who go way back. They've been playing…

SamozaložbaDatum izida: 4. 9. 2020 Produkcija: Simon MorazDolžina albuma: 41.25 minZvrst: Jazz-Rock Fusion/BluesOcena: 9.5/10 Emil And The Detectives are a band from Styria, Maribor to be exact, and on their new album they've gone…

Self-releasedRelease date: 11. 12. 2020Production: Andrej Maver & FeedbackAlbum length: 41.19 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Art Rock/BluesRating: 9.5/10 Feedback are one of the few Slovenian bands that play, plainly put, jazz rock…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 61.47 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Pyramaze have always been an interesting band when it comes to reviewing albums.…

Label: Moonlee RecordsRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Milan BjelicaAlbum length: 22.15 minGenre: Alternative RockRating: 9.0/10 Repetitor are Serbian alternative rockers who, in no time at all, have become something of a cult…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: November 6, 2020Production: Roland GrapowAlbum length: 60.21 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 9.5/10 Lords Of Black are a Spanish quartet founded in 2014 by guitarist Tony Hernandez and Chilean…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: September 4, 2020Production: Robbie BronnimannAlbum length: 59.34 minGenre: Art Pop/Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Simon Collins is the son of the legendary Phil Collins. I'm opening with…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: 8/28/2020Production: Tony Mitchell & Chris ClanseyAlbum length: 63:41 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Tony Mitchell is a guitarist and, first and foremost, a singer, and the core of the…

Self-releasedRelease date: July 6, 2020Production: Denis SmithAlbum length: 46.18 minGenre: neo-progressive rockRating: 8.0/10 Scottish neo-prog outfit Abel Ganz are back with a long-awaited new studio album that sports a…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: October 31, 2020Production: Rob MorattiAlbum length: 50.43 minGenre: AOR/art rockRating: 9.5/10 Rob Moratti is a very well-known name among fans of AOR and good melodic rock, and art rock too,…

Label: Cargo Records UKRelease date: 20. 11. 2020Production: Holger FathAlbum length: 47.14 minGenre: AORRating: 8.0/10 Stan Bush is a true "survivor." The eighties were thirty years ago. Fond memories of them really did stick…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 2 Oct 2020Production: GotthardAlbum length: 54.08 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 This year marks ten years since the tragic death of Steve Lee, one of the finest and most revered voices…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: October 31, 2020Production: Eric ModinAlbum length: 47.00 minGenre: Melodic Rock/AORRating: 8.5/10 If anyone can pull it off, it's the Swedes. Musically, nothing's standing in their way. That…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: November 6, 2020Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 44.45 minGenre: Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 “Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)” is the sixth studio album from one of the world's…

Label: The Store for MusicRelease date: November 6, 2020Production: Martin BarreAlbum length (2CD): 109.51 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 Martin Barre is the guitarist whose playing, and especially his one-of-a-kind style, is the…

Label: Parlophone RecordsRelease date: November 21, 2020Production: Tony NewtonAlbum length: 100.46 minGenre: heavy metalRating: 8.5/10 Well, here it is. The new live Iron Maiden album. Apparently, and if the author of these lines'…

Label: Frontiers Music SrlRelease date: November 6, 2020Production: Reb BeachAlbum length: 42.10 minGenre: Instrumental / Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Reb Beach is an American guitar virtuoso, composer and…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Mariusz DudaAlbum length: 39.50 min. (regular album) / 36.37 min. (bonus album)Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk RockRating: 9.0/10 The fact that Mariusz Duda, the…

Self-released Release date: September 18, 2020Production: Maciej MellerAlbum length: 45.04 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 If you caught at least one of the three Slovenian tour stops of Polish progressive rock sensation…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 6. 11. 2020Produced by: Jim Matheos Album length: 72.23 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 Let me kick things off with a bit of "romance." The new Fates Warning album is going to break…

Label: InsideOut MusicRelease date: August 28, 2020Production: Daniel Gildenlöw & Daniel BergstrandAlbum length: 53.32 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Crossover-ProgRating: 9.0/10 Pain of Salvation put out their eleventh…

Label: Columbia RecordsRelease date: 11/13/2020Producer: Brendan O'BrienLength: 41:03 minGenre: Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 "The Day That Never Comes", or whatever that Metallica tune is called. And yet, it came. The AC/DC camp teased…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: GazpachoAlbum length: 50.25 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Crossover-ProgRating: 10/10 Gazpacho isn't just a cold Spanish soup full of potential surprises when it comes to…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9. 10. 2020Production: Jim PeterikAlbum length: 57.07 minGenre: AORRating: 9.5/10 Pride Of Lions is the musical project of Jim Peterik, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist, composer and…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 10/23/2020Album length: 109.07 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Art RockRating: 9.5/10 Devin Townsend, the Canadian oddball of a thousand musical faces, wrapped up the "endless" year of 2020 by…

Label: Gentle Art Of MusicRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: Victor Bullok & Jan ZehrfeldAlbum length: 51.17 minGenre: Jazz/Avantgarde-Metal/Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 German jazz, funk and prog metal…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9. 10. 2020Production: Adam StewartAlbum length: 50.48 minGenre: Melodic Rock / AORRating: 7.0/10 The AOR and melodic rock revival is still kicking, and it doesn't come exclusively from the…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 10/23/2020Production: Joey VeraAlbum length: 53:35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Armored Saint are legendary American heavy metallers. Nobody kicks you between the eyes harder than this,…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Ed WynneAlbum length: 47.17 minGenre: Psychadelic Rock / Space RockRating: 9.5/10 This year Ozric Tentacles are back with their fifteenth "post-cassette" studio album,…

Label: Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: 9/25/2020Production: Arjen Anthony LucassenAlbum length: 80:51 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.0/10 "Transitus" is the title of the latest prog metal/prog rock…

Label: Wells MusicRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Dean WellsLength: 69.11 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.5/10 Teramaze are Australian modern prog-metallers who put out their first album way back in the mid-nineties.…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: October 9, 2020Production: Simone MularoniAlbum length: 55.50 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 DGM are Italian progressive metallers, today a relic of the vibrant prog-metal movement…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 9/18/2020Production: Derek SherinianAlbum length: 42:36 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Derek Sherinian needs no special introduction, just the realization that nine years…

Label: Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: September 18, 2020Album length: 110.48 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 And then came December 14, 2019, when Flying Colors - no need to run your eye down the…

Label: Napalm RecordsRelease date: 10/23/2020Genre: Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 HammerFall are, let's just say, the "saviors" of power metal. And even if you don't buy that, they're one of the most visible figures tied to the genre,…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: Rikard SjöblomLength: 57.57 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Rikard Sjöblom is a Swedish musician best known as the head honcho of prog rockers Beardfish.…

Label: Century Media RecordsRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: Oceans of SlumberAlbum length: 71.38 minGenre: Progressive Metal/ Death Metal/Doom Metal/Gothic MetalRating: 9.0/10 Oceans of Slumber are a new-generation…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: The Pineapple ThiefAlbum length: 45.10 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Art RockRating: 9.0/10 The Pineapple Thief are a British art rock outfit for modern times. Ever since…

Label: Fishy Music Ltd.Release date: September 25, 2020Producer: Calum MalcolmAlbum length: 84.30 minGenre: Neo-Progressive Rock / Art RockRating: 9/10 “Weltschmerz” is the long-awaited farewell studio album from the cult Scottish…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 9/25/2020Production: Christopher “Zeuss” Harris & Kragen LumAlbum length: 47:22 minGenre: Thrash MetalRating: 9.0/10 Heathen are Bay Area thrash metal legends. If you pull names like…

Label: Provogue Records/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: August 28, 2020Producer: Eric CorneAlbum length: 57.44 minGenre: Blues RockRating: 9.0/10 Walter Trout is a blues rock legend and one of the most prominent musicians in modern…

Label: Insideout RecordsRelease date: 11. 9. 2020Production: Neal MorseLength: 65.44 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.0/10 God-fearing prog rock icon Neal Morse never rests, whether we're talking about his solo career, his work…

Label: Toff Records/The Merch DeskRelease date: 2/14/2020Production: Nick BarrettAlbum length: 64.04 minGenre: Neo-Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Cult neo-prog heroes Pendragon are back with a new album, »Love Over Fear«, and after…

Label: Escape MusicRelease date: 9/18/2020Production: Brian AnthonyAlbum length: 48.28 minGenre: AOR/Hard RockRating: 8.0/10 Among AOR fans, Steve Overland is pretty much a sacred vocal icon. I don't know how many people in Slovenia…

Self-releasedRelease date: 31. 1. 2020Production: Matej GobecAlbum length: 28.37 minGenre: Rock/Alternative Rock/Pop RockRating: 8.0/10 Klon are yet another new homegrown rock outfit, this one hailing from the Savinja corner of…

Label: Dallas RecordsRelease date: 9/23/2020Production: Bogunov, Jurij Toni, Eki Alilovski & Sandi TrojnerAlbum length: 55.04 minGenre: Art RockRating: 9.5/10 Bogunov, a band that's been around since 2002 or so – at least that's…

Label: SPV/SteamhammerRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: RavenAlbum length: 38.55 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 For fans of the days when metal was the young, innocent child of the ever-harder rock of the seventies,…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 17. 7. 2020Production: John MitchellAlbum length: 49.46 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 John Mitchell (Arena, It Bites, Kino, Frost*, The Urbane) is an English guitar virtuoso and…

Label: English Electric RecordingsRelease date: June 26, 2020Production: Nick D'VirgilioAlbum length: 69.13 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Art RockRating: 10/10 NDV is the abbreviation, and longtime nickname, of charismatic American…

Label: Napalm RecordsRelease date: 8/21/2020Production: Andrew KingsleyAlbum length: 55.56 minGenre: Power Metal Power metal might not be the first genre that comes to mind when you think of Canada, but the fact is that one of the…

Label: Roadrunner RecordsRelease date: September 24, 2020Production: Josh WilburAlbum length: 46:31 Over the past decade, Florida's Trivium have become one of the most talked-about bands on the metal scene. And nothing here is left to…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: September 4, 2020Production: Michael SweetAlbum length: 46.33 minGenre: (Christian) Heavy Metal Rating: 9.0/10 Who was the one whose wounds healed the (sinful) Christian world? The biblical…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: September 4, 2020Production: Perfect PlanAlbum length: 55.19 minGenre: AORRating: 9.0/10 One thing's clear: AOR isn't going anywhere. It's an archaic genre that's been shoved underground and…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 7, 2020Production: LandfallAlbum length: 49.11 minGenre: Melodic RockRating: 7.5/10 Landfall have dropped their studio debut, "The Turning Point". They're a Brazilian melodic rock band…

"The album comes across as "childishly naive," because it speaks to you with virginally sincere enthusiasm, even though experience and mileage stand behind it. That very fact makes it clear that with this record Blues Pills have grown one…

"A brilliant progressive, all-instrumental metal album that's everything Petrucci isn't allowed to be in Dream Thater, and yet you know full well that without an album like “Teminal Velocitiy,” there would never have been a Dream Theater."

Anotos is a record that smartly marries elements of the old and new death metal schools. It brings intensity, zero compromise and plenty of dynamics.

"The new live document reflects a new era for the band, which is standing on the threshold of a fresh creative chapter. They crowned it with their latest studio album - the first with vocalist Tom Englund (Evergrey) - and this superb live…

"Vanishing Point's new album "Dead Elysium" picks up the story right where its predecessor "Distant Is The Sun" (2014) left off. Fans had to wait a long time for it again, but the wait paid off."

“Love Is” has some really lovely artistic potential. Especially if Steve Howe didn't sing on five of the album's tracks. Apparently even too much love, the downright superfluous kind, can do a bit of damage now and then.

“One thing's for sure. The old farts know how to handle the goods. And after 34 years, the new Alcatrazz album found its way back to 1986 with ease. With commander and iconic rock singer Graham Bonnet at the helm and a whole constellation…

"“The Red Planet” easily stands alongside the finest achievements in Wakeman's hugely sprawling solo output. For all its sheer quantity, there aren't actually that many records in it that deserve the label of masterpiece, as you might…

"Just one day after the release of the album “II”, the first day of the annual Frontiers Rock festival went down in Trezzo Sull' Adda, near Milan in Lombardy, and the first day's lineup also included Fortune, who were given 50 minutes to…