progressive rock

Alan White, drummer of the British prog rock giants Yes, has died at the age of 72. The news was confirmed by the drummer's wife Gigi in a special statement to the public: "Alan White, my beloved husband, our father and grandfather,…

Label: InsideOut MusicRelease date: April 1, 2022Production: Pattern-Seeking AnimalsAlbum length: 59.29 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 »Only Passing Through« is the third studio album from the excellent prog rock…

Label: English Electric Recordings Release date: January 28, 2022 Production: Big Big Train Album length: 47.12 min Genre: Progressive Rock Rating: 10/10 On November 20, 2021, fans of the English prog rock band Big Big Train were rocked…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: February 18, 2022 Production: Jonas Lindberg Album length: 76.11 min Genre: Progressive Rock Rating: 9.0/10 Jonas Lindberg And The Other Side are a modern Swedish progressive rock outfit that's been…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: January 28, 2022 Production: Ian Anderson Album length: 46.45 min Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk Rock Rating: 8.0/10 After nineteen years of total studio silence, the prog rock champions Jethro Tull…

Procol Harum's singer, pianist and co-founder of the cult proto-prog rock outfit Procol Harum, has passed away at the age of 77. The band confirmed it in an official statement: "With deep regret, we must confirm the death of Gary Brooker,…

"“Song of the Wildlands” will delight fans of epic rock operas, musicals, concept projects and film scores, but it won't leave a deeper mark on the prog scene, even though it's one of the better prog rock albums of 2021."

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 8/27/2021Production: LeprousAlbum length: 56:04 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Leprous! The Norwegian prog rockers, who over more than two decades have slowly grown from a cult club…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 10. 12. 2021Production: Erik Gafvelin WissAlbum length: 53.11 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 With their studio debut “High On Deception,” Cap Outrun set themselves up as a band with a…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: 22. 10. 2021Album length: 90.58 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Bruce Soord, the frontman and chief musical visionary of British prog rockers The Pineapple Thief, stayed very busy in 2020…

Self-releasedRelease date: May 7, 2021Production: Peter HammillAlbum length: 40:08 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Eclectic Prog / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Peter Hammill, prog-rock thunderer, ominous poet of post-apocalyptic visions and…

Label: InsideOut/Sony MusicRelease date: October 1, 2021Production: Steve HoweAlbum length: 61.35 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.0/10 Plenty of fans of the legendary English prog pioneers Yes took the news in 2015 with…

Label: Cherry Red RecordsRelease date: 10. 9. 2021Production: HawkwindAlbum length: 62.53 minGenre: Space Rock / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "Somnia" is the 34th studio album from the indestructible English space rockers…

Label: MadfishRelease date: 8. 10. 2021Production: CaravanAlbum length: 50.04 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Canterbury SceneRating: 9.0/10 Caravan, alongside Soft Machine and Gong, are among the most revered representatives of…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 10. 9. 2021Production: Steve HackettAlbum length: 57.41 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Legendary guitar virtuoso Steve Hackett hit a major milestone in an already incredibly rich career…

Label: Eagle RecordsRelease date: 11/25/1997Production: YesAlbum length: 72.02 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.5/10 Yes put out »Open Your Eyes«, their seventeenth studio album, after the classic and best-loved lineup (vocalist…

Label: Giant Electric PeaRelease date: May 19, 1998Production: Spock's BeardAlbum length: 56.22 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "The Kindness of Strangers" was the third studio outing from the American prog revivalists…

Label: English Electric RecordingsRelease date: July 30, 2021Production: Big Big TrainAlbum length: 62.08 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Crossover ProgRating: 9.0/10 "Common Ground" is the thirteenth studio album from British prog…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 16. 11. 1999Production: The Flower KingsAlbum length: 141.07 min (2CD)Genre: Progressive RockRating: 7.5/10 "Flower Power" was the fourth studio outing from Swedish prog revivalists The Flower…

Label: Giant Electric PeaRelease date: November 2000Production: Michael HolmesAlbum length: 56.49 minGenre: Neo-Progressive RockRating: 10/10 With "The Seventh House", the cult English neo-prog legends IQ cemented their reputation as…

Label: Chocolate Frog RecordsRelease date: 8/13/2001Production: Elliot NessAlbum length: 51.42 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Neo-ProgRating: 8.5/10 In 2001, Scottish frontman Fish put out his seventh studio album, »Fellini Days«,…

Label: VirtaRelease date: June 2003Production: AnekdotenAlbum length: 46.19 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Gravity« was the fourth studio album from Anekdoten, the Swedish prog-rock purveyors of gloom. Led by the gifted…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 2004Production: Happy The ManAlbum length: 55.18 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 American prog outfit Happy The Man cut three more or less very interesting albums in the late seventies,…

Label: Self-releasedRelease date: 2005Production: BeardfishAlbum length: 112.06 min (2CD)Genre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Swedish prog-rock revivalists Beardfish, who only came together not so long ago, in 2021, first got…

Label: Triple Crown RecordsRelease date: 9/26/2006Production: Casey CrescenzoAlbum length: 38.26 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Experimental Rock / Indie RockRating: 9.5/10 "Act I: The Lake South, The River North" was the debut from…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 5/18/2007Production: Planet XAlbum length: 50.47 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Quantum« was the third and, at the time of writing this review, the latest album from…

Label: Blomljud RecordsRelease date: July 1, 2008Production: Moon SafariAlbum length: 103:52 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Swedish symphonic prog rock revivalists Moon Safari came together in 2003. Not long after forming,…

Label: Mercury RecordsRelease date: June 23, 2009Production: Omar Rodríguez-LópezAlbum length: 50.03 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Experimental RockRating: 8.5/10 Before “Octahedron” came out, guitarist Omar Gabriel Lopez and singer…

Label: Columbia RecordsRelease date: 4/13/2010Production: Atticus Ross & Joe BarresiAlbum length: 53.56 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Progressive MetalRating: 7.0/10 "Year of the Black Rainbow" was the fifth studio album from…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 10/23/2020Production: Jakko M. JakszykLength: 49.06 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Singer / SongwritterRating: 10/10 Jakko M. Jakszyk, singer and guitarist of prog-rock titans King Crimson, is a…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: April 9, 2021Production: Nad SylvanAlbum length: 52.54 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "Spiritus Mundi" is the seventh album from Swedish-American singer Nad Sylvan, best known for his…

Release date: June 18, 2021Label: Alpha Dog 2T/UMeProduction: StyxAlbum length: 43.11 minGenre: Arena Rock /Art Rock / Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 “Crash of the Crown” is the sixteenth studio album from American prog/arena rock…

Self-releasedRelease date: 8. 3. 2021Production: John Young & Steve RispinAlbum length: 54.22 minGenre: Neo-Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 English prog outfit Lifesigns, who put out their third studio album, »Altitude«, in 2021,…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Esa Holopainen & Nino LaurenneAlbum length: 37.24 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Esa Holopainen is the guitarist, one of the founders…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Richard Williams & Phil EhartAlbum length: 112.12 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 "Point of Know Return: Live & Beyond" is the latest live album from…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 14, 2021Production: Frost*Album length: 53.16 minGenre: Neo-Progressive Rock/Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Frost* are a British art and neo-progressive rock outfit powered by three exceptional…

Label: Boing!Release date: 5/7/2021Production: The AristocratsAlbum length: 60.03 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion/Progressive Rock/Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 The Aristocrats are some of the best things to happen in the world of…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 7, 2021Production: KayakAlbum length: 70.53 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 “Out of This World” is the eighteenth studio album from the cult Dutch prog rockers Kayak, whom most lovers…

Label: Rhino RecordsRelease date: 16 April 2021Sound production (remix, remaster): Steven WilsonNumber of discs: 3CD/3DVDGenre: Progressive Rock The years roll by and the anniversaries pile up. Jethro Tull albums aren't the only…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 22, 2012Production: Headspace & Jens BogrenAlbum length: 73.37 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 The prog metal/prog rock outfit Headspace started out in 2006 as…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 18, 2013Produced by: Dean MarshAlbum length: 55.46 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 English prog band Gandalf's Fist, which started out in 2005 as a joint project between…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 7. 11. 2014Production: Hans LundinAlbum length: 68.58 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 Even though Kaipa are among the pioneers of Swedish progressive rock, having put out their debut way…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: February 23, 2015Production: John MitchellAlbum length: 58.06 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.5/10 Lonely Robot is the solo project of guitar wizard John Mitchell, best known as the guitarist…

Label: Evil Ink RecordsRelease date: July 29, 2016Production: Tom MondaAlbum length: 67.53 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal/Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 American eclectic proggers Thank You Scientist wowed everyone with…

Label: Esoteric AntennaDate: February 26, 2021Produced by: Blue WeaverAlbum length: 39.01 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Settlement« is the twenty-first studio album from the English prog rock patriarchs Strawbs, who will…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: February 12, 2021Production: Robert BerryAlbum length: 56.59 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 3.2 is a special story in the rock universe. Just like 3 was, and the album "The Power of…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: March 12, 2021Production: SagaAlbum length: 52.42 minGenre: Art Rock / Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 “Symmetry” is the first acoustic album in the long history of the veteran Canadian art rockers Saga.…

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: 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: 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…

On February 12, 1981, Rush released their eighth studio album, “Moving Pictures” (RockLine review). It's one of the most important albums in the band's history, if not the most important. Fans simply can't agree on that one when they weigh…

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…

In mid-June 1970, Uriah Heep released their studio debut »Very ‘eavy … Very ‘umble« in the UK (RockLine review) and laid the groundwork for a musical artistry all their own. It didn't take more albums than their contemporaries needed to…

King Crimson put out not one but two albums in 1970. The second one, "Lizard" (RockLine review), was recorded by a completely different lineup, one that, just like the patched-together crew behind its predecessor, was doomed to a short…

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: 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…

»With »Trespass«, their first prog record, the band took a massive step forward from the previous album and showed that, despite the members' youth, they were one of the most mature groups of the day. Or rather: the music they started…

Soon after forming in the second half of the sixties, Van Der Graaf Generator became a band that pushed musical boundaries with its progressive vision and unbridled pioneering swagger, throwing the doors wide open for the progressive rock…

Prog rock giants Jethro Tull, led by their unbridled, energetic, lucid, sarcastic and charismatic frontman Ian Anderson, rock's most famous flautist, who has always known how to poke at social sore spots with his one-of-a-kind lyrics and…

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…

“Atom Heart Mother”, Pink Floyd's fifth studio album overall, is considered one of the most overlooked records of their entire career, even though with it the band put out something completely different from its predecessor »Ummagumma«…

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: 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…

“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.

"“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…

"“Vector” was a story of birth, growth and development, while “Virus” is its opposite. It's the story of a not-so-honorable final lap of the human era. A new chapter packed with thrilling artistic brilliance from British progressive metal…

"A dark, solemn and seductive album, full of mysteries and, for 2020, full of sonic oddities and strangeness. An album that is also seriously catchy and easy to listen to, and that never, not for a second, "wears you down" with the looming…

"Prehensile Tales" is an upgrade on the Pattern-Seeking Animals debut in every way. With its superb production, enviable virtuosity and adventurous, eclectic flights of fancy, this album is bound to enchant every prog rock gourmand out…

”Compared to the 'smashing' »Solitude« – let's call it an album firmly backed by a heavier dose of distorted sonic seasoning – »Aura« is its complete opposite. The musical about-face has handed the band yet another flawless studio…

"It's not yet clear whether this is the album of their artistic zenith. Kyros are still developing by leaps and bounds, and "Celexa Dreams" is a definitive, mature step up from its predecessor "Vox Humana", on which Kyros had already…

"Compared to their last album, "We Are Legend" (2017), where Magenta chased a modern sound and tried on a more contemporary musical wardrobe, on "Masters Of Illusion" they're flirting with the giants of the golden age of prog rock again.…

"Curiosity is a bastard! It never satisfies you completely. And how do we want to live? In a utopia, or a dystopia? The synthesis of artificial intelligence and humans in the gripping direction of the new Long Distance Calling album"

City Burials is the kind of album fans will fall for instantly. But going by the sheer quality, it's safe to say it'll win the band some new fans too. Once again, Katatonia stay consistent in their style and somehow just can't disappoint.

""Squeezed between two more successful Jethro Tull albums and unfairly overlooked in the band's vast discography, the excellent "Benefit" nevertheless holds the key that opened the door for them to record, the following year, a huge album,…

"With the help of its 'newcomers', who are brimming with great songwriting and arranging ideas, the legendary band sounds fresh the whole way through and can stand toe to toe with plenty of modern prog revivalists who love to imitate…

"In terms of virtuosic daring, the reinterpretation of the classics at times even steals the spotlight from the most notorious live albums by Yes, led by “Yessongs” and “Yesshows”."

"With a performance at the Royal Albert Hall that was wrapped in a top-notch atmosphere from start to finish, Steve's in-great-spirits gang delivered an outstanding live set that covered every Genesis album from 1971 to 1976. "

"The band has come out of this album artistically even stronger. With an exceptional level of focus and commitment, they've created a document of great creative freshness. And in exploring newly discovered musical expanses, their bold…

Label: Metal Mind ProductionsRelease date: 21.02.2020Production: Ian ParryAlbum length: 44.45 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Ian Parry is no stranger to the rock’n’roll scene. He kicked off his music career in…

"“In the Wake of Poseidon” is less predictable than the debut thanks to some fresh avant-garde touches, and that makes it a real treat for music connoisseurs."

Pattern-Seeking Animals are a band you'll definitely be hearing a lot more about among prog rock fans in the coming years. Their debut will naturally delight all the Spock's Beard fans out there, who, while waiting for the new album from…

After more than two decades, the most revered album in the story of Lucassen's ever-ambitious Ayreon project has finally got a live version, and it's remarkably faithful to the studio original. That's news that's bound to delight most fans…

"Colosseum Live" is the essential live document of the cult prog rock pioneers and still one of the best windows into their sound and work, even though it left out "Valentyne Suite" and a few other fan favorites.

"Riverside remain true masters of their craft and prog rock diamonds of the first order. Abroad — especially in the Benelux countries, Germany, and Scandinavia — they've already broken through to genuine big-league status, filling large…

Polish progressive rockers Riverside hardly need an introduction. Since forming in 2001, the band has put out seven albums, and each one shows Riverside as something special. Sure, they have their own recognizable style, but every record…

»The Other Side« is the perfect band-aid for all the Nektar nostalgics who never made peace with Albrighton's untimely death and weren't won over by the German version of Nektar, because it's their best album since the end of the seventies.