symphonic progressive rock

"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…

Anyone who loves the grand sweep of Hackett's music, both his solo work and the pieces from his Genesis days, is going to have an absolute blast with his first live collaboration with an orchestra.

“Manifesto of an Alchemist” is in many ways a Stolt solo outing on steroids, one that at times leans hard into his The Flower Kings material.

The first The Flower Kings studio album of the "post-Bodin era," and their thirteenth overall if you don't count "Manifesto of an Alchemist," turned out great, even if it lacks a bit more ambition to reach masterpiece status and join the…

With the closing chapter of their concept about France's most famous national heroine, Eloy have proven that, despite the respectable ages of most of the band's members, they still have plenty of energy left to make great music.

»Grand Tour« is noticeably less gloomy and melancholic in that quintessentially English way, but it's still unmistakably a Big Big Train achievement. Thanks to its remarkable variety and sheer epic scale, it'll delight every longtime fan of…

With "At the Edge of Light," Steve Hackett proves once again why he enjoys the greatest respect among prog rock fans of all the former members of the unforgettable Genesis, especially when it comes to studio work, which remains at an…

With the crushingly dull "In the Hot Seat", their last and probably worst studio effort, ELP hit their creative rock bottom, and even though they kept going as a live outfit for another four years, it was clear that this was now really the…

With "Waters of Change", where every track was crafted with exceptional fire, Beggars Opera created the crown jewel of their discography, an album that can stand up even to the best work of their better-known symphonic prog rock peers.

“Turn of the Tide” confirmed that BJH had pulled off a fairly successful transition into the eighties as a slimmed-down lineup. Despite a few ugly misfires and some shortcomings, especially on the keyboard front, it was still a solid and…

"Sur la Mer," which had nothing to do with the classic The Moody Blues sound, landed squarely in the 'quickly forgotten' category, thanks to the label's burning desire to cater as much as possible to the trends of the MTV generation.

»Swan Hunter« is basically a teaser for the most impatient Big Big Train devotees, who needed a fresh musical 'fix' from their favorites before the release of the current live offering »Merchants of Light«.