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VREID released a lyric video for “One Hundred Years”, which is taken from the band’s latest release “Lifehunger” (Sep 28th , Season of Mist)   VREID songwriter/ bass guiratist Jarle Hváll Kvåle states: To me, ‘One Hundred Years’ is the strongest song in our band’s history. It’s a song that captures the essence and multitude [...]

The middle eastern band Orphaned Land is going to return to Portugal for two shows. They are currently promoting their most recent – and critically acclaimed – record “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs”. The two shows of the band in Portuguese soil will take place on the 17th and 18th of April – in Porto [...]

Soen is promoting their new album ”Lotus” with an European tour. With them are traveling the bands Wheel and Ghost Iris, as openers of the shows. On 30th of March, the tour passed by Hard Club in Porto, Portugal, for an amazing show. Wheel – a Finnish prog rock band – had the task of [...]

In the cool Oporto night of the 15th of March, the fires of an unholy communion were lit at Hard Club, as another extravaganza of amazing metal bands – SepticFlesh, Krisiun, Diabolical and Xaon – stormed the stage for the delight of their Lusitanian crowd. The first act was Xaon, a melodic death metal band [...]

“Close to the Rain”, Bergen Prog Festival, is back with its third edition in June. Eight bands will fill the program and we’re proud to announce two of the first names confirmed from the Norwegian prog-scene: Leprous and Airbag. “Close to the Rain”, Bergen Prog Festival, is back with its third edition. This time in [...]

PROGNOSIS festival took place in  Eindhoven (Netherlands) on the 22nd – 23rd, 2019 The organizers of the “Prognosis” festival were once again aiming high. They invited and succeeded to gather the ‘crème-de-la-crème’ of the prog metal scene, mixing it with some other genres. Visitors from all over Europe travelled to see bands such as LEPROUS [...]

After kicking-off the announcements with the strong confirmations of Tool and Slipknot as headliners, Copenhell has presented their final lineup for this year’s edition. Copenhell is considered the true metal holiday in Denmark. On top of the earlier presented bands Copenhell team managed to book additional names presenting mixture of music styles to please different taste [...]

SleapingDreaming officially released their debut full-length record called ‘Victory Roses’. Available as CD & Digital on their main legal platforms (Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify…). SleapingDreaming is a Brooklyn based trio that plays some heavy-ish shoegaze/dreamy/post-rock kinda stuff. They previously unveiled the single “Birds (Let Birds Feast On Your Dead Eyes)” on SoundCloud. The full album is now also available: [bandcamp [...]

What nicer thing can happen in the prog music scene than one of the best active prog bands supporting a society doing good in the fight against leukemia? This is going to happen on April 6, 2019 near Paris/France, when LEPROUS are going to perform a once-in-a-lifetime special gig for Heart Sound festival. The festival [...]

The songs “The Sun Devouring Dragon”, “Manifest Malum” and “Sexual Demon” were shared as preview from Malum’s upcoming album “Legion”. The album is to be released via Purity-Through-Fire later this year. Malum is a Finnish band original from Turku formed in 2013. Their discography counts with several EP, compilations and split albums. The pass of time witnessed several [...]

Finnish hard rock group Blackwater Commotion released a new single. The new single “Sled of coming” from the Finnish band Blackwater Commotion is a traditional hard rock piece, faithful to the sound of hard rock veterans. You can listen the single via Spotify / Deezer / Youtube / Apple . Blackwater Commotion vocalist Henrik Hako-Rita comments on the new single: “Sled [...]

Philadelphia’s INFINITY released their new single, “Set Me Free”, from their forthcoming album. ”AWAKENING” album will be released via  Machine Man Records. You can listen to “Set Me Free” single below: [bandcamp width=100% height=120 track=312868977 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 tracklist=false artwork=small] Infinity was founded in October of 2016 by the vocalist/rhythm guitarist Ryan Howie and lead guitarist Ricky Sobel. The [...]

Karisma Records Reveals Details of Bjorn Riis upcoming album “A Storm is Coming” and releases new single. Fans of Atmospheric Prog Rock will have something to look forward to on the 3rd of May. That is the date that Karisma Records will release “A Storm is Coming”, the latest album from BJORN RIIS. BJORN RIIS [...]

Drunken Crocodiles, Italian-based sludge band, just released their debut album. “Out of Barrel” was released via Too Loud Records on the 29th of March. The pre-orders of the album started on March 15th and the band released the following statement regarding their debut work: Eleven tracks are composed to blend the different musical influences of the band in [...]