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I've become a pretty big Saga fan in recent years since discovering them. They aren't the most progressive of bands, but usually they at least show some progressive tendencies. I was disappointed that there were none to be found on this album.

Rock 'n' roll will never die!

I might be a progster, but I will never be too fancy-pancy to listen to some good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll... and that's what this album contains - pure unadulterated simple classic rock music with that wonderful Gibson SG sound. This album is simply full of great AC/DC guitar riffs.

Certainly one of the best prog metal albums of all times, "Parallels" is a masterful blend of prog elements and catchy melodic choruses.

The best album by Arch Enemy to date.
The most inspired sounding, the best song writing and just an album that packs a punch and is truly one of the better melodic death metal albums out there.
Also fantastic musicianship, with excellent lead guitar work from the dynamic guitar duo brothers, Michael and Chris Amott.

In 2007 this Belarusian ensemble released their s/t album through Altr0ck and it was one of my favourites of that year and a great album overall. Their quirky style, inspired by classical composers such as Stravinsky and Ives to experimental and progressive rock groups such as Univers Zero has won me over and I was highly anticipating their next effort. Little did I know that it would turn out to be such a brilliant album, which shows a progression from their previous output, going into new direction, trying and experimenting with new routes and possibilities.

 

The lineup consists of a basic rock unit of guitar, bass, keyboards and drums along with a classical lineup of saxophone, bassoon, cello, violin and piano, giving them a range of opportunities to create a wide musical “palate” of sounds. There are also female vocals on some ... -> show full review

This album can truly charm snakes

This four piece instrumental band from CT, USA has released so far two albums, of the heavy brand with several underlying elements such as a spacey and psychedelic atmosphere, stoner-rock elements (listen to the last track on Snakecharmer), fusion segments emphasized by the bewitching cello and an overall encompassing and enveloping sound that takes me away while listening to far away places, surrounded by mountains of crushing riffs and deep evoking rhythms and the alternating uplifting or mesmerizing string instrument playing.

The music presents spacey segments and psychedelic elements (“Bastard Son”, “Snakecharmer”), upbeat and energetic melodies (“Divine Machine”), heavy rock with long brooding riffs (“Bastard Son”) and gripping themes (“Snakecharmer”). Their music involved starting with a fixed theme and then veering out from it into new directions, ... -> show full review

always played vol 1 & 2. Left feeling calmed, quietly serene. top of the 2008 releases.

Always played vol 1 & 2. Left feeling calmed, quietly serene. Top of the 2008 prog releases
See my review, if you can find it, i can't for vol1

Great Alt. Rock album! My fave by Audioslave.

Excellent Hard Rock with a lot of Funk/Soul influences. Glenn Hughes' voice is at his best as well as his bass. Recomended for Hard Rockers that like some funky stuff, as well as for MK 3/4 fans of Deep Purple.

Great New Wave/Pop from the late 80's. Highlights would be the hit-singles and Kick and Wild Life. There are some stinkers, but overall a great enjoyable pop record.

My first prog discovery. I'd been introduced to Yes, Rush, Tull. But this one I stumbled upon in my school's LP collection (bought a few years earlier when they had planned on a PA playing french music during recesses, but never played). It still gets regular play. If Ange is France's Genesis, this is their Trespass.

Decent Pop album by a amazing Prog band. It has some proggy moments as Abacab and Dodo/Lurker. Then you have good pop songs like Me and Sarah Jane or Man on the Corner. Recomended for die-hard fans of Duke, and fans of Pop music.

A decent Pop album with some Proggy moments like Home by the Sea and Second Home by the Sea. Good pop tracks would be That's All and Mama. Recomended just for fans of Abacab and Invisible Touch.

1971, are the year in where very many groups formed, the great majority very good, another ones not as much, but what there is no doubt, is that all almost had a quality that to the day of today would be simply enviable, the quality, execution, sense of the harmony and notion of which it was being created, he was something that hardly will be repeated in the history of contemporary music, and please understanding like contemporary music the one that includes all century XX and what we took of the XXI, if we spoke of old music, will be then of Century III A.D. until the last years of Century XII, and thus it is followed, but I do not want to crush with definitions or periods of the music, that in this review do not take place, we are then going to analyze what Le ORME offered to us in that year.

Collage, is one of the most interesting discs and more energetic, than this Italian grouping has recorded and I dare to say ... -> show full review

In the year of 1972 the Italian Progressive rock was developing almost all the slopes that existed in this context, as it shows are the works of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Premiata Forneria Marconi and Le Orme, among other very many groups, but remarcable it is the quick maturity of many of them in his sound and that almost all of them competed with the great names of world-wide the Progressive rock, it is the case of Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP), and King Crimson, among others.

There is no doubt that great names many of these Italian groups and that its real and true one influence exerted it with the live in concert presentations and the spreading of their work, in this case with albums and simple that appeared in the noticeable world-wide and national markets.

Between all of them there is a group that beginning formally activities at the end of 1970 named Il Rovescio della Medaglia and ... -> show full review

This EP from Primus contains 5 cover songs. Their cover of Pink Floyd's Have A Cigar is absolutely stunning.

If an Italian group exists that very is known at international level, after Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), is Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (BMS) one of the fundamental groups of the Progressive Italian rock. This originating group of the city of Rome is of the best examples of the development of the Italian Progressive rock and also one of the best groups than has arisen from world-wide the Progressive rock. Their music is stirring and of delicate and fresh mysticism, as well as of a exacerbated chromatist. There is a deep doubt that the music of Banco has a very classic development, subjects and with extraordinary shades, and extreme professionalism in the musicians who integrate this great group and which they are: Gianni Nocenzi -clarinet, piano, Keyboards, Flute Piccolo, Vocals, Pier Luigi Calderoni. - Drums, Renato D'Angelo. - Bass and Guitar, Francesco Di Giacomo. - Vocals, Vittorio Nocenzi. - Organ, Clarinet, Keyboards, ... -> show full review

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