Tag Archives: prog

Album review: CTHULHU RISE – 42

Posted on May 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Musea Records This incredible heavy but inventive album may sometimes border on the cacophonous as it blasts away the cobwebs of complacency with monumental fractured riffs, but the underlying fast changing time signatures, unrelenting metal dirge (sludge metal anybody?) and … Continue reading →

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Album review: FLICKER – How Much Are You Willing To Forget?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released – 28.1.2013 I wonder, historically, how many really good albums have never been given the chance to shine or be commercially successful due to an opening track being so naff that most reviewers Frisbee the disc to the wastebasket … Continue reading →

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Album review: WOLF PEOPLE – Fain

Posted on April 15, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Interview edit: Jack Sharp, 30 April 2013 First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 5 May 2013 Jagjaguwar [Release date: 29.04.13] Not to be confused with Wolfmother, this four-piece recorded their second album proper in an isolated house in … Continue reading →

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EP Review: RISE OF REALISM – Side Blue

Posted on April 2, 2013 by david.wilson

Exidemusic (Release date – out now) This EP is one of a five EP set each with its own individual style. The band wanted to release their music in this format to replicate the experience of listening to vinyl albums … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: RIVERSIDE / JOLLY – The Classic Grand, Glasgow,16 March 2013

Posted on March 17, 2013 by david.wilson

Bass players are second only to drummers in the musician joke stakes. Often seen as failed guitarists the art of the bass player is usually hidden deep in the depths of the live mix somewhere behind the bass drum. Tonight … Continue reading →

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Album review: CODE OF SILENCE – Dark Skies Over Babylon

Posted on January 27, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Mausoleum [Release date 25.02.13] Put together by Eden’s Curse bassist Paul Logue, Code Of Silence - if this debut album is anything to go by - is surely a band on the cusp of great things. Fronted by Brazilian vocalist Gus Monsanto … Continue reading →

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MY SOLILOQUY – The Interpreter

Posted on January 22, 2013 by jason

www.mysoliloquy.net (Released 18.02.13) This album has been in the works for the past couple of years and is the brainchild of Threshold’s Pete Morten (he also had a brief spell fronting the now defunct Power Quest). Pete Morten has written, … Continue reading →

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Gig review: CARAVAN – The Lowry, Salford – 14 January 2013

Posted on January 19, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Pye Hastings, Caravan - photo by Simon Dunkerley

The night was to start with a support slot from Garron Frith, A local Manchester singer songwriter who is building up a steady following. To describe a style is not always easy but he has been likened to Stephen Stills … Continue reading →

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CRESSIDA – The Vertigo Years Anthology

Posted on January 15, 2013 by petermuir

(Esoteric) Much referenced by medieval authors and poets, Chaucer wrote of the treacherous lover of Troilus, “Alas, of me until the world’s end shall be wrote no good song”. This cultish epitome of early English progressive music threw sand into … Continue reading →

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LOGIC MESS – Element Of The Grid

Posted on January 5, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Another band from the modern home of Progressive Rock Nirvana – Poland - Logic Mess have previously released an album under the name of Crystal Lake. Just why they felt Logic Mess was a better name I’ve no idea. Actually, ‘Element … Continue reading →

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TOYZ – The Infinite Road

Posted on January 5, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Every so often a disc shows up that looks just the same as a million others – classic prog-rock cover, picture of the band looking completely normal, track-list titles that would sit on any other album; ‘Departure’, ‘Face The Mirror’, … Continue reading →

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Gig review – Opeth – ABC, Glasgow – 13/11/12

Posted on November 26, 2012 by david.wilson

This was a first for me tonight as I had never witnessed either of the two bands before, but I had read plenty of good press on both, so I was looking forward to the live experience. It was a … Continue reading →

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STRING DRIVEN THING – The Machine That Cried

Posted on October 24, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

String Driven Thing - The Machinbe That Cried

(Esoteric) Signing to act-breakers Charisma should have assured better fortune for this electric violin-driven four-piece but in the notes of Esoteric’s reissue guitarist Chris Adams, band co-founder with wife Pauline, grumbles over the label’s preoccupation with Genesis as neglectful of … Continue reading →

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FOCUS – X

Posted on October 17, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

Eastworld Recordings (2012) One of the great rejuvenations of recent years has been the Thijs van Leer version of Focus, things seemed to click with the arrival – in 2006 – of original drummer Pierre van der Linden and they’ve … Continue reading →

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STEVE HACKETT Video Interview – 10 October 2012

Posted on October 16, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockradio David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on … Continue reading →

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THE GATHERING – Disclosure

Posted on October 14, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

I have to confess I’ve never tripped over The Gathering – a Dutch band who started out in 1989 pedalling death/doom metal, but who like the rest of us have mellowed with the passing years and evolved into something quite … Continue reading →

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MOSTLY AUTUMN – The Ghost Moon Orchestra

Posted on October 14, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

Mostly Autumn are one of those bands who seem to consistently top the Championship, but never quite make promotion to the Premier League. Constant squad changes, and player rotation has perhaps not helped their cause, and there’s also that Pink … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARILLION – Sounds That Can’t Be Made

Posted on September 12, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC (Release date 17.09.12) It appears that there have been a few last minute hitches with the new Marillion album, it failed to hit the reviewer’s inbox before the band’s tour and before they started selling it. For a band … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MARILLION, Manchester Academy 10 September 2012

Posted on September 12, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

MARILLION, Manchester Academy, 10 September 2012 “Hogarth’s vocals were as raw and visceral as Rothery’s uncharacteristically incendiary riffs” Read more… Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, Check out videos … Continue reading →

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KATATONIA – Dead End Kings

Posted on September 2, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

(Peaceville) Following on from their superb ‘Night Is The New Day’ album – the point at which former doom-metal merchants Katatonia saw the light and crossed over from the dark side – comes ‘Dead End Kings’, an album so magnificent … Continue reading →

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THE REASONING – Adventures In Neverland

Posted on September 2, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

Esoteric Antenna There was a time, not so long ago that The Reasoning and Touchstone were at the vanguard of a new wave of hard rockers with female vocalists and a soft proggie underbelly. But somehow that impetus seems to … Continue reading →

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SANGUINE HUM – Diving Bell

Posted on June 12, 2012 by jason

Antenna 2012 Sanguine Hum: cute name, rightly suggestive of prog, and a vast improvement on previous moniker, The Joff Winks Band. The Oxford, UK-quartet’s first effort did the rounds before in a low key way last year but Cherry Red’s … Continue reading →