Tag Archives: Progressive Rock

Album review: HASSE FROBERG AND MUSICAL COMPANION – HFMC

Posted on April 19, 2015 by alanjones

Glassville Records [Release date: 16.03.15] Remember your adolescence when you walked everywhere with an LP tucked under your arm to show anyone who was interested just how cool and hip you were? Back then it was ‘The Yes Album’, … Continue reading →

Album review: THE TANGENT – A Spark In The Aether

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Yiannis

Inside Out [Release date 20.04.15] Progressive Rock experimentalists The Tangent were a totally unknown entity to me prior to 2011, when I reviewed their sensational five track opus “Comm”. My impression of Andy Tillison’s compositional skills and that album’s overall … Continue reading →

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Album review: KATATONIA – Sanctitude

Posted on April 16, 2015 by alanjones

KScope [Release date: 30 March 2015] Back in the day, it was often espoused by people who didn’t like heavy rock that “it’s easy to make a row – but can they cut it live and acoustic?”. To a … Continue reading →

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Album review: KARNATAKA – Secrets Of Angels

Posted on April 5, 2015 by GRTR! HQ

Immrama [Release date 30.03.15] To be blunt, the first impressions of Secrets Of Angels – played live at Bury Met in February – weren’t great. The band blamed the venue and the lack of an adequate sound check, but as … Continue reading →

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Album review: KARIBOW – Addicted

Posted on April 1, 2015 by alanjones

Rock Werk Records [Release date: 26 October 2014] Hailing from Germany, Karibow is the brainchild – and, as far as I can make out, the sole preserve of – Oliver Rüsing, an exceptional multi-instrumentalist – who, again as far … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEVE ROTHERY – The Ghosts Of Pripyat

Posted on March 30, 2015 by alanjones

Self-released - [Release date 02.02.15] Our whole raison d’être here at GRTR! is to give an opinion that informs the reader; (a) whether the music being reviewed is worth a listen and (b) whether said reader is likely to find … Continue reading →

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News: Prog Rockers Renaissance return with UK tour in April

Posted on March 21, 2015 by GRTR! HQ

Annie Haslam chats to David Randall about Renaissance and the forthcoming tour. This is an un-broadcast extract from a longer interview that will form the basis of an hour special on Sunday 29 March at 22:00 on Get Ready to … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Wolflight

Posted on March 20, 2015 by alanjones

David Randall chatted to Steve Hackett in early March 2015 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, about the new album and the new tour ‘Acolyte to Wolflight’ (27:46) Inside Out [Release Date: 30.03.15] Steve Hackett’s star is definitely in the … Continue reading →

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Album review: CREPUSCULE – Vivv

Posted on March 13, 2015 by alanjones

Self-released – Release Date: 18 July 2014 This is definitely an album of despites. Despite having a name that sounds like a pustulent sore, despite having a cover that Slipknot might well have found too scary and despite the entire … Continue reading →

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Album review: ESOSOME – What We Thought Would Save Us

Posted on March 9, 2015 by alanjones

Self-released – [Release Date: 10.07.14] One of the joys of writing reviews is that every so often a little gem appears amid the general ordinariness of new material that arrives (mostly as a result of the joys of self-release … Continue reading →

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10 Questions: JOHN MITCHELL aka LONELY ROBOT (interview)

Posted on January 29, 2015 by jason

We catch-up with John Mitchell (It Bites/Arena/Frost*) whose new album goes out under the Lonely Robot moniker and is entitled ‘Please Come Home’. It is released on Inside Out on 23rd February. It includes guest appearances from Nik Kershaw, Nick … Continue reading →

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Album Review: TIN SPIRITS – Scorch

Posted on January 18, 2015 by alanjones

Esoteric Antenna/Vibrola Records [Release date 15.09.14] Every so often an album shows up that takes you completely by surprise. I don’t know why, but my expectations of Tin Spirits second album were not that high – despite the fact that … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MARILLION – The Forum, Kentish Town, London, 11 December 2014

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Yiannis

I do love December – my birthday is in it, for a start, and those of some of my closest friends, there is Christmas and then there is that annual fixture of enjoying Marillion in their natural element – on … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: LEON ALVARADO, KNIGHT AREA, SHADOW MERCHANT

Posted on November 30, 2014 by alanjones

LEON ALVARADO – 2014: Music From An Expanded Universe Melodic Revolution Records – [Release date: 30.10.14] The title says it all really as this sounds like it was written in space, played in space and beamed down for spaced-out people … Continue reading →

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Album review: CORVUS STONE – Corvus Stone ll

Posted on November 27, 2014 by alanjones

Melodic Revolution Records [Release Date: 30.09.14] Back in November 2012 I had the pleasure of reviewing Corvus Stone’s first album – and some album it was too, having progressive rock at its heart but incorporating a myriad of other styles … Continue reading →

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Album review: KAIPA – Sattyg

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Yiannis

Inside Out [Release date 10.11.14] Even though it has been a good forty years since the Swedish sextet Kaipa first appeared on the music scene, it was only back in 2012 and through exposure to their then latest studio album … Continue reading →

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Gig review: STEVE HACKETT – The Lowry, Salford, 2 November 2014

Posted on November 3, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Steve Hackett chats about the Genesis Revisited and Extended tours (11:16). This is an edit from an extended interview that was first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 5 October 2014 The interview is replayed on Christmas Day 2014, … Continue reading →

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Album review: FREQUENCY DRIFT – Summer

Posted on October 25, 2014 by alanjones

[Download only from band website - Release date: 12.09.14] There are certain bands and artists, aren’t there, to whom you turn to capture your prevailing mood? One brings to mind Buddy Guy for blues, Zeppelin or AC/DC if you want … Continue reading →

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Album review: OPETH – Pale Communion

Posted on September 30, 2014 by alanjones

Roadrunner Records [Release Date 25.08.14] Mikael Akerfeldt – the debate rages… Rather like Steven Wilson and Mike Portnoy, there are sections of the music press which are so sycophantic and so over the top in hyping up the Opeth frontman … Continue reading →

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Album review: FLYING COLORS – Second Nature

Posted on September 30, 2014 by jason

Music Theories Recordings/Mascot [Release date 06.10.14] Flying Colors, the prog rock supergroup, are back with their second album just two years after their exceptionally strong debut release. Can they match that high standard? You bet they can! If anything this … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Dome, London, 18 September 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Yiannis

The Sixxis – The Dome, London, 18 September 2014

Support Act: The Sixxis Review and photos by Yiannis (John) Stefanis Over the last twelve years since I moved to the UK I have been to numerous gigs in many different venues around the country but both Tufnell Park and … Continue reading →

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Album review: A SECRET RIVER – Colours Of Solitude

Posted on September 24, 2014 by alanjones

Self released [Release Date: 25.06.14] Given the lineage of great progressive bands from Scandinavia and the form of progressive rock music that tends to be their stock in trade – think Katatonia, Opeth, Beardfish and their brooding melancholia punctuated with … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – Magnolia

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Yiannis

KScope – [Release date 15.9.14] Bruce Soord must have felt both pretty chuffed and stressed in equal measure the moment he realised the success achieved by The Pineapple Thief’s 2012 opus “All The Wars” – pleased because this album was … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOSTLY AUTUMN – Dressed In Voices

Posted on September 6, 2014 by alanjones

Mostly Autumn Records [Release date 02.06.14] Mostly Autumn have been known throughout their career as a Celtic/folk infused prog-lite sort of band. Their albums, right from the early days were always very good, sometimes excellent, but, it must be said, … Continue reading →

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Album review: XANADU – Follow The Instinct

Posted on August 9, 2014 by alanjones

Pronet Records – Release Date: 4 June 2014 Ahhh… the Polish progressive rock runaway train still shows no sign of running out of steam. With excellent releases this year from the likes of Pinkroom and Riverside, here is the follow-up … Continue reading →