(*/10) Chaostar is an outfit, hailing from Greece. The band is the brainchild of Septicflesh guitarist Christos Antoniou who founded Chaostar in 1998. The band was meant to be a side project since the main effort and time went into Septicflesh. Over time...

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Tag(s) : #Chaostar, #The Undivided Light, #Classic, #Rock, #Ambient, #News, #CD Review, #Season Of Mist, #Prog Rock

Dool is still a fairly new band with band members reflecting the best Dutch dark rock/metal has in the offer. Each of the five guys has a proven track record in rock and combining forces leads to this powerful dark rock outfit. Some intensive live shows...

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Tag(s) : #Dool, #Wolvennest, #Dark Metal, #Gothic, #Live, #Live Review, #Tour, #Paard Van Troje, #News, #Ambient, #Noise

(8/10) Jim Matheo's creativity and inspiration doesn’t seem to know any restrictions. It feels like writing new songs is a natural gift of the guitar virtuoso. Not only that he is one of the main pillars when it comes to prog metal legend Fates Warning,...

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Tag(s) : #Tuesday The Sky, #Rock, #Prog Rock, #Prog Metal, #Ambient, #Instrumental, #News, #CD Review, #Inside Out

Taken from the upcoming album "Drift" out June 30th 2017. Order it now! http://smarturl.it/TuesdayTheSkyDRIFT TUESDAY THE SKY - Today The Sky (Album Track) InsideOutMusic 2017 Tuesday The Sky , the new Ambient Instrumental Rock project by Fates Warning...

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Tag(s) : #Jim Matheos, #Prog Metal, #Prog Rock, #Rock, #Ambient, #Instrumental, #Tuesday The Sky, #News, #Video

Photo by Caroline Traitler Ambient rockers Anathema will release a new longplayer on June 9th via Kscope. It's entitled "The Optimist" and eleven new exciting songs of which the first one, "Springfield", is online as a video on the bands website. Tracklist:...

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Tag(s) : #Ambient, #Rock, #Prog Rock, #Prog Metal, #News, #Video, #Anathema, #Ksope

(9/10) “V” marks, how could it be different, the fifth album of the genius cooperation of Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson. These guys started their collaboration after Geffen, a big fan of Porcupine Tree, invited the band to Israel for a concert. What start...

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Tag(s) : #Blackfield, #Rock, #Prog Rock, #Hardrock, #News, #CD, #Ambient, #KSCOPE, #Steven Wilson

(1/10) I'm not really sure if the world waited for this release. T.O.M.B. serves an album that sound weird. It's a distracting piece of 'music' and that's maybe already the biggest benefit of it - in case you're looking for distraction. These thirteen...

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Tag(s) : #T.O.M.B., #Industrial, #Black Metal, #News, #CD Review, #Ambient

(9/10) Riverside's newest album is a special one - from all perspectives. The Polish prog masters went through a very difficult year. It was in February 2016 when the band was all of a sudden confronted with the loss of their guitarist and founding member...

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Tag(s) : #Riverside, #Prog Rock, #Rock, #News, #CD Review, #Ambient, #Electronica

(7/10) Dream The Electric Sleep is a trio formed in Lexington, KY. Matt Page, Joey Waters and Chris Tackett are the names/musicians behind this band that describes their sound as a mix of 70's AOR and 80's Darkwave, influenced by a wider range of bands,...

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Tag(s) : #Dream The Electric Sleep, #Prog Rock, #Rock, #CD Review, #News, #Ambient

German post hardcore band Fjørd released their current album "Kontakt" in January this year. Since the first two pressings on vinyl are sold out already the band announced a new version which is a picture vinyl, packaged in a gatefold cover. The second...

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Tag(s) : #Fjørd, #Post Hardcore, #Rock, #Ambient, #Post Rock

(7/10) Old Fire is a project started by Texas based programmer John Mark Lapham who is known from The Earlies and The Late Cord. Mid June the first album of Old Fire will be released and it features thirteen songs that are kept silent and sphereful. Joining...

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Tag(s) : #Old Fire, #Steven Wilson, #Anathema, #Prog Rock, #Rock, #Psychedelic Rock, #Ambient

(8/10) Crystal Palace started back in 1994 which means they are more than twenty years in business and their debut "On the Edge of the World" dates back to 1995. However, the guys never had a real break-through and even the hymn for Berlin's icehockey...

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Tag(s) : #Crystal Palace, #News, #CD Review, #Rock, #Prog Rock, #Prog Metal, #Ambient, #Classic Rock

(7/10) In case you're missing all shades of grey provided by autumn then at least there is some acoustic stuff available that brings the dark and melancholic season into your home. The title of Sylvaine's new longplayer is a clear indication of what to...

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Tag(s) : #Sylvaine, #Post Rock, #Ambient, #Dark Metal, #News, #CD Review, #Gothic

(8/10) When I heard Special Providence for the first time I was sitting in my car. That wasn't a good idea, mainly because the music of the Hungarian band is rather complex. "Essence of change" includes nine instrumental songs that are all located somewhere...

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Tag(s) : #Special Providence, #Prog Rock, #Prog Metal, #Ambient, #Jazz, #Fusion, #Rock, #News, #CD Review