by progrock.com | Jan 31, 2017 | Prog Report
John Wetton, one of the pioneers of progressive rock with his work with King Crimson, UK, and Asia, has passed away from a long battle with cancer. He had been battling the disease for the last few years and was seen in declining health. He recently got married and was supposed to perform on the upcoming Cruise to the Edge but had dropped out due to his health. He work with King Crimson was groundbreaking, but it was his period with Asia and the hits “Heat of the Moment” and “Only Time Will Tell” that saw his greatest success. Wetton also had an accomplished solo career. He was considered one of the great and recognizable voices in music.
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by progrock.com | Jan 29, 2017 | Prog Report
ARW, Kansas, and Mike Portnoy’s Shattered Fortress have all been announced as headliners for this year’s Night Of The Prog at Loreley Amphitheater in Germany July 14th-16th!
Portnoy will headline Friday, the 14th, ARW, Saturday the 15th, and Kansas, Sunday the 16th.
Portnoy brings his Shattered Fortress event where he will perform the 12-Step Suite from Dream Theater. ARW brings a collection of Yes classics from both classic eras of the band. While Kansas plans to perform the entire Leftoverture album as part of the album’s 40th anniversary.
Other bands included are Ray Wilson, Crippled Black Phoenix, Maschine, and many more.
Tickets are available at:
https://www.wiv-ticket-shop.com/en/notp-festival-xii/
and further info with whole line up is at:
http://nightoftheprogfestival.com/
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by progrock.com | Jan 29, 2017 | Prog Report
One of our favorite albums from 2016 was The Dear Hunter’s Act V:Hymns with the Devil in Confessional. We were able to catch up with the man behind it all, Casey Crescenzo to talk about the history of the band’s Act series, the latest album Act V, how we comes up with all this musical insanity and more.
Read our review of Act V:Hymns with the Devil in Confessional here.
For the full audio interview click the link below or download the podcast on iTunes.
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by progrock.com | Jan 29, 2017 | Prog Report
Dream Theater had just come off the release of their highly celebrated album Metropolis II: Scenes From A Memory. That concept album put the band back on course. So how do you follow one concept album, with a double album, of course! The album was split with 5 tracks on the first disc and the second disc featuring the title track which was divided into 8 songs. The album is a tour de force in Prog with the band exploring just about everything from the pure metal “The Glass Prison”, the politically charged “The Great Debate”, the frantic “Test That Stumped Them All” and the acoustic “Solitary Soul”. The album would go on to become another favorite among the Dream Theater core.
Jordan Rudess recalls, “We wanted to create an album dealing with different mental health case studies. We also wanted it to be music that was very different than Scenes From A Memory. I remember John Petrucci being in the live room of the studio and asking me to just play different styles and moods while we recorded. He would say: “Play the saddest melody ever, play the most beautiful melody in the world”, things like that. We rolled tape and got seeds for most of the music that way…”
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by progrock.com | Jan 27, 2017 | Prog Report
London-based progressive metal band HAKEN will release their first two albums “Aquarius” and “Visions” as new remastered 2CD editions as well as on vinyl for the very first time, on February 3rd, 2017. The band recently filmed a series of interviews looking back on their first two albums and 10 years as a band which you can see below.
Watch guitarists Rich Henshall and Charlie Griffiths talk about ‘Aqaurius’ here:
You can also check out a stream of the remastered version of ‘Streams’ taken from ‘Aquarius’: https://youtu.be/B3WAxBI1CBc
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by progrock.com | Jan 27, 2017 | Prog Report
After the release of The Whirlwind in 2009, Transatlantic seemed to be on another long hiatus as the members got involved in their other project. But they returned in early 2014 for the release of the album ‘Kaleidoscope’ which was rather than a long concept album, was more in the style of their album ‘Bridge Across Forever’ with 2 long epics and a few shorter songs in between. The album came out just before Mike Portnoy’s Progressive Nation at Sea’ cruise, where the group would headline. They performed the album in its entirety as the ship sailed away from the port of Miami just a few weeks after the album’s release. The band would release the ballad “Shine” as the first single followed by the rocker “Black as the Sky”, however, it is the 2 long 30-minute epics that would make this another great album by these Prog masters.
In an interview prior to the album’s release, Neal Morse had this to say about Kaliedoscope, “When we were trying to come with something to record for a single, the problem is all the best Trransatlantic music is in the 30 minute pieces so trying to make a clip or video that is going to represent the band is really hard. So we chose the song “Shine” but I suppose that represents the band as well as “From the beginning” represents ELP. I think the album came out great. I’m always amazed at how things come together. I think we’ve grown closer as people through the Whirlwind album and the Whirlwind tour. There’s been some growth there and I think it shows up on the album. I think it’s one of our best.”
Mike Portnoy also had this to say about the album, “Kaleidoscope was very much modeled after Bridge in that sense that you know, we want to have maybe two giant epic songs and then a couple of medium sized pieces and then a couple of small pieces so that was the idea. And it was also the first album the first Transatlantic album we made since I had left Dream Theater. So you know there was this new sense of hey Transatlantic could now be more of an active band now with you know with me not in Dream Theater and Neal not in Spock’s Beard.”
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