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Mark’s Quick Review: Esthema’s – IIII
This album is not really in my sweet spot of prog. Its instrumental and a bit avant-garde for me. The melodies come seem dreary when they were probably going for moody. The first track Be. Goes on way too long and I get to a point where I don't want to hear the...
Mark’s Quick Review: Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate’s – Out of Mind
When I received this album I noticed that even though I had not heard of them I had over a dozen friends that liked them on facebook. I was hoping that I had found an undiscovered gem of an album. Unfortunately for me that was not the case. Most songs I thought...
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Mark’s Quick Review: Coma Rossi’s – Self Titled Album
This album showed up in my inbox and all thought I try and not look at other people's reviews I had seen this on someone's top 10 of 2018. Then after receiving the album and realizing that the band is from India really intrigued me as I am of the belief that that...
Mark’s Quick Review: Alithia’s – The Moon has Fallen
Australian progressive rock band ALITHIA has sent us their second album. With me having an affinity for other Australian bands my hopes were high. The band delivered with a highly textured album. Sometimes soaring to highs with the expressive and sonic sounds. The...
Mark’s Quick Review: Roz Vitalis’s – The Hidden Man of the Heart
ROZ VITALIS was created by composer and keyboardist Ivan Rozmainsky in 2001 and I am just now hearing about them. Thanks to Ivan sending me the latest album. Now I don't deny that there is quality work done here but it just not my cup of tea. If you check out my...
Mark’s Quick Review: Magenta’s – We Are Seven.
The year was 2005 and I was just getting into progressive rock where my wife and I made a road trip down to Phoenixville for our first Prog Festival. We went to see Kino and Arena of all things and left there being a huge fan of Magenta who were touring seven. The...
Mark’s Quick Review: Audio70’s – ElectRockProg(con)Fusion
This debut instrumental album from Vento region of Italy is a one man show with Luigi on the keyboards has above average song writing and the each song I like. There is some drama too with the 10 minute track Hypersequence. This is about as good as a one man band can...
Mark’s Quick Review: Riverside’s – Wasteland
One of the stand out performers of any genre, Riverside has released a new album this year and although I think that the hard core fans of the band are not very excited by it, I think it is another great album by this Polish prog band. Granted the loss of Piotr is...
Mark’s Quick Review: Abel Ganz’s – The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity
I go into this review really liking Abel Ganz and, frankly, the people behind the band. My wife and I may be the only two Americans that have seen the band twice. Denis, when sending me this album, warned me it was much different than their previous albums. He was...
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Mark’s Quick Review: The Fierce and the Dead’s – Live USA 2017
The Fierce And The Dead are: Matt Stevens - guitar, synth, pianoKev Feazey - bass, programming, synth, percussionSteve Cleaton - guitar, piano.Stuart Marshall - drums, percussion This is a recording of the live show recorded at RoSfest in 2017. Yours truly was there...
Mark’s Quick Review: IQ’s – Resistance
IQ in its 38th year inexplicably has released its most ambitious album to date with Resistance. This double album with three epic tracks. Not only is the scope of the album ambitious but the quality is as good as your favorite IQ album. If you were not a fan I...
Mark’s Quick Review: Pi Mezon’s – New World
The second album from Pi Mezon was highly anticipated album for me because I did like their debut. This Finnish band had an outstanding song on that album called the puppet which is reprised also in track 10 of the album. The second album did not disappoint after...
Mark’s Quick Review: United Progressive Fraternity’s – Planetary Overload – Part 1: Loss
Let me start this review by saying it will not be a quick review. I have been living with most every version of this album for the last 100 weeks as I first heard it at 2017 RoSFest. I am also a huge fan of Mark "Truey" Trueack - flying to Wales from Chicago to see...