A couple of friends of the site are bringing something quite new to Finland with Ankea Festival, to take place next summer in Tampere, giving a space for music that isn’t as much represented at festivals overall with a focus on alternative rock and progressive metal! The first dozen of names confirmed is already pretty impressive with Ihsahn, God Is An Astronaut, Oranssi Pazuzu, Kaelan Mikla, Green Carnation, Circle, A.A. Williams, Bruce Soord, Earthside, Ihlo, Vermilia and Virta!
Progressive alternative rock band Trope released the stunning new single ‘SIGIL’, a track that will be featured on their upcoming double album DYAD, out in Spring 2026!
Season of Mist is proud to welcome italian progressive outfit Bedsore to its roster!
Back from making their rounds at several major European festivals, Leprous announced their brand-new live release ‘An Evening Of Atonement’ to be out in October via InsideOutMusic and shared a first video/single with ‘Like A Sunken Ship’! Catch them live this fall in Europe on their headline tour with special guests Gåte and support Royal Sorrow!
Stoned Jesus outrun demons on their catchy single ‘Shadowland’, another track unveiled of their upcoming album ‘Songs to Sun’, out in September with Season of Mist!
Ukrainian outfit Stoned Jesus is expanding their universe on the new album ‘Songs to Sun’, the first in a trilogy that will span the different phases of the band and out this September via Season of Mist!
Green Carnation is setting sail on an epic voyage with ‘The Shores of Melancholia’, the start of the first part of their ‘A Dark Poem’ trilogy, set for release in September via Season of Mist, and share a first taste with the single ‘In Your Paradise’!
Royal Sorrow shared a music video for the song ‘Samsara’ recently with InsideOutMusic, just before their very first show at this year’s Tuska! Catch them this autumn on tour through Europe with Leprous and Gåte!
Arjen Anthony Lucassen announced his new apocalyptic solo album ‘Songs No One Will Hear’ to be out in September on InsideOutMusic and shared the closing track ‘Our Final Song’!
By Norse Music is glad to announce the re-signing of Kalandra, keeping them in the family and collaborating on their upcoming new album!
There was definitely no slowing down on the last day of Graspop 2025 with shows from Crossfaith, Heaven Shall Burn, Savatage, In Flames, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann!
The first full day of Hellsinki Metal Horizons 2022 delivered on plenty of proggy, intense and simply weird stuff with Oddland, Vulture Industries, Manticora, Humanity’s Last Breath, MyGrain and Shining!
We had a blast in Barcelona with the Be Prog! My Friend festival edition 2018. Discover how our reporter has conquered the sun, the heat, the beautiful women and of course the music !!!
Katatonia’s thirteenth album ‘Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State’ picks up where ‘Sky Void of Stars’ left off after the departure of Anders Nyström and sounds both very familiar with a few gems and a curveball tucked away at the end . Out on Napalm records.
The twenty-fourth studio album “Curious Ruminant” from Britain’s progressive folk rock band Jethro Tull captures the 70s heritage, achieving a brilliant level of performance instrumental dexterity. Out via InsideOutMusic since today!
The fourteenth studio album “The Last Will and Testament” from the Swedish masters of progressive metal Opeth captures engaging dynamic riffs with dark keyboards texture. Out via Reigning Phoenix Music since November 22nd.
With their message of hope in their conceptual debut album ‘What Lies Ahead Of Us’, the Brazilians of Pentral offers a a nice groovy progessive rock metal experience.
Liquid Tension Experiment 3 delivers once again what they are known for. Super music food for the more nerdy musical progressive lovers out there.
Rise Radiant is the Caligula’s Horse sound pushed to its extremes: at once its most ferocious and its most touching, its most expansive and its most condensed, its most poetic and its most vicious. A mist have for the prog rockers deep inside of us.
With Virus, Haken created once again a very enjoyable progressive album with a conceptually link to Vector.
Wheel brings you a sound that is very much inspired by Tool, but with a great personality and great songwriting skills!
Riverside’s Wasteland is a must have for all progressive rock/metal fans who are into more emotional raw sounding songs , think of Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. Wasteland will take you by the throat , check them out !!!
Toundra is back with another token of progressive post-rock creativity. A must for fans of Ohgod and Russian Circles… But mostly of Toundra!
