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The album cover for En Pakt Med Naturen by Tusmørke features a watercolor-style illustration of shadowy riders and a cloaked figure leading a horse through a mystical forest. Towering trees and winding roots. Gothic font of the band’s name and album title.

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In League With Nature: Tusmørke Goes Acoustic and Occult on First Live Album

Tusmørke – En pakt med naturen (Karisma Records, 2025) En Pakt Med Naturen is the first live release from Norwegian band Tusmørke. It was recorded…

The album cover for Whispers of Granite – Liquid Stone features a monolithic boulder precariously balanced on a barren landscape. A lone figure stands nearby, dwarfed by the stone, under a pale sky with a single orange sun. The title appears in bold orange lettering, with “Whispers of Granite” boxed and “Liquid Stone” in a fluid font below.

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Whispers of Granite Melds Nordic Voice and German Atmospheres

Aiden Robinson July 11, 2025 No Comments Whispers of Granite

Whispers of Granite – Liquid Stone (Apollon Records, 2025) Whispers of Granite is a new collaboration between Norwegian vocalist and composer Trude Eidtang and German…

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Renaissance Reframed: Boxed Set Opens Out on a Key Era

Aiden Robinson June 25, 2025 No Comments classic rock Progressive rock Renaissance soft rock symphonic rock

Renaissance – Opening Out – The Albums 1977–1979 (Esoteric Records/Cherry Red, 2025) This 3CD clamshell box set collects Renaissance’s Warner Bros.-era studio albums from 1977…

The album cover for Age of Fragility by Marco Mattei features a young boy standing in shallow water, facing a futuristic city skyline in the distance. The waterline cuts through the middle of the image, symbolically dividing nature (grass beneath his feet) and urbanization.

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Fragile Times: Marco Mattei’s Age of Fragility

Aiden Robinson May 26, 2025 No Comments classic rock Marco Mattei Progressive rock

Marco Mattei – Age of Fragility (M.P. & Records, 2025) Italian composer and singer-songwriter Marco Mattei returns with Age of Fragility, a concept album that…

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Norwegian Band AVKRVST Soars and Stumbles on Sophomore Epic

Aiden Robinson May 13, 2025 No Comments AVKRVST Progressive rock symphonic rock

AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky (InsideOutMusic, 2025) Norwegian prog outfit AVKRVST returns June 13 with their second full-length album, Waving at the Sky, a…

The album cover for Soft Ffog – Focus features a dramatic seascape where a pirate ship with tattered, flaming sails floats above a stormy ocean. Below, shipwreck survivors struggle on jagged rocks as lightning flashes across the turbulent sky. A lone black dog watches from a cliff, adding to the eerie, fantastical atmosphere. The band's name and album title appear in stylized white lettering in the top right corner.

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Ffoggy Notions: Soft Ffog Sharpen Their Focus With a Bold, Rock-Forward Evolution

Aiden Robinson April 28, 2025 No Comments contemporary jazz jazz-rock Progressive rock Soft Ffog

Soft Ffog – Focus (Is it Jazz? Records, 2025) Norwegian progressive music band Soft Ffog returns with Focus, a follow-up that is at once tighter,…

The album cover for Sail the World by Anthony Phillips features a coastal scene under a blue sky. Framed by lush green foliage in the foreground and tree-covered hills on either side, the image looks out over calm waters dotted with small sailboats.

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Smooth Sailing: Anthony Phillips Charts New Depths with Remastered “Sail the World”

Aiden Robinson March 27, 2025 No Comments ambient Anthony Phillips easy listening new age pop

Anthony Phillips – Sail The World – Remastered & Expanded (Esoteric Recordings, 2025) Leave it to multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Anthony Phillips, the founding Genesis…

The fantasy-style album cover for Sykofant by Sykofant presents a surreal landscape dominated by the massive skull of a whale or similar large creature. The skeletal remains lie in a desolate, reddish-brown terrain, surrounded by blackened, charred tree trunks. The sky burns in eerie hues of red and orange.

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Sykofant’s Shape-shifting Self-Titled Debut

Aiden Robinson March 10, 2025 No Comments Progressive rock Sykofant

Sykofant – Sykofant (Sykofantastic Records, 2024) Sykofant is a progressive rock band from Oslo that that blurs the lines between prog-rock and hard rock. Sure,…

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Whitewater’s Dark Planet Expands the Horizons of Ambient Prog

Aiden Robinson February 28, 2025 No Comments ambient Progressive rock Whitewater

Whitewater – Dark Planet (Bad Elephant Music September 2020) Dark Planet, released on September 16, 2020, by British duo Whitewater, marked an ambitious evolution of…

The album cover for Now We Have Power by Sanguine Hum features a minimalist illustration dominated by a large, stylized head with an abstract, swirling facial expression. The head appears to loom over a crowd of small, uniform humanoid figures at the bottom, depicted in white and gold, raising their hands in unison. The dark, gradient background includes faint, futuristic geometric elements and structures.

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Sanguine Hum’s Musical Coup: “Now We Have Power” Reigns Supreme

Aiden Robinson February 10, 2025 No Comments Progressive rock Sanguine Hum

Sanguine Hum – Now We Have Power (Bad Elephant Music, 2018) British progressive rock band Sanguine Hum solidified their place in the modern prog landscape…