Category: Progressive Rock
Progressive rock, also known as prog rock or prog, is a rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom, with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s. It developed from psychedelic rock and originated, similarly to art rock, as an attempt to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music.
Balance Of Power – Ten More Tales… Of Grand Illusion (1999)
Band Balance Of Power
Info: Ten More Tales… Of Grand Illusion
Style: Progressive Power Metal
Years: 1999
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 139,25 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – Day Breaker.
02 – Prisoner Of Pride.
03 – Savage Tears.
04 – Under The Spell.
05 – Blind Man.
06 – About To Burn.
07 – Under Innocence Wing.
08 – Sins Of The World.
09 – The Darker Side.
10 – Ten More Tales Of Grand Illusion.
Rip By: Alextayu
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Balance Of Power – Heathen Machine (2003)
Band Balance Of Power
Info: Heathen Machine
Style: Progressive Power Metal
Years: 2003
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 145,81 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – The Rising.
02 – Heathen Machine.
03 – I Wish You Were Here.
04 – Chemical Imbalance.
05 – No Place Like Home.
06 – The Eyes Of All The World.
07 – Just Before You Leave.
08 – Wake Up Call.
09 – Necessary Evil.
Rip By: Ilijan
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Alpha Centauri – Alpha Centauri (1977)
Band Alpha Centauri
Info: Alpha Centauri
Style: Hard Rock / Progressive Rock
Years: 1977
Info: VBR ~210-230 kbs
Info: 60,54 Mb
Info: Canada
Tracklist:
01 – Hard Life.
02 – One Night At A Time.
03 – I’m A Rebel.
04 – Earth In Motion.
05 – Love Is A Curse.
06 – You Shot Me Down.
07 – Love Only You.
08 – Make It At Rock ‘N’ Roll.
Rip By: Highvoltage
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Streetmark – Dreams (1977)
Band Streetmark
Info: Dreams
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1977
Info: MP3 VBR ~200-220 kbs
Info: 69.55 MB
Info: Germany
Tracklist:
01 – Crazy Notion.
02 – Passage.
03 – Sea Of Melted Lead.
04 – Tomorrow.
05 – Eileen.
06 – Choral.
07 – Dreams.
08 – Streaming.
Rip By: Georg2010
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Tea – Tax Exile (1976)
Band Tea
Info: Tax Exile
Style: Hard Prog Rock
Years: 1976
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 89,62 Mb
Info: Switzerland
Tracklist:
01 – Let’s Play The Music.
02 – Alexandra.
03 – Young Family.
04 – Winter Days.
05 – Mind Your Own Business.
06 – Everything.
07 – Guilted Cage.
08 – Just Be Yourself.
09 – Free And Easy.
10 – The Place Where The Money Grows.
Rip By: Silay17
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Hawkwind – It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous (1993)
Band Hawkwind
Info: It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous
Style: Progressive Rock / Space Rock
Years: 1993
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 150,28 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous.
02 – Space Is Their (Palestine).
03 – Tibet Is Not China (Part 1).
04 – Tibet Is Not China (Part 2).
05 – Let Barking Dogs Lie.
06 – Wave Upon Wave.
07 – Letting In The Past.
08 – The Camera That Could Lie.
09 – 3 Or 4 Erections In The Course Of A Night.
10 – Techno Tropic Zone Exists.
11 – Gimme Shelter.
12 – Avante.
Rip By: Bdg63
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SOUL SECRET – CLOSER TO DAYLIGHT 2011
Tracklist
1. Checkmate (5:51)
2. River’s Edge (6:48)
3. If (3:48)
4. The Shelter (7:52)
5. Pillars Of Sand (9:09)
6. October 1917 (3:34)
7. Behind The Curtain (8:46)
8. Aftermath (16:43)
Total time: 62:31
Line-up/Musicians
– Luca Di Gennaro / Keyboards and Programming
– Claudio Casaburi / Bass
– Fabio Manda / Vocals
– Antonio Mocerino / Drums and Percussions
– Antonio Vittozzi / Guitars
Features guest stars like Marco Sfogli (James LaBrie) in “River’s Edge” and Arno Menses (Subsignal, ex Sieges Even) in “Aftermath”
About this release
Produced by Soul Secret and published by Galileo Records, mixed and mastered by Markus Teske and the entire artwork was created by Alexandra V Bach.
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Tea – The Ship (1975)
Band Tea
Info: The Ship
Style: Hard Prog Rock
Years: 1975
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100,12 Mb
Info: Switzerland
Tracklist:
01 – Breakdown.
02 – Through Scarlet.
03 – The Ship.
04 – See You Again.
05 – I’d Never Have Bothered.
06 – A Dog Called Joe.
07 – Crystal Rivers.
08 – Summer In The City.
Rip By: Silay17
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Akribi – Black Morning Sun (2011)
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Akribi are a new female fronted Progressive Metal band who combine excellent technical musicianship with some great melodies and excellent (but also unique) vocals. Black Morning Sun is their debut album. I was excited when I saw one of my RYM friends had rated it 5 stars, and thankfully it took no time for me to discover that he was right.
The overall sound here certainly reminds of Dream Theater, particularly their early work. The musicianship is extremely impressive, as is required if you want to match DT. The keyboards in particular are fantastic and vary quite a bit, from more traditional keyboard sounds, to more of piano style, and some really strange sounds on “Where the Water Meets the Sky” that really make that song special.
I usually don’t care too much for keyboards (even with DT I occasionally find them annoying), but on this album they are amazing. The guitarist also does a very impressive job, as does everyone else. And as you’d expect, there are tons of great solos and several extended instrumental sections (including an entire instrumental track in “Blue Clay”), and these sections manage to be extremely technical without ever becoming boring or feeling like they drag on, probably because the band is so good at what they do.
For all the technical prowess the band displays, they do have some very strong songwriting, though the first minute of “Puppies of War” could immediately turn people off, as the band goes into full Progressive mode right from the start, beginning the with a crazy stop and start sequence. But once things calm down the song is actually quite straightforward, which could be said for some of the others as well. Actually, in the middle of my second listen I discovered I already had parts of “Surface”, “Angel Kiss” and “The Plains of Nevermore” stuck in my head, so that’s a very good thing for this type of album.
Speaking of which, those last two I mentioned are the ballads, and they definitely sound like they would work well in a broadway musical. Yes, they are somewhat cheesy, but being a fan of cheesy ballads I think both of those songs are fantastic, and Jessica certainly does an excellent job with the softer vocals, as opposed to her usually more powerful style, which is also fantastic.
And that finally brings me to the highlight of the album. “The Sum of it All” has quite the dark tone to it, and this works very well. The instrumental sections are strong as always, but the chorus is where things really pick up: Jessica is particularly animated there, with her voice sounding even more powerful than usual, and it could possibly annoy some people, but she is most definitely hitting the right notes, and does a fantastic job as always. She even has to hold one note for around 2o seconds, and does that perfectly. Overall it’s my favorite song on the album, with “Angel Kiss” and the ultra epic “Carry the Rain” being close behind. The title track is a less cheesy ballad as compared to the other two, and while it’s my least favorite on the album, it’s still very good, and closes the album nicely.
Overall, this could best be described as a female fronted Dream Theater, and it gets everything right. Considering my thoughts on both that band and female vocals in general, it should come as no surprise that I loved every second of this. It’s up there with Wolverine’s “Communication Lost”, Flaming Row’s “Elinoire” and Fuseboxx’s “Animated” as one of my favorite Prog albums of the year.
1. Puppies of War
2. Where the Water Meets the Sky
3. Surface
4. Angel Kiss
5. Blue Clay
6. Carry the Rain
7. Wither and Die
8. The Plains of Nevermore
9. The Sum of It All
10. Black Morning Sun
D-I-O-N – Intelligent Design (2011)
BandD-I-O-N
Info: Intelligent Design
Style: Melodic Prog Metal / Melodic Rock
Years: 2011
Info: mp3 VBR 200
Info: 70 mb
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Info: :UK / USA
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Tracklist:
01 – I Believe
02 – The Sign
03 – I Can Save You
04 – Broken
05 – Reborn
06 – Intelligent Design
07 – A New Star
08 – Killing Machine
09 – There’s Only Time
10 – Forever
11 – Someone
By SandFord
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Chandler Mogel (Outloud) – Vocals
Dion Smith – Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Synths, Programming
Charlie ‘Z’ Zeleny – Drums, Percussion
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