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AURORA CLARA (SPAIN) Seven Hills This sublime group has rather rapidly taken over top spot as my favourite Spanish Prog band, a nudge beyond Rafael Pacha, only due to the impeccable […]

THE OLD CASTLE (ITALY) Storie Nascoste One step generally leads to another, and subsequent to discovering Paolo Pagliari’s charming solo album “Through the Eyes of a Child” that I had the p […]

ESP PROJECT (UK) Extra Sensory Perception No beating around the bush, flaming or otherwise, ESP Project is one of my perennials, an ongoing love affair that began 11 years ago with the debut […]

Ian NEAL (UK) This Gemlike Flame The Sheffield arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist rises once again, landing  straight to the top of the Symphonic prog pedestal with another […]

RUDZ-ODOJ (POLAND) Fight or Flight Przemyslaw Rudz and Roman Odoj have teamed together to offer electronic prog with a swift kick in the backside , a beefy release that has more muscles […]

JOJO RAZOR (USA) Eye of Clarion Part of the Prog Rogue duties is the requirement to constantly scour and scroll the web for new horizons, be it reputed prog sites as well as prog […]

ASCETA (CHILE) The Fool Leading the Blind Well, with a title like that, I just could not resist: Rodrigo Maccioni is certainly no fool and I am far from either blind, or deaf for that matter! […]

AETHER (ITALY) III Third album for these ‘ambient-jazz” pioneers from Italy , their previous work was a smashing success that I reviewed and thus enjoyed tremendously. As […]

Jean-Pascal BOFFO (FRANCE) Inner World Still going strong after all these years, especially in lieu of the fact that the preceding release was a smash by all accounts , as “In Spiral” (20 […]

LONG EARTH (UK) Towards the Sky  This veteran Scottish Neo-Prog band is delving into their fourth album, each one since 2017 “it’s getting better all the time” (another memorable Beatl […]

SARIS (GERMANY) Project Off World This is the 6th album by the veteran Neo-prog band from Germany, and my second, as I enjoyed 2020 album “Beyond the Rainbow”.  The group is now led by D […]

PHIDEAUX (USA) Automoto Animus Phideaux is baaaack…A consummate American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, he has launched a long list of staggering albums commencing i […]

DIFFERENT LIGHT (CZECHIA) Binary Suns (Part 2 -Alternate Reality) After a first album in 1996  “All About Yourself”, Maltese expatriate, vocalist and keyboardist Trebor Tabone moved to Prague, Czechia in the early 2000 […]

Geoff PROUDLEY (UK) Notes from Anne Boleyn Three astute reasons why the Prog Rogue has committed to this artist’s music to sit among his favourites, a freedom of choice that music can surely a […]

BROKEN SPRINGS (HUNGARY) Hidden Door Well, this debut release came literally out of the wild blue yonder, an unexpected gift from my homeland, a sprawling 88-minute tour de force that just […]

REMATRINATION (USA) The Red Dress I have been on a 50-year crusade, explaining that prog is beyond any doubt, the only musical style that incorporates absolutely every other musical genre […]

The EMERALD DAWN (UK) The Land, The Sea, The Air Volume 2 It’s always a fine green morning (wink, nod) in ProgRogue Land when I get a message from Ally Carter, with a nice download for me to peruse. Because it i […]

GIL GALAD (UK) Imaginarium   “Gil Gilad was formed in County Durham, UK, in 1979 by university students interested in long-form music. The original members went their separate ways s […]

GLORIOUS WOLF (The NETHERLANDS) Elements of Hope Dutch composer and multi-instrumentalist Ruud Dielen unleashes another thrilling album, progressing now into the upper echelons of quality prog, as this […]

A LIQUID LANDSCAPE (The NETHERLANDS) Rogue Planet With an album title like that, how could I, the Prog Rogue, possibly resist? This is a strange beast, the van Dam brothers (Niels on lead guitar and […]