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The album title is "The Atlantic" which releases January 25. Tom's been through some personal changes which may have affected the lyrical content. He didn't seem to elaborate on whether they did, when I asked him at PP.

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I shit you not, the first tune off the most recent disc could be one of most perfect things I've ever heard. I was just utterly floored by that song. Not only is the atmosphere very sweeping and epic and the vocals phenomenal, but the overall mood is shockingly positive and life-affirming, given ho...

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I have the album "Phlegethon"... Didn't click with me... I read here a Wolverine comparison. I love so much the band Wolverine and the album "Communication Lost" so I'm giving this Kingcrow album a try... Where are the guitar solos? There really aren't many. Kingcrow's guitars a...

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This band is symphonic prog in the style of old Yes, musically and particularly in the positive mood and lyrical content, with some of the quirkiness of Frank Zappa and King Crimson. I have a few albums but haven't really spun them in forever. Banks of Eden was my first and it is excellent. The Sum ...

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So I just got to hear the new record, "Tiara". The long and short of it is this; it sounds exactly like a safe Seventh Wonder album. Basically, if you take the narrative of "Mercy Falls" and the approach of "The Great Escape", you get this record, but it doesn't go far...

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Each set in one sentence: ROSS THE BOSS: Very interesting for fans, but left me rather cold, although Mike LePond rocks the bass guitar. GLORYHAMMER: Cheesy power metal with personality and original presentation, and infectious good humor like the silly Astral Hammer skits. NOCTURNAL RITES: Somewhat...

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I feel similarly. Next year is going to be the "diet" ProgPower, because I'm not going to want to take time to eat. That's the beauty of the BBQ vendor..... You can bolt just as a band is leaving the stage, and beat the line and be back inside in plenty of time. The burrito vendor once ha...

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ToddS wrote:Safe travels everyone. See you all there.
Gordon needs to floor it and get on through here!

Sounds like you're trying to make it no matter what. Hope to see you around, not sure what you look like.

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What is the French-Canadian translation of "typographical error." :) If we translate word by word: "erreur typographique" which is ok to say but I have never said that this way in my life... Most common way to say it would be "faute de frappe". Thanks for the info. Hey...

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As I mentioned earlier ordered this and should be here Tuesday! Sounds like a serious evolution in their sound, production and vocals. This one I feel is gonna be GOOD! I really like just about every song, but I feel like the album gets stronger in the second half when the songwriting starts varyin...

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This US band has been pretty obscure for a while, but the video for "Shield Me" seemed to ruffle a few feathers in the metal world and even with this board's members. Their fourth album just came out and so far it seems to be their breakthrough, as it's gaining them a good deal more web pr...

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I really wasn't digging the pre-released songs, and then eventually decided to give the whole album a go while working at my desk. It turned out to be quite fantastic. Hearing Troy on vocals was a really big adjustment to make but eventually the emotional weight of the lyrics sunk in and made everyt...

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Power Of Omens - Eyes Of The Oracle All Too Human - Entropy Balance Of Power - Perfect Balance Darkwater - Calling The Earth To Witness Dreamscape - End Of Silence Fragile Vastness - A Tribute To Life Power Of Omens - Rooms Of Anguish Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall 1. Pretty original and experimen...

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I know there are some fans of this lady in the PP crowd as that's how I met one guy in particular a couple years ago, wearing her shirt. In the past she's worked with luminaries like Timo Somers, Sander Zoer and Barend Courbois (Blind Guardian) comprising her band. But now she's roped in Chen Balbus...

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Hello friends. I try not to impose myself on discussions related to our music, but this... Indulge in Color and the title track have really been helpful as of late and the title track is basically giving me the strength to keep fighting during a very rough and confusing time in my life. ...affected...

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I am absolutely in love with this disc. Tom proves that he is exactly what this band needed after the departure of Ray and his bigger, more soulful "gospel" style delivery not only really fits the emotion of the music, but sounds very suitable to the uplifting portions of the music - somet...

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Pretty different as you'd expect. The heavy section at about 3 minutes in is killer, although the somewhat technical solo is going to be hard to acclimate to. You can definitely feel Grudzien isn't there anymore and time will tell whether the world can overlook that.

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I think the first two songs on Handmade Cities are some of the best jazz-fusion prog you'll ever hear, and a good deal of the remaining album is of a similar standard. Sunhead is a very good follow-up, and despite what some people say is still plenty hefty enough for me. "Kind" is my favor...

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I didn't know a note of these guys before their set opening for TesseracT and Plini. They absolutely blew my mind and I may have enjoyed their set more than Plini's, actually. Incredibly soothing and uplifting for the style of music they play.

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gazinwales wrote:I live in Australia and have never heard of them

They are not just Australian, but from Sydney!

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Everyone seems to confuse this band with the Danish Anubis Gate who sound totally different! A Tower of Silence is among PA's highest ranked neo-prog albums ever. I really enjoyed that disc and their more recent one The Second Hand is also fantastic. You may know the guitarist as Douglas Skene of He...

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I've listened to this disc twice and I'm still trying to really access much of it. The shorter songs are really good but the longer songs don't feel as compelling as something like Delusion Rain is, at first glance. The vocalist is, as always, the star of the album.

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I would retroactively call Chain Reaction one of the top albums of 2014 and Distorted Harmony's performance at PPUSA 2017 was outstanding. However, I am not altogether thrilled with this disc. The songs are more compact and heavier and have more of a djent flavor to them than before, and people I kn...

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gazinwales wrote:Love the new song, apparently it's only an intro or extract from a longer song.

I was there at the festival when they played it. It's actually a full-song version of what will be the album intro that lasts about one minute, so I wouldn't get too upset about this being overlong.

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You weren't kidding about Owner of a Lonely Heart, that riff one minute in sounds almost exactly the same!

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I should also add that this is no less than the fourth time this new-old singer has been in the band.

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There are a couple of tunes on this disc that break the mold for him. "False Paradise" even without the extra version's surprise is a rather extreme-leaning song and a couple others have a proggy flair. Otherwise it's business mostly as usual but a great disc.

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Some top selections from this year so far: Orphaned Land Ostura Neal Morse Subsignal TesseracT The Sun Burns Bright (a UK post-rock outfit) Toundra (a Spanish act similar to Russian Circles or Long Distance Calling) Entransient (American, a grungy take on mid-period Katatonia) Angra BTBAM Aesthesys ...

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Honestly sometimes it's difficult to tell the two guys apart stylistically, although perhaps Distant Dream is less heavy and fast, and more progressively inclined.

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I wasn't expecting this to be such a light album after the quite heavy and aggressive direction of the last one, but I grew into it the more songs were released and it became clear what this disc would sound like. There are tons of vivacious and colorful keys that give this a quite proggy flair desp...

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Merci pour les mots en français! Almost perfect! :wink: Corrected would be like this: "Évidemment Michel St-Père est un homme très occupé ! Semble-t-il qu'il est toujours en train d'enregistrer quelque chose. Pouvez-vous me recommander l'album avec lequel je devrais commencer ?" Je vois m...

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Great news! I think the band Huis is also coming with a new album this year... Obviously Michel St-Père is a quite busy man! It seems that he is always recording something. Can you recommend me the album I should start with? (Pour que je pratique mon français: Évidemment Michel St-Père est un homme...

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We've known the release date for a long time, but this is the first news of the album title. I don't know what to expect musically but Delusion Rain was so phenomenal that it's going to have a lot to live up to. I happen to be traveling to Night of the Prog Festival to see Mystery where they'll be d...

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For anyone interested, to get a preview of what you can expect from this album thematically, read this band press release and my response to it. https://www.facebook.com/andrew.bennett.39589/posts/1798453576873556 I still like even their ambient disc, but it's so long that it requires a very specifi...

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I've been told to expect a dark, somber and VERY heavy album, reflecting the tremendous emotional roller coaster of the past two years in the Riverside camp. Think Covered in Black relative to past Anubis Gate outputs. Even then I doubt they can replicate the perfection of Anno Domini High Definitio...

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