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jambo said:
Piotr Grudziński, Riverside's lead guitarist, has died. He was only 40.

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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/riverside-guitarist-piotr-grudzinski-dead-at-40/

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I just came in here randomly to check and see if anything new has come out. This is really shocking and terrible news. Way too young to go and he was a really talented guitarist. It's going to take a little while to process this as Riverside is one of my favorite bands.
 
It's just sad to think about all the stuff he could have accomplished, both with Riverside and maybe doing some solo work.

Just look at people like Hackett and Gilmour.

I also have no idea what the band will do. His guitar work was a pretty huge part of the Riverside sound.
 
lazygecko said:
Feels like the prog herd has been thinning at a suddenly unusual rate since Chris Squire.

I fear that someone from Genesis is next.
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I had a similar thought...probably Phil Collins. He's in crappy health. To my knowledge everyone else who were members are reasonably healthy.

My other thought was someone from Kansas.
 
Yeah I only just started listening to them in the last few months and it was pretty great to find a brand new album.

Dawn Passage is also pretty special.

They've also remastered all 3 volumes of the Summer Sessions releases.
 
Some may have already heard the news, but Gilmour is returning to the famous Amphitheatre of Pompeii for 2 gigs in early July.

Now confirmed: as part of his Rattle That Lock tour, David Gilmour is returning to Pompeii's Roman Amphitheatre on July 7th and 8th, to perform the only attended rock concerts ever to take place on the site. In 1971, Pink Floyd were the first to play the historic venue, recording 'Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii' in the empty arena. Tickets for the concerts will be on sale on Tuesday 22 March at 13:00hrs CET from www.DavidGilmour.com.

David: "I want to thank the Ministry of Culture for giving me the opportunity to once again play this beautiful and historic venue. Performing there in 1971 was very special and I'm looking forward to returning and hopefully creating some more memorable moments made even more special by playing to an audience."
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Would be awesome if he played Saucerful or One Of These Days as a throwback.
 
I think this is a band that will probably be new to a lot of you, 'Capital Moustache'. They're absolutely fantastic, I've never heard anything like them. Modern prog doesn't often do anything for me these days, but this band hits a chord with me in such a great way.

They only have one album, 'Double Ghost', but it's pure gold from start to finish. Here's a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2pl8hr7rvg - lighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDcnMrUjV7s - a little heavier
Edit: The album is also on Spotify.

Female vocalist, long songs, fairly technical but still fun.

I only found out about them by chancing upon a comment on a Reddit thread.I don't think they're very recognised at all but they deserve to be listened to.

It gives me similar vibes to early Dream Theater, but it doesn't sound anything like them, or anything else I've heard. I hope someone gives them a listen. If anyone knows anything similar let me know and I'll check it out!
 
Radnom said:
I think this is a band that will probably be new to a lot of you, 'Capital Moustache'. They're absolutely fantastic, I've never heard anything like them. Modern prog doesn't often do anything for me these days, but this band hits a chord with me in such a great way.

They only have one album, 'Double Ghost', but it's pure gold from start to finish. Here's a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2pl8hr7rvg - lighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDcnMrUjV7s - a little heavier
Edit: The album is also on Spotify.

Female vocalist, long songs, fairly technical but still fun.

I only found out about them by chancing upon a comment on a Reddit thread.I don't think they're very recognised at all but they deserve to be listened to.

It gives me similar vibes to early Dream Theater, but it doesn't sound anything like them, or anything else I've heard. I hope someone gives them a listen. If anyone knows anything similar let me know and I'll check it out!
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They sound like kind of a funkier Oceanside to me.
 
So today I gave a listen to two pretty fun albums

the initial was II by AKT 2016

Spotify Link Here

Another Italian Progressive rock album that once again is heavily deravtive off of the golden age of Italian Prog Rock from the 70's. But unlike most releases I find that are heavily derivative while simultaneously missing the purpose of Prog Rock, this one knew what it was trying to be and hit every every goal.

For those that seemingly dislike "older prog," maybe give this one a go as you might just generally dislike the mediocre recording equipment used by many bands in the 70's. If you like older prog, this one will hit right up your ally.

Next is Alturas De Macchu Picchu by Los Jaivas 1981

Spotify Link Here

It's generally tough to find a lot of South American Prog Rock out there, even though Bacamarte's Depois Do Film (Brazil) is one of the absolute classics in Progressive Rock. Los Jaivas is one of the best bands to come out of Chile, and much like in other progressive rock acts, infuse heavy amounts of their culture into the music. The Chilean folk influence is incredibly present and adds an incredible amount of energy to the album.It blends this masterfully with the british style Rock music that was popular at the time. It reminds me of Azteca's Self Titled Album, although replacing the Jazz with more rock.
 
Entropia said:
So I've been trying to find some new stuff to listen to, and on the /r/progrockmusic sub-reddit, someone posted a link to a Thank You, Scientist song. This is... pretty awesome.
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This deserves more comment

I've known the band for a couple years and they're fucking great, the EP is super nice but Maps of non-Existing places is where is at, really, they bring so much to the prog rock scene that all the other bands should stop trying and give up already
 
So Riverside have posted an update on their Facebook page.

This year we are going to release two Riverside albums. Our first 5.1 surround experience in summer and our first instrumental album (double one) in autumn. More details soon. Thank you for being with us!
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I'm pretty sure the double instrumental album is the ambient electronic one they mentioned back in March.

It's done. Collected. Combined. Over 100 minutes of music.

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MD: (...)"I had an idea to release a complementary album. An album in between. An album we had always wanted to record. It wouldn't be just new music but in our case and in such configuration it would definitely be a new quality because we hadn't released such an album before. For years, we have accumulated a lot of material, a part of which was released on bonus discs. I know that some of our listeners still haven't heard those pieces and do not realise that Riverside, basically right from the start, have been experimenting with ambient and progressive electronic music. And that's always been a part of our music DNA. (...) We decided to make a compilation of all our instrumental and ambient pieces, and release it this year as an independent album. Some of the songs would be re-mixed to make them sound better, but most of all, we'd add new compositions."
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No idea what the 5.1 album is though. I've always enjoyed 5.1 releases, so even if it was old material I would still be happy.
 
I The Mighty needs some more love. Their newest album, Connector, is absolutely great. All three of their albums tell a pretty interesting story over their course.
 
MasqueradeOverture said:
I guess I might as well put this here...

I host a progressive rock radio show Monday nights (7pm to 10pm EST) on 90.3 WMSC. It's called The ProgPower Station.

All episodes are archived on Soundcloud. Here's this past week's episode: https://soundcloud.com/theprogpowerstation/episode-24-4182016

Here's an interview with the YouTube prog band Project RnL that aired a couple months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYxBY9seoVs
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Nice! Will check it out. Thanks!
 
MasqueradeOverture said:
^ Karnivool's pretty good, but for some reason only Sound Awake has gelled with me.

Any mention of Caligula's Horse in this thread yet? If not, there should be.
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Yeah! They've been mentioned a few times, as well as the lead singer's side project Arcane.





I saw Dream Theater on Saturday night. I hadn't really given The Astonishing many listens so I wasn't really into it. The concert helped gave it some more context, I knew what was going on more. After listening to it on the way back home the next morning I'd say I have some new found appreciation for it.
 
https://open.spotify.com/album/2jkfq4mtj7PdmbO7WzpMLB

Here's another one of my favorite Prog Albums that are a little less "well known" Fuzzy Duck's classic self titled albums

Heavy influence from both British Rock and American Folk music. This album is pretty entry level, and it';s another one of the classic "one off albums and then the band disbands" that you find a lot

I'll post more stuff here throughout, as most of you guys who are only interested in Modern Prog or Prog Metal needs some lessons on some 70's prog beyond your most famous bands. There is a lot of really good releases out there.
 
jambo said:
Piotr Grudziński, Riverside's lead guitarist, has died. He was only 40.

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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/riverside-guitarist-piotr-grudzinski-dead-at-40/

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Damn it! Love this band, found out about them because DT had them open for them during the systematic chaos european tour. Rest in peace.

As for DT's Astonishing, it really takes a while to wrap your head around it because there's so much to take in, but for me it was worth the effort.
Though I don't think it's as good as their previous album which I think is one of their best, there is a lot of good music here, with the biggest downside being the lyrics which are pretty cheesy and full of cliches.
 
Maedhros said:
It's fucking great. I found it better than The Mountain.

BTW: I enjoyed The Astonished better than their last two albums.
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Finally listened to Affinity and it's pretty great. Not better than The Mountain, but about on par.

In terms of Dream Theater, I feel like The Astonishing is where the Mangini line-up really found its groove. Unfortunately there's about 30 minutes worth of material that could have easily been cut out and Petrucci can't write a lyric to save his life, but it's a step up.

In other news, Fates Warning's got a new album coming out in July. Hopefully it'll be a step up from Darkness In A Different Light (which I was "meh" about at best).
 
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