Asia is absolutely delighted to announce The Heat of The Moment Tour, headlined by Asia and also featuring Focus, Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash and Curved Air and MC’d by artist Roger Dean. The tour will commence on 3rd July 2024 and will incorporate 21 dates across the USA and Canada. The tour has been masterminded by rock music keyboard legend and original Asia member, Geoff Downes (Buggles, Asia, Yes). Asia was the biggest selling album of 1982, number 1 on Billboard for 9 weeks and pioneers of the MTV era! Downes’ brand new iteration of Asia first began to evolve last Summer, at the concer ..read more

Anglo-Finnish progressive metallers Wheel recently announced the release of their much-anticipated third studio album ‘Charismatic Leaders’ on the 3rd May 2024. Today they launch the albums third single, ‘Disciple’, and you can listen now here: Vocalist & guitarist James Lascelles comments of the track: “Disciple is a heated debate between a current and an ex-cult member and both believe they are saving the other – they are also utterly unwilling to consider the opposing point of view. The discourse between these two made up characters is a reflection of multiple topical debates in modern ..read more

Every now and again, you listen to an album that makes you go, “What did I just listen to?”. It doesn’t happen often to me, but it most certainly happened to me when I listened to the new album from Chinese group OU. Entitled “II: Frailty”, this album is a followup to their debut album that released back in 2022. I hadn’t heard of OU prior to reviewing this album, so I listened to this album with a very fresh set of ears. Certainly, the vocals of lead vocalist Lynn Wu are the star of the show here. Her vocals are gorgeous on their own, and simply magical when they get processed/layered as they ..read more

Progressive rockers HAKEN are pleased to announce they will bring their special ‘An Evening With’ tour to the UK & Europe in September 2024. Kicking off on the 4th September in Finland, the band will be performing the entirety of their acclaimed newest album ‘Fauna’, as well as other tracks from across the band’s career. The band comment: “We’ve been wanting to give the European fans a full-length show for a while now, so we are really excited to be bringing ‘An Evening with Haken’ to the continent in September. We had such a blast with this format in North America earlier this year, and w ..read more

Reviewed by Bob Keeley There is something special about Morsefest. I finally got to attend in 2023 after years of buying all the videos and live recordings from each previous festival. While the Morsefest performances of Neal Morse’s catalog are maybe not the best ones I have in my collection, I still order them the minute they become available because there is a spirit in them and an emotional charge that is unique. Morsefest, is a two-evening concert, usually giving complete performances of two albums from Morse’s catalog along with some other songs. In fact, with the exception of 2023, Mors ..read more

SiX By SiX, the progressive power trio comprising Ian Crichton (Saga), Nigel Glockler (Saxon) and Robert Berry (3.2), are pleased to announce the release of their sophomore album ‘Beyond Shadowland’ on InsideOutMusic on 26th April 2024. The band reconvened in Berry’s own Soundtek Studios in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2023 to bend, shape, hammer and caress their diverse musical talents into 11 impressive new tracks. With this album, they continue to define and build upon their unique melodic space, welding guitar-driven rock, metal and prog into a unique and powerful sonic setting. Today the ..read more

by Prog Nick SiX By SiX are a progressive/power-trio comprising guitarist Ian Crichton (Saga), drummer Nigel Glockler (Saxon) and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry (3.2, GTR). Having released a successful debut in 2022 that certainly made its mark, the band has now released a sophomore album of eleven songs entitled ‘Beyond Shadowland’. Recorded during the course of 2023 in Berry’s San Francisco studios, the album flexes, refines and forges the band’s established sound into a slightly less Progressive form than the debut, but the result is a no less pleasing one. It is a cornucopia o ..read more

With two of their UK concerts in September 2024 already sold out, Big Big Train are delighted to announce an additional show to take place on 5th October 2024 at Cadogan Hall in London as part of the band’s The Likes Of Us tour, promoting their recently released first studio album for InsideOut/Sony. Lead vocalist Alberto Bravin says: “Last year we played two fantastic shows at Cadogan Hall. Despite living in London some years ago, I had never previously been to Cadogan, but I fell in love with the venue the moment I stepped into it. I can’t wait to return there for what should be a very speci ..read more

Progressive multi-instumentalist and celebrated guitarist Richard Henshall has announced the release of his new EP – the first in an a trilogy – Mu Vol. 1, on 7th June. He has also unveiled the first single ‘Mu’, along with a multi-cam play-through video. Watch the video for ‘Mu’ here: Preorder Mu Vol. 1 EP here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/richardhenshall/mu During 2020 Henshall started work on his Mu collection, a trilogy of EPs that explore his love for jazz-infused, intricate instrumental music. The EPs will be released throughout 2024 and promise to be some of his most richly textu ..read more

After more than 30 years of shaping progressive metal history, EVERGREY rises again, announcing the release of their fourteenth studio album, ‘Theories of Emptiness’, set for release on June 7, 2024, via Napalm Records. This new chapter kicks off with the mesmerizing new single “Falling From the Sun”, featuring heavy riffs combined with catchy choruses and hard-hitting melancholic lyrics, and acting as as a sequel to “Ominous” – cut from their worldwide chart-topping latest album, ‘A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)’. Guided by unmistakable founder, singer, and guitarist Tom S. Englu ..read more