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Newly remastered edition via Eddie Jobson himself. Live recording from the band's 1979 tour. This is the trio of Jobson, Wetton and Bozzio.
Record Label: Global Media
Style: Progressive Rock
New Italian prog band that makes most of the right retro-prog moves. Ubi Maior is heavily influenced by bands like Il Balletto Di Bronzo and Biglietto Per L'Inferno (on the heavier end of the spectrum) as well as displaying a lighter touch a la PFM an...
Record Label: AMS
Style: Progressive Rock
Fantastic second album of classic Italian prog served up by former The Watch keyboardist Gabriele Manzini. This is different than his Arcangel project which has a decidedly British sound. Ubi Maior aims squarely for the 70s and hits it out of the par...
Record Label: AMS
Style: Progressive Rock
4 CD budget set from UFO combines the following albums:
No Heavy Petting
Lights Out
No Place To Run
Mechanix
Record Label: EMI
Style: Hard Rock
Ukab Maerd is a Djam Karet sideproject from Chuck Oken Jr and Gayle Ellett. It explores the more electronic side of the prog spectrum but there is a strong prog rock element as well. The name of the album is a tribute to the Genesis jam on The Lamb L...
Record Label: HC Productions
Style: Electronic/Progressive Rock
"At the dawn of each new year, there’s already usually a batch of albums I am looking forward to. 2011 opened up with the great promise of music to come, and the new Ulver album was up there on my list of albums that were making me excited. Stealing my...
Record Label: KScope
Style: Avant Metal
Don't tell anyone but Umphrey's McGee is a prog band in disguise. In fact they were signed to Inside Out for European release of Anchor Drops. This Chicago based ensemble is tearing up the jam band scene with their heavy improv inflected material tha...
Record Label: Sci Fidelity
Style: Progeressive Jam Band
Umphrey's Mcgee is a Chicago based band long entrenched in the jam band scene. Unlike many of the bands active in that scene, the band does not display much affinity for country and r&b. There is more of a foundation in progressive music - Frank Zapp...
Record Label: Sci Fidelity
Style: Progressive Jam Band
BLOW OUT ON THE 2CD IMPORT VERSION - BONUS DISC WITH 7 LIVE/3 STUDIO TRACKS!!!
Umphrey's Mcgee is a Chicago based band long entrenched in the jam band scene. Unlike many of the bands active in that scene, the band does not display much affinit...
Record Label: Freeworld
Style: Progressive Jam Band
We were a little late with this one - our mistake for overlooking it. Under Linden is a talented instrumental quintet from Argentina, and symphonic rock is their game. Their soundscape revolves around the interplay between violinist Roberto Medina an...
Record Label: Viajero Inmovil
Style: Progressive Rock
California based heavy prog band on the Magna Carta label. Musically influenced by Rush, modern Yes, and Kansas.
Record Label: Magna Carta
Style: Progressive Rock
Second album from this Texas prog band builds upon there already superb debut. Intricate symphonic rock interlaced with some mindblowing fusion-esque guitar courtesy of Bill Pohl. Kurt Rongey and Co have really outdone themselves. Fans of Echolyn, G...
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Record Label: Shagadelic
Style: Psychedelic
Beautiful new album from this great Quebecois metal band. Unexpect create a twisted form of progressive metal. They incorporate prog, death, and carnival metal keeping you off kilter through out. The band utilizes beauty and the beast vocals - Leili...
Record Label: Private Release
Style: Progressive Metal
I've been waiting for a reissue of this for years and years. Recorded in 1975 for the Finnish Hi-Hat label, Uni Sono was a supergroup of sorts. It featured some of the top Finnish jazz rock musicians, most notable of which was master bassist Pekka Po...
Record Label: Rocket Records
Style: Fusion
"The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble was a live event of a very special kind. This “band of bandleaders” – emerging in the mid-1970s from Wolfgang Dauner’s “Elfeinhalb Ensemble”, which played in programmes on the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) – was made up o...
Record Label: Mood Records
Style: Jazz Rock
The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble formed in the late 70s. Although the lineup varied a bit over the years it featured stellar musicians that dabbled both in the straight jazz and jazz rock realms. Think in terms of big band jazz meets fusion without an...
Record Label: Mood Records/Inakustik
Style: Jazz Rock
New remastered two CD set of the last two albums recorded by The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble. Essentially they focus on the music of two founding members, keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner and the late guitarist Volker Kriegel.
"Wolfgang Dauner wan..
Record Label: Mood Records/Inakustik
Style: Jazz Rock
"The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, or UJRE, is not your standard big band, nor is it an all-star ensemble in the usual sense, with a compact sound and various resplendent soloists. No, the UJRE is the “band of bandleaders”, as it has often been appropri...
Record Label: Mood Records
Style: Jazz Rock
More amazingly fluid music from the UJRE. 1979's The Break Even Point and the live in 1984 Opus Sechs in one package. "Opus Sechs is a special album for me, with six brilliant compositions: "Garberville" (V. Kriegel), "Wendekreis des Steinbocks" (W. Da...
Record Label: Mood
Style: Jazz Rock
Standard domestic release in a jewel box.
Record Label: Inside Out
Style: Progressive Rock
Double live CD recorded live at the Boerderij, Zoetermeer, in The Netherlands. Essentially this is the audio of the DVD released simultaneously.
Record Label: Timms Tunes
Style: Progressive Rock
Second album from this Australian Xian prog band finds themselves on Inside Out. The band creates positive vibes neoprogressive rock. The music has a bit of a modern sheen but keyboardist Sean Timms adds a Tony Banks flavor to his playing. The stand...
Record Label: Inside Out
Style: Progressive Rock
"Founding members of the original "Rock In Opposition" [R.I.O.] movement and the inventors of "chamber rock", Univers Zero have continued to change and grow and develop over their entire career, while still keeping a ensemble sound and spirit that is e...
Record Label: Cuneiform Records
Style: RIO/Chamber Rock
"...an incredibly powerful listening experience. In fact, Heresie is a stunning one-of-a-kind item which has never been duplicated by anyone -- including Univers Zero." – Bill Tilland/All Music Guide
How does a group follow up a auspicous and..
Record Label: Cuneiform Records
Style: Chamber Rock
"Founding members of the Rock In Opposition movement, Univers Zero have continued to change and grow and develop over their entire career, while still keeping a ensemble sound and spirit that is easily recognizable. Relaps presents something that Unive...
Record Label: Cuneiform
Style: Avant Garde
A founding member of the original Rock In Opposition [R.I.O.] movement, and considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde bands of the 70s & 80s Belgium's Univers Zero were originally founded in 1974. For the first five years, they were co-led by Da...
Record Label: Cuneiform Records
Style: RIO
After 13 years a new album! Surprisingly accessible (by UZ standards) but still clearly captures the old magic.
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2nd album for Cuneiform since Daniel Denis reformed the band in the late 90s. UZ continues to mix up the formula bit with different musicians adding different colors of sound. At it's core the band carries on creating dark instrumental progressive mu...
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Implosion features Univers Zero's trademark chamber rock style - a style that they are one of the originators of - subtly modernized, infused with greater classicism and given a sharper, more electric and electronic edge. Besides leader/composer Daniel...
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Any of you catch UZ at Nearfest? They were off the charts amazing. Here's a great new live disc of a recent performance. Hide the razor blades, turn off the lights and give it a spin.
Long time label, Cuneiform Records, wrote the following ...
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Italian sideproject of Runaway Totem is even closer to the Magma sound.
Record Label: Black Widow
Style: Progressive Rock
New edition from Vinyl Magic comes in a mini-lp sleeve. Uno was formed from the remnants of Osanna and featured Danilo Rustici and Elio Danna. I always thought of it as more guitar driven than Osanna although the musical similarities are definitely t...
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Cuneiform artists covering other Cuneiform artists. Great idea and execution. 2 CD set.
Second album from this gothic metal band from Poland. Unsun was formed by Mauser, former guitarist from Vader as well as the singularly named Aya. She's a bit of a Barbie Doll figure but does have a good voice (she needs to get rid of the accent onc...
Record Label: Armoury
Style: Gothic Metal
"Unwritten Pages’ Noah is an album born out of a passion for progressive, driving music, concept albums and 80’s science-fiction film. It combines the broad musical taste of its creator Frederic Epe and the stylistic and unique musical backgrounds of ...
Record Label: Progrock Records
Style: Progressive Rock
Classic French progressive fusion trio from the early 80s led by guitarist Philippe Cauvin. His style is a bit angular and at times Fripp-like, but his use of ocassional scat-singing and upper register vocals adds a Zeuhl feel. Tonally perhaps a bit ...
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"Upsilon Acrux have been in existence for a decade in various formations, from a duo to an octet. Their current lineup of dual guitars, bass and drums is described by the band themselves as "our favorite version" of the group and it's a polyrhythmic sq...
Record Label: Cuneiform Records
Style: Progressive Rock
"Upsilon Acrux is an instrumental quintet (dual guitars, keyboards, bass and drums). Their music is generally very intense, loud, hard-hitting and unbelivably virtuosic. Upsilon Acrux's music is demanding on many levels, but mostly it demands that you ...
Record Label: Cuneiform
Style: Progressive Rock
Superb debut from this Portugues band heavily influenced by Anathema, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, and Opeth ao. The music has a dark vibe but plenty of energy. Vocalist Marcos Cesar sings with angst ridden drive that reminds of Daniel Gildenlow. His a...
Record Label: Burning Star Records
Style: Gothic Metal
Second album from this Portuguese band carries on from their first album. Emotional lyrics filled with melancholy touching on gothic metal at times. Definitely one for the Anathema crowd...
Record Label: Compact Records
Style: Gothic Metal
" 'The Naked Truth' by Ureas is a weird album. Most remarkable would be the combination of different vocals that are set to work with the lyrics, that are in itself are interesting to say the least. Ranging from a lovely, childish second voice through ...
Record Label: Locomotive
Style: Avant Garde Metal
5 CDs collected in a slipcase:
Abominog
Demons & Wizards
Fallen Angel
Raging Silence
The Magician's Birthday
These are the remastered versions with each album in a cardboard sleeve.
Record Label: Universal
Style: Hard Rock
Disc one is a "best of" compilation. Disc two is actually a PAL Region 0 DVD featuring a gig from Camden Palace, London in 1985. Amazing price...
Record Label: Sanctuary
Style: Hard Rock
Two disc set from the British hard rock legends features 2 new studio tracks as well as re-recordings of 12 classic tunes. The second disc is an NTSC DVD featuring their performance at the Sweden Rock Festival 2009.
Record Label: EAR Music
Style: Progressive Hard Rock
The dinosaurs awake! New studio album from one of the longest running progressive minded hard rock bands around. If you listen carefully you can hear Mick Box's bones creak!!
Record Label: Hip-O
Style: Hard Rock
Sanctuary "Expanded De-Luxe Edition" remaster released in 2003. First album plus the following bonus tracks:
1. Bird Of Prey (US album version)
2. Born In A Trunk (prev. unreleased alternate version)
3. Come Away Melinda (prev. unreleas...
Record Label: Sanctuary/Castle
Style: Hard Rock
This is the latest available version - part of the Sanctuary Extended De-Luxe Edition series released in 2003. This remastered version features the following bonus tracks:
1. What's Within My Heart (studio out-take)
2. Why (studio out-take...
Record Label: Sanctuary/Castle
Style: Hard Rock
2003 Sanctuary Extended De-Luxe Edition reissue of the band's sixth album. Contains the following bonus tracks:
1. Crystal Ball (previously unreleased out-take)
2. Silver White Man (vocal version, previously unreleased)
3. Proud Words ...
Record Label: Sanctuary
Style: Hard Rock
2004 Sanctuary Extended De-Luxe Edition series. Remastered with the following bonus cuts:
1. Sunshine (b-side)
2. Seven Stars (extended version)
3. Pilgrim (previously unreleased extended version)
4. If I Had The Time (demo)
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Record Label: Sanctuary
Style: Hard Rock