The Prog Report

Jason Bieler is back with his fourth album under the moniker Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra. The latest release, Dancing Floor, follows a string of fantastically weird and eclectic albums, including last year’s brilliant The Escapologist, 2023’s Postcards from the Asylum, and 2021’s Songs for the Apocalypse. With each rele...

Review by Bob Keeley

Since 1993 when the release of Journey of the Dunaden marked the debut of the mostly-studio band Glass Hammer, the albums produced by Steve Babb and Fred Schendel, along with a rotating cast of other singers and players, have focused on storytelling. Of their 22 previous studio albums (depending on how you count), at least 16 of them are c...

Neal Morse & The Resonance return with their highly anticipated second studio album, River of Light, a powerful and deeply personal progressive rock journey, set for release on November 27th, 2026.

On this new podcast, Neal Morse and singer Johnny Bisaha talk about the new album ‘River of Light’, how they wrote, the inspiration, the new band lineup and mor...

by Dave Campbell

Progressive Black Metal band ENSLAVED formed in 1991, just as the ‘second wave’ of Black Metal’ was forming in Norway. The so-called ‘first wave of Black Metal’ didn’t really have the defining characteristics of the genre that we have come to know today, so in many ways, the second wave was more important in shaping Black Metal. Consider this as well: ...

by Geoff Bailie

Some bands explode out of the starting blocks with the energy of a sprinter, only to fade as quickly as they arrived – or worse, never regain their initial speed. Others possess the stamina of a marathon runner, their endurance forged over decades, and are still able to move at a pace undiminished by the miles behind them. Big Big Train are most definit...