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Live Gallery: Opeth at The Sydney Opera House – Eora Land, 18.11.25

Yesterday was night two of Opeth‘s sold-out run at the Sydney Opera House. The crowd was attentive, devoted and full of fans who’ve been riding this band’s evolution album by…

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News: Bernth and Charles Berthoud Begin Australian Tour Next Week

The Escape the Internet tour kicks off next week, with guitar virtuoso Bernth and bass innovator Charles Berthoud performing three Australian shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney alongside prog trio The Omnific.

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Album Review: Richard Wileman – The Forked Road

There’s a moment in Woodstock the Movie, during the Country Joe and the Fish tune, ‘Section 43’, where the camera zooms in on a soft-focus blurred psychedelic lightwheel slowly turning.…

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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Magna Zero

For many of us who grew up playing in garage bands, we daydream about what life could’ve been like if we continued jamming and made it to the big-time. That…

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Live Review and gallery: The Butterfly Effect, Caligula’s Horse and Thornhill at Hobart Uni Bar 09/10/2022.

Hobart heavy metal fans were treated when Vandemonium Touring, in conjunction with Destroy All Lines, secured this fabulous triple bill of melodic, prog metal bands to play at Hobart Uni…

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Track / Video

Moses Mikheyev Shares Atmospheric & Haunting New Single ‘Hollywood Hills’

Los Angeles alt-rock solo artist Moses Mikheyev shares his excellent new single ‘Hollywood Hills’, a track which is at once haunting and yet also musically vibrant. Awash with warm reverb…

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Track: The Amorphous Androgynous Looks Both Ways At Once On Collaboration With Peter Hammill

Futurism and progressive rock go together like peanut butter and jelly, and the new offering from The Amorphous Androgynous has given listeners the same hearty feeling of nostalgia. In collaboration…

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SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant

IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf,…

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Track: Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe

TRANSATLANTIC – the Prog Supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas – are set to release their fifth studio album ‘The Absolute Universe’, on the 5th February 2021 (see…

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Track: Transatlantic – Overture/Reaching For The Sky

Transatlantic, the prog supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas have shared the video for new single ‘Overture / Reaching For The Sky’, which is taken from their new…

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