[Review] Gates Of Kiev – Gates Of Kiev
The arrival of this first full length on The Laser’s Edge marks a decisive leap forward from the groundwork laid by the debut EP “Tales of Aion.” Where that earlier…
[Review] Biglietto per L’inferno – Biglietto per L’inferno (2026 AMS Records Reissue)
The self-titled debut of Biglietto per L’inferno, first pressed in 1974 on Trident, occupies one of the highest points in the architecture of Rock Progressivo Italiano (RPI). The Lecco ensemble…
[Review] Arabs In Aspic – Sorgens Kapittel
Few bands in the Norwegian Progressive Rock landscape carry the institutional weight of the Arabs In Aspic. Two decades of sustained output have cemented their position as the flagships of…
[Review] Chercán – Canto De Silencio
Chercán arrived on the scene in 2019 out of Valdivia, in Chile’s rain-forested south, an initiative born in the hands of drummer and percussionist Rodrigo González Mera, already a recognizable…
[Review] David Kollar – Music From The Bag
There is a particular strain of guitar writing that lives in the gap between composed architecture and spontaneous discovery, where a chord change is neither a cliché nor a free…
[Review] October – October (PQR 2026 Edition)
To understand what October built in the late 1970s, one must first situate the city that produced them. Detroit in that era was a crucible of raw, confrontational energy: the…
[Review] Enigmatic Sound Machines – Divided By One
When two long-time collaborators decide to stop experimenting and start building, the resulting architecture tends to carry a weight that studio exercises rarely achieve. That threshold has now been crossed…
[Review] Dragonfly – Dragonfly (2026 Musea Records)
In the annals of European Progressive Rock, few artifacts possess the unique, enigmatic charm of the self-titled debut by the Swiss outfit Dragonfly. Originally formed in Zürich in 1974 as…
[Review] The Flower Kings – HOPE
More than three decades after their inception in Sweden, The Flower Kings, long regarded as the architects of Scandinavian Progressive Rock, return with “HOPE,” their eighteenth studio album, released on…
[Review] Diluvian – Resilience EP
Formed in Liège in 2017, the Belgian quintet Diluvian, Jonathan Renard (vocals), Wolfgang Bormans and Antoine Pernot (guitars), Simon Lhoir (bass), Tom Selmi (drums), return with their second statement, “Resilience,”…