Welcome to Prog‘s model new Tracks Of The Week. Seven model new and numerous slices of progressive music so that you can take pleasure in.
An enormous effectively performed to Dutch melodic proggers 9 Stones Shut, whose new monitor Ghosted received final week’s TOTW, regardless of an almighty late surge by fellow Dutch artwork rockers Lesoir, with UK duo Hats Off Gents It is Sufficient in a good third place.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is straightforward – we have collated a batch of latest releases by bands falling below the progressive umbrella, and collated them collectively in a single submit for you – makes it a lot simpler than having to dip out and in of assorted particular person posts, would not it?
The thought is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a stream), take pleasure in (or not) and in addition to vote in your favorite within the voting type on the backside of this submit. Could not be simpler may it?
We’ll be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the title implies, every week. Subsequent week we’ll replace you with this week’s winner, and current a number of latest prog music so that you can take pleasure in.
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DELVING – ZODIAK
delving (with a small ‘d’, that is not typo!)is the instrumental psych-kraut-prog-rock undertaking headed by Elder frontman Nicholas DiSalvo. The band will launch their second album All Paths Diverge as two vinyl editions by way of Stickman Information (EU) and Blues Funeral Recordings (US) on August 23, from which comes the pulsating Zodiak.
“All Paths Diverge has many faces and aspects, and Zodiak exhibits a few of the most progressive and heavy sides of the file.” DiSalvo feedback. “Word that that is solely an abridged model and the complete album model incorporates minutes extra of ambiance! I most likely labored on Zodiak for a couple of years on and off and I believe every a part of the monitor displays a second in time, a portion of the yr, a section of the zodiac.”
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SWALLOW THE SUN – INNOCENCE WAS LONG FORGOTTEN
Innocence Was Lengthy Forgotten is the primary new music from Finnish prog metallers Swallow The Solar in three years, for the reason that band launched their eighth studio album, Moonflowers, in 2021. Normally that signifies there is a new album within the pipeline however there is not any data on that as but. The brand new single was produced and combined by Dan Lancaster (Carry Me The Horizon, Muse, Enter Shikari), mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Road Studios and recorded by guitarist Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio.
“All the brand new Swallow The Solar music felt like an ice dagger via a sleeping coronary heart,” the band intone. “So we needed to work with a robust producer, Dan Lancaster, to push this dagger even deeper into this coronary heart of ours.”
![SWALLOW THE SUN - Innocence Was Long Forgotten (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oBkkyDzajDc/maxresdefault.jpg)
KEYS – VORTEX
Keys is the proggier undertaking from Mark Mangold, the person behind melodic rockers Contact, who performed on the very first Monsters Of Rock at Donington, AOR band Drive, She Stated, and US pomp rockers American Tears. Alongside Mangold are vocalist Jake E (Cyhra, Amaranthe), Emanuel Bagge for extra vocals and keyboards, Irwan Fabrien, drummer Alex Landenburg (Kamelot) and Adde Larsson. Keys will launch new album The Grand Seduction on July 19, from which Vortex is taken.
“This file was such enjoyable to file,” says Mangold. “We don’t restrict ourselves, and hold pushing the envelope. For me it’s fantastic as Jake can sing something… and his unbelievable vary provides us quite a lot of freedom to go the place we wish to go. We prefer to shock ourselves.”
“For me that is inspiring as a result of it’s completely different than the bands I’ve been in,” provides Jake E. “I believe Keys has a really signature sound and we don’t concern ourselves with time and even path as a lot as simply attempting to make songs and recordings that we get a thrill from.”
ENIGMATIC SOUND MACHINES – AFTER THE FLOOD
Montreal-based Thomas Szirmay is a musicologist, researcher, producer, arranger, and author who has contributed to the Prog Archives web site amongst others, but it surely was when he started collaborating with childhood pal Jeremie Arrobas, a founding member of Males With out Hats, that Enigmatic Sound Machnes started to take form. The pair launched their debut album Telepathic Waves in 2023. They launched the follow-up, The Hierarchies Of Angels, earlier this yr from which comes the richly atmospheric After The Flood with its eye-catching just-released video.
“[After The Flood] is an instrumental powerhouse, that includes a masterful bass solo from Hansford Rowe of Gong, Gongzilla, HR3 fame,” enthuses Szirmay, including that The Hierarchies Of Angels “is an idea album that offers with anger, despair, religion, hope, salvation, submission, and naturally, the present flavour of the century, evil.”
KINGCROW – NIGHT DRIVE
Evening Drive is the second single to be taken from Italian proggers Kingcrow’s upcoming album Hopium, which can be their first launch for brand spanking new label Season Of Mist and can be launched on August 23. Evening Drive‘s music video, directed by Riccardo Nifosì & Devilnax, options the actress Federica Zongoli and singer Diego Marchesi in a tragic story of affection.
Kingcrow (Diego Marchesi – vocals, Diego Cafolla – guitars, keys, backing vocals,
Ivan Nastasi – guitars, backing vocals, Riccardo Nifosì (bass, backing vocals) and
Thundra (drums, percussion)) recorded Hopium at Rome’s Sound Below Stress, which was produced by brothers Diego and Thundra Cafolla. The album additionally options Vikram Shankar of SIlent Skies on piano on its title monitor.
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WILLIAM D DRAKE – THE FLICKERING SHADE
English musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter William D Drake is greatest often called a member of the much-loved and much-missed Cardiacs, and he is additionally labored with offshoot The Sea Nymphs and North Sea Radio Orchestra in addition to having fun with a formidable solo profession.
The Flickering Shade is Drake’s newest digital single (right here with a video created by Ashley Jones, setting nineteenth century English poet Thomas Ashe’s poem of the identical title to music. In addition to Drake on vocals and piano, the tune additionally options Dean Gaisburgh-Watkyn’s on guitar and bass and Steve Jackson on drums.
![William D Drake: The Flickering Shade [Official Video] - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7O8dsmZYV7E/maxresdefault.jpg)
WHITE HILLS – FIEND
Cult New York psych retailers White Hills have been wowing followers with their music for over 20 years now. Duo Dave W. (guitar and vocals) and Ego Sensation (bass, drums and vocals) will launch their upcoming philosophy-inspired album Past This Fiction via Heads On Fireplace Information on August 23, the follow-up to 2022’s The Revenge Of Heads On Fireplace. The brand new album has been Impressed by the concepts of Joseph Campbell, the author/thinker recognized for The Energy Of Fable, the album explores the concept of “using between opposites”- forging one’s personal path unrestrained by the collective “fiction” that the plenty subscribe to.
“Image darkish metropolis streets with low-lying fog,” says Dave W. “You are feeling haunted by a presence behind however as you flip round it disappears. You begin to run, pursued by an invisible tormenter that seems to be solely your personal notion of time and house.”