Mad About Rock

  Wokingham Festival - Ozric Tentacles announced as headliners for Day 3! They appear alongside a lineup of great artists including That Joe Payne, The Paradox Twin, Amanda Lehmann, Storm Deva & more. Wokingham Festival has announced its three day line up featuring a wide range of musical genres including a showcase of some of the best current progressive music artists. Saturday 24th August to Monday 26th August 2024, Cantley Park, Wokingham, UK Taking place on Saturday, Sunday & Monday of the August Bank Holiday weekend with over 40 artists appearing, the festival has announced that the Monday line up on August 26th, which focuses on the best of prog & rock, will feature one of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980’s festival scene, Ozric Tentacles as headliners. The band are the creative vision of multi-instrumentalist, Ed Wynne and their uniquely trippy soundscapes connect fans of progressive rock, psychedelia and dance culture. Ozric Tentacles released ...

  The light at the end of the tunnel has been spotted – and from that light emerges HRH Prog XII. The fans wanted it, the fans got it – the next chapter in HRH Prog’s long and illustrious history is to be a full-on no-holds-barred residential event, based at The 5 star Camp HRH resort in Great Yarmouth East Anglia, on the gorgeous East coast of England. Featuring a rare appearance by the legendary Tangerine Dream, and the welcome return of Pendragon, the lineup is one of the most unique and varied yet for HRH Prog. New talent hasn’t been overlooked either, with many of the bands never having performed at an HRH event before. Prog XII will be a 3 day, 2 arena showcase of the very best of progressive rock, both classic and new. As always for HRH Prog events, the lineup is based on a fan vote – with previous attendees able to express their prog preferences and the bookings closely matching their wishes. The fanbase didn’t let the side down and sure enough, the early access sales ...

Swiss Prog Metallers CELLAR DARLING unveil the new lyric video for 'Burn' from their latest album 'The Spell', which you can see here: https://youtu.be/MVAtvMCIY_k The band comment: "Just in time for the holiday season and to counteract the cold, we present you with 'Burn', yet another animated video from our concept album 'The Spell', once again created by Costin Chioreanu. This is the 9th video in our ongoing series, in which every one of the 13 album tracks will receive a visual interpretation by Costin. We hope you enjoy it!" The entire album will be visualised with animated music videos to present the whole story of 'The Spell' in the enchanting and unmistakable style of Costin Chioreanu’s visual imagination. The remaining videos will be released later this year to complete the story so far. Watch the story so far: https://bit.ly/2lTFxBC Make sure to catch CELLAR DARLING on their upcoming tour supporting their l...

After surprising their fans with 'Insomnia', the proggy and mad first single from their upcoming album, the Swiss progressive folk rockers CELLAR DARLING have dropped a brand new song and have finally announced long-awaited details about their new release. Their second studio album will be a concept album entitled 'The Spell' and it is set to release on March 22nd. Pre-orders are available now and you can get the album as 2 CD-digibook (featuring 13 songs + an audiobook of Anna Murphy telling the story behind the concept), black vinyl or digitally via this link: http://nblast.de/CDTheSpell Along with this big news, CELLAR DARLING unveiled the title track of the album. "As some of you have discovered already, over the past 13 days we have revealed the tracklist of our new album, along with amazing artwork created by Costin Chioreanu, who is also behind all of the beautiful animated videos for the new songs. The 13 tracks of 'The Spell' invite you to...

Machine Man Records recording artist Quo releases TRAMA Quo is a solo side-project from Nate Exx Gradowski of AutomatoN and Isolated Antagonist. For fans of Queensryche, The Rue and Devin Townsend Check out the video for 'Here I Am?' below: From Machine Man Records: "Created in early 2016, Quo is a progressive rock/metal journey dealing with the darkest human life issues with content dealing with death, loss, mental illness, the paranormal and loneliness." "Trama is lyrically introspective but mindfully observant of the external world around the individual vantage point. Musically, its resemblance places one foot in the slight past and one against the rear-end of the future. Quo gives a new voice for prog rock/metal by blurring the lines and adding the atmosphere." - noisebeneaththesnow.com TRAMA will be released on March 6 in digital-only format via Bandcamp. https://www.facebook.com/officialQuo/ https://quoofficial.bandc...

After releasing the title of the upcoming KAMELOT masterpiece and very first shows of the The Shadow Tour in the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, it’s time to take the next step in support of The Shadow Theory! KAMELOT’s founder Thomas Youngblood states: “The Shadow Theory album is a psychological journey through the complexity of the Human Mind. We are subjected to stimuli constantly through media, technology, social experiments and AI. Can we still be social creatures in the near future? The Shadow Theory is an album that is mixing many worlds, giving the listener an Escape within our own realities. This album was written and recorded over the entire year and we are really proud of the song elements and diversity on The Shadow Theory.” Now a first and exciting album teaser has been released, get your ears and eyes on it right HERE! The Shadow Theory was produced by acclaimed music producer Sascha Paeth and mastered by Jacob Hansen. A massive piece of work that will more than plea...