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 ...

  HRH can barely contain their excitement as the full lineup is announced for what could possibly be the greatest HRH Prog yet. 3 amazing bands complete the stunning HRH Prog XII jigsaw with Americans Spock's Beard, Norway's Airbag and the UK's Jump added to the already strong lineup that includes Tangerine Dream, The Earth Band, Steeleye Span, Pendragon, Headspace, Galahad, Doris Brendel, IT, Solstice, Magenta and many more. HRH Prog XII takes place from 17th to 20th March 2022 in Great Yarmouth, England. Get ready to get lost inside 3 days of astonishing music as HRH Prog returns to the very popular residential format. The event is now 93% sold, but seeing as it's Easter HRH are offering an incredible 20% off for the next 4 days only - with just 48 rooms left and accommodation looking to sell out in record time, fans are urged to book early. Fans can use promo code HAPPYPROGEASTER at www.hrhrpog.com to get 20% off all packages for HRH Prog XII and witness one of the ...

  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 ...

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...

Prog metallers, Vrona released their debut EP 'A Lapse In Time' last year which received positive press and even led to them being compared to the likes of heavyweights Karnivool, TesseracT and Tool, minus the vocals, as in 2016 they were an instrumental act. Now in 2017, they are back, not only with a new two-track release titled 'Impermanence' but they have also unveiled and added an extra dimension to their already massive sound with the introduction of a vocalist Jamie Ball. The main title track 'Impermanence' is ambient and textured. The vocals are pleasant, captivating and varied which immediately gives them a different feel and layer, proving that adding vocalist Jamie was a wise move. It features soaring and powerful moments throughout. The fact that they now have vocals doesn't overpower the well crafted and intelligible instruments either but only acts as the perfect unison, with both complimenting each other wonderfully. They are all impr...