Monday, January 30, 2023

2023 Albums Preview/Anticipaton

 January

12: The Features - The Mahaffey Sessions 1999

13: Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers

20: Riverside - ID.Entity

27: Kimbra - A Reckoning

27: eMolecule - The Architect


February

1: N.R.G. - No Reasons Given [1st pressing Vinyl]

3: The Winery Dogs - III

10: Black Belt Eagle Scout - The Land, The Water, The Sky


March

3: Genesis - BBC Broadcasts

23: U2 - Songs of Surrender

24: Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions [EP]

24: Ne Obliviscaris - EXUL

31: City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

31: Deerhoof - Miracle-Level

31: The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest


April

14: Metallica - 72 Seasons

21: Jethro Tull - RökFlöte

May

26: Sparks - The Girl is Crying in Her Latte

December

29: Peter Gabriel - i/o



Confirmed Titles

Jon Anderson - The Songs of Zamran: Son of Olias

Daniel Cavanagh - Cellar Door

The Dear Hunter - Sunya (might be Spring 2024 due to Vinyl production issues, although a live Act I and Act II Vinyl could be coming sooner)

DK the Drummer - Lockers Volume 1

Kaviar - The Kaviar Sessions (Vinyl+CD)

Kevin Gilbert - KMG Archive Services Volume 3 and 4

Klimt 1918 - Amor

Paul Meany - Motivational Speaker

Moron Police - Pachinko (double album)

Phideaux - Automoto Animus (Fall)

The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise

Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex


Likely

Agent Fresco

Avenged Sevenfold

Bend Sinister

Bryan Scary

Canvas Soiaris

Capital Cities

Childish Japes - Double Album featuring Joanna Peters

Dirty Loops

Dream Theater

Dream the Electric Sleep

A Formal Horse

Giant Sky

Hotel of the Laughing Tree (Winter)

In the Presence of Wolves

In Vain

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (1 of how many?, lol)

Local Natives

Mayer Hawthorne

Neverending White Lights - Act IV

Pepe Deluxe

The Protomen

Radical Face

Ray Alder

Run Rivers

sElf

Small Leaks Sink Ships

Squid

The Bird & the Bee

The Ocean

The Reign of Kindo - Wither & Bloom (possible title)

Jessie Ware

Weather Systems

Yes


?

Burst

Dirt Poor Robins (per a FB chat 11/22/22, a new film+soundtrack is in the works)

Eldren

Enchant

Honorary Astronaut

Imogen Heap

Pain of Salvation - "The Deep End" ?

The Red Paintings - Anthems for Unwanted Wars


I'll Believe it when I Hold it in my hand

dredg

Karnivool

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Prog and Extreme Metal Album LISTS coming: Part 1-Bands who (at this time) will not be on the Lists

 

Some of these bands I like but are not exactly Prog Metal or even Metal in some cases

Bent Knee

Cairo

Circle Takes Square

Coheed and Cambria

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Enchant

Estradasphere

Exotic Animal Petting Zoo

Fair to Midland

Gatherer

Gospel

Incubus

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Kaddisfly

King's X

Long Distance Calling

Magellan

Megadeth

Metallica

Mr. Bungle

Oceansize/Vennart

Platypus/The Jelly Jam

Porcupine Tree

Secret Chiefs 3

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Spock's Beard

Thank You Scientist

The Gathering

Three

Tiles

Time of Orchids

Ulver


Loosely if not overtly "Prog Metal" that I have known but in most cases, I dismissed or, I haven't found the time to check out. Or when I did check them out, I didn't hear the best song to get into them.

A.C.T.

Adagio

Aeon Zen

After Forever

Aghora

Arkhe

Amaran's Plight

Andromeda

Animals as Leaders

Anubis Gate

Ark

Astronoid

Ayreon

Aztec Jade

Balance of Power

Barren Earth

Being

Beyond Twilight

Blotted Science

Brainstorm

Caligula's Horse

Cea Searin

Chrome Shift

Circus Maximus

Cloudkicker

Cloudscape

Communic

Conditioned Response/Pavlov's Dog

Cryptic Vision

Cynthesis

David Maxim Micic

Dark Suns

Dead Soul Tribe

Digital Ruin

Divine Regale

Dominici

Dreamscape

Dysrhythmia

Eidola

Elder

Eldritch

Elegy

Empty Tremor

Esucarys

Event

Evil Wings

Exivious

Explorer's Club

Galexia

Haken

Ice Age

Indukti

Into Eternity

Intronaut

Ion Vein

Ivanhoe

Jag Panzer

Katatonia

Kayo Dot

Kingcrow

Klone

James LaBrie (solo)

Labyrinth

Leviathan

Madsword

Mastermind

Mayadome

Mind's Eye

Mind Key

Nevermore

Nightingale

Nightwish

Nova Collective

Novembre

Oceans of Sadness

Oceans of Slumber

Odd Logic

Odin's Court

Pagan's Mind

Payne's Gray

Periphery

Planet Sarcasm

Polyphia

Prymary

Pyramaze

Pyramid Theorem

Reading Zero

Redemption

Rishloo

Sabaton

Sanctuary

San Voisen

Scar Symmetry

Seventh Wonder

Silent Force

Marco Sfogli

Sleep Parade

Soen

Sons of Apollo

Spectre

Star One

Stramonio

Stride

Subsignal

Sun Caged

Suspyre

Symphorce

Tad Morose

Tetrafusion

Trioscapes

Vox Tempus

Tesseract

The Mayan Factor

The Ocean

Therion

Thought Chamber

Threshold

Time Machine

To-Mera

Tourniquet

Under the Sun

Vangough

Venturia

VOLA

Voyager

Wastefall

Wilderun

Witherfall

Witherscape

Wolverine

Z-Lot-Z


Not enough time to consider (but might like to)

Atheist

Circle II Circle

Dominion (Lou Caldarola)

Freak Kitchen

Gordian Knot

Hammers of Misfortune

Lexeme (Lou Caldarola)

Magnitude 9

Mekong Delta

Slough Feg

Spastic Ink

Toxik (Lou Caldarola)

Wintersong (Lou Caldarola)


Power Metal

Avantasia

Edguy

Helloween

Gamma Ray

Nightwish

Rhapsody

Sonata Arctica

Stratovarius

Symphony X