Welcome to Prog‘s emblem new Tracks Of The Week. Seven emblem new and numerous slices of innovative tune so that you can experience.
An enormous smartly accomplished to Dutch melodic proggers 9 Stones Shut, whose new monitor Ghosted received closing week’s TOTW, regardless of an almighty overdue surge via fellow Dutch artwork rockers Lesoir, with UK duo Hats Off Gents It is Good enough in a decent 3rd position.
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is modest – we have collated a batch of recent releases via bands falling beneath the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single publish for you – makes it such a lot more straightforward than having to dip out and in of quite a lot of particular person posts, does not it?
The theory is to observe the movies (or concentrate if it is a circulation), experience (or no longer) and likewise to vote to your favorite within the vote casting shape on the backside of this publish. Could not be more straightforward may just it?
We’re going to be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the identify implies, every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of recent prog tune so that you can experience.
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DELVING – ZODIAK
delving (with a small ‘d’, that is not typo!)is the instrumental psych-kraut-prog-rock challenge headed via Elder frontman Nicholas DiSalvo. The band will free up their 2nd album All Paths Diverge as two vinyl editions by means of Stickman Data (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 displays one of the maximum innovative and heavy aspects of the document.” DiSalvo feedback. “Word that that is most effective an abridged model and the whole album model accommodates mins extra of atmosphere! I almost certainly labored on Zodiak for a couple of years on and off and I feel every a part of the monitor displays a second in time, a portion of the 12 months, a section of the zodiac.”
![delving - Zodiak [single edit] - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jx28Xj7bRqo/maxresdefault.jpg)
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SWALLOW THE SUN – INNOCENCE WAS LONG FORGOTTEN
Innocence Used to be Lengthy Forgotten is the primary new tune from Finnish prog metallers Swallow The Solar in 3 years, because the band launched their 8th studio album, Moonflowers, in 2021. Normally that indicates there is a new album within the pipeline however there is no data on that as but. The brand new unmarried was once produced and combined via Dan Lancaster (Convey Me The Horizon, Muse, Input Shikari), mastered via Tony Lindgren at Fascination Boulevard Studios and recorded via guitarist Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio.
“The entire new Swallow The Solar tune felt like an ice dagger via a drowsing middle,” the band intone. “So we would have liked to paintings with an impressive manufacturer, Dan Lancaster, to push this dagger even deeper into this middle of ours.”
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KEYS – VORTEX
Keys is the proggier challenge from Mark Mangold, the person at the back of melodic rockers Contact, who performed at the first actual Monsters Of Rock at Donington, AOR band Power, She Stated, and US pomp rockers American Tears. Along Mangold are vocalist Jake E (Cyhra, Amaranthe), Emanuel Bagge for added vocals and keyboards, Irwan Fabrien, drummer Alex Landenburg (Kamelot) and Adde Larsson. Keys will free up new album The Grand Seduction on July 19, from which Vortex is taken.
“This document was once such amusing to document,” says Mangold. “We don’t restrict ourselves, and stay pushing the envelope. For me it’s glorious as Jake can sing the rest… and his fantastic vary offers us a large number of freedom to head the place we need to move. We love to marvel ourselves.”
“For me that is inspiring as a result of it’s other than the bands I’ve been in,” provides Jake E. “I feel Keys has an excessively signature sound and we don’t worry ourselves with time and even path up to simply looking 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, manufacturer, arranger, and creator who has contributed to the Prog Archives site amongst others, nevertheless it was once when he started taking part with youth good friend 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, previous this 12 months from which comes the richly atmospheric After The Flood with its crowd pleasing just-released video.
“[After The Flood] is an instrumental powerhouse, that includes a masterful bass solo from Hansford Rowe of Gong, Gongzilla, HR3 reputation,” enthuses Szirmay, including that The Hierarchies Of Angels “is an idea album that offers with anger, depression, religion, hope, salvation, submission, and naturally, the present flavour of the century, evil.”
KINGCROW – NIGHT DRIVE
Evening Power is the second one unmarried to be taken from Italian proggers Kingcrow’s upcoming album Hopium, which will likely be their first free up for brand new label Season Of Mist and will likely be launched on August 23. Evening Power‘s tune video, directed via Riccardo Nifosì & Devilnax, options the actress Federica Zongoli and singer Diego Marchesi in a sad tale 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 Beneath Power, which was once produced via brothers Diego and Thundra Cafolla. The album additionally options Vikram Shankar of SIlent Skies on piano on its identify monitor.
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WILLIAM D DRAKE – THE FLICKERING SHADE
English musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter William D Drake is best possible referred to as 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 playing an excellent solo occupation.
The Flickering Color is Drake’s newest virtual unmarried (right here with a video created via Ashley Jones, surroundings nineteenth century English poet Thomas Ashe’s poem of the similar title to tune. 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)
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WHITE HILLS – FIEND
Cult New York psych traders White Hills had been wowing enthusiasts with their tune for over twenty years now. Duo Dave W. (guitar and vocals) and Ego Sensation (bass, drums and vocals) will free up their upcoming philosophy-inspired album Past This Fiction via Heads On Fireplace Data on August 23, the follow-up to 2022’s The Revenge Of Heads On Fireplace. The brand new album has been Impressed via the tips of Joseph Campbell, the creator/thinker recognized for The Energy Of Delusion, the album explores the speculation of “driving between opposites”- forging one’s personal trail unrestrained via the collective “fiction” that the hundreds subscribe to.
“Image darkish town streets with low-lying fog,” says Dave W. “You are feeling haunted via a presence at the back of however as you flip round it disappears. You begin to run, pursued via an invisible tormenter that seems to be most effective your personal belief of time and area.”
