The Prog Metal Show: Recent Episodes
Greg Stafford
A weekly show Saturday 7-11PM ET playing the best new music of the week in Progressive and Power metal. Complete with a chatroom to discuss music. Come join us live if you can.
This week we looked at this week's Prog Power USA Festival in Atlanta, Ga and all the bands playing all 4 days.
Day 1: Wednesday- The Reticent, Elvenking, Cynic, Swallow The Sun, Doro (Headliner)
Day 2: Thursday- Seven Kingdoms, Zero Hour, The Halo Effect, Vola, Beast In Black (Headliner)
Day 3: Friday- The Cryptex, Battle Beast, Ad Inifinitum, Green Carnation, Caligula's Horse, Kamelot (Headliner)
Day 4: Saturday- Proverty's No Crime, Evil Invaders, Visions Of Atlantis, Delain, Unleash The Archers, Myrath (Headliner)
New music this week followed with Nexus Insidias, Vodnik, Soen, Primal Fear, Kalyptra, Aviation, Antipod, Afterwinter and singles from
Signum Regis and Draconicon.
I'll be away on 9/9, but will return again on the 9/16
This week's show features new music from Aztra, Damnation Plan, Sherinian & Phillips Live, Dragonheart, Edu Falaschi, Grymheart, Notturno, Sinheresy, Sebastiside and Spirit Adrift. Add in singles from After Infinity and Theocracy and the featured band of the week Noveria that starts things off damn nicely. Add in some older favorites not played on the show in awhile and you have a great show. Incidentally the show ended a few minutes early due to not feeling well and my apologies for having to end a bit early.
This week we dive into a band called Blind Man's Daughter, Mercenary, Tryo, Warmen and Obilivion Protocol. WIth singles from Iron Savior, Primal Fear, Tanshuman Das and Okapi Busdriver.
This week's new music included Hemina, Herc, Mark7, Michael David and Somnuri. Add in some of the best of prog metal dating back to the beginning of this station and you have a great show. Some of the music included Zero Hour, Vanden Plas, Pain Of Salvation and more.
I also featured some of the bands playing at Prog Power USA in Atlanta including Kamelot, Caligula's Horse, Green Carnation and Ad Infinitum. More to come in another show as we count down to the festival.
This week's show features new music from Devin Townsend (LIVE), Fronteeria, The Gorge and singles from Element Of Fate, The Advent Equation and Sinheresy. We checked out new music on The Courtyard, our prog rock station featuring singles from Head Spin and Sudler's Row. From there I dove into some old favorites in prog. Enjoy the show.
This week's show featured The Barrel, Surreal, Revealing Chaos, Recite The Cynic, Mesopotamia, Avgmentor, Flor De Loto, Distorted Force, Beyond God, Arch Echo, A Dark Halo, Nuclear Power Trio and a single from Novena. The rest of the show features some old favorites and some new ones.
This week's new music includes The Zenith Passage, Mystfall, Kirk, Kikimora, The Spectre Beneath (from 2021) and a look back at some of the best of 2023 and some requests to take you back 20 years. A collection of just about everything prog & power metal.
This week we have new music from Eleine, Edge Of Paradise, Thunderforge, Recite The Cynic, Voyager, Chimp Spanner, Atomic Symphony, Nth Iteration, Dead Marble, Tiwanaku and singles from Temic and Antipod. Also some classic prog and power metal tracks with a few from the last show to dive deeper into the albums.
This week I look back to the last show playing more from Pyramaze, Nospun and Infinite Spectrum to name a few. With new music this week includes Anima Tempo, Rhegia, Schizofrantik, Ultima and more.
This week's show features new music from Anna Kiara, Ari Koivunen, Degrees Of Truth, Forged In Black, Jag Panzer, Mystic Prophecy, Sculforge, Sidequest, The Anchoret, Varjo Orkesteri, Ocean Districts, Divided By Design, Nospun, Pyramaze, Sea In The Sky and more.
This week's show features new music from Elegy, Winterage, Stellar Curcuits, Machine In The Mountain, Infinite Spectrum, Divinex, AVKRVST and a single from an upcoming album from VAK. Also played some of the music from last week's show to dive deeper into the releases and a few Live requests from our listeners. Tune in Live Saturdays 7-11PM ET.
This week's show I play an interview we did with Brook Hansen of Prog Rock Orchestra and The Hunter Project playing two tracks from the Prog Rock Orchestra and the new track from The Hunter Project. Then we dive into all new music with new music from Avenged Sevenfold, Max Enix, Regus, Isolation Tank Ensemble, Ray Alder, Agora, Masqued, Good Morning, Professor, Systemia, Knim, Dysplacer, Anubis Gate, Septa and Hypnos. Sprinkle in new singles from Damnation Plan, Half Heard Voices, Black7, Talia Hoit, Thus and more.
This week's show features new music from Abertooth Lincoln, Horizon's End, Jason Ashcraft, Lawrence Wallace, Omnerod, Reasons Behind, Ring Of Gyges, Sunbeam Overdrive, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Ocean, The Silent Rage, Their Dogs Were Astronauts, Walk With Titans, Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution and singles from Hessdalen Light, Nebularis, Pyramaze and Rainover to round out the evening.
Tune in next week for Anubis Gate and more..
This week we have new music from Cairo, Ceremony Of Darkness, Neolia, Sovereign Council, The Under, The Soiled Doves, Vvon Dogma I, Disillusive Play, Exelerate, Majesty, Ocean's Edge, Rod1313, Thought Sphere, Hidalgo, O.S.M. and singles from For Giants, Hamara and Malacoda. A great week of new music.
This week's show focused on the debut release from the band Severed Angel featuring several songs from the album, new singles from Anubis Gate, The Spectre Beneath and Satra. Along with AVJRVST debut album. To round out the evening a lot of favorites from past years.
This week's show features new music from Curse Of Cain, Elvenking, Redshift, Noturnal, Eterea, Gates Of Prophecy, Ignea, a new single from Arch Echo and more. A look back to last weeks show diving into more of the releases. A great night of music and a blast to listen to.
This week's show features new music from Anthem, Dark Side-Bright Side, Fall Of Earth, Crown Lands, Phaeton, Samuli Federley, Vedalia and Nerve End. Featuring singles from Atrium, Kripke's Illusion and Riverwood.
This week I look back at the last few weeks of new music as well as new music from Leather, Roger Staffelbach, Medevil, Tardigrade Inferno, Vass-Katsionis and Richochet. Add in a new single from Damnation Plan to polish things off. A fun week of great music.
This week's new music includes new music from the band Apex Origin, Avaland, Evermore, Kong, Lampr3a, Thor Sejersen Riis and add it singles from Talia Hoit, Sermon and Jupiter Hollow to round out the new music for the week. I then look back to last week's show and share more from that week's new music along with some of your favorites.
This week we checking out all the Pressure Points as we head on a Rampage to find Project Shadow. With Fire Of Destiny and Sheltered Sun during the night we Trailight to Ne Obliviscaris. Immortal Guardian adds to our adventure in a single trip and then we dive deeper into last week's list as well.
Take a trip with me on board the Osyron we'll travel to Epsilon in a far away galaxy then head back to Kamelot for our Redemption before reaching Narnia. Challenges ahead as we travel through Turrigenous rock and make our way to Stomb to check out The Resonance Project. Plus some of the new music first heard last week to round out the show.
This week I have new music from Fred Hernandez, Frozen Crown, Ice Age, Lovebites, Periphery, Abhcan, Speaking To Stones and singles from Kripke's Illusion, Black7 and Head Spin.
This week new music from Haken, Juglans Regia, Lunar, PeroPero, Thousand Sun Sky, Tocsin, Abel Sequera, Days Before Tomorrow and singles from Ice Age, The Under and Martin Miller.
This week's show features new music from Arcana Collective, Ascension, Conner Patrick Rogers, Fairytale, Hog Meets Frog, Hyno5e, Koronus, Manigance, Molitoth and singles from Ironside, Jupiter Hollow, Aqvilea, Keith McCoy and Monumental.
This week we dive into Dusk, Excalion, Hollentor, Great Wide Nothing, Shroud Of Bereavement, Zebeck, Cryptic Confinement, Rain, and singles from Red Cain, Ropemaker, Ascension, Dead End Finland, Fairytale, Hot Meets Frog, Manigance, Despite The Reverence and Medevil.
This week's show features new music from Delain, Coachlight, Lampr3a, Kruyssen, Klone, Esprit D'Air, Ciconia, Victor Smolski, Surface Of The Sun, Pyramaze, Myth Of Origin and Mask Of Prospero.
This week we have new music from Zebeck, Armiferum, Heleven, Haken, Storeborn, Queen Golem, Nergard, Xeno, Stormbreaker, Sarah Halter, Nothing Sacred, Norwald, Matt Miller, Leprous, Lampr3a, Anasazi, Mute Prophet, Docker's Guild, Evermore and Epica.
This week's show features new music from Aviram Tzur, Lattermath, Ropemaker, Avaland, Alase, The Enigma Division, Moonscape, Corvius, Periphery, Wedingoth, Arcana Collective, The Fear Of Being Forgotten, Fallen Keys, Katatonia, Sum Of Seven, Univertigo, Ciconia, Hollow Hour, Red Cain, Norwald and Anasazi.
This week we feature new music from Backfire, Fractures In The Sky, Redemption, Initial Mass, The Skies Are Shifting and more.
This week we talk to the band Vice and their new album For The Fallen and play the album during the interview.
This is the best of the best our annual New Years Eve Top 25 Countdown featuring our Top 25 albums of Progressive and Power Metal, but first we countdown the Top 10 albums of Progressive Rock.
Our Top 10 Progressive Rock
10) Caravaggio – Caravaggio
09) King's X - Three Sides Of One
08) Kerry Livgren - Q.A.R.
07) Arena - The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance
06) David Longdon – Door One
05) Pattern-Seeking Animals - Only Passing Through
04) Lalu - Paint The Sky
03) Six By Six – Six By Six
02) Evership - The Uncrowned King Act 2
01) Porcupine Tree - Closure Continuation
Our Top 25 Progressive & Power Metal albums
25) Amophis - Halo
24) Tau Zero - The Monolith
23) Blind Guardian - The God Machine
22) The Midgard Project - The Great Divide
21) Philosophobia - Philosophobia
20) The Third Grade - Quadrivium (Geometry Of Time)
19) Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
18) The Arkitecht - Heart Failure
17) Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance
16) Star One - Revel In Time
15) Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
14) Atomic Symphony - Hybris
13) Derek Sherinian - Vortex
12) Knight Area - D-Day II (The Final Chapter)
11) Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
10) Hunting Giants – Mythos
09) Devin Townsend – Lightwork
08) Virtual Symmetry – Virtual Symmetry
07) Seventh Wonder - The Testament
06) Spheric Universe Experience - Back Home
05) Disillusion - Ayam
04) Backfire - The Two Of Us
03) Threshold - Dividing Lines
02) Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds 2
01) Wilderun - Epigone
This week's show features new music from The Third Grade, Induction, Meteora, Hartlight, Dark Matter, Mechanical Man, Astral Experience, Fortress Under Siege, Aeveris, Kaleido Sound Project, The, Spaceman Sir, God, Desert Near The End, Vella, Lifeforce, Zeke Sky. With singles from Chimp Spanner, Severed Angel and Legado De Una Tragedia
This week we have new music from Threshold, Novena, Hagane, Lovebites, Arc Of Life, Evraak, Seventh Station, Our 11th Hour, Avandra, Galderia, Tigersclaw, Digregorio, Black Hole, Inner Urge, Joey Grimaldi, Theicon, Luminatus, Project Mankind, Absolon, and Mistborne. With new live cuts from Epica and Soen and singles from Red Cain, Immortal Guardian, Xeno, Pomegranate Tiger and 66Crusher.
Killer week of mostly new music. Hope you enjoy.
This week's show we have new music from Aittala, Epica (Live), Arrayan Path, Binary Creed, Cydemind, Incidence, Deathless Legacy, Dragonfly (Single), Dragonhammer, Inflected, 777Mecha, Orion Saiph, Empress and Lovebites. To fill the show I added in a section of live music with the Epica track and some of the artists/bands from last week's show playing different tracks from those albums.
It was a scary night for me, for I was possessed by two different entities. Thankfully they played all new music including new music from Royal Hunt, Numento, Nocternity, Samurai Of Prog, The Arkitecht, Teramaze, TauZero, Synaptik, Sonata Arctica, Signs, Shahyd Legacy, Rhythm Of Fear, R3VO, Powerful Systm, Onelegman, MesaVerde, Kansai Progressive Rock Orchestra, Beneath The Ruin, Never, MindAHead, Matt Miller, Heleven, Hypnagone, Hunting Giants, Dragonland, Divine Realm, All Else Fails, Gematria, Borealis and Queensryche. With singles from Enigma Division, Katatonia and Images Of Eden.
Hope you enjoy the show, it was fun to have these characters come to life in a Halloween show.
This week's show features new music from Aeternia, Avandra, Broken Side, Dreadnought, Eternal Closure, Kaledon, Kings Of Mercia, Rosespire, Stratovarius, Terra Atlantica, Andy Gillion and from the prog rock band Fearful Symmetry. Also a single from Eranaes. Loch Vostok has a track from their 2021 album as well as a new single.
Show Note: I'm taking some time off for the month of October and will return in November with more new music. So stay informed through our Facebook page and group and on our website. Thanks for checking out this show. Take care,
Greg
This week's show features new music from Edenbridge, Limuria, Seventh Servant, Veritates, We Are William, Fool's Parade, Adventure, Arsena, Signum Regis Live and Dora The Destroyer. Also a new single from IOISH plus some of your favorites to round out the evening.
This week's show is a lot of fun with new music from The HAARP Machine, Allen-Olzon, Wynvern, Ultima Grace, The Butterfly Effect, Nonvector, Damn The Machine, Extrovert, Ardarith and Dream Theater's Images And Words Demos.
This week's show is filled with new music as we celebrate a New Music Weekend with Alta Forma, Aperion Bound, Aura, Becoming The Archetype, Blind Guardian, Contemplator, Crone, Dynazty, Imperivm, Figure of Speechless, First Time On Earth, Grave Digger, King's X, Leave No Trace, Mindivide, Nomadic Marwhal, Sede Vacante, Syk and Vorbid.
With singles from Epoch Of Chirality, Nonvector and Threshold.
A week to remember.
This week's show features new music from Anthea, Flame Imperishable, For Absent Friends, Hammerstar, Digregorio, Kerry Livgren, My Soliloquy, Polarity, Renegade Angel, Sheer Cerebral Power, Tad Morose, Virtual Symmetry and Imminent Sonic Destruction. Singles from Aeveris, Evership, Kalin Tonev, Teramaze and a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan.
This week's show features new music from Elliott's Keep, Jobam Martins, Kings Of Mercia, Lonely Robot, Rosa Nocturna, Six By Six, Virtual Lies and Unprocessed. Singles from Wings Of Destiny, Morgan Reid and Immortal Guardian.
This week's show includes new music from Arch Enemy, A Thru Z, Nemo, Reign Of Glory, Somehow Jo, Splintered Throne, The Halo Effect and Vanden Plas (Live). Also new singles from Amon Amarth, Blind Guardian, Insinistra and Delain.
This week's show features new music from Joe Macre, Odyssey, Parius, Poets Of The Fall and singles from The Last Element, Hunting Giants, Anthea, Dragonland and Eternal Closure.
This week half way during the show the system crashed. Thankfully my IT Dept (me) was able to fix the issue with a simple reboot. That computer tech (me) did such a great job this week his boss (me again) gave him (AKA me) the rest of the day off...after the show. LOL
This week we have new music from Infidel Rising, Sedate Illusion, Building Upon The Revelation, Oceans Of Slumber, Seventh Storm, Stranger Vision, Sudler's Row, The Deadstation, a remaster from X Japan and Magni Animi Viri. Not to mention two new singles from Adrian Weiss.
This week we have new music from Fraser, Edwards, Kalah, Leviathan, Prosmatic, Mikael Akerfeldt, Helios, Sumptus Ignis, Sunless Sky, The Spirit and singles from Mile and Voyager.
This week we welcome Iris Divine as we discuss their latest album Mercurial diving into each song to learn more about the band and the album. We also discuss tour dates and more. To learn more about Iris Divine check out their website at http://irisdivineband.com
Now for the first part of the show there's new music from Celestial Wizard, Kaledon, Graveshadow, Idol Throne, Caustic Casanova, Obscure Form, Alan Parsons and Join The Din: with singles from Evership and Mindless Hope.
This week's show features an interview with the Great Jordan Rudess as April and I have a chat with him about his current solo tour and what to expect, Dream Theater and what gear he uses on the road. We also talk about GeoShred and some of his other IOS apps.
This week is the Big Money Show due to the songs and comedy cuts about money. I also have new music this week from Moon Letters, Reternity, Powerwolf, YYNOT, Lost Nebula, Farpoint, SGK Project, Cleanbreak, Atomic Symphony, Alestorm, singles from The Fearce And The Dead, Somehow Jo and Stormborn.
This week I start out with some interesting background music in the funky/jazz fusion style. Somewhere during the show we learn the meaning of life which if you don't know is and always shall be 42, wait that's not it....or is it? This week we have new music from Vice, The Aristocrats, Venus, Shroud Of Bereavement, Derek Sherinian, Ryo Okumoto, Head Spin, Fellowship, with singles from Feral Ghost and Hyper Planet.
This week I decided to spam everyone, other than that I have new music from Destrania, Pathos & Logos, Black Hellebore, Vice, Resistance, Porcupine Tree, Philosophobia, Icreatedamonster, Ghost Toast, Gerald Peter Project, Gabriel Keller, Coheed & Cambria, Acolyte and singles from Dvne, Kaledon, Break Me Down, Evership and Queensryche.
This week's show included new music from Seventh Wonder, Rick Massie, Automata, RO1, High Castle Teleorkestra, Wind Rose. With singles from Vorbid, Spheres and Idol Throne. We are now on Discord to chat, see what's playing and tune in using our Voice channel. All can be found at https://discord.gg/gwmfnTKt
This week we have new music from Caravaggio, Manuel Cardoso, Stormbound, Nether Nova, Kerion, Dan Begelman, Apoorv Singh Kathait, Anders Buaas, Black Sun and singles from Amon Amarth, Numento, The Unchartered, Sheltered Sun and Nadae.
This week's show features new music from Spheric Universe Experience, Starchaser, Visions of Atlantis, Spartan, Majesty Of Revival, Extinguish The Sun, Ephemeral, October Thorns, Brotality, All Things Fallen and singles from Dragonfly and Graveshadow.
This week's show features new music from Jar Of Kings, Aperion Bound, Celestial Burst, Dream Theater's Falling Into Infinity Demos, Echelon, Evergrey, Jani Liimatainen, Pymlico, Spiritraiser, The Pineapple Thief, Venus Principle, Charlie Griffiths, Zero Hour, Arnaud Quevedo & Friends. Singles from Break Me Down, Elliot's Keep, Metatrone, Belle Morte, Galladorn, Haken and Seventh Wonder.
This week we have new music from Tesseract, Kingfisher Sky, Hterochrome, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, singles from Anders Buaas, and The Fearce And The Dead plus all the new music from last week in case you missed it.
This week's show features new music from Existence Depraved, Luke Fortini, Blacklight, Slanderus, a single from Immortal Guardian, Arise for the first two hours. Then we had Greg and Josh from the band Echo Rhythm join us for an interview and played their debut album "The Program".
To learn more about Echo Rhythm visit their website https://www.echorhythm.net