What do you get when you combine thrilling power metal with a genuine progressive approach? Alkemyst knows the answer. Their amazing LP “Meeting in the Mist” holds all the key elements that add up for a truly memorable album. This exclusive re-edition of Alkemyst’s debut opus brings back one of the most exciting releases ever to emerge on the French metal scene!

Available now from the excellent www.caerllysimusic.co.uk a Re-mastered limited edition double CD digipak which includes approximately 40 minutes of additional music.

£10.45 + P&P

We are awaiting a copy of the new release from Mangrove entitled "Beyond Reality" it was released on June 27th 2009 in collaboration with Gigant!.

More information available from their website http://www.mangrovemusic.nl/

There is also a preview of their album on their website and an upcoming releaseconcert at Gigant, Apeldoorn (NL) soon!

Lee Abraham has decided to leave Galahad to concentrate on his solo work,apparently the guys were moving in a different direction to Lee. Anyone who has yet to check out some of Lee`s solo work head over to his website at http://www.leeabraham.co.uk you will not be disappointed.The official statement on galahads website is as follows " NEWSFLASH! Stuart Nicholson just issued the following statement

This month's episode will focus on the making of the new DVD and the people who were dragged kicking and screaming into our tiny world to help out.Poor old Jim had the most work to do as sadly, the guitar amp that was hired for him on the night of the Poland show, just wouldn't play ball at all.Both Jim the crew on the night did a great job of coaxing some life out of it but it coughed and wheezed like an OAP and the sound he got was was pretty poor. Play Tinyverse#3

Metal Mind Productions presents the third live album by Landmarq - one of the leading bands on the British neo-progressive scene! The album entitled “Turbulence – Live in Poland” features a recording of the band’s superb performance at the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland in November 2005 taken from the Landmarq DVD of the same title. Majestic guitars and keyboards, sophisticated compositions and Tracy Hitchings' beautiful voice – it’s all there!

"Far From Home", the first DVD from British prog rock band DeeExpus, is finally set for release this coming Monday, 6th July. For an early sneak preview of the DVD, we have uploaded the track "Greed" - on Metal Mind Productions' channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MetalMindPoland.

Andy Ditchfield: "Greed was written specifically as the opening track for Half Way Home and it seemed fitting that we should play it to open our third ever live performance and the second night of Prog-Rock 2009. The song is a particular band favourite and we hope you enjoy the taster."

The premiere of the new album by the progressive rock band Believe is just around the corner. The band’s third full-length album entitled “This Bread Is Mine” will be released by Metal Mind Productions on 31st August in Europe and 6th October in USA (via MVD).
Just to give you a foretaste of the new material, the band posted on their official Myspace site a full version of the title track – “This Bread Is Mine”: www.myspace.com/believeartrock

The artwork is being finalised and a release date will be set shortly. The album will be titled “Template for a Generation” and the track listing is as follows:

The Illusion is Freedom (19:18)
Breathe it in (11:28)
Age of Broken Reason (13:35)

It was decided at the beginning of the year to release the three completed tracks as a statement of the band’s continuity. The album clocks in at just under 45 minutes, slightly shorter than is the norm these days, however we feel the tracks contain enough music to justify its release. The album will be sold at a special price of £8 direct from our website and will be available for pre-order very soon.

Big Red Spark update.
With the arrival of our new Pro Tools recording system, work on the new album has doubled in intensity. Over the past week or so, I have been herding the many takes of audio, recorded on any number of bits of software, into a new paddock where the buggers cannot escape. Having them in one place means that yours truly and convert all the files into a format that Pro Tools can understand.

I have been in contact with simon today from the excellent New Horizons website which you can find at http://www.elrose.co.uk. Simon has agreed to put the progboys website on his links page and add a news item for us. Iam vey thankful for this and i urge anyone who has any passing interest in Progressive rock to visit his site.

New Horizons is updated on a regular basis with Progressive, Symphonic and Classic Rock, Metal, Electronica and Ambient rock news,Concert Dates and Cd Reviews. There is also a blog site available at http://nhprogblog.blogspot.com/ it currently has a superb review of RoSFest2009.

Check out the official NEARfest '09 photo gallery from the Studio M boys!PFM

This year`s lineup featured the following bands:-
Gong (UK),Van der Graaf Generator (UK),Steve Hillage Band (UK),Trettioåriga Kriget (Sweden) ,D.F.A. (Italy) ,Oblivion Sun (United States),Beardfish (Sweden),Quantum Fantay,(Belgium),Cabezas de Cera (Mexico)

http://www.studiomlive.com/nearfest2009/

DeeExpus are delighted to have been asked to play three dates as guests with Touchstone on their "London to Los Angeles" Autumn tour (though they seem to have overlooked the Los Angeles leg. bummer!). Their critically acclaimed album "Wintercoast" has been on the DeeExpus CD player for about a fortnight now, and features some powerful driving prog married with superb, and at times haunting, vocals courtesy of Kim Seviour. Cracking stuff! Get yourself along to one (or all!) of the following, we guarantee you a stonker of a night!

We've been dredging through the video vaults and have started uploading previously unseen SB video to the band's YouTube site. Interviews, rehearsals, recording sessions, etc. More will be added in the upcoming weeks. Also coming up will be a videolog as the band starts working on their 10th studio album. Stay tuned...http://www.youtube.com/Spocksbeard

The "3RP Fest Live 2008" DVD will be released this Friday June19th, featuring Spock's Beard, Neal Morse, California Guitar Trio, Manifesto, The Flower Kings, Rocket Scientists, Gongzilla, Mandrake Project, Izz and Kalon.

This DVD also captures the Spock's Beard reunion with Neal Morse performing The Light and Neal's reunion with Transatlantic.

For more information, and to purchase, click here: www.3rprogfest.com

Memories Of Machines is the name of the new project formed by Tim Bowness (No-Man) and Giancarlo Erra (Nosound). Involving contributions from Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Jim Matheos (OSI/Fates Warning) and members of the No-Man and Nosound bands, the debut album (likely to be called Warm Winter) was recorded over a three year period in New York, Rome, Småland (Sweden) and Norwich (UK). The album is almost complete, just to finish a few things on mixes and recordings. Even if still no record label or official release date, I'll post soon a teaser video to let you taste what you'll find on it.. Even on this project, waiting is almost finished..

Nosound will return later this year with their new album, A Sense Of Loss. Giancarlo Erra has put a video teaser for the album online at www.asenseofloss.com.
A Sense Of Loss is scheduled to be released on October 12th on Kscope. From the teaser you'll see and hear a few bits of music and from recent recording sessions for the new album, moving from what the band did in the past 'towards alternative, post rock songs territories'..

Roadrunner have posted some clips of Porcupine Tree working in the studio on their forthcoming album The Incident here.Also the cover image and subtitles to the various parts of the long song cycle that takes up the whole of the first CD were revealed at a playback in New York earlier this week. The cover was photographed by Lasse Hoile and designed by Carl Glover.