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An Abstract Disillusion - Different Kinds of Hiveminds
Saison 2 · Épisode 40
mercredi 21 décembre 2022 • Durée 50:03
For this year’s End of the Year episode, we assembled an illustrious round again: Karl Westerlund, Robert Stenvall & Christian Berglönn (An Abstract Illusion), Andy Schmidt (Disillusion), Colin MacAndrew (Ashbreather) & Rioghan Darcy, talking about all of their own 2022 records as well as our favorite albums of the year.
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Bach & silent movies: Dirt Poor Robins mastermind Neil DeGraide talks about Queen of the Night
Saison 2 · Épisode 39
mercredi 14 décembre 2022 • Durée 49:40
There must have been something in the water in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004: Dirt Poor Robins emerged parallel to The Dear Hunter to go on a separate, but similarly artistic journey, culminating in their latest record and silent film, “Queen of the Night”. Mastermind Neil DeGraide told us everything about it!
Chapters:
03:30 A brief history of Dirt Poor Robins
13:18 Making a movie as an extension of the album
15:58 The Dear Hunter connection
17:40 Queen of the Night: Soundtrack vs. Score
22:30 The hybrid approach to orchestration
25:33 Komm Jesu: layering choral arrangements and adapting Bach
30:45 The average prog fan
32:00 Making a DIY low budget movie
37:04 The entire timespan until completion of Queen of the Night
42:28 The Patreon Community and upcoming plans
🎵 Dirt Poor Robins is:
Neil DeGraide
Kate DeGraide
💿 Discography:
The Cage (2007)
Last Days of Leviathan (2010)
The Raven Locks (Act 1) (2013)
The Raven Locks (Act 2) (2014)
The Raven Locks (Act 3) (2017)
The Raven Locks (Complete Record) (2019)
Dead Horse, Alaska (RED) (2019)
String arrangements and Slipknot covers: Soen goes to Atlantis
Saison 2 · Épisode 38
mercredi 7 décembre 2022 • Durée 21:12
Lars Enok Åhlund, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, moustache man and all around secret weapon of Swedish prog masters Soen, called mid-tour from Quebec, Canada to talk about their current and future live activities, choosing a certain cover version and of course everything about their new album “Atlantis”.
Chapters:
01:44 Soen goes North America
03:40 The origins of and approach to Atlantis
05:28 Arranging Soen songs for Atlantis
06:18 The song selection on Atlantis
08:12 Trials
09:25 Bringing the Atlantis show on tour
10:00 Snuff
12:55 Songwriting for the new album
15:00 Coming back to the stage after the pandemic years
16:15 Improving the live show
🎵 Soen is:
Joel Ekelöf – Vocals
Martin Lopez – Drums
Lars Enok Åhlund – Keyboards & Guitar
Cody Lee Ford – Guitar
Oleksii “Zlatoyar” Kobel – Bass
💿 Discography:
Cognitive (2012)
Tellurian (2014)
Lykaia (2017)
Lotus (2019)
Imperial (2021)
Atlantis (2022)
Bloodshot Dawn’s Morgan Reid goes solo with all instrumental guitar banger Terran
Saison 2 · Épisode 37
mercredi 30 novembre 2022 • Durée 34:35
Pondering the similarities of Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock while talking about Progressive Metal: Canadian-born, Leipzig-based guitarist Morgan Reid presents his very first solo album Terran. We covered a lot of ground including sight reading sheet music, his admiration for Philip Glass, creating a dance choreography to David Maxim Micic’s music and not to forget the #ibanezgiveaway! Hop on board!
Writing pop songs with a prog producer next time: ÆRIES present their debut Arcanum!
Saison 2 · Épisode 36
mercredi 23 novembre 2022 • Durée 25:45
Calling from Cologne, ÆRIES guitarist Julian Suhr talked to us about the ÆRIES sound, working in the studio vs. recording at home and everything else there is to know about the band’s debut album, “Arcanum”.
Chapters:
02:40 Releasing Arcanum and presenting it at Euroblast
05:05 Why ‘Waves’ didn’t make the cut for the album
06:32 What’s the ÆRIES sound?
08:36 Recording at home vs. booking a proper studio
10:30 Working with Christoph Wieczorek (Annisokay)
13:25 Infusing more old school guitar shred into an overall modern sound
16:22 Playing live without a bassist for the time being
18:10 Gear talk
19:25 Upcoming live plans and continuing the journey of ÆRIES
21:38 What’s in your Walkman?
🎵 ÆRIES is:
Laura Kiddo - Vox
Julian Suhr - Guitars, Programming
Dominik Zester - Drums
💿 Discography:
Arcanum (2022)
✔️ Follow ÆRIES:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aeriesband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aeries_band/
Youtube: https://bit.ly/AeriesYoutube
Bandcamp: https://aeriesofficial.bandcamp.com/
Not a math rock band: Poly-Math are exploring the broad church of Prog on Zenith!
Saison 2 · Épisode 35
mercredi 16 novembre 2022 • Durée 27:01
Joe Branton, bassist and designated mic-duty guy of London/Brighton instrumental proggers Poly-Math talks standard Fripp tuning, the very broad church of prog, full-on bass gear nerdery and of course “Zenith”, Poly-Math’s brand new album, out Nov. 18 on Nice Weather For Airstrikes!
Chapters:
01:55 Discovering Poly-Math at Radar Festival
06:04 Discovering Poly-Math with House of Wisdom
07:10 Going from House of Wisdom to Zenith via The Cadaver Tombs
11:30 Expanding the line-up while condensing the songwriting
15:50 Bass/guitar gear nerd out
19:15 The big question: pick or fingers?
22:40 Post-Zenith Poly-Math: which way?
🎵Poly-Math is:
Branton, Joe Leigh
Gesner, Joshua A
Olsen, Christopher Daniel
Walters, Timothy William
Woollison, Christopher James
💿 Discography:
Reptiles EP (2015)
Live at Old Mill Studios EP (2016)
Melencolia EP (2016)
House of Wisdom / We Are The Devil (2018)
The Cadaver Tomb Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 (2021)
Zenith (2022)
✔️ Follow Poly-Math:
Website: https://www.poly-math.net/
Adding more vibrant colors to your life: the musical schizophrenia of Apeiron Bound
Saison 2 · Épisode 34
mercredi 9 novembre 2022 • Durée 27:03
Andrew Stout, initiator, composer and guitarist of schizo prog metal upstarts Apeiron Bound talks about the conception of the band, the initial reception of their debut album “Multiplicity” (released Aug. 26 through Layered Reality Productions), crazy music video shoots and upcoming plans.
Chapters:
02:00 The conception of the band and origins of the name Apeiron Bound
06:00 The organized musical chaos of Apeiron Bound
10:45 The initial reception to Multiplicity
11:57 Putting together a crazy music video like Absent Familiarity
17:12 Working together with Costin Chioreanu for the My Sweet Stockholm video
Seventh Station attempt to Heal the Unhealed and metal up Shostakovich in the process
Saison 2 · Épisode 33
mercredi 2 novembre 2022 • Durée 37:47
The artistic core trio of international prog metal band Seventh Station, Dmitri Alperovich, Eren Başbuğ & Davidavi Dolev called from their respective corners of the world to talk about arranging Shostakovich for a prog metal ensemble, channeling and translating the artistic vision of a song into a music video and of course everything else about their second album, “Heal the Unhealed”, out Nov. 7th!
Chapters:
01:10 Introducing Seventh Station
02:40 Getting the elephant out of the room: the origins of the soviet style artwork and parts of the concept
06:30 Fleshing out a Progressive Metal arrangement of Shostakovich
09:15 Being the vocalist in Seventh Station: lots of space to go crazy
14:40 The artistic process behind the music videos
20:14 Working together as a multi-national band
24:32 Enhancing the live experience with an orchestra or other things
29:45 The reaction to the three singles from the Heal the Unhealed so far
🎵 Seventh Station is:
Dmitri Alperovich - Guitar
Eren Başbuğ - Keyboards
Davidavi Dolev - Vocals
Jure Lopatic - Bass
Grega Plamberger - Drums and Percussion
💿 Discography:
Between Life And Dreams (2016)
Heal the Unhealed (2022)
✔️ Follow Seventh Station:
Website: https://www.seventh-station.com/
Violin prog metal from Montreal: Canadian genre-benders give in to “The Descent”
Saison 2 · Épisode 32
mercredi 26 octobre 2022 • Durée 30:25
Violinist Olivier Allard of Canadian genre-benders Cydemind talks about composing instrumental music, making the classical influence interesting in a metal context and of course their new sophomore album, “The Descent”.
Chapters:
02:45 Erosion to The Descent: Cydemind 1 to 2
06:00 Composing instrumental music
07:34 Composing for Cydemind
09:35 Shooting the video for Hoax
12:30 Applying classical music to a metal context
18:20 Getting back on stage after a long time
23:35 Which bands would you like to support with Cydemind?
24:40 Instrumental bands that are not guitar driven
🎵 Cydemind is:
Olivier Allard – Violin
Alexandre Dagenais – Drums
Nico Damoulianos – Bass
Camille Delage – Piano & Keyboards
Kevin Paquet – Guitars
💿 Discography:
Through Mists and Ages EP (2014)
Erosion (2017)
The Descent (2022)
✔️ Follow Cydemind:
Website: http://cydemind.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cydemind
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cydemind/
“We really enjoy good pop music and we really hate bad pop music”: Major Parkinson go 80s!
Saison 2 · Épisode 31
mercredi 19 octobre 2022 • Durée 26:30
Jon, Øystein, Lars, Claudia and Sondre from Major Parkinson called in from Bergen and Oslo respectively to talk about the creation of “Valesa - Chapter I: Velvet Prison” (with hints to Chapters II and III), good and bad pop music and upcoming live plans.
Chapters:
01:10 Introducing Major Parkinson
03:55 The initial response to Valesa - Chapter I: Velvet Prison
05:10 Good pop music - bad pop music
08:50 Finding the new direction for Major Parkinson
11:30 The usual writing process in Major Parkinson
15:15 Writing the lyrics for Valesa
17:59 Writing shorter songs vs. writing longer songs
21:26 Upcoming live plans
🎵 Major Parkinson is:
Jon Ivar Kollbotn / lead vocals, synths
Sondre Skollevoll / guitars
Øystein Bech-Eriksen / guitars
Lars Christian Bjørknes / synths, piano, backing vocals
Peri Winkle (Claudia Cox) / violins, co-lead vocals
Eivind Gammersvik / bass, synths
Sondre Veland / drums
💿 Discography:
Major Parkinson (2008)
Songs from a Solitary Home (2010)
Twilight Cinema (2014)
Blackbox (2017)
Dead Horse, Alaska (Gold) (2019)
Dead Horse, Alaska (Onyx) (2020)
Deadhorse (Deluxe Edition) (2020)
Anthems to the Edge of the Earth (Compilation) (2021)
We bring these interviews to you with our own resources and have no monetization at all. Do you like what we do and would like to support us? Help us by buying us a coffee on the link below?
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PROGTALKS by The Progspace
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The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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✔️ Follow Soen:
Website: https://soenmusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoenMusic
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Youtube: https://bit.ly/SoenYoutube
Bandcamp: https://soenmusic.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: http://bit.ly/3gENBmH
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Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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PROGTALKS by The Progspace
The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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Main Hosts: Dario Albrecht, Rune Belsvik Reinås
Produced by Dario Albrecht, Vanessa Kirsch and Rune Belsvik Reinås,
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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Main Hosts: Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht
Produced by Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht, Vanessa and Matthias Kirsch
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht
Produced by Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht, Vanessa and Matthias Kirsch
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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PROGTALKS by The Progspace
The Progtalks produced by The Progspace
Main Hosts: Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht
Produced by Rune Belsvik Reinås, Dario Albrecht, Vanessa and Matthias Kirsch
All graphics and animations by Vanessa Kirsch
Intro theme by Giuseppe Negri - Follow: https://youtube.com/user/Skybladeprogmetal
Outro themes by Zach Munowitz - Follow: https://zachmunowitz.com/
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