Progressive Rock Music News

Final Ayreon guest singers announced

On the Ayreon website, Arjen Lucassen has revealed the final three singers that will make a guest appearance on the new Ayreon album, including Pain of Salvation's singer Daniel Gildenlöw.

Steve Hogarth live in Second Life

On October 6, Steve Hogarth (Marillion's singer) did a solo performance in Cervia, Italy in his "H Natural - solo voice and piano" series. This event was extra special because it was simultaneously broadcast in Second Life, allowing his fans from all over the world to virtually attend the gig.

IQ's new keyboard player: Mark Westworth

A couple of months ago, IQ announced the departure of long time band member Martin Orford. The band have now welcomed their new keyboard player, Mark Westworth.

Liquid Tension Experiment live at NEARfest 2008

Liquid Tension Experiment are now confirmed to headline the NEARfest (North East Art Rock Festival) event in 2008.

Peter Gabriel's Full Moon Club update

Peter Gabriel posted a new Full Moon Club video on his website. Recorded in the Real World Studios, the video shows Peter talking about various activities he has been involved in the last couple of weeks.

Genesis - When In Rome (2DVD) and Live Over Europe (2CD)

Genesis are releasing a lot lately - the new box set 1983-1998 and the band biography book Chapter and Verse have only just been published, and there's a lot more to come: a double live DVD and a double live CD!

New drummer for Pain of Salvation

During the Motstoy Festival on Norway on October 6, Swedish progmetal band Pain Of Salvation will say goodbye to their drummer Johan Langell and welcome their new drummer. It has not been revealed yet who the new drummer will be. Both drummers will perform at the festival.

Dream Theater tour Chaos in Motion started in Europe

Dream Theater's Chaos in Motion world tour starts today (October 1st) in Hannover, Germany. The guys from DT will take their tour through Europe in October and November. They will visit Germany, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland and Spain.

Liquid Trio Experiment: Spontaneous Combustion

Liquid Tension Experiment (Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess, and Tony Levin from King Crimson) recorded their second album in 1998. During the recording sessions, John had to leave because his pregnant wife went into labor. The rest of the band just kept jamming in the studio.

Mike Portnoy recorded these jams, and they are now being released as Liquid Trio Experiment - Spontaneous Combustion.

Marillion Somewhere in London live DVD

Marillion's Somewhere Else tour was filmed at the Forum in London in June 2007, and the band are releases it on Racket Records as an Extended Edition 2DVD called Somewhere in London. It's scheduled for release in November 2007.

The DVD's contain a compilation of both nights at the Forum, with a sound track in stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

Marillion Christmas CD 2007 tracklist

Marillion have published the contents of their annual Christmas CD, which is a limited edition CD, delivered as a gift with their official fanclub membership. The CD's title is Somewhere Elf, and it contains the Christmas classic Let it Snow and 8 Marillion live tracks, along with the band's Christmas message.

Neal Morse plays in European churches

Neal Morse will once again be playing at a number of church services in Europe during October and November. According to Neal's website, "He will be playing songs from his solo work, as well as an occasional song from Transatlantic and Spock's Beard, but these are church services, and he will be speaking and praying and following the spirit."

More dates will probably be added to the schedule at the Neal Morse website.

Threshold Best Of: Ravages Of Time

Threshold will release their first ever "Best Of" collection in November, featuring over 140 minutes of music from all their studio albums plus some previously unreleased radio edits. The album will be released by Threshold's previous label Inside Out Music. The tracklisting for the compilation, entitled "The Ravages Of Time (The Best of Threshold)", was selected by the band in conjunction with the label. "The decision to include the unreleased single edits was because we know there are a lot of fans who are frustrated when there are edits made but not available on CD", commented Richard West. "Of course there wasn't room for everything but between us we thought it was a good overall list".

Blackfield: NYC - Live in New York City pre-order

Blackfield's new DVD, which will be released on October 15, is now available for preorder from Burning Shed. The DVD's title is BLACKFIELD:NYC - Live in New York City.

Pink Floyd book: Pigs Might Fly

There's a new Pink Floyd book out, called Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd. The 418-page book contains the band's story right up to last year's Live 8 reunion.