Swedish Symphonic Symposiums with Anglagard’s “Viljans Oga” Epic Masterpiece

Sweden, home of many exports musically since the late sixties, “ABBA” being the biggest name that comes to mind commercially but also a bounty of other big names in both Prog and Pop culture. Pop Bands like; “Ace of Base“, “Roxette“, “The Cardigans” and Prog bands like; “Opeth“, “Beardfish“, “Moon Safari” and “The Flower Kings”…

Gentle Giant; King Arthur’s House Band

Well, if King Arthur could have had a house band it definitely would have been these guys! Certainly one of the more quirky, crafty and complex Prog bands of their time and for today even. More than a thinking man’s band but a sophisticated collaboration of sound and lyrics and style that put them a…

Prog Rock Magazine’s Top 100 Artists of All Time, Selected Review

I have always been opposed to “lists” of the Top 100 this or Top 10 that, whatever it may be because every band has a different spin on what their Progginess exudes. It’s like comparing apples to tires and oranges to diamonds in a fish’s stomach. It just doesn’t make sense to me, never has,…