Glass Hammer is a Symphonic Progressive Rock band from the United States. They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb and Fred Schendel began to write and record Journey of the Dunadan, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. To their surprise, the album sold several thousand units via the Internet, The QVC Shop-At-Home Network and phone orders, leaving Babb and Schendel convinced that the band was a project worth continuing.
Musically, they lean towards 70's driven symphonic rock, with strong keyboard orientation; specifically Hammond organs in the tradition of ELP. They have a superb melodic flow to the music they make, encapsulating real power and dynamics without ever becoming overpowering…

Inspired by Pink Floyd’s own record breaking 1994 ‘P-U-L-S-E’ Tour and including the trademark arch and circle light design, Brit Floyd pay special tribute to era defining classic rock album ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, this year celebrating it’s 40th Anniversary…

The sad fact about box sets is that there's always a fan out there who thinks they could have compiled a better one. An even sadder fact is that they're often correct, and the very notion of anthologizing Van Der Graaf Generator was a fraught one for that very reason. More, perhaps, than any other band of the early-'70s prog era, VDGG polarized their fans as much as the band's blatantly inhospitable sound outraged outsiders. They cut just eight studio albums, and all eight possess a wholly different character, all the more so since the band actually broke up midway through the sequence…

The four remarkable DVDs explain the controversial twists and turns of the Floyd story through a unique series of interviews featuring Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright…

Womega is an middle-seventies, one-off obscurity from Belgium. The core of the band were three brothers: Duk, Jen and Joss Vanlessen - Duk and Joss on guitars and Joss on bass. Paul Vrijens was on keyboards, he contributed in songwriting along with Vanlessen(s). The other memebers were Jos Bertrand on drums, Herman Merken on vocals; and Paul Peters on flute and brass instruments.
They managed to record their debut (and only album) in Acorn Studio, Oxford, UK. The album, titled "A Quick Step" was published in the winter of 1975. The album reveals a particular sound of the band: a progressive rock with elements of heavy rock, Canterbury, spiced up with folk overtones and jazz-rock attitude. Nice, melodical passages with guitar ans saxophone interplays, and dominating flute and Mellotron.

Let Tear us Apart was born as a progressive rock studio album of the Italian band Instant Curtain. The obsessive arpeggios weave embroidery and the mellotron stretches its veil while the bass pulsates and dances. A synchronous of drums accompanies Hammond’s scales as the distortions of guitars warm up like a mother’s caress. Trapped imperfect mechanisms screech announcing “beyond music there is destiny, beyond destiny there is music!”. When everything is silent, the aftertaste of a past that returns from a dimensional fracture remains. Timeless times shine by illuminating the way in the treatment of sounds, in the use of electronics and in the freshness of these nine tracks, ready to seduce a large group of rock lovers in all its contemporary shades.

Hard times call for big riffs. Following closely on the heels of the band's last album from 2020, Kingdom Of Oblivion swings further back toward the heavier Motorpsychodelia of Heavy Metal Fruit while still pushing forward in characteristic style.

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce a newly remastered edition of the classic 1975 debut album by American Progressive Rock group Pavlov’s Dog. Formed in St. Louis in 1972, Pavlov’s Dog released this classic album in 1975 with a line-up of David Surkamp (Vocals, Guitar), David Hamilton (Keyboards), Doug Rayburn (Mellotron, Flute), Mike Safron (Drums, Percussion), Rick Stockton (Bass), Seigfried Carver (Violin, Vitar, Viola) and Steve Scorfina (Lead Guitar). A classic of the Progressive Rock genre, "Pampered Menial” has been newly remastered and the booklet fully restores the original album artwork and includes a new essay.

Cyclorama is the fourteenth studio album by Styx, released in 2003. This was the first studio album with Lawrence Gowan, following the departure of group co-founder Dennis DeYoung in 1999…

"The Gold Collection" is a compilation album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1996 on EMI Records. Album including 'Roll Over Beethoven', '10538 Overture', 'Mr. Radio', 'Look At Me Now' and many more.

Mandalaband was a great melodic symphonic rock band led by keyboardist/composer David Rohl. They made two albums in the ’70s and then dissolved with most of the band forming Sad Café. Thirty years later, David Rohl has put together a new edition of the band featuring old and new members. Back is the great Ashley Mulford on guitar and Woolly Wolstenhome (ex-Barclay James Harvest) on keyboards as well as Troy Donockley on pipes, whistles, keys, etc. Lots of people appear. Like the previous album, "BC - Ancestors" is a conceptual work and the music stays true to form - this is pure unadulterated symphonic rock that is essential for any fan of Barclay James Harvest and The Moody Blues.

Along with The Definitive Collection, The Essential Alan Parsons Project gives the casual fan the proper mixture and proportion of radio hits, Alan Parsons' signature instrumentals, and Eric Woolfsons' thought-provoking ballads. Best of all, SONY/BMG has included the once lost gemstone No Answers Only Questions (Final Version) that Eric Woolfson composed and guitarist Ian Bairnson arranged. Everything has been digitally remastered from the best available source tapes…

High Tide was a highly underrated British band that played psychedelic progressive rock when the genre was in its infancy. "Precious Cargo" is seven tracks of live in the studio slices of hauntingly beautiful yet terrifying soundscapes. Their sound is one that should have been playing in the background of an Alfred Hitchcock film or more recently, a Wes Craven production comes to mind. What made their sound so eerie was the violin of Simon House. Much in the same way Jean Luc Ponty used his instrument, House used his violin as more of a lead instrument and the rest of the band fell in line to fill in the layers to make one impressive wall of sound that would wake up the spirit and startle the thought process; their music was very potent.