Metal Mind Records presents: “Masquerade 20” by Pendragon. The legendary progressive rock band Pendragon returns with their brand new live release entitled “Masquerade 20”. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the most successful albums in their career (an album that won them near-overwhelming acclaim and made them one of the highest-selling bands unsigned to a major label at that time), the band returned to the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland, in May 2016, to record a special show, consisting of all the classics from "The Masquerade Overture" as well as a number of fan-favourites from their other releases. “Masquerade 20” (DVD/2CD) is scheduled for release on April 7 (May 5 in the States).

Blue Noises
(Germany) / February 28, 2017

Blue Noises Records presents: "Vortex", the new album by the German progressive rock project Mouth. Line-up: Christian Koller - guitars, bass, (exclusively) vintage keyboards, theremin, vocals; with: Jan Wendler – bass (on two tracks). Format: CD, vinyl, digital. Release date: March 31, 2017.

Cuneiform
(USA) / February 28, 2017

Cuneiform Records presents: “44 1/2: Live and Unreleased Works” (Box Set: 12 CDs + 2DVD + 48-page Book), a massive release by the French avant-prog legend Art Zoyd of all previously unreleased material. The Box Set is scheduled for release in summer 2017, but its pre-sale is in progress already now. Visit the label’s website for more details.

MoonJune
(USA) / February 28, 2017

MoonJune Records presents: “The Stone House”, the new album by Wingfield-Reuter-Stavi-Sirkis. MoonJune’s Leonardo Pavcovic says: “Occasionally, records are released which are an instant game changer: albums so profoundly innovative and compelling in their conception, construction and delivery that they are immediately essential. “The Stone House” is just such a release. And it was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs and completely improvised, with no music written down or rehearsed. The album features two of today's most original and decidedly "risk taking" electric guitar proponents, easily among the instrument's most vital new voices: the UK's Mark Wingfield (Jane Chapman; solo) and Germany's Markus Reuter (Stick Men; The Crimson ProjeKct). Each, in their own unique way, has been stretching the bounds of the tonal and textural limitations of the instrument, and, in the process, has respectively developed their own individual techniques, stylistic approaches and idiosyncratic vocabularies. Accompanied by the sure-footed foundational tandem of the Israeli-born UK transplants, bassist Yaron Stavi (David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Robert Wyatt) and drummer Asaf Sirkis (Tim Garland, Mark Wingfield, Nicolas Meier). The album incorporates many of the elements which have drawn listeners to progressive music for decades. Not only is the album often a canvas hosting a grand experiment in spontaneous group interaction, but it is also an exploration into the tonal and textural possibilities of all the instruments involved. The resulting picture which takes shape is one where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts, and emotion, above all, emerges victorious.”

Sensory
(USA) / February 28, 2017

Sensory Records presents: "A World Awakens", the new album by the Australian prog-metal band Damnations Day. Line-up: Mark Kennedy – vocals, guitar; Jon King – guitar; Dean Kennedy – drums. Format: CD, digital. Release date: March 24, 2017.