Welcome to the Progcast Friday Top Five! Our Top 5 releases of the week in less than 5 minutes.  It is Friday February 12th, 2021 and you are listening to the Progcast's Friday Top 5, our weekly series that highlights our favorite full-length albums or EPs that drop today. So grab your smart phone and head over to Bandcamp, Spotify or wherever you listen to music and check out these great new releases.

The Mastelottos - "A Romantic’s Guide to King Crimson"

God is an Astronaut - "Ghost Tapes #10"

Humanity’s Last Breath - "Välde"

Abiotic - "Ikigai"

Simulacrum - "Genesis"

Drumming legend Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, O.R.k., Stick Men etc.) teamed up with his wife Deborah Mastelotto and a whole host of musicians from the Three of a Perfect Pair Music Masters Camp to arrange and record "The Romantics Guide to King Crimson". Reason enough to give them a call to talk about Lavender Cheesecake, Lounge Prog and restroom lines at Crimson concerts. All of that and more, only on Episode 110 of the Progcast. Find the album here: https://patmastelotto7d.bandcamp.com

Humanity's Last Breath's Buster Odeholm called from Stockholm to talk about their claustrophobic yet huge sound, the advantage of custom guitars and Neural DSP plugins and all things "Välde", their third full length album, dropping on Feb. 12th. All of that and more, only on Episode 109 of the Progcast. Listen to the accompanying Spotify playlist here: http://spoti.fi/2O4CiFt​

Welcome to the Progcast Friday Top Five! Our Top 5 releases of the week in less than 5 minutes.  It is Friday February 5th, 2021 and you are listening to the Progcast's Friday Top 5, our weekly series that highlights our favorite full-length albums or EPs that drop today. So grab your smart phone and head over to Bandcamp, Spotify or wherever you listen to music and check out these great new releases.

Transatlantic - "The Absolute Universe"

Ryk - "Parasite Future" EP

Cult of Luna - "The Raging River" EP

Heave Blood & Die - "Post People"

Sturle Dagsland - "Sturle Dagsland"

3/8 of Norwegian Progressive Pop Orchestra MEER, namely vocalists Johanne & Knut Kippersund and guitarist Eivind Strømstad, called to tell us about family ties and highschool friends, the seals outside of Ocean Sound Recording studios and everything else you need to know about their second album "Playing House". All of that and more, only on Episode 108 of the Progcast. Listen to the accompanying Spotify playlist here: http://spoti.fi/3pRE37c​

A very talkative Pete Trewavas, bass player for such bands as Transatlantic and Marillion told us everything you need to know about the upcoming 5th Transatlantic studio release "The Absolute Universe" and how it came to be more than one album. All of that and more, only on Episode 107 of the Progcast. Listen to the accompanying Spotify playlist here: http://spoti.fi/3cw6Qua​

Welcome to the Progcast Friday Top Five! Our Top 5 releases of the week in less than 5 minutes.  It is Friday January 29th, 2021 and you are listening to the Progcast's Friday Top 5, our weekly series that highlights our favorite full-length albums or EPs that drop today. So grab your smart phone and head over to Bandcamp, Spotify or wherever you listen to music and check out these great new releases.

Steven Wilson - "The Future Bites"

Soen - "Imperial"

Meer - "Playing House"

Asia Minor - "Points of Libration"

Needlepoint - "Walking up that Valley"

Drummer Katy Elwell & Guitarist/Vocalist Mathieu Ricou, 2/3 of French power trio LizZard, called to talk about 90s music, annoying clicktracks and their upcoming FOURTH(!) album, "Eroded". All of that and more, only on Episode 106 of the Progcast. Listen to the accompanying Playlist here: http://spoti.fi/36l4ni9

Drummer Martin Lopez called from Stockholm to talk about the songwriting process in the Soen-camp, his favorite songs from their back-catalogue, but first and foremost about their new album "Imperial" of course. All of that and more, only on Episode 105 of the Progcast. Listen to the accompanying Playlist here: https://spoti.fi/3a1wkg4​

Welcome to the Progcast Friday Top Five! Our Top 5 releases of the week in less than 5 minutes.  It is Friday January 22nd, 2021 and you are listening to the Progcast's Friday Top 5, our weekly series that highlights our favorite full-length albums or EPs that drop today. So grab your smart phone and head over to Bandcamp, Spotify or wherever you listen to music and check out these great new releases.

Steve Hackett - "Under a Mediterranean Sky"

Jason Bieler and the Baron von Bielski Orchestra - "Songs for the Apocalypse"

Sithu Aye - "Senpai III" EP

Need - "Norchestrion: A Song for the End"

Octavision - "Coexist"