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Animals As Leaders — The Madness of Many, Ashby — Fragmental, Dreamwaves — Elements, Eden Shadow — Melodies for Maladies, Jeavestone — Human Games, Arjen Anthony Lucassen — Strange Hobby, Maschine — Naturalis, Oktopus — Worlds Apart, Stick Men — Prog Noir, Devin Townsend — Transcendence
Dewa Budjana — Zentuary, Flux — Shadowlines, Fractal Mind — Stainless, The ID — IDiocracy, Kyros — Vox Humana, Minimum Vital — Pavanes, Seven Impale — Contrapresso, Soniq Theater — Globaliced, Symphony Novel — Aria (EP) + Ethereal Ash (single), Withem — The Unforgiving Road
Supay — Confusión, Koiak — Koiak, Simon Jensen Band — All You Can Eat, Project — Winter In June, Naikaku — Shell, Nostradamus — Testament
Cross and Quinn — Cold Sky Blue, DGM — The Passage, Dream the Electric Sleep — Beneath the Dark Wide Sky, Fufluns — Spaventapasseri, Lucid Fly — Building Castles In Air, The Neal Morse Band — Alive Again, Mynd — Awake, The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom of Goats — Vargorok, Oddland — Origin, Silver Key — The Screams Empire
Trillian Green — Metamorphoses, Attila Kollár — Musical Witchcraft, Grovjobb — Vättarnas fest, Tánger — Tánger, Mini (Adam Torok & Mini) — A szél nomádjai (Nomad of the Winds), Flor de Loto — Flor de Loto
Adeia — Serenity, Circus Maximus — Havoc, Downlouders — Arca, Gandalf — To Another Horizon, Gandalf — Magic Theatre, Loonypark — Perpetual, Stefano Orlando Puracchio — Progressive Rock 3 – By Kind Request [Book], Synergy Protocol — Odd To Get Even, Ticket to the Moon — AE Sense of Life, ?Verity — Agapé
Fläsket Brinner — Swedish Radio Recordings 1970-1975 [4CD], Gotic — Escenes, Lisker — Lisker, Bandhada — Bandhada, Robert Dick — Third Stone from the Sun, Ergo Sum — Ergo Sum
The Aurora Project — World Of Grey, Ayreon — The Theater Equation [2CD/DVD], Leprous — Live at Rockefeller Music Hall [DVD/CD]
Harold McNair — Flute and Nut, Jeremy Steig — Howlin' For Judy, Björn J:son Lindh — Ramadan, Triode — On N'a Pas Fini D'Avoir Tout Vu, Capitolo 6 — Frutti per Kagua, De De Lind — Io Non So Da Dove Vengo e Non So Dove Mai Andrò, Uomo e' il Nome Che Mi han Dato
The Ben Cameron Project — A Cycle Never Ending, Catafalchi Del Cyber — Il Bis, Fobia Inc. — Astral Seasons, Poor Genetic Material — Absence, Sparkle In Grey — Brahim Izdag
Antoine Fafard — Sphere, Half Past Four — Land Of The Blind, Heliopolis — Epic at the Majestic: Live at RoSFest, Moonlight Sky — The Four, Paradigm Shift — Becoming Aware
Derdian — Revolution Era, Deus Ex Machina — Devoto, Red Bazar — Tales from the Bookcase, Signal to Noise Ratio — Work in Progress, Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest — Sylva [CD+DVD]
Blind Ego — Liquid, Circa — Valley of the Windmill, Crystal Palace — Dawn of Eternity, Curved Air — Rarities Series Volume 1: Tapestry of Propositions, Greenslade — The Birthday Album - Live in Switzerland 1974, Karakorum — Karakorum, Lapis Lazuli — Wrong Meeting, Leptons — Between Myth and Absence, Riverside — Eye of the Soundscape, Wet Rabbit — Of Clocks and Clouds
Cairo — Say, Endless Season — Endless Season, Forest Field — Lonely Desert, Multi Story — Crimson Stone, Darryl Way — Myths, Legends and Tales
Peter Baumann — Romance 76, Peter Baumann — Trans Harmonic Nights, Dec Burke — Book of Secrets, Gong — Rejoice! I'm Dead!, Hexvessel — When We Are Death, Mike Kershaw — What Lies Beneath
Cirrha Niva — Out of the Freakshow, Uwe Cremer & Thomas Rydell — Time Trilogy, Dumbsaint — Panorama, In Ten Pieces, Gepetto — From Heaven to the Stars, Various Artists — Decameron Ten Days in 100 Novellas part III, John Wesley — A Way You'll Never Be...
Alms — An Irosmic Tragedy, Anima Mundi — I Me Myself, Barock Project — Vivo, Dworniak Bone Lapsa — Fingers Pointing At The Moon, Kansas — The Prelude Implicit, Se Delan — Drifter
Bent Knee — Say So, Cromwell — Black Chapter Red, Get Your Gun — The Worrying Kind, Elaine Samuels and Kindred Spirit — Phoenix Rising, Semistereo — Re-Ignite, Van Der Graaf Generator — Do Not Disturb
Beyond God — A Moment of Black, Blacklands — Peaceful Shores, The Hirsch Effekt — Holon : Agnosie, Pain Of Salvation — Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived), Skytalk — Days In The Sun, Zhongyu — Zhongyu
Cosmograf — The Unreasonable Silence, Marillion — F*** Everyone and Run (FEAR), Neo Prophet — T.I.M.E., Troyka — Ornithophobia, Steven Wilson — Transience
Irridiance — Dissidence, Autumnal Blossom — Spellbound, Herd of Instinct — Manifestation, Preacher — Aftermath, Yugen — Death By Water
Carpe Diem — Circonvolutions, Gecko's Tear — Primati, Perihelion Ship — A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring, Standing Ovation — Gavity Beats Nuclear, Third Voice — A Day Like Today
Daymoon — Cruz Quebrada, Infinite Spectrum — Haunter Of The Dark, Greg Lake — Greg Lake / Manoeuvres, Macroscream — Macroscream, Nosound — Scintilla, Yossi Sassi Band — Roots and Roads
Cyril — Paralyzed, Freedom To Glide — Fall, Homunculus Res — Come si diventa ciò che si era, Our Oceans — Our Oceans, Panzerpappa — Pestrottedans, The Pineapple Thief — Your Wilderness, Marco Ragni — Land of Blue Echoes, Robert Reed — Santuary II [2CD + DVD], Three Trapped Tigers — Silent Earthling
Asia — Phoenix, Daniel Crommie — Other Elements, DC Sound Collective — A Memory of Errors, DC Sound Collective — A Memory of Errors Vol 2, The Security Project — Live 1, Tilt — Hinterland, Virus — Memento Collider, We Are Kin — ...and I know...
Airbag — Disconnected, Ben Craven — Last Chance to Hear [CD + DVD], Lyrian — The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass, Sailor Free — Spritual Revolution Part 2, Shamblemaths — Shamblemaths, Stein — The Magister
Sioum — I am Mortal, But Was Fiend, Sioum — Yet Further, Starlight Brigade — Under the Velvet Sky, Starlight Brigade — Into the Light, Starlight Brigade — Destination Eternity
Steve Hackett — The Total Expereince: Live in Liverpool, Lucifer's Friend — Live @ Sweden Rock 2015, Mayfair — My Ghosts Inside, Anthony Phillips — 1984, Various artists — Lion Music Presents: Antonio Vivaldi - A New Season
Daevid Allen Weird Quartet — Elevenses, Alex Carpani — So Close So Far, He Was Seen... — It Just Gets Worse, Jerusalem — Cooler than Antartica, MJ12 — MJ12
Badger — One Live Badger, Gadi Caplan — Morning Sun, Drifting Sun — Safe Asylum, Fates Warning — Theories of Flight, Zanov — Open Worlds
Knifeworld — Bottled Out Of Eden, Dominique Leone — San Francisco, Mythos — Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Minutes, Paolo Apollo Negri — Hello World, Zhaoze — Intoxicatingly Lost
Argus — Tell Me!, John Bassett — Aperture, Big Big Train — Folklore (hi-resolution audio version), Big Big Train — Folklore (standard version), Renaissance — Live at The Union Chapel [DVD], Tides From Nebula — Safehaven
Karmakanic — Dot
Anderson / Stolt — Invention of Knowledge
Huxley Would Approve — Grave New World - Part One, The Jelly Jam — Profit, Katatonia — The Fall of Hearts, King Crimson — Live In Toronto, Nine Stones Close — Leaves, Red Jasper — 777, Southern Empire — Southern Empire
Aalto — Tuulilabyrintit, Aalto — Ikaro, Da Zai — Shogyoumujou, Kaipa — Nattdjurstid, Kevin Kastning / Mark Wingfield — Eleven Rooms, Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements — A Far Reflection, Konchordat — Rise To The Order, Long Distance Calling — Trips, Osta Love — The Isle of Dogs, Martin Turner — New Live Dates
Il Ballo Delle Castagne — Soundtrack For An Unreleased Herzog Movie, Baron — Torpor, Dyscordia — Words in Ruin, Anna von Hausswolff — The Miraculous, Mothertongue — Unsongs, Billy Sherwood & Tony Kaye — Live In Japan [CD/DVD], Martin Turner — Life Begins [CD/DVD], Utopia — Mood Changes
Steve Hughes — Once We Were - Part One, Meandering Mine — Neanderthal Nein, Odd Logic — Penny For Your Thoughts, Odd Logic — If We Were Live, TEE — Tales Of Eternal Entities, Tiles — Pretending 2 Run, Triangle — Alert & Alive, Wolverine — Machina Viva
The Boogeymen — Between the Lines, Downriver Dead Men Go — Tides, Habu — Infinite, Clemens Krijger — Dream Chaser, Orymus — Miracles
Lee Abraham — The Seasons Turn, Errata Corrige — Siegfried, il drago e altre storie, Roberto Frattini — La memoria delle maschere, Poverty's No Crime — Spiral of Fear, The Samurai Of Prog — Lost And Found, Votum — Ktonik, Waken Eyes — Exodus
After Forever — Prison Of Desire - Expanded Edition LP [2LP], After Forever — Remagine The Album - The Sessions, Delain — Lunar Prelude, Epica — Consign to Oblivion - Expanded Edition, Epica — Consign to Oblivion - Expanded Edition LP [2LP]
Backward Runners — Another Day, Another Dream, Group 1850 — Polyandri [LP], In Each Hand A Cutlass — The Kraken, Pressure Points — False Lights, The Raptor Trail — New World, Hans Spitzen — Fingerprints, Marcus Taylor — Kasgar, Trettioåriga Kriget — Seaside Air
Ampledeed — BYOB, Ed Bernard — Polydactyl, Elegant Simplicity — All Life Is One, Liserstille — Empirical Ghost, Messenger — Threnodies, Moonlight Sky Trio — Changing Parameters, None Other — Than the Common Plague [CD/book], Pontus — IV, The Rube Goldberg Machine — Fragile Times, Spooky Tooth — Nomad Poets Live in Germany 2004 [CD/DVD]
Atmospheres — The Departure, Atropos Project — Towards Firmament, The Benzene Ring — Crossing the Divide, Crescent Moon — The Lidless Room, Earthside — A Dream In Static, Graal — Chapter IV, KariBow — Holophinium, Pseudo/Sentai — Bansheeface, The Skys — Jouney Through the Skies
Blueminded — Seize the Day, Ian Danter — Second Time Around, Lunden Reign — American Stranger, Mortanius — Savage Garden, Intelligent Music Project III — Touching the Divine, Zeptelar — El Color de las Cosas
Amphetamin — A Flood of Strange Sensations, Autmun Electric — Star Being Earth Child, Charles Brown — Wind Of The Eastern Sea, Dreadnaught — Gettin' Tight With Dreadnaught, Frost* — Falling Satellites, Maat Lander — Dissolved in the Universe [LP], Simon McKechnie — From My Head To My Feet, Rêve Général — Howl, Uriah Heep — Totally Driven, Zen Carnival — Lucid Dreamer
Arcade Messiah — II, Tony Banks — A Curious Feeling [CD/DVD], Tony Banks — The Fugitive [CD/DVD], Fuchsia — Fuchsia, Goblin Rebirth — Alive, The Grand Astoria — The Mighty Few, I Am the Manic Whale — Everything Beautiful In Time, Tony Patterson — Equation of Meaning, Anthony Phillips — Wise After the Event [CD/DVD], The Syn — Trustworks
Arcane Atlas — Metris, La Fabbrica dell'Assoluto — 1984: L'Ultimo Uomo d'Europa, Hedfuzy — Hedfuzy, Sebas Honing — The Big Shift, Huis — Neither In Heaven, Andy Jackson — 73 Days at Sea, Octopie — The Adventure of Harry and Walrus Kane, Projection — Realitivity, t2k — Interplanetary Communications, Three Thirteen — Depletion Region
Tomas Bodin — She Belongs To Another Tree, Frost* — Falling Satellites, Jump — Over the Top, Landskap — II, Monomyth — Exo, Profuna Ocean — In Vacuum, Reptiel — Hobbitozz .​.​. A Land That Never Was, The Resonance Association — Return From Dreaming, Solarhall — Lokus, Tusmørke — Ført Bak Lyset
Philippe Cauvin — Nu, Philippe Cauvin — Philippe Cauvin Groupe, Philippe Cauvin — Des Mots Sur Des Notes, Philippe Cauvin — Frôlement, Philippe Cauvin — Philippe Cauvin Except, Jordan Cauvin — Guitarvision
Armed Cloud — Obsidian Desert, The Chronicles Project — When Darkness Falls, Dante — When We Were Beautiful, Epica — The Phantom Agony [LP], Futile — Fractured Divine, Headspace — All that you fear is Gone, Neronia — Nero, Oceans Of Slumber — Winter, Poem — Skein Syndrome, Postures — Halucinda, Rhapsody of Fire — Into the Legend, Rhine — An Outsider, Section IV — Superhuman, Spires — The Whisperer
The Adekaem — The Adekaem, Goad — The Silent Moonchild, Kaipa — Händer, Kaipa — Solo, Ian Carr's Nucleus — Three Of a Kind, Ian Carr's Nucleus — Bracknell Sunshine, Trond Øie — Expectations, Ontologics — Drones From Home, Geoffrey Richardson — The Garden Of Love, Time Horizon — Transitions
Han — Lawless Local Heroes, iamthemorning — Lighthouse, Juha Kujanpää — Kultasiipi (Goldwing), Kyros / Synaesthesia — Beta, Øresund Space Collective — Different Creatures, Borja Ruiz — Bajo el Reino de la Luna, Sanguine Hum — What We Ask Is Where We Begin - The Songs For Days Sessions, Stearica — Fertile, Teleharmonium — The Mother Generator
Beekeepers — Beekeepers II, Birdpen — In the Company of Imaginary Friends, Black Space Riders — Refugeeum, Cherry Five — Il Pozzo Dei Giganti, Emerald Lies — Different View Part 1: Life on Earth?, Emerald Lies — Different View Part 2: Green Turns Blue, Moron Police — Defenders of the Small Yard, Bruce Soord — Bruce Soord, Syrinx Call — Wind in the Woods, Tiebreaker — We Come From the Mountains, The Tirith — Tales from the Tower
Amon Ra — We Never Said Goodbye, Sam Coulson — Electric Classical, Flor de Loto — Medusa – en vivo en Buenos Aires [CD + DVD], Habu — To The Stars, Karmaflow — Karmaflow: The Original Soundtrack, Kezia — The Dirty Affair, Marchesi Scamorza — Hypnophonia, Open Space Quartet — Claude Bolling: Suite Nr. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, Progeland — Gate to Fulfilled Fantasies, Sunrise Auranaut — The First Cosmic
Haken — Affinity
The Enid — Dust, Frequency Drift — Last, Galahad — When Worlds Collide, iamthemorning — From The House Of Arts, Lifesigns — Live in London - Under The Bridge [CD + DVD], Todd Rundgren & Utopia — Live at the Old Waldorf, Rikard Sjöblom — The Unbendable Sleep, SoundDiary — InVerse, SoundDiary — A Book in my Hand, Yugen — Iridule
Lazuli — Nos Âmes Saoules
Citizen Cain — Serpents in Camouflage, Citizen Cain — Somewhere But Yesterday, Citizen Cain — Raising The Stones, Different Light — The Burden of Paradise, Samuel Hällkvist — Variety of Live, Hollan Holmes — Incandescent, Master Men — Through the Window, Ossicles — Music for Wastelands, Outre Mesure — La Ligne Perdue, Zone Six — Love Monster
Bent Knee — Shiny Eyed Babies, Tom Caufield — Things I Heard While in the Womb, Tom Caufield — Moog & Nylon, Giöbia — Magnifier, Kiama — Signs Of IV, Lion Shepherd — Hiraeth, Julien Martinoia — The Insight, So Far as I Know — Hidden Poetry, UCAN2 — Air, Doug Woods and Colin Powell — The Haunting of Sally Caster
The final Aural Innovations blog post, with a review of Skinbat Scramble — Work Experience Sessions Parts 1 - 3.
A Round Table Review of Dream Theater — The Astonishing!
Asfalto — Más Que Una Intención 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [2CD + DVD], Borealis — Purgatory, Glazz — The Jamming Sessions: Take 3, Gong — I See You, Panther & C. — L'Epoca di un Altro..., Seven Second Circle — Divide, Seven That Spells — Superautobahn [LP], Tangerine Dream — The Official Bootleg Series - Volume Two, Taylor's Universe — An Introduction To Taylor's Universe, Martin Turner — Written in the Stars
Karda Estra — The Seas and the Stars, Karda Estra — Future Sounds, Magma — Slag Tanz, Peter Matuchniak — A Live Destination, Billy Sherwood — Collection, Billy Sherwood — Divided By One, S.O.T.E. — Chosen, Devin Townsend Project — Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid, Live at the Royal Albert Hall [CD / DVD], Toxic Smile — Farewell, Yojo — Yojo
Jan Akkerman — Jan Akkerman, Jack Arthurs — Treasure House, The Barstool Philosophers — Crossing Over, Downes Braide Association (DBA) — Suburban Ghosts, Electric Moon — Theory of Mind, Karfagen — 7, Mad Fellaz — Mad Fellaz II, Malady — Malady, Mrs. Kite — A Closer Inspection, Zaedyus — Santos Vega
Amber Asylum — Sin Eater, Arabs in Aspic — Victim of Your Father's Agony, The Blessed Beat — MIV, Les Lekin — The Black Rainbow Moon, The Mute Gods — Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Ovrfwrd — Fantasy Absent Reason, Sleepy Hollow — Tales of Gods and Monsters, Summer Breeze Project — Contact Part Two, Supay — Señales, Thinking Plague — In This Life
Amarok — Hayat Yolunda, East West Quintet — Anthem, Impulse Ensemble — Initiation, Kinetic Element — Travelog, Esa Kotilainen — Ulappa, Leap Day — From the Days of Deucalion, Chapter 2, Melted Space — The Great Lie, Steve Merlin — Crash Course for Earth, Carlo Peluso — EarthShape, Preacher — Signals
Aural Innovation blog of January 2016 with reviews of: Glodblug, Lee Negin, Soft Hearted Scientists, Paradox One, Spirits Burning, Sendelica, Arnold Mathes, Various Artists.
The Aristocrats — Tres Caballeros, Evenstate — Inside, Eyes of Blue — Crossroads of Time, Eyes of Blue — In Fields of Ardath, The Fractured Dimension — Galaxy Mechanics, Odetosun — The Dark Dunes Of Titan, Quorum — Another World, John Wetton — Live via Satellite, Steven Wilson — 4 ½
The Keith Emerson Trio — The Keith Emerson Trio, Field Of Vision — The Vicissitudes of Life, The Group 309 — The Keeper of an Hourglass, Greg Lake & Geoff Downes — Ride the Tiger, Malrun — Oblivion Awaits, Necromonkey — Show Me Where It Hertz, Rendezvous Point — Solar Storm, Sea Vine — Król i Królowa, Tijad — Cognitave Dissonance, Vermilion — Sentience
The Anagram Principle — Inventor, Barock Project — Skyline, Blank Manuskript — The Waiting Soldier [LP], Box Of Shamans — Belief And Illusion, Last Flight to Pluto — See You at the End [Download only], Melli Mau & Martin Schnella — Gray Matters, Methodica — The Silence of Wisdom, Quanah Parker — Quanah!, Quanah Parker — Suite degli animali fantastici, Spock's Beard — The First Twenty Years, Yak — Quest for the Stones