The Best Music Boxed Sets of 2023
2023 is in the books, and it’s time for the customary look at the box set releases of the past year. The amount of releases […]
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The Top 100 Album Countdown of 2023 – Part 4: 25-1
We have arrived at the final part of the Rocking In the Norseland Top 100 countdown for 2023! 25) RONNIE ROMERO – Raised On Heavy […]
The Top 100 Album Countdown of 2023 – Part 3: 50-26
The Top 100 countdown continues! This time, the albums ranked between 50-26. 50) THERION – Leviathan III Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded […]
The Top 100 Album Countdown of 2023 – Part 2: 75-51
The Top 100 countdown continues! This time, the albums ranked between 75-51. 75) STEEL PANTHER – On the Prowl What can be said about Steel […]
The Top 100 Album Countdown of 2023 – Part 1: 100-76
What a massive music year 2023 was! I probably listened to more new albums in 2023 than ever before (somewhere between 250-300), fitted in between […]
THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «Hold Out Your Hand» by Chris Squire
Yes had been doing the album-tour-album-tour cycle pretty intensely for several years, and had finished the first leg of their Relayer tour when they decided […]
THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «Carry On Wayward Son» by Kansas
What to do when the song you are working on has a long, somewhat extended instrumental intro but you want to snare in the listener? […]
When Rick Wakeman ate a curry during a Yes concert
Yes performed two sold out shows at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall on the Tales From Topographic Oceans tour on 28 and 29 November 1973. It […]
STAR ONE – «Revel In Time» (2022)
Star One is a Dutch progressive metal outfit, probably most correctly referred to as a side-project for Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Some of […]
Hällas – «Isle of Wisdom» (2022)
Set the controls for the heart of the sun! The adventures continue as the retro-progtastic Swedes in Hällas are back with yet another helping of […]
D’VIRGILIO, MORSE & JENNINGS – «Troika» (2022)
This unexpected project consists of friends old and new. Neal Morse and Nick D’Virgilio are founding members of the 1990s progressive rock outfit Spock’s Beard, […]
ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM – «Two Piece Puzzle» (2022)
Rosalie Cunningham is back with her second album as a solo artist. Some may remember her as the frontwoman, songwriter and musical leader in Purson. […]
LANA LANE – «Neptune Blue» (2022)
I first became aware of Lana Lane when she provided vocals on the Ayreon album Into the Electric Castle in 1998. This wasn’t too many […]
THE VINTAGE CARAVAN – «Monuments» (2021)
It is probably about time that I stop thinking of the guys in The Vintage Caravan as “those kids from Iceland.” While they’re still very […]
YES – «The Quest» (2021)
It has not been easy being Yes in recent years. The once world-conquering prog behemoth has struggled with loss of key members, a lacklustre album […]