Ambitious and wide-ranging prog metal from Jolly on The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1); it won’t change your whole life, but it’ll change 46 minutes of it.

Thomas Giles‘s ambition just exceeds his reach on his new solo album of electronica-tinged progressive, Pulse… but it’s well worth a listen nonetheless.

Just when I thought Amplifier couldn’t get much more awesome, they got someone to make a head-twisting psyche-fest of a video for new sort-of-single “The Wave”.

It’s been a five-year wait for The Octopus, the third album from Mancunian space-rockers Amplifier. Is it worth it? Depends what exactly you waited for, really.

The Ocean‘s latest philosophical-discourse-as-prog/post-metal-album, Anthropocentric, continues the themes – and musical growth – found on its predecessor.

Despite being tired after a two-month tour, Oceansize put everything into their homecoming show at Manchester Academy. So why are the audience so bloody quiet?

Hard-to-pigeonhole prog-pop-electro-rock quartet Pure Reason Revolution are back; prepare to be smashed flat with moody bliss between Hammer & Anvil.

Hypnos 69 may call stoner rock haven Elektrohasch their home, but Legacy shows they’re all about the sprawling experimental songcraft of the progressive era.

Manc alt-proggers Oceansize are back with their fourth album. Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up is challenging, intricate, and a work of genius.

Edinburgh metallers Dead At The Scene deliver a decent chimera of technical brutality and atmospheric progressive metal styles on their Sharktopus EP.