Bakelit is a new Swedish progressive art rock project, founded by Carl WESTHOLM known from CARPTREE, CANDLEMASS, AVATARIUM, JUPITER SOCIETY, KRUX, ABSTRAKT ALGEBRA, HOLLINGSHEADd and others with collaborators and friends from earlier projects. The debut album "Asleep or Insane" was released in October 2024, with single "The Coolest Place on Earth". Less than a year later, Bakelit is back with "No Fear of Drowning" on September 26th 2025. Just like its predecessor, the songs evolved from sessions involving unpredictable electronic machinery, eventually developing into six tracks that straddle the line between progressive art rock and electronic music. Drummer Jonas K]]>�� ]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:59:52 EST http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=13031 http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=13030

AMBIENT DEN is a progressive rock project by multi-instrumentalist Ben CRAVEN, keyboardist/vocalist Tim BENNETTS (SEVEN DAY MASK, SUB INC), and drummer Dean POVEY (FRANKENFIDO), all from Australia. Tim originally met Ben in 2017, and after a couple of informal jams they discussed the idea of writing some music together, which began in earnest in December 2018. Ben had already played with Dean previously in his other band FRANKENFIDO, and the three of them joined forces in the summer of 2022 to play at a corporate gig that Dean had committed to. During their rehearsals of the intended setlist of cover songs, they took time out to work on some music that Tim and Ben had already written, and they soon became convinced that the material was worth developing into an album. The name AMBIENT DEN is actually an anagram of 'Tim', 'Ben', and 'Dean', though Tim and Ben had originally performed under the name PROGAUSTRALIS - with their first gig as a duo being on Friday 5th July 2019 at the Junk Bar, Ashgrove, Brisbane - but what had initially started out as a series of experimental jam sessions between CRAVEN and BENNETTS had now evolved into a full-fledged band project, with all three members sharing common influences of the great prog bands of the 1970s, such as YES, GENESIS and PINK FLOYD. AMBIENT DEN's self-titled debut album is based on a concept that tells the story of mankind's search for a new home amongst the stars, culminating in the creation of a distant and inhabitable new world. The album was produced by Ben CRAVEN, and his trademark influences on the overall sound can be easily heard, but the songwriting was a collaborative effort involving all three band members. The album consists of six main tracks and four single edits, and there is a strong PINK FLOYD feel to the music throughout. It was released via Desert Comb Music on 28th July 2025.

AEROSTATION is a progressive rock band formed by Italian-French composer, keyboardist, singer, producer, musicologist and artistic director Alex CARPANI and Gigi Cavalli COCCHI (former drummer of LIGABUE, CLAN DESTINO & CONSORZIO SUONATORI INDIPENDENTI) in late 2016. Gigi and Alex were joined in the project by Jacopo ROSSI (DARK LUNACY, NERVE, ANTROPOPHAGUS) guesting on bass to complete what is essentially a power trio without a guitarist, with CARPANI instead using his custom keytar to explore new musical boundaries and merge a number of different genres and styles. These include alternative rock, crossover prog, hard rock, electronic music, elements of pop, and even some ambient sounds. The idea of the project began in the autumn of 2015, after Gigi Cavalli COCCHI had just performed with LIGABUE at Campovolo 3 in front of more than a hundred thousand people, and Alex CARPANI was putting the finishing touches to his album 'So Close, So Far' in Milan. Both musicians were already thinking about branching out with new projects, and at the end of 2016 Alex and Gigi decided to work together as a duo, with the collaboration of Jacopo ROSSI on bass. The mixing of the project's self-titled debut album was completed in early October 2017, and from April to September 2018 AEROSTATION performed live premieres of the album both in Italy and abroad (France & Canada) well in advance of its eventual release in October of that year. Alex CARPANI provides both lead and backing vocals on the album, which was eventually released by Aereostella via Immaginifica on October 5th, 2018 and physically distributed by Self Distribuzione S.r.l. It is described as concept album about various aspects of exploration: of humans, of space and time, and of how individuals communicate and connect with each other. AEROSTATION have performed numerous concerts since then, including opening for PFM at several major events, and their sophomore album 'Rethink' will be released worldwide on September 19th via Alex CARPANI's own label Independent Artist Records, and physically distributed by Pick Up Records. Pre-production of the album was actually completed in December 2020 at Alex's home studio, but its final release has been delayed for almost five years. Jacopo ROSSI has been the project's bassist throughout its almost nine years of existence, and he is now regarded as a permanent member of the band. Both AEROSTATON albums feature 11 songs, those containing vocals all being sung in English.

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Born in 1979, Nickolas Mohanna is an American musician and audiovisual artist from Brooklyn, active since 2003. Mohanna began issuing music under the name Vakhchav from 2006 and 2009, releasing five limited-run CDRs while an art student at University of California, Davis, before dropping the moniker for his given name by 2010's Transmission Hue. Since then, his discography has expanded by over a dozen more as of this writing, distributed under various labels, one of which Mohanna's very own multimedia imprint Run/Off Editions (established in 2014). Using processed guitar, synthesizers, brass, percussion and even hand-made playable sculptures, Mohanna combines instruments with field recordings and samples from the Internet, shaping densely-layered and perpetually-shifting kaleidoscopic soundscapes. The New Yorker's mostly-improvised style borrows from kosmische musik and sound collage, with critics comparing him to classic Tangerine Dream, Oneohtrix Point Never, Golden Retriever, Biosphere and even Oval, the Necks and Fennesz. Percussive and free improv influences crept into his work by 2019's Smoke, blossoming completely by 2021's Nerve Plexus, which saw Mohanna shaping a new musical idiom of electroacoustic jazz and drone similar to his contemporaries Aidan Baker, Fabio Orsi and Oren Ambarchi.

Kapital are the Polish electroacoustic music duo of Rafał Iwański (aka X-Navi:Et and member of HATI) and Jakub "Kuba" Ziołek (of T'ien Lai and formerly Stara Rzeka), who've performed together in post-everything collective Innercity Ensemble since 2011. The duo chose the name after being invited to play together at LDZ Festival, expressing reformist concerns about the predatory nature of late stage capitalism, influenced by Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard and Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone (Iwański: "I remembered what seemed like a prediction - that one day capital will eventually have to face the rage and violence it deserves"). Based in Bydgoszcz, Iwański and Ziołek use instruments and amplified objects to perform a post-industrial, mostly-improvised take on kraut-damaged drone, oozing with electric guitar-centric psychedelia like a meeting of the minds between Maeror Tri, Manuel G]]>�No New Age LP, released jointly through Bocian and Sangoplasmo Records, followed by two further albums on the Instant Classic label: 2015's Chaos to Chaos and 2018's Flux. The latter was a collaboration with Richard Pinhas thanks to a commission from the 2014 edition of Unsound Festival in Krak]]>� ]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 02:48:15 EST http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=13026 http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=13025

Founded in 1996, Ueh were a French post-rock band from Toulouse and the brainchild of Hyperclean's Fr]]>����Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!!, with the same track later appearing on Ueh's limited edition self-titled double album. Ueh followed up with the Kawabata split/collaborative EP Pataphysical Overdrive to My Cosmos in 2004, the same year the group embarked on their sole USA tour with the AMT guitarist and Seattle band Kinski. Ueh never recorded any new music, but still occasionally performed live with and without their friend Kawabata up until late 2013.

Founded in 2017, Spelterini are a French neo-krautrock quartet from Nantes and the creative vision of Can/Faust-loving musician Meriadeg Orgebin (who also records as Draache). Along with Orgebin (guitar/electronics) is Nicolas Joubaud (guitar) - both of defunct like-minded group Chausse Trappe - as well as Arthur de La Grandi]]>�Perg]]>��, 2022's Par]]>� and 2025's Hyomon-Dako / Magn]]>� - with each LP's material refined through live performance before being committed to record. Spelterini's instrumental approach is often compared by critics to This Heat, with additional influences detected from Sonic Youth, Radian, Heldon and Kleg.

Henget are a Finnish progressive black metal band from Tampere, formed in 2021 by guitarist Jesse J. Heikkinen (of The Abbey and Iterum Nata) and vocalist Santtu Kainulainen (aka King Aleijster de Satan; of Saturnian Mist). The group later expanded to a quintet with the addition of drummer Ville Rissanen (also of Saturnian Mist), Heikkinen's childhood friend and keyboardist Lasse Launimaa (of Slow Fall and Thyrane) and session bassist P]]>���Beyond North Star, the following year (with J]]>� ]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:58:53 EST http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=13007