Earth to Cheska is a fierce-female indie pop project started by artist Cheska Zaide. Fine is the title of her latest single. It features a great production, it was Recorded at Rob Cavallo’s “Penfield Recording Studio”, Produced and Mixed by Sean Dorrian (Destroy Boys, Breaking Benjamin, The Linda Linda’s) and Mastered by Dave Collins (Weezer, Linkin Park, Bad Religion).
I love the pace and the mood of the song, which features a very melodic verses and a pure grunge chorus (the vocals are spot on and catchy). Fine is straight to the point, amazingly arranged and with very cool guitars as well. Give it a go by clicking on the Spotify player below and follow Earth to Cheska if you like what you hear.
One month prior the release of their debut record Enter The Realm Of Fire, the Finns Rapid offer in listening the third and last single “Path Of Illusions”. Read more…
Celebrated Canadian Roots Rock band The Commoners are pleased to announce the release of their brand-new single ‘Runnin’ Blind‘. The single is available Friday July 24th on all streaming platforms – here. ‘Runnin’ Blind‘ is the first single taken from the band’s forthcoming third studio album released in 2027. ‘Runnin’ Blind‘ is also the name […]
Before heading out on European tour in October, Heretoir will make a trip to the select Asian countries for a short run of headlining shows. Support on these tour dates will come from Canada’s Unreqvited. Read more…
US death doomers Druid Lord shared news that they are currently in the process of recording of the new full-length effort, the successor to 2022’s Relics Of The Dead. An early 2027 release is planned. More info coming soon. Read more…
Los Angeles, CA-based brutal technical death metal quintet The Slam Unit premiere a new single and lyric video by the name of "The Infestation/The Hive", streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. The band enlists Marco Pitruzzella (Ex-Rings Of Saturn, Vital Remains, The Faceless, Six Feet Under, Waking the Cadaver) on drums.
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Cult Epics is celebrating the work of Rozz Williams this summer in three parts: a new three-track Flowers 12-inch, a feature-length documentary about the late Christian Death founder, and a Pomona concert featuring former members of the band alongside several of Williams’ longtime collaborators.
Originally released on Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone’s 1995 collaborative album Dream Home Heartache, “Flowers” returns July 24 in a new three-track edition from Cult Epics. Available digitally and on limited-edition pink vinyl, the 12-inch pairs a new 2026 analog remix with remastered piano and live versions of the Williams composition, which also appears in director Nico B’s forthcoming documentary, Rozz Williams: Romeo’s Distress.
The A-side features a 2026 analog remix built around Williams’ recorded vocal, with newly recorded instrumental parts by former Christian Death members Rikk Agnew on guitar, James McGearty on bass and David Glass on drums. Paul Roessler of 45 Grave contributes keyboards.
Side B collects two additional versions of the song: a remastered piano rendition drawn from Williams and Gitane Demone’s Dream Home Heartache and a remastered live performance originally released on Sleeping Dogs.
Flowers 12-inch tracklist:
Side A: “Flowers” (Analog Version — Remix 2026)
Side B: “Flowers” (Piano Version — Remastered 2026)
Side B: “Flowers” (Live Version — Remastered 2026)
The three-track record runs approximately 20 minutes and is priced at $20. The pink-vinyl edition carries the catalog number CE210 and is being distributed by MVD Entertainment Group.
Listen to an excerpt of “Flowers” below:
Rozz Williams: Romeo’s Distress
The record arrives ahead of the August 29 screening of Rozz Williams: Romeo’s Distress at the Fox Theater Pomona. Billed as a homecoming in the city where Williams grew up, the event pairs Nico B’s documentary with an extended live performance by former Christian Death members and special guests.
The 100-minute film examines Williams’ work as a musician, poet and visual artist, as well as his role in founding Christian Death and shaping the sound and imagery of Los Angeles deathrock. Williams died in 1998 at the age of 34, leaving behind a body of work that extended through Christian Death, Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation and numerous collaborations.
Watch the trailer for Rozz Williams: Romeo’s Distress below:
Former Christian Death Members to Perform in Pomona
Following the screening, Agnew, McGearty and Glass will take the stage with vocal performances by Eva O and Gitane Demone. The night also will feature appearances by Patrik Mata of Kommunity FK, Roessler, William Faith of Shadow Project and Williams’ collaborator Kenton Holmes.
The extended set will draw from the three Christian Death albums recorded with Williams — Only Theatre of Pain, Catastrophe Ballet and Ashes — together with selections from Shadow Project.
Rozz Williams: Romeo’s Distress — Documentary Screening and Live Performance
Saturday, August 29, 2026 — 7 p.m.
Fox Theater Pomona
301 S. Garey Avenue
Pomona, California
We’re back with a brand new Tracks Of The Week after a break last week as we were at a great Prog For Peart festival! This week we’ve got six more new and diverse slices of progressively inclined music for you to enjoy.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Asia romped away with our last TOTW poll with their brand new single, The Traveller (Into The Light), pulling in double the amount of votes to their nearest rival. Not a bad start for the new line-up! That nearest rival was UK prog metallers Winter In Eden in second place, with London quintet Crumbling Ghost in third place.
The premise is simple – we’ve collated a batch of new releases by bands falling under the progressive umbrella, and collated them together in one post for you – it makes it so much easier than having to dip in and out of various individual posts, doesn’t it?
The idea is to watch the videos (or listen if it’s a stream), enjoy (or not) and also to vote for your favourite in the voting form at the bottom of this post. Couldn’t be easier, could it? We’ll be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, as the title implies, each week. Next week, we’ll update you with this week’s winner and present a host of new prog music for you to enjoy.
If you’re a band and you want to be featured in Prog‘s Tracks Of The Week, send your video (as a YouTube link) or track embed, band photo (please, don’t forget the photo!) and biog with quotes to us here.
CHELSEA WOLFE – COLD
The enigmatic Chelsea Wolfe announced that she will release her latest album, The Dark, on August 21 through Loma Vista Recordings. She has also released a video for her latest single, Cold, a hauntingly melodic ballad that will hopefully help break her deserving music to a wider audience.
Wolfe describes the new record as “an album imbued with mystery, symbolism, and solace.” The Dark features guest appearances from Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam), Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens Of The Stone Age), Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), and Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, St Vincent).
LESOIR – IS IT NOTHING?
Dutch art rockers Lesoir will release their brand new album, Tomorrow Is Now Today, through V2 Records on October 23, and Is It Nothing? is the first music to be taken from the upcoming album, the band’s seventh over all.
Is It Nothing? explores humanity’s relationship with Earth through progressive rock, atmospheric textures and cinematic soundscapes. Inspired by scientist James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, Is It Nothing? reflects on Earth as a living, self-regulating organism and examines humanity’s willingness to recognise the urgency of change.
PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS – TRAVELER ON THE WRONG ROAD
US prog rockers Pattern-Seeking Animals have shared a great new single, Traveler On The Wrong Road (their spelling, not ours!), which is taken from the band’s seventh album, Grimalkin, which is released through GEP Records on August 21.
“The word ‘Grimalkin’ originated in 16th-century English as a variation of ‘graymalkin’ (grey cat) and was later popularised by Shakespeare’s Macbeth as the name of one of the witches’ familiars, a cat companion with magical and supernatural associations,” explains producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter John Boegehold. “It’s great to finally have a release date for Grimalkin, our sixth album since 2019. We’re all very happy with the way it turned out. Along the way we tried a few new musical directions and sounds, some different instrumentation.”
ARTHUR BROWN – BURSTING THE BUBBLE
That old God Of Hellfire himself, Arthur Brown, gets all jaunty on his latest single, Bursting The Bubble. It’s taken from his upcoming album, Nature, which is released through Prophecy Productions on September 4. Arthur will be appearing at Prophecy Fest that weekend, as well as touring with Alice Cooper in the UK in October.
“Does the planet Earth need us and our media?,” Brown asks. “Is AI becoming a better guardian of the Earth than humanity? Have we lost the imagination to care for our world, its creatures, and ourselves? So many of us now live inside a media bubble. Who does that truly serve? Can we still protect ourselves mentally, emotionally and spiritually against the growing feeling that nothing works anymore? Is this becoming our normal state of mind? This music video is deliberately shot vertically. Balloons are drawing our gaze upward, while our feet remain firmly rooted on the natural ground. It is both an artistic choice and a social commentary, inviting us to reflect on the way we now see ourselves, each other, and the world around us. What is reality?”
RUSSIAN CIRCLES – ELUVIAL
After the no-nonsense blast of previous single, Empath, US post-rock trio Russian Circles are in more familiar exploratory and proggier territory with the eight-minute-plus Eluvial, a slow-building, intricate piece taken from the band’s upcoming album, Nine, which is released through Sargent House on August 28.
For Nine, the band adhered to their strategy from Blood Year (2019) and Gnosis (2022) by teaming up with engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Mastodon, High on Fire), who they’ve worked with since 2016 and their broad-ranging influences – the formidable Touch & Go artists of the Midwest, the prog giants of late 60s and early 70s England, the hypnotic motorik and kosmische grooves of West Germany, and the international underground’s most caustic strains of metal – are writ large all over Nine.
HYPNO5E – LOST FIRES
French proggers Hypno5e release their latest album, Tame Noir, through Pelagic Records on November 6. They’ve launched the album with the epic, near-nine-minute Lost Fires and its accompanying cinematic video. From the tracks opkaitinve keyboard opening through to the climactic heavy guitars, it evokes memories of the band’s dual inspirations of Pink Floyd and Gojira. Parts may be a bit heavy for some, but overall there’s no denying the impact of Lost Fires.
“This music video is built as a short film,” the band explain. “The decor around the character slowly enters a mutable space, and unfolds as an extension of the unseen. As its contours shift and dissolve, buried layers of the self begin to emerge, not as memories to be reclaimed, but as quiet, elusive presences that have always existed beneath perception. The landscape becomes a threshold where the visible and the invisible continuously reshape one another, revealing an interior world in perpetual transformation. Rather than offering answers, the film embraces disorientation as a way of encountering what lies dormant, allowing the unknown to surface with the unsettling familiarity of something that was never truly lost.”
Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil’s Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It’s not your average desert island and we’ll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.
This week when we arrived at Devil’s Island we find Cairiss sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil’s Island?
Find out now…
Welcome to The Razors’e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don’t worry about it’s name I’m sure it’s not as bad as that would suggest.
You’re marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn’t live without. Which album did you each chose and why?
Ethan – Watershed by Opeth because it’s got everything you could want
Martin – Alien by Strapping Young Lad because it’s really angry, and I’d be really angry so that fits
Lydia – Voyage of the Acolyte by Steve Hackett because you need some prog in your life
Freya – Preacher’s Daughter by Ethel Cain because everyone loves feeling deeply sad on an island
Connor – Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi because something needs to counteract the sheer misery we’d get from Ethel Cain
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to stay in, with enough space for you to put up a poster of one album cover. What album cover do you each choose?
Ethan – Dance of Death by Iron Maiden
Freya – Metal Magic by Pantera
Martin – As Ink in Water by Asira
Lydia – Melting Sun by Lantlos
Connor – The White Album by the Beatles
There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?
Ethan and Martin – White Russians
Connor – Espresso Martini
Freya – Protein shakes
Lydia – A nice cuppa tea
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?
Ethan – 3 Inches of Blood tanktop, it’ll be hot!
Freya – Mesmerise System of a Down shirt that’s over 20 years old
Connor – Taylor Swift hoody for those cold nights
Martin – Devin Townsnend mug because of the hilarious typo on it
Lydia – Wacken OA lighter from 2008
You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?
Someone who could a build a boat would be better than any of us
There’s a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?
Martin – Tokyo Warhearts by Children of Bodom
Lydia – Live at Blues Alley by Eva Cassidy
Ethan – Rebirth of Dissection by Dissection
Freya – Live at Pompeii by Pink Floyd
Connor – Alter Bridge Live at the Royal Albert Hall
You’re getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
Bruce Dickinson because he has a plane!
You’ve been stuck here a while and food supplies are running low. There’s only one thing for it… which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?
I guess whoever dies first..
Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?
