Bo Hansen
Hi, I am Bo Hansen, one of the webmasters of Progzilla.com. My role focuses on maintaining the website, ensuring its usability, and providing a seamless experience for users to explore and engage with the world of progressive rock.
Seventh Station
Bo Hansen March 5, 2025The multi-national prog metal outfit are stretching themselves by giving the source a contemporary work over. Such are the distances traveled by Seventh Station’s Slovenian-based, Belorussian-born guitarist, founder Dimitri Alperovich in putting together their latest release, //On Shouders Of Giants//, that it must only be a matter of time before he trades his air miles […]
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Tribe3
Bo Hansen March 5, 2025Tribe3 Those who saw them at last year’s Winter’s End, or Prog For Peart, or HRH Prog, may have wondered just where Tribe3 had landed from. “In terms of age we’re like //Dad’s Army//,” asserts founder, bassist and keyboardist Steve Hughes. His 60th birthday’s hoving into view, guitarist Chris Jones is already in his sixth […]
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Whimsical Creature
Bo Hansen March 5, 2025Whimsical Creature I Am The Manic Whale’s main man and flautist explore their acoustic side A campfire conversation at the end of last year’s (2024) summer holiday ignited a musical spark for I Am The Manic Whale’s Michael Whiteman and his close friend, flautist Ella Lloyd, who has played on all the band’s albums. “We […]
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Penelope Trappes
Bo Hansen March 5, 2025Penelope Trappes Gothic songstress offers snapshots into her soul via experimental soundscapes Penelope Trappes doesn’t treat her music like a maths equation; nothing she does is calculated. Each song is written, performed and recorded in a moment, letting her emotions escape through her beautifully harrowing music with little regard for what the rule book says. […]
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Tiberius
Bo Hansen March 5, 2025Tiberius Limelight Scottish prog-metallers return with second full-length //Mosaic// and explain why they like to unite fans in “weirdness.” As Tiberius enter our video call one by one to a simulated scene of an amphitheater in the woods, //Prog// wonders what we’ve let ourselves in for. Having released their debut album, //A Peaceful Annihilation// on […]
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Crisálida
Bo Hansen February 10, 2025Drawing on their historical and cultural heritage, the Chilean prog metallers fuse old and new for the here and now. “I really think we found our sound with our third album, //Solar//,” says guitarist Damián Agurto as he considers the development of Crisálida. Based in Santiago, the prog-metal band was formed in 1997 by singer […]
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Third Quadrant
Bo Hansen February 10, 2025Keyboard-orientated proggers discuss their second life and fifth studio album “We’ve always been fiercely independent and that’s one thing we did carry over from the punk scene.” //Prog// is discussing the early years of Northwest-based band Third Quadrant with drummer Chris Hare, which also acts as a reminder of the DIY aesthetic that informed a […]
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Múr
Bo Hansen February 10, 2025Dynamic Icelandic quintet looks to blur the lines between sound and vision Kári Haraldsson spends his daytime soundtracking Icelandic films and TV shows. At night, he turns to his categorise-it-if-you-dare passion project, Múr. Grounded by the emotionally driven ambient textures that define his scores, the band uses extreme dynamic changes as pawns for their Machiavellian […]
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Henge
Bo Hansen February 10, 2025HENGE are not like other bands. HENGE are from outer space. A disparate band of space travelling eccentrics, they have been steadily making their alien presence felt with music that combines mischievous, Cardiacs-like electro-punk with mind-expanding space rock grandeur and the frantic textures of ‘90s rave. Their new album, //Journey To Voltus B//, is destined […]
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Kanaan & Ævestaden
Bo Hansen February 10, 2025A spectacular collision of contrasting worlds, //Langt, Langt Vekk// (//Far, Far Away//) sees psychedelic drone-rockers Kanaan teamed with sometimes trad, sometimes trippy folk act Ævestaden on their joint debut LP. “At first it was like a joke,” smiles Kenneth Lien, one of Ævestaden’s three multi-instrumentalists. “What if these very different bands joined forces?” As Kanaan guitarist Ask […]