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.
Votchi
Bo Hansen October 16, 2023Formed in Prague the late 1990s and having undergone a variety of line up changes across four albums, Czech hard rocking proggers Votchi have stabilised both their membership and sound while looking beyond their borders. Founding member Mirek Mužík (keyboards/vocals) is now augmented by singer Alex McBeat, guitarist Martin Smejkal, bassist Dominik Vozobule, drummer Jan […]
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Maebe
Bo Hansen October 16, 2023The guitarist mashing up prog genres to build his ultimate wall of sound. “I want it to be a celebration of instrumental guitar in all its forms,” says Michael Astley-Brown, the man behind Maebe. Raised in The Cotswolds, Astley-Brown grew up on grunge and pop-punk before discovering the joys of post-rock at university, where hearing […]
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The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors
Bo Hansen October 16, 2023Incorrigible oddballs always find their way to prog in the end. For the first part of his musical career, multi-instrumentalist Craig Schmuhl was guitarist and frontman with a death metal band called Hate Storm Annihilation. Today, he releases music as The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors. The project’s latest release, //A Clock Without A Craftsman//, is […]
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Pomegranate Tiger
Bo Hansen October 16, 2023Canadian prog metal multi-instrumentalist reflects on the rise of AI with jam-packed third album Pullquote//“Whatever happens when the album comes out, I’m not going to have any regrets.” Body//“The feeling that I wanted to come out of this album was that I wanted, absolutely under all circumstances, to love every second of passing music,” Pomegranate […]
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Ben Reed
Bo Hansen October 16, 2023On the day //Prog// speaks to him, session gun and solo artist Ben Reed is re-shelving and re-alphabetising his enormous vinyl collection. He has around 10,000 records, only a few of them on CD, and he doesn’t do digital – he’s never downloaded nor streamed a song in his life. “I would never listen to […]
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Flor De Loto
Bo Hansen September 9, 2023Peruvian folk-metal-proggers are striking out with selected English language versions from their back catalogue. Though they’ve made an impact across South America, Flor De Loto are aiming to reach a wider global audience with their new album, Lines Of Nasca. Fusing Andean folk music with progressive rock and the power of heavy metal, the Peruvian […]
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Matteo Mancuso
Bo Hansen September 9, 2023Meet the young Italian guitarist who’s wowing virtuosos with his fluent blend of jazz and rock When most artists release their debut album, they do so with little expectation weighed down upon them. By the time Sicily-born guitarist Matteo Mancuso had written and recorded his first album, //The Journey//, however, he had the likes of […]
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Infinite Rising
Bo Hansen September 9, 2023Italian instrumentalists shredding their way through outer space The twisted terrors from the minds of H.P. Lovecraft and manga horror maestro Jinji Ito meet J-pop and sci-fi cinema in the musical melting pot of Italian instrumental trio Infinite Rising. The band’s self-styled spatial prog inhabits the corner of the cosmos that Plini and Animals As […]
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Loam
Bo Hansen September 9, 2023Multifaceted session guitarist turns to writing his own naturally chaotic instrumentals Loam may not be a familiar name, but there’s a good chance regular gig goers will have heard him play in some guise or another. In recent years the Aberdeen guitarist has quietly carved out a reputation as a multifarious session guy. His most […]
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Zopp
Bo Hansen September 9, 2023It’s long been understood that the Canterbury scene extends far beyond the geographic boundaries the Cathedral city that members of Caravan and Soft Machine once called home. The organic growth of the movement over the years has come to include bands from across Europe, Scandinavia, the USA, and even Japan, all judged to have an […]