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.
TRYO
Bo Hansen December 19, 2023Even before they’d recorded a note of music, TRYO (Chile) found themselves opening for prog royalty Yes at the prestigious Quinta Vergara Amphitheater in the coastal city of Viña del Mar. “It was a big honour!” beams band manager Ignacio Carvajal, who acts as translator for his charges. It was also the culmination of seven […]
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Zahn
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Berlin’s Zahn like to have their cake and eat it. As hard as the boney incisor they named themselves after (Zahn means tooth in German and is pronounced with a “s” rather than a “z” sound), they are the purest distillation of the instrumental power trio, but also an experimental electronic outfit at the same […]
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Skáld
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet spent his childhood in the Loire Valley in central-western France: a stunning, rural region defined by its series of sky-piercing castles. So it really shouldn’t be a surprise that he grew up to be the multi-instrumentalist of a historical prog/folk collective. “As a child, I was quite introverted and surrounded by these mediaeval […]
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Jerboah
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023Genuinely eclectic combination of jazz rock and art pop from multinational quartet Bands that claim to play without musical boundaries very rarely follow through on such claims. But one group of musicians that seems to buck the trend are Amsterdam-based quartet Jerboah. Indeed a live set by the band feels like a trip through the […]
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Spurv
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023“The thing I’m admiring most in other bands and musicians, and striving to achieve myself, is an acute attention to composition and how albums function as wholes and not merely as collections of independent songs,” vocalist and main composer Gustav Jørgen Pedersen explains after //Prog// asks what sets Norwegian instrumental post-rock collective Spurv apart from […]
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Under The Surface
Bo Hansen November 22, 2023The worst thing that can happen when sending a speculative mail is reading the word “no”, but fortunately for Dutch singer Sanne Rambags the answer was in the affirmative. Approaching seasoned jazz drummer Joost Lijbaart and experienced guitarist Bram Stadhouders to work with, the two musicians readily agreed. “Eight years ago, she was selected by […]
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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 […]