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IQ - The Road of Bones. Dark, Intense, dramatic. Everything you expect from IQ.

Magnus Öström - Thread of Life The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue Polar Bear - In Each And Every One Been a jazz day today....

That's because I already owned it on vinyl!

Angelwitch - Angelwitch. This actually sounds far better than I remembered it. They were probably just too far ahead of their time. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules. The second album they did with Ronnie Dio, parts of it sound more like Dio's first solo album than Sabbath. I put this down to having Vinnie Appice rather than Bill Ward on drums. Blue Öyster Cult - Club Ninja. This album gets a really bad rap, but I don't think it deserves it. There are a couple of clunky tracks written by outside writers, but the band's original material is gold. John McLauchlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame. A jazz-rock classic. Crippled Black Phoenix - White Light Generator. Only 2014 release in this list, and it's stunning. It's like a cross between Swans' avant-garde intensity and Pink Floyd's melody and atmospherics.

Within Temptation - Hydra Not totally convinced by this one yet. Why all the guest appearances?

Panic Room - Incarnate. Superb gig at Gloucester on Friday night This is what they played...

Some bonkers psychedelia with a brass section and a bassoon.

Dave Kilminster, Scarlet and Other Stories Blue Òyster Cult, Club Ninja The Pineapple Thief, All The Wars.

No music for two days to give my ears a chance to recover after a lot of time spent in the photo pit at HRH Prog in Pwllheli. Great sets by The Pineapple Thief, Crimson Sky, Panic Room, The Enid, Fish and Solstice. Fish probably the highlight of the weekend. Now got to sort through many, many photos....

The combined Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland network had five seperate standard-gauge interchanges at one point. The WHR had the joint station at Dinas and an interchange siding with the Cambrian just north of Porthmadog (Where the WHR museum railway now runs). The FR had the interchange at Minfford, and two at Blaenau, one with the GWR and one with the LNWR. Can't think of any mineral-carrying railways bar the isolated Campbeltown and Machrihanish that didn't have a standard gauge interchange at least for freight.

So when are they putting it through the shrink-ray to 2mm?

Halo Blind - Occupying Forces. The second album by Chris Johnson's project formerly known as Parade.

Ordinary Psycho, The New Gothick LP Quirky mix of goth, prog and indie, with viola as a major component to their sound. Made a couple of albums in the mid-90s then disappeared without trace. Anyone remember them?

A classic from 1968 The whole album is brilliantly bonkers, with a great cover of Screaming Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You".

Today's playlist: Alestorm, Black Sails at Midnight. Scottish pirate metal with a bottle of rum and a yo-ho-ho. Arrrr! Rainbow, Black Masquerade. Very patchy live album from the 1990s Doogie White live album Maschine, Rubibium. Widdly muso-prog, but very superior widdly muso-prog with some great tunes. Vangelis: Albedo 0:39. Glacial 70s instumental electronica. Blood Ceremony, The Eldrich Dark. Hammer Horror version of Jethro Tull, on acid.

Michael Schenker Group - MSG<br /><br />

Oasis - Definitely Maybe. An album which was very "of its time", and really hasn't aged well. BigElf - Into The Maelstom. Suggests that if you have The Beatles as a major influence, it helps if other inflences are The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and King Crimson

Solstice - Prophesy Behemoth - The Satanist Written a few reviews on my website: Gloryhammer http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/music/record-reviews/gloryhammer-tales-from-the-kingdom-of-fife/ Tarja http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/music/live-reviews/tarja-islington-o2-academy/ Panic Room http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/music/record-reviews/panic-room-incarnate/

Behemoth - The Satanist Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife The Michael Schenker Group - Built to Destroy The Michaal Schenker Group - One Night at Budokan

Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation And the answer to why I was listening to so much Yes a couple of weeks ago: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/feb/12/10-of-the-best-yes-band-prog-rock

Panic Room - Incarnate. Playback of album at the launch party with the band. BigElf - Into the Maelstrom

Some 70s/80s classics there! Today I've only listened to "Prophecy" by Solstice.

Yes - The Yes Album Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife One of these is not like the others/

Yes - 90125 Yes - Drama Yes - Tormarto And this

Deborah Bonham - Spirit Morpheus Rising - Eximius Humanus Magnus Öström - Thread of Life Sanguine Hum - The Weight of thr World Also Eden - [REDACTED] And some Scottish Pirate Metal