Australian blues-rock songwriter Tom Harrison steps out with “Blood On The Moon”, a debut album full of road dust, fuzzed-up guitars and stories that feel lived rather than invented. It is blues with country scars, folk blood and enough rock ’n’ roll dirt under the fingernails to keep everything honest.
Christopher Gordon turns Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy into an eight-part progressive orchestral descent, where huge symphonic passages collide with modern prog, jazz and heavy guitar work. “Macbeth” feels less like a soundtrack and more like a storm slowly swallowing the stage.
TALES OF A LIQUID DAWN return with “Blast Squad Obos”, a dense instrumental trip through heavy prog, psychedelic rock and doom-soaked space music. Seven long-form tracks twist between crushing riffs, electronic haze and strange cosmic atmospheres without ever sounding like they are following a map.
More than half a century into their journey, FOCUS remain one of progressive rock’s most instantly recognizable live bands. “Live” gathers six discs of concerts where Thijs van Leer’s keyboards and flute, Pierre van der Linden’s restless drumming and those endlessly twisting guitar lines still sound wonderfully alive.
Greek progressive metallers FEED MY DAEMONS return with “A Symphony Of Lust”, a darker, heavier and more focused second album where prog complexity meets hard-rock muscle. The songs twist and turn, but the hooks never get buried under the machinery.
VOODOOLAND return from the vaults with a remastered collection built around the late Karl Cochran’s finest hard rock work. With John Corabi, Joe Lynn Turner, Bob Daisley, Ace Frehley and Eric Singer in the cast, this thing arrives carrying enough pedigree to flatten a small club before the first chorus lands.
Aubrey Stewart returns with “Second Chance at a First Impression”, a self-made hard rock record built on thick guitars, direct songwriting and the feeling that every song has something personal to prove. There is nothing overdecorated here — just riffs, melody and a songwriter putting his own name on every moving part.
WIDESPREAD PANIC’s legendary Halloween 2000 Austin City Limits performance finally gets a proper 2026 reissue, catching the classic Michael Houser-era lineup at full boil. Loose, greasy and fearless, this is Southern jam rock stretched until the seams start smoking.
Hamburg hard rockers VELVET RUSH give their debut EP a second life with an expanded Frontiers edition, adding two fresh tracks to the original five-song set. It is dirty, bluesy and gloriously loud — classic ’70s hard rock dragged into the present with Sandra Lian’s untamed voice right at the center.