It may be hard to believe but there was a time when Progressive Rock was considered past its sell by date, the emergence of punk in the seventies had done its best to dismantle it but it was the era of the nineties music scene which seemed to finally kill off the behemoth. Thankfully you can never keep a good seven minute song down for too long and the genre was soon flourishing once more with the likes of Touchstone and The Reasoning.
Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 5th 2010.
The world of Progressive Rock has moved on someway over the last few years with only the bravest and best from the previous century retaining and moving on with their fan base.
Newer groups such as The Reasoning have taken the genre to new pastures where it is flourishing and attracting an audience unheard of back in the time when Ark decided to finally call it a day in 1995, however; when you have something to say and an audience keen on reliving some of the finest Prog to come out of the Midlands then it’s advisable to give those thoughts an airing and see what happens.