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ARENA – The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance (2022)

Founded in 1995, ARENA resulted a mega group at the time with members from Marillion, Pendragon and Asia initially. Considered one of the exponents from the Neo Prog scene, ARENA’s sound always characterized for o strong dose of hard rock / melodic hard orientation, with AOR splashes.
To be released soon, their new album “The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance” is their 10th opus and featured new vocalist Damien Wilson – a renowned musician from the scene who has worked for Landmarq, Threshold, Headspace, Ayreon, Praying Mantis and more.
This ‘new’ ARENA is fantastic, and the material, performances and production on “The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance” are simply among the best from this talented, underrated group. One of the best prog / melodic / AOR mix we heard in many years.
ARENA has something for everyone: melody, catchiness, great guitar work, keys / synths heaven, a perfect machine rhythm section, and now a classy, really good vocalist…

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CLIVE NOLAN & OLIVER WAKEMAN – Dark Fables (2021)

Cherry Red Records is releasing today CLIVE NOLAN & OLIVER WAKEMAN collaboration album ”Dark Fables” containing over 30 minutes of music conceived for the abandoned “Frankenstein” album which would have joined the duo’s “Jabberwocky” (1999) and “Hound Of The Baskervilles” (2002) collaborations.
The material of unreleased third album “Frankenstein” is finally released now. As with the previous LP’s, “Dark Fables” features the duo’s virtuosic keyboard playing with sublime performances from vocalists Paul Manzi (The Sweet, Arena), Andy Sears (Twelfth Night), Charlotte Dickerson, guitarists Karl Groom (Threshold), Gordon Giltrap, David Mark Pearce (Oliver Wakeman Band) and more.
”Dark Fables” is almost like a musical fairytale with bombastic keyboard based symphonic rock and a very impressive line-up where the singers and the musicians are really great and very skilled. The music is a mix between the bands they usually are playing in: ARENA, PENDRAGON, YES, and add some LANDMARQ, MAGNUM, AYREON, etc…

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ARENA – Double Vision (2018)

And here’s another album released during the just extinct 2018 that we didn’t featured here but you really need to hear; ARENA‘s “Double Vision”. Some kind of a super-group founded by drummer Mick Pointer (ex- Marillion), keyboardist Clive Nolan (Pendragon) and guitarist Keith More (Asia), this British act still remains as one of my favorite progressive bands from the ’90s,...

ARENA – The Unquiet Sky (2015)

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ARENA – The Unquiet Sky (2015)

*  the REAL one Founded in 1995 by Clive Nolan (Pendragon) and Mick Pointer (the original drummer with Marillion), ARENA have purveyed their brand of progressive rock for 20 years, mixing hard rock with a more symphonic sound.To celebrate their 20th Anniversary, Arena will be releasing a new studio album “The Unquiet Sky” on April 27 and undertaking a tour....

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ARENA – The Seventh Degree Of Separation (2011)

* British neo progsters Arena are back with a new album after six years, “The Seventh Degree Of Separation”.A quasi-supergroup, Arena was one of the dominant neo-prog groups of the ’90s, featuring former members of Marillion, Pendragon, IQ and Shadowland.Sustaining many line-up changes through the years, the band now consists of founding members drummer Mick Pointer (ex Marillion) and keyboardist...