For this year’s End of the Year episode, we assembled an illustrious round again: Karl Westerlund, Robert Stenvall & Christian Berglönn (An Abstract Illusion), Andy Schmidt (Disillusion), Colin MacAndrew (Ashbreather) & Rioghan Darcy, talking about all of their own 2022 records as well as our favorite albums of the year.

There must have been something in the water in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004: Dirt Poor Robins emerged parallel to The Dear Hunter to go on a separate, but similarly artistic journey, culminating in their latest record and silent film, “Queen of the Night”. Mastermind Neil DeGraide told us everything about it!

Lars Enok Åhlund, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, moustache man and all around secret weapon of Swedish prog masters Soen, called mid-tour from Quebec, Canada to talk about their current and future live activities, choosing a certain cover version and of course everything about their new album “Atlantis”.

Pondering the similarities of Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock while talking about Progressive Metal: Canadian-born, Leipzig-based guitarist Morgan Reid presents his very first solo album Terran. We covered a lot of ground including sight reading sheet music, his admiration for Philip Glass, creating a dance choreography to David Maxim Micic’s music and not to forget the #ibanezgiveaway! Hop on board!

Calling from Cologne, ÆRIES guitarist Julian Suhr talked to us about the ÆRIES sound, working in the studio vs. recording at home and everything else there is to know about the band’s debut album, “Arcanum”.

Joe Branton, bassist and designated mic-duty guy of London/Brighton instrumental proggers Poly-Math talks standard Fripp tuning, the very broad church of prog, full-on bass gear nerdery and of course “Zenith”, Poly-Math’s brand new album, out Nov. 18 on Nice Weather For Airstrikes!

Andrew Stout, initiator, composer and guitarist of schizo prog metal upstarts Apeiron Bound talks about the conception of the band, the initial reception of their debut album “Multiplicity” (released Aug. 26 through Layered Reality Productions), crazy music video shoots and upcoming plans.

The artistic core trio of international prog metal band Seventh Station, Dmitri Alperovich, Eren Başbuğ & Davidavi Dolev called from their respective corners of the world to talk about arranging Shostakovich for a prog metal ensemble, channeling and translating the artistic vision of a song into a music video and of course everything else about their second album, “Heal the Unhealed”, out Nov. 7th!

Violinist Olivier Allard of Canadian genre-benders Cydemind talks about composing instrumental music, making the classical influence interesting in a metal context and of course their new sophomore album, “The Descent”.

Jon, Øystein, Lars, Claudia and Sondre from Major Parkinson called in from Bergen and Oslo respectively to talk about the creation of “Valesa - Chapter I: Velvet Prison” (with hints to Chapters II and III), good and bad pop music and upcoming live plans.