The Professor’s Picks: New Prog, Fusion, and Metal Releases for April 4, 2025
Join Pete Pardo & Ken Golden for news on the Lasers Edge new releases that are hitting each Friday in the genres or progressive rock, prog-metal, power metal, and fusion.
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@seaoftranquilityprog
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
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PREORDER
Nightingale – The Breathing Shadow (CD and Vinyl) June 6
Nightingale – The Closing Chronicles (CD and Vinyl) August 8
CDs/VIDEO
Abercrombie/Hammer/DeJohnette – Timeless
Armageddon – Armageddon
Camel – Mirage (2CD/BR)
Camel – Moonmadness (2CD/BR)
Camel – Nude (2CD/BR)
Camel – Pressure Points (2CD/BR)
Crimson Glory – The Roadrunner Years
Family – Anyway (2CD)
Fractal Universe – The Great Filters
Happy Family – 4037 (CD-EP)
Moonlight Sky – The Four
Moonlight Sky – Con Fusion
Smith/Kotzen – Black Light/White Noise
Soft Machine – The Harvest Albums ’75-’78 (3CD)
Solstice – Clann
Tangerine Dream – Poland (2CD)
VINYL
Jason Bieler – The Escapologist
Drosselbart – Drosselbart
Hooffoot – Phantom Limb
Lewis Express + Chip Wickham – Doo-Ha!
@apostolov80
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
One of the more recent live performances by Leb i Sol, from 2023. https://youtu.be/dIzAPQJZ9VM?list=RDdIzAPQJZ9VM
@Jermeister12
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
HELL YEAH !!! I'm the PROUD owner of a crusty old copy of ARMAGEDDON🤟🤟👍👍🤟🤟
@gorancabrajic3240
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Brilliant episode, great thing you have Moonlight Sky, fantastic band form Slovenia. Leb i sol was a band from former Yugoslavia, you said it perfectly, but now they are known to be a Macedonian band. New Hooffoot is brilliant, one of the best releases this year.
@Allen-r8i
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
I would like to see the list of CD's, it's hard to read them . Really like the show with you two and all Sea of Tranquility, thanks.How can I order the CD's you present on your show?
@ivostoyanov4850
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Crimson Glory was a great great band in the middle and late 80 s .
@ivostoyanov4850
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Crimson Glory was a great great band in the middle and late 80 s .
@JoeChewBaca
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
I thought I didn't have that Abercrombie on vinyl. I ended up finding it, but after I got the cd. Ken!!! You're killing me with the Japanese stuff. Gotta free up some dough, haha.
A lot of interesting stuff.
@apostolov80
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Leb i Sol is/was a Macedonian band. (Macedonia was part of Yugoslavia and is now a independent state – North Macedonia) 🙂 I'm glad you liked their music.
@philjm3103
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Nice Star Trek reference, Ken!
@arnaudb.7669
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
I have to disagree with Ken about Ars Nova. Keiko Kumagai is a fantastic keyboard player and "The Book of the Dead" one of the most amazing keyboards trio albums of the 90's.
@stephenhood1516
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Absolutely love Family, I saw them live four time's, they were such an eclectic band. All 7 of their albums charted in the UK as did 4 singles; No Mule's Fool, Strange Band (EP), In My Own Time and Burlesque, sadly they called it a day in 1973; a vastly underrated band. Not too bad for a band whose singer sounds like a goat, hey Ken. 😊
@747jono
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Ken never gives any Bs tells it as it is Hats off Ken
@jeffreyrobinson9120
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Those Camel sets look very tempting. And Armageddon is probably my favorite one-and-done. Fabulous album.
@seaoftranquilityprog
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Here's the link to the Bandcamp Listening Party for the Sons of Ra album: https://lasersedge.bandcamp.com/merch/standard-deviation-listening-party
@paulgrace3439
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
LOFL! Good old Ken taking advantage of the tax tariffs!
@philjm3103
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
More ECM please!! I love the Gateway stuff, Timeless is awesome….how about a special on John Abercrombie?
@juanpagan9373
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
I didn't see the link for the Sons Of Ra Listening Party
@noneya237
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Any way u can get new wilson project in? There italian on maracash. There new alblum sounds like par lindh project with folk elements with less gothic but rpi sound killer stuff.
Hope u get iq cd restocks as i just got paid could not afford snag it week u had it.
@johnmichaelwilliams6694
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Great show to watch, good music to buy, order has been placed, be back next week! Thanks to Ken and Pete.
@donaldanderson6604
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Nice to see the Camel remasters. I was at the Hammersmith gig featured on the Moonmadness set. Play the album loud enough and you'll hear me cheering at the front. Ditto Soft Machine. Saw them a couple of weeks ago and Etheridge is still burning on several Bundles tracks. Thanks for another interesting and expensive post.
@turefromfinland3264
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Yes, Armageddon. One of the greatest records ever.
@neillbarrett4959
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
New iq album is awesome
@wolf1977
February 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
Other recent new stuff for me:
Don Airey/Pushed To The Edge
Kayak/Back To Shore – The 2022 Farewell Tour (great band, never really go the acclaim they should've)
T.G. Copperfield/All In Your Head
The Vapors/Wasp In a Jar – no longer Japanese (due to the recent 24% tariffs😒) but yes this late 70's band is back!
The Darkness/Dreams On Toast
Alliance/Before Our Eyes – more good AOR from Robert Berry & company
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