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In the late 80's, five university students vowing a common admiration for Metallica, Iron Maiden and the likes formed the band Physeter; under that moniker, they covered their idols' material while composing a few pieces of their own. As new members entered their circle, however, they started to integrate other influences into their sound, borrowing from the more symphonic style of PFM or Banco. Renaming themselves Imagin' Aria, they released a first of three albums that prompted a series of concerts sponsored by Heineken and earned them a couple of stage appearances with Banco as well as a contribution on a Demetrios Stratos tribute…

Silver Key is a progressive rock band from Milan whose roots date back to 1992. After many problems, a long hiatus, some line up changes and a period passed performing Marillion's covers, in 2012 they finally released a début album featuring only original compositions on the independent label Ma.Ra.Cash Records, "In The Land Of Dreams". The overall sound is in debt with bands such as Genesis and Marillion, of course, but Silver Key managed to add to their music a touch of originality and all their love for the works of writers as Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Robert William Chambers with excellent results. Incidentally, the band takes its name from a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft where the protagonist loses the magical key that enables him to enter an alternate dimension of dreams. This choice of name for the band symbolises the means by which they can fulfil their own long held dreams just as Lovecraft's character is able to visit his dreamed-of cities. The Screams Empire is their second studio album, released in 2015.

Five years after their acclaimed “Did Swans ever see God?”, Submarine Silence, the romantic symphonic side project founded in the late 90s by Cristiano Roversi and David Cremoni of Moongarden, is now back with their fifth work called “Atonement Of A Former Sailor Turned Painter”, a concept album where the most classic sounds of the 1970s merges in a perfect balance with those of the new and best symphonic progressive rock of these last decades. As a further highlight in the turning point which “Atonement Of A Former Sailor Turned Painter” represents, the presence of Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings) in the opening track “Majestic Whales” for the first time on an Italian progressive rock album.