Percy's Progress

Fans of Liquid Tension Experiment and of high instrumental technicity were the targets of the first album of the Germans of Force Of Progress. Three years later, the four-piece collective welcomes four guest guitarists for their second album "A Secret Place".
Contradicting the terms of its name, Force Of Progress didn't evolve between its two albums, namely that the band offers a virtuoso progressive Metal that is still dominated by keyboards. The art according to Force Of Progress must be firstable technical rather than harmonic…

It took Hanspeter Hess (The Healing Road), Chris Grundmann (Cynity) and Markus Roth (Marquette, Horizontal Ascension) a.k.a. Force Of Progress only 4 years and 2 albums to establish themselves as cream of the crop of german "Technical Orientated Instrumental Prog". And since fun at work often transfroms into productivity, they already finished another collection of technical complex, yet melodic songs, assembled in the new album Redesign. Beside Dennis Degen and Sebastian Schleicher, who took over drums, bass and guitars respectively, FOP engaged a whole array of guest guitarists to provide solos on each of the five album tracks, resulting in a highly entertaining "competition" of high end musicians. LTE3 may feature more notes, but in terms of catchy tunes, Redesign rivals the very best in this section of progressive rock.