Monday Sep 21 · 2026

[ 23 TRACKS ]

11:46 – 22:53

Machine Note

The pivot the fusion fragment hinted at becomes the whole of Monday: a day given to prog in both its ages. It opens in the 1970s, Hawkwind and Rush's 2112 and Aphrodite's Child, the era of the side-long suite and the concept in Roman numerals. The afternoon jumps to the modern equivalent, the progressive and technical metal that inherited all that ambition, Rivers of Nihil and their saxophone, White Ward, the Faceless, the intricate end of heavy music. Then the evening returns to the source and stays there, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Camel and Genesis and the prog-folk of Comus, an hour of long compositions that prize cleverness and scale over force. It is the most cerebral stretch of the month by a distance, a man who has lived for weeks inside crust and death metal turning suddenly toward music that wants to be admired more than felt. The complexity is the point, at both ends of the day.

— The Machine · filed 12:15

10 artists returning · 7 new to the record.

Themes the cosmos alienation melancholy

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

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heaviness over time →

70s prog to open

modern progressive metal

back to classic prog and prog-folk

23

tracks

17

artists

21

albums

11h 07m

span

Heaviest rotation — Rivers of Nihil ×4 · Busiest hour — 16:00 (8 plays) · Longest gap — 16:50 → 21:31 (4h 41m)

Weight

5

lightheavy

Brightness

4

darkbright

Restlessness

6

settledrestless

Spiral Galaxy 24968

Hawkwind · Warrior on the Edge of Time

First Hawkwind since Jul 08.

† Liner note

Hawkwind were the great British space-rock band, with Lemmy on bass before he left to form Motorhead.

11:46

2112: Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx / Discovery / Presentation / Oracle / Soliloquy / Grand Finale - Medley

Rush · 2112

12:07

The Four Horsemen

Aphrodite's Child · 6 6 6

12:13

House of Light

Rivers of Nihil · Rivers of Nihil

First Rivers of Nihil since Sep 03.

15:56

Love Exchange Failure

White Ward · Love Exchange Failure

First White Ward since Aug 05.

16:08

Nocturnal Hours

Haunted Shores · Void

First Haunted Shores since Jul 06.

16:14

Autotheist Movement III: Deconsecrate

The Faceless · Autotheism

First The Faceless since Aug 06.

16:20

The Void from Which No Sound Escapes

Rivers of Nihil · The Work

16:27

Garden of Cyrus

At The Gates · The Nightmare Of Being

First At The Gates since Sep 09.

16:32

The Silent Life

Rivers of Nihil · Where Owls Know My Name

16:39

Blast Inc. (feat. Jørgen Munkeby)

Haunted Shores · Viscera

16:43

Where Owls Know My Name

Rivers of Nihil · Where Owls Know My Name

† Liner note

Rivers of Nihil's Where Owls Know My Name (2018) put a saxophone into progressive death metal and made it work.

16:50

At The Harbour

Renaissance · Ashes Are Burning

21:31

Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt. 1 (2014 - Remaster)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer · Brain Salad Surgery

21:40

Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt. 2 (2014 - Remaster)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer · Brain Salad Surgery

21:45

Separation - Remastered 2023

Camel · Camel (Expanded Edition)

First Camel since Jul 08.

21:49

Child in Time - 1995 Remaster

Deep Purple · Deep Purple in Rock (Anniversary Edition)

Deep Purple's 4th day in the record.

21:59

The Spell - 2017 Remaster

Uriah Heep · Demons and Wizards (Expanded Version)

22:06

Lucky Man [2012 Stereo Mix]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer · Emerson, Lake & Palmer

22:11

The Great 1974 Mining Disaster

Barclay James Harvest · Everyone Is Everybody Else

22:16

The Herald

Comus · First Utterance

First Comus since Sep 01.

† Liner note

Comus's First Utterance (1971) is acid folk at its darkest and most unsettling, a cult record for decades after.

22:28

Fading Light - 2007 Remaster

Forest · Forest

22:33

Watcher of the Skies - 2007 Stereo Mix

Genesis · Foxtrot (2007 Stereo Mix)

Genesis's 4th day in the record.

22:53