Michael Schetter

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Coming soon: THEO – Figureheads

For Immediate Release Prog Ensemble THEO Featuring Renowned Keyboardist Jim Alfredson to Release Sophomore CD ‘Figureheads’ “… nostalgic and every bit contemporary, harkening back to prog’s glory days, all the while delivering new and exciting music… Brilliant. ” – The Progressive Rock Files “THEO is a band to be reckoned with.” Simon Barrett Lansing, MI …

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Coming soon: Time Shift Accident – Chronosthesia

We are very excited to announce a new release from Generation Prog Records. It’s the first album from a German quartet called Time Shift Accident, which features Dave Mola (guitar, Effloresce) and Michael Schetter (bass, Relocator), core members of two of our label’s most popular bands. The music is an exciting mix of progressive rock …

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Upcoming concert on June 9

After a lengthy timeout, the Generation Prog concert series finally continues with a high-quality double package from Germany: Blind Ego and Seven Steps to the Green Door, who will perform a full headlining set each. Blind Ego is a project of RPWL guitarist Kalle Waller. After three studio album under that name, in 2017 he …

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The domino effect and the door sales lottery

Something just wasn’t working out this year. And it didn’t begin with the surprising cancellation by Sound Struggle. We had been trying to set up a new Generation Prog Festival since late March, talking to several potential headliner bands. Nothing worked out. When our original plans for a two-day festival in November fell apart in …

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Generation Prog Festival 2016 cancelled

Dear prog fans, unfortunately we are forced to cancel this year’s festival. A longer statement about this will be published on our website soon, but we wanted to let you know about this as soon as possible. We will refund the costs for all tickets ordered directly from us in the coming days.

Tickets are now available!

Tickets for our concerts in the fall can now be ordered via our online store. Due to the short lead time we do not offer shipping for the tickets, the effort it would take to handle that many tickets would just be too great for us. The tickets ordered directly from us will thus be …

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Generation Prog live at the Z-Bau: Concerts + Festival 2016

In collaboration with the Z-Bau we’ll be bringing several high-quality bands to Nürnberg in September and October: Generation Prog live at the Z-Bau, Nürnberg 17.9.2016 Special Providence (HU) + Time Shift Accident (GER) 9.10.2016 Yossi Sassi Band (ISR) + Sechem (ESP) 21.10.2016 Generation Prog Festival 2016 23:00 Haken (UK/USA/Mexico) 21:40 Daniel Gildenlöw (SWE) 20:00 Andromeda …

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Festival T-shirts now available in our online store

We still have some festival t-shirts left – if you forgot to buy one or if you couldn’t be there and would just like to support the festival, you can now order one via our online store! 🙂 Order T-shirt(s) now!

Update regarding the ticket presale

10 days until the festival! Due to a lack of time, we won’t be offering shipping for the tickets after this weekend – so if you want to have your ticket sent to you, make sure to order it until November 15! Tickets that are to be deposited at the door will remain available beyond …

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New band for Friday: MacLean / Schetter / Tinge

We have a little line-up change on Friday: Alessandro Bertoni will not perform at the festival after all, but we are proud to be hosting a performance by an exclusive band instead: MacLean / Schetter / Tinge brings together an international team of prog/fusion specialists from England, the Netherlands and Germany. They are preparing an …

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