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Be Prog! My Friend announces another three bands

Be Prog! My Friend have announced another three bands for next year’s festival!

The festival, which takes place in Barcelona celebrating the best in progressive music, had already announced JETHROL TULL and ULVER but now the festival have confirmed another three bands for next year’s lineup! ANIMALS AS LEADERS, ANATHEMA and CALIGULA‘S HORSE will all perform at Be Prog! My Friend 2017! Speaking about the announcement, the organisers of the festival comments, “ANATHEMA who formed in the mid 90s, have risen to become one of the UK’s most cherished and critically acclaimed rock bands. With their star rising ever higher, ANATHEMA returned in 2014 with Distant Satellites, another assertive step into the realm of miraculous songwriting. ANIMALS AS LEADERS incorporate influences from jazz, electronic, progressive, classical and fusion. After amazing releases like Weightless and The Joy of Motion, ANIMALS AS LEADERS continue to explore their musical endeavours with the highly anticipated fourth album The Madness of Many, to be released this next November. Be Prog! invites you to forget all musical boundaries for an instrumental act that will blow your mind. CALIGULA’S HORSE channel the raw honesty of rock and the skill of progressive metal into a seamless voice at once energetic, grand and forthright, They offer devotees of all strains of powerful and progressive music something unique. Be Prog! My Friend are confident that this for this charismatic band will become a big success in the progressive metal scene. CALIGULA’S HORSE, Welcome to Be Prog!

The lineup, so far, is as follows:

ULVER

JETHROL TULL

ANIMALS AS LEADERS

ANATHEMA

CALIGULA’S HORSE

Be Prog! My Friend 2017

Be Prog! My Friend takes place from June 30th – July 1st 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

Tickets are on sale now priced at 100 Euros for a limited time and can be purchased here.

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James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.