October 31th, 2018

The legendary bands Focus and Le Orme lead a poster that might seem a true feast to the lovers of progressive rock and it will be carried out the next November 3 at the Fronton Mexico, next to the monument to the Revolution in the Mexico city.

Leading since its foundation in 1969 by the piper, keyboardist and Singer Thijs Van Leer, the Dutch Focus has the position as one of the biggest exponents of the progressive rock of all times, with a sound characterized by long sonorous landscapes, full of symphonic and multiplicity of instruments.

At the same time, Le Orme, the group formed in Venice, Italy, in 1966 belongs to an extensive vein of the progressive rock developed in that country and that it has an explosive blossoming in the decade of the 70’s. the group is author of an album considered as a classic of the genre: Felona e Sonora. The actual leader is the drummer Michi Dei Rossi.

The poster is complemented by Hypno5e, French band of Avant-garde metal, that achieve a fresh fusion of dark passages accompanied by the sound of the charango, with lyrics in English, French, and even Spanish.

And the national progressive doesn’t stay out of the Mega Prog and in this their first edition presents to four Mexican exponents: Ekos, recognized band of the local scene, that it made know at first for its achieved tributes to Pink Floyd and that now, by the hand of the singer and keyboardist Ana Camelo, present its own material.

The powerful wave of the progressive metal, very vogue nowadays, it will be represented by Anima Tempo, the band from the capital whose talent has gone far places like Finland and Japan. By its part, Glass Mind, the group formed by the brothers Berthier, appears as one of the big revelations of the Mexican prog and it will show of its virtuosity in the journey.

As an emerging band, Meliora, a Project of the singer and violinist Fabiola Siman, it will be the entrusted to open the extensive program, which will be without doubt a orgy progressive , inside of a festival of high quality that is looking for take a stand as the reference of events of this quality in our country, before the disappearance of the endearing Baja Prog.

This Mega Prog will be legendary, and a Good opportunity to the veterans and new rockers enjoyed of two big and legendary bands and discover the new of the worldwide and national scene of the progressive rock.

Staff Translator: Pamela Ortíz