Today's WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day features The Howling Tides, Mason Hill, Dirty Thrills, The Brew, Dirty Streets, Gin Annie UK, The Cadillac Three (pictured), Those Damn Crows, Slash, Five Finger Death Punch, Far Suns Fall, Mississippi Riot, Ryders Creed, The Dead Daisies, Tremonti, Stone Broken, Baleful Creed, The Answer, Everyday Heroes, Kris Barras Band, Joe Bonamassa, Disturbed and on their Introducing Stage, two in a row from Edenthorn.

Today, as promised, we have our Photo Gallery here from Sunday's Night Of Prog at The Fiddler's Elbow in Camden featuring our 2017 WRC Best Prog Performance award winners IT (pictured), headliner's Hat's Off Gentleman It's Adequate plus The Wood Demons. There's also a couple of pics taken of an acoustic set at the very welcoming Spiritual Records Bar which we visited before and after the Prog gig!

Swedish Prog Metal giants Seventh Wonder (today's Video Of The Day) release their fifth studio album,‘Tiara’, on Friday 12th October, their first new record in eight years. Seventh Wonder was formed in 2000 by bassistAndreas Blomqvist, guitarist Johan Liefvendahl and drummer Johnny Sandin, with keyboard player Andreas ‘Kyrt’ Söderin added late that year. Vocalist Tommy Karevik joined in 2005, after the recording but just prior to the release of the band’s debut album, ‘Become’. Karevik made his studio bow with 2007’s well received ‘Waiting In The Wings’, which was promoted via a lengthy tour on which the band shared stages with the likes of Queensryche, Testament and Redemption. ‘Mercy Falls’ (2008) and ‘The Great Escape (2010) saw the group tour the US as well as Europe, with Stefan Norgren replacing Johnny Sandin on drums.

If you needed affirmation as to why IT (pictured) walked away with our 2017 WRC Best Prog Performance award, then hopefully you were at Camden's The Fiddler's Elbow in London last night to see a great gig of live Prog music. Thanks to headliner's Hat's Off Gentleman It's Adequate, they presented a Prog Night which also featured support from The Wood Demons (pictured). Anyway, with a Photo Gallery to come, please check out today's Video Of The Day.

"The Torquay 4 piece produce some excellent swampy Blues Rock that really made them stand out from the crowd. Barras sports an oilcan/junkbox guitar for some excellent slide guitar before switching back to his trusty strat for regular Blues rocking. Piano/keys from Josiah Manning bring a melodic accompaniment to the great groove. They were hugely appreciated by the large crowd lapping up the sun, and the excellent beers." That was the last time we caught the Kris Barras Band at Ramblin' Man Fair in July and Kris is still on the road, stopping off at London's iconic 100 Club tonight.

Today's Black On Blues Podcast Track Of The Day is the first of a two part series featuring Blues artists from A-Z. The playlist for this week goes from A-L namely Adam Norsworthy, Ben Poole, Carey Bell, Dave Hole, Eric McFadden, Frank Bey, Guy Verlinde, Hardchargers, Ilya Portnov, Jeff McCarty, Kings & Associates and Laurence Jones (pictured).

"The Floyd influence on both the intro and outro of new single 'House', sandwiched the apt Halloween chorus of "Like a ghost in this house" before the guys rounded off their take from 'WAITT' with another cracker 'Revolution', with its heavy riff and 'Timewarpish' chorus. Brilliant. And in one of those - 'you couldn't make it up moments' - their finale was taken from their previous 'Departure' album, namely the driving 'God Is Dead' - just as two of our friends arrived - one of which was a Catholic priest who had just returned from Sunday Mass! All I can say is that the Gods are currently with IT. What a set." That was our take on 2017 WRC Best Prog Performance winners IT at Balham's Progtoberfest last October (pictured) and the guys are back in London tonight at Prog Night at Camden's Fiddler's Elbow sandwiched in between headliner's Hat's Off Gentleman It's Adequate and The Wood Demons.

Recorded at Desolation Studios in Toronto, A Primitive Evolution's (A.P.E.) new album, 'Becoming' is due to be released on Friday 5th October and features collaborations with writer/producer Ian D’Sa (Billy Talent) and Audio Engineer Kenny Luong (Metric). Raw & visceral with soul & beauty, A Primitive Evolution is best consumed live and/or at extremely loud volumes as testified by the title track which is today's Track Of The Day. In 2015 the band received the award for “Best Rock Band” from the Toronto Independent Music Awards & since then has been working tirelessly on its new album. Pulling together a complex array of influences including Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Tool, The Prodigy, Ministry, Radiohead, Alice in Chains, Vivaldi, Guns n’ Roses & more, A.P.E.'s rhythm-based attack blurs the lines of rock, electronica & all dark electronic metal aspects between.

"With the Mission currently on a break, this is a welcome collection of Simon’s songs spanning those years living in the back of beyond. "Every time I come back to making music I’m reminded why I started doing it in the first place” Hinkler says. This is not the Mission, but it has enough echoes to remind me of that legacy whilst remaining a substantial successful solo piece of work from one of my all-time favourite guitarists." Today read Chris Bourlet's complete take here on Mission guitarist Simon Hinkler's new 'Moving On' EP, which was released earlier this month, of which one of the tracks 'It Isn't You' is today's Video Of The Day.

Airrace began their nine date UK tour in Cardiff last night to promote their new album ‘Untold Stories’, which was released last month and has been praised for its songwriting and wide-ranging stylistic approach. And the band land at Camden's The Underworld in London tonight, pairing up with Frontiers labelmates The Treatment, with support from Tequila Mockingbyrd. Founded by Laurie Mansworth, Airrace is recognised as one of the UK’s pioneering AOR acts. Following the acclaimed 1984 release of their debut album, ’Shaft Of Light’, the band supported rock titans such as Queen, AC/DC and Meat Loaf, but they had crash-landed by the Summer of 1985. It took a 25th anniversary reissue of the record to reunite the group, and they eventually issued a second album, ‘Back To The Start’, via Frontiers in 2011.

Doyle Bramhall II will be releasing his brand new album ‘Shades’ on Friday 5th October via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The album features appearances by Eric Clapton, Norah Jones, Greyhounds and Tedeschi Trucks Band. Bramhall has spent over a decade as Eric Clapton’s musical right-hand man, collaborating both in the studio and on stage as well working with Norah Jones for a number of years. He played guitar and sang both lead and backup vocals during Roger Waters’ 1999-2000 'In the Flesh' world tour. He has worked with a number of artists including T-Bone Burnett, Elton John and Gregg Allman. Ahead of this he has revealed his new song ‘Love And Pain’ which is today's Track Of The Day.

"The band have had and tragically lost some fine keyboard players but by the end of ‘Song Within A Song’ you already knew that the new addition to the band, the young Pete Jones on keyboards but also vocals (and later saxophone), was considerably enhancing the overall sound of the band. Andrew Latimer, the only remaining original member and driving force behind the band admits that vocals have perhaps not been their main strength, but Jones actually sounds like he’s got Camel’s own DNA in his genes." Today read the whole of Rob Wilkes' Camel (Video Of The Day) Royal Albert Hall review from Monday night here.