What in Green Carnation? Here’s some super prog from Norway’s own Green Carnation. The song is Sanguis, off Part two of Prog Bards Epic Album Trilogy™, and that’s a fantastic phrase right there. These guys have been progging all over since 1990, with themes of life, death, sorrow, and introspection. Sanguis does seem to play in those themes. Also their drummer’s shirt is buttoned all the way up. He looks like a server at a fancy restaurant, not a drummer. Maybe that’s how you can tell they’re a professional prog® band.

The song kicks off with some organ vibes before dropping into the main melody. It’s pretty cool to see a band prog rocking with an organ instead of a keyboard. But a keytar would still be epic. The vocals are big and clean, and with the way the guy is moving his hands around I bet he’s like an opera type singer too. Oooh and sometimes he pivots to a growl, that’s neat. There’s a pretty noodly solo at the halfway mark, not like crazy noodly but definitely fun and technical. The chorus is pretty floaty, not like much of the stuff I’ve posted recently, but it’s a pretty big and epic 7-minute prog fest.

The video itself is primarily on a sound stage, but sometimes they make it look like it’s snowing/raining blood? I guess that’s the Sanguis part. Also a lot of strobe lights, so if that is no damn good for you maybe listen to the song on Sportify or scroll the video off the page? The lead singer looks like Santa giving a Ted Talk, too.