Italian Progressive Rock - Concept Albums

Concept Albums

• New Trolls' Senza orario Senza bandiera, which was the first true concept album in Italian music history, being published as early as 1968.
• Le Orme's Felona e Sorona, about two distinct, distant planets- one full of love and warmth, the other cold and dreary.
• Banco del Mutuo Soccorso's Darwin!, about Darwin's travels to the Galapagos Islands and his theory of evolution.
• Metamorfosi's Inferno, based on Dante's Inferno.
• Museo Rosenbach's Zarathustra, based on central parts of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.
• Opus Avantra's Lord Cromwell Plays Suite For Seven Vices, a concept about the seven deadly sins.
• Murple's Io sono Murple, the story of a penguin who is taken into captivity.
• Blocco Mentale's POA, based on the preservation of nature.
• Il Rovescio della Medaglia's Contaminazione, based on Bach's Well-tempered Clavier.
• Alusa Fallax's Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione, the story of a boy with a strict upbringing who struggles to follow his own destiny.
• I Teoremi, the album simply called I Teoremi, is one of the rarest Italian prog-era albums.
• Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys, a narrative alluding to the legend of the mythical city of the same name.
• Raccomandata con Ricevuta di Ritorno's Per... un mondo di cristallo, about an astronaut who returns to a lifeless Earth.
• Stormy Six's Un biglietto del tram, based on events from the last years of World War II.