Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 minutes ago
Australian progressive guitarist and composer James Norbert Ivanyi is set to release his ninth album, The Phantasm Cozenage, on August 19, continuing a body of work that has consistently combined progressive metal, psychedelic textures, cinematic soundscapes and adventurous guitar playing. The album's title reflects one of Ivanyi's recurring themes: deception, trickery and the idea of sometimes deceiving oneself. He says that theme has appeared throughout his catalogue, with elements of magic and deception also hidden as Easter eggs in his album artwork. Even the titles themselves, he tells Australian Musician editor Greg Phillips, are created through a mixture of approaches, sometimes emerging from artwork before the music is written, and sometimes being chosen to suit the finished piece.
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Australian progressive guitarist and composer James Norbert Ivanyi is set to release his ninth album, The Phantasm Cozenage, on August 19, continuing a body of work that has consistently combined progressive metal, psychedelic textures, cinematic soundscapes and adventurous guitar playing. The album's title reflects one of Ivanyi's recurring themes: deception, trickery and the idea of sometimes deceiving oneself. He says that theme has appeared throughout his catalogue, with elements of magic and deception also hidden as Easter eggs in his album artwork. Even the titles themselves, he tells Australian Musician editor Greg Phillips, are created through a mixture of approaches, sometimes emerging from artwork before the music is written, and sometimes being chosen to suit the finished piece.
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