Pallas

Prog Magazine Sampler by Pallas

Pallas are a Scottish progressive rock band from Aberdeen. They were one of the bands at the vanguard of neo-prog during progressive rock’s second-wave revival in the early 1980s.

Formed in 1974, Pallas began hitting the club circuit at the beginning of a grassroots revival of progressive rock, which was unfashionable due to the influence of punk and new wave.

Their debut EP (featuring tracks such as “Reds Under the Beds”) saw them attempting to fit in with the ongoing punk rock movement by emphasizing harder rock and deliberately avoiding signature progressive rock elements such as Mellotron and twelve-string guitar.

However they ended up with a full orchestral sound and eight studio albums from 1984-2023.