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With an open mind and musical abilities on all necessary instruments as well as some own experience in songwriting, I decided to start writing on a prog album during my first term at university. By the time, we were recording an album with my punk rock band (guitar) and demos with my hard rock band…
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It was in my summer holiday of 2009 – I was still in school – when I found myself composing my first prog song. Dream Theater had just released their album ‘Black Clouds and Silver Linings’ which I absorbed those days. It had the last part of Mike Portnoy’s twelve-step suite on it that impressed…
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I was born in 1992. After only a few years from there, I had a complete drum set made from anything I could get from the kitchen that looked like drums or cymbals. I also tried the piano at our house. My mother is a studied professional musician, so I was surrounded by and profoundly…
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Welcome to the official ‘behind the scenes’ blog of the progressive rock project Arctic Plant! My name is Philipp Rexilius and I run Arctic Plant as an independent musician and producer. I started this journey with a few first ideas and own compositions back in 2009. From day one I wanted to focus on making…