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18 of the darkest, most terrifying prog rock songs ever made
Have a very proggy Halloween with our playlist of dark, morbid proggy delights...
“The most wonderful ideas can come from people you might call amateurs… they haven’t been playing long enough to get bogged down in the rules”: King Crimson ex David Cross loves jamming with students
Violinist and keyboardist finds great joy in his work as a university lecturer
“Their best work under the banner has always been the result of collaboration rather than dictatorship”: King Crimson’s 50th anniversary version of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
Steven Wilson adds an understated sheen to an album that’s weathered the decades well
"I knew I had to say something, and that I didn't have many words to say it in": a track-by-track guide to King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King
Original King Crimson members Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield on the creation of key tracks from the first true progressive rock album
"The psychedelic scene was largely over by the summer of 1968, but that spirit of musical adventure was still running rampant": A beginners' guide to the origins of prog rock
Where on earth did progressive rock come from?
"If it wasn't for early prog, heavy metal would sound different today": Metallica's Kirk Hammett on discovering prog rock
It took a while for Kirk Hammett to properly listen to prog rock, but once Metallica's guitarist dived in, he went deep
“When we talk about progressive rock, the most important part of that is the ‘rock’”: Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt on how Yes and Genesis delivered “simplexity”
Guitar icon hails bands including Rush and King Crimson, who delivered music that was “hard and heavy enough, but they took some risks outside the box”
“This is just another single from one of the countless groups who have come to London in the vain hope of making good”: When the roots of King Crimson were planted by Giles, Giles & Fripp
In 1968, three eccentric friends put together a collection of songs bursting with complex arrangements and village-green whimsy… was it the very birth of prog?
