Latest articles by Chris Cope
Their lead vocalist explains their decade of derailments, why being given a musical tag was a positive thing, and why playing Glastonbury was only okay
Terminal Velocity saw the pair reuniting a decade after their traumatic split. But Petrucci said he had a selfish reason for Mike Mangini staying in DT – three years before Portnoy’s return
Four years after he woke from a coma (to be told he’d soon be a dad), they’ve launched a concept album that explores the rise and fall of the USA – via Elvis. “When you deal with the apocalypse you should make it fun,” they say
Reliance is definitely different from its predecessors. But Martin Lopez and Joel Ekelöf draw comparisons with Selling England By The Pound in their defence
The five-piece group surpassed their own expectations at their first-ever rehearsal. Now, as a four-piece with their fourth record out, they’re more impressive than ever
Three years before the reunion actually took place, the pair got together in the studio for the first time in a decade – and the guitarist got their first song wrong
Despite the naysayers, the New Jersey alt-proggers went bigger and better on their shape-shifting second album
In 2019 the prolific Neal Morse went straight to the top as far as divine inspiration went for his rock opera about, you guessed it, Jesus!
Having contemplated the end of the world with their previous album, 2018's Soyuz found Norwegian prog rockers Gazpacho turning their attention to being frozen in time
Accomplished Swedish-American duo Silent Skies tap into pop and prog for second album Nectar
One-man-prog-rock-band Cosmograf returned with their eighth album, Rattrapante, telling Prog, there’s no looking back.
Pop-friendly, shape-shifting prog quartet Kyros discuss their fourth album Mannquein
The premise is simple: with a new line-up, rearrange, reimagine and rework an album, then record it on much better gear – but the Magenta mastermind didn’t expect it to be educational too
He’s moved on from pop, but admits The Turning Of The World isn’t his proggiest work - still, it’s a record he had to make
Southern Empire's second album Civilisation saw the Australian quintet go for it on a truly epic scale
Arena's tenth studio album The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance saw the arrival of much-travelled singer Damian Wilson with spectacular results
Glass Hammer’s 2000 concept album, Chronometree, was an amusing tale of a music superfan who heard voices through prog rock records. The story is back – in impressive fashion – on the US group’s 18th studio album Chronomonaut
After Danish proggers VOLA released their celebrated debut record Inmazes in 2016, the task of following it up was always going to be tricky. Has Applause Of A Distant Crowd swatted away that second album syndrome?
Their “angry but hopeful” fourth album is their first to feature vocals, and it’s already given them a new lease of life
A lot has changed since North Atlantic Oscillation released their last album in 2018. After a strange five years, the electronic post-prog return as a one-man band…
With 2021's Day And Age Frost* returned with their first album in five years, and the English prog rockers have put the blow of losing drummer Craig Blundell behind them to forge one of their best records yet
Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo talks us through his third solo album, 2022's War Of The Worlds Pt. 2
Iamthemorning pianist and composer Gleb Kolyadin released his self-titled debut solo album in 2018. This is the story...
