Latest articles by Malcolm Dome
The American proggers’ 1976 single became their signature anthem – but they didn’t even want to record it at first
Roxy Music’s debut album was one the great glam rock albums of the early 1970s – and it still sounds way out there
Fifty years after Sad Wings Of Destiny was released, Judas Priest‘s second album still sounds like the birth of a legend
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator in 1966
Released the same year as The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper, Procol Harum’s debut album helped push music into a bold new era – but no one talks about it today
Straight outta Champaign, Illinois, Starcastle's love of Yes was true and pure
He’d never felt compelled to make music the way he did that day in 2001 – and he’s never felt it since
The guitarist, along with Tomorrow frontman Keith West, found their band haunted by the spirit of Grocer Jack after Excerpt From A Teenage Opera reached No.2 in 1967
These 70s bands came, they rocked, and they vanished without trace
Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year
UK thrashers Sabbat made an overlooked classic with their second album, Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays
Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoined the cult Canadian proggers to make the strongest album of their career
One of the few groups to ever get away with releasing a double-album as a debut, they’d started out as a covers band who’d rebuild and extend every song they played
If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different
Les Holroyd is proud of BJH’s band’s first era – except for the time they rose to the bait of being compared to a rival band, and then he had to face one of its members
He pics his favourite Roxy record – but says it’s insulting to be made to choose just one artist from all those who matter to him
Megadeth were strung out and at war with each other when they made their third album So Far, So Good… So What!. And things were about to get worse…
An exploration of the best albums by King Crimson, Robert Fripp's ever-rotating gang of idiosyncratic, brilliant musicians
How Celtic Frost demolished metal’s boundaries with their classic 1987 album Into The Pandemonium
They basked in the 70s prog glory of King Crimson, Yes and Genesis to make their fourth album with a concept so strong they wanted to make it into a movie, but failed
Buying guide The Scorpions' 19 studio albums, ranked from woeful to wonderful
In 1970 Bram Stoker looked like the next big thing in prog. Guitarist Pete Ballam explained why it didn’t work out for them.
In 1985 guitarists Steve Hackett and Steve Howe hit the US Top 20 – and then it was suddenly all over
