Latest articles by Malcolm Dome
Yes co-founder Tony Kaye’s 20-year journey to release his album about 9/11
He’d never felt compelled to make music the way he did that day in 2001 – and he’s never felt it since
Haunted by Grocer Jack: Steve Howe’s pre-Yes band were derailed by a standalone single
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
10 obscure but brilliant 70s bands who should have been huge
These 70s bands came, they rocked, and they vanished without trace
“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind”: Jethro Tull’s War Child and 1974
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
The story of Sabbat’s cult late 80s pagan-thrash classic Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays
UK thrashers Sabbat made an overlooked classic with their second album, Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays
Why Mystery sound like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Marillion
Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoined the cult Canadian proggers to make the strongest album of their career
Call them what you like, but Chicago know they’re a prog band
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
The life and times of Tony Iommi, metal’s indestructible dark lord
If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different
Poor Man’s Moody Blues: The story of a prog rock diss track
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
“People might be surprised, but Roxy Music influenced Celtic Frost”: Extreme metaller Tom G Warrior’s prog roots
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
How Megadeth made thrash metal’s most chaotic album
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…
Nine King Crimson albums to listen to and one to avoid
An exploration of the best albums by King Crimson, Robert Fripp's ever-rotating gang of idiosyncratic, brilliant musicians
The turbulent story of Celtic Frost’s avant garde thrash masterpiece Into The Pandemonium
How Celtic Frost demolished metal’s boundaries with their classic 1987 album Into The Pandemonium
Mastodon’s Crack The Skye was a triumph – but it could have been a whole lot more
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
From cult psychedelic warriors to global rock superstars: Every Scorpions album ranked from worst to best
Buying guide The Scorpions' 19 studio albums, ranked from woeful to wonderful
“I discovered our album when a pub landlord showed me his copy”: The steampunk proggers who didn’t make it
In 1970 Bram Stoker looked like the next big thing in prog. Guitarist Pete Ballam explained why it didn’t work out for them.
“Our first song was our strongest. The whole thing was short-lived”: Genesis/Yes supergroup GTR’s single moment of glory
In 1985 guitarists Steve Hackett and Steve Howe hit the US Top 20 – and then it was suddenly all over
“We swore no more flags would be burnt. I did it again”: Keith Emerson and the world’s first instrumental protest song
1968 track and its associated antics enraged its original composer, shocked an American diplomat and got The Nice banned from the Royal Albert Hall for ever
“We saw our name in 50ft letters and said, ‘We’ve made it!’: When the Moody Blues began to take themselves seriously
Justin Hayward and co weren’t sure how long they’d last after inheriting the music of Denny Laine - but they needn’t have worried
“A guy said, ‘You ruined a classic song.’ Another said, ‘He wrote it!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident
The keyboard legend’s jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy
A metal fan’s guide to prog legends Rush
Side long epics, mad concepts and unlikely hit singles – how Canadian visionaries Rush laid down the blueprint for prog metal
With a future Uriah Heep singer and rapidly changing style, were Lucifer’s Friend prog?
Embracing jazz, working with Krautrock icon Conny Plank and becoming early adopters of orchestration, the German band often didn’t know what would come out of their studio sessions
“It might seem odd for a death metal band to love him”: The prog rock icon who gave Gojira their identity
The French band were struggling for a direction before they deliberately introduced the eclectic British musician’s influence – then they started going places
