Rich Wilson
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How Fish drew inspiration from family WWI experiences for A Feast Of Consequences
By Rich Wilson published
Fish talks us through the terror of almost losing his voice and how he drew inspiration from both his grandfather's WWI experiences for the personal A Feast Of Consequences

Marillion: a track by track guide to F.E.A.R
By Rich Wilson last updated
Marillion frontman Steve Hogarth talks us through their 2016 album F.E.A.R.

“I still listen to music avidly and make music enthusiastically." Tim Bowness and Stupid Things That Mean The World
By Rich Wilson last updated
Tim Bowness sits down with prog to discusses the creation of his third solo album Stupid Things That Mean The World

Saga's Seven Most Pomp Moments
By Rich Wilson last updated
A Beginner's Guide To Canadian Pomp Merchants Saga

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition: "their most endearing album to date"
By Rich Wilson last updated
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Grammy winning Dream Theater discuss upcoming "energetic" UK live dates
By Rich Wilson published
Veteran prog-metallers Dream Theater are finally back hitting UK stages this month

How Dream Theater got their start with When Dream And Day Unite
By Rich Wilson last updated
Like Rush jamming with Metallica, Dream Theater's first album, with original singer Charlie Dominici, remains a curio in their impressive canon of work

A beginner's guide to Camel
By Rich Wilson last updated
Meet Camel, the long-running cult band from Guildford with a passion for wonderfully indulgent, jazz-tinged progressive rock

The Prog Interview: John Petrucci
By Rich Wilson last updated
The guitar guru ponders 30 years with Dream Theater, that fractious split with drummer Mike Portnoy, and how life is always better with good food, good wine and a set of barbells.

10 essential progressive metal albums
By Rich Wilson last updated
When heavy metal jumped into bed with prog rock, it looked like a one-night stand. Instead it resulted in a long-standing love affair

The story of IQ's The Wake
By Rich Wilson published
How the neo-proggers made their 1985 second full-length album The Wake

"This isn’t getting made for the money. No. I have to make this something really, really special." Fish discusses what could be his final album Weltschmerz
By Rich Wilson published
Fish mulls over what could be his final album of a long and distinguished career

The 10 best Fish-era Marillion songs
By Rich Wilson published
10 songs from an era when charismatic Scotsman Fish led Aylesbury's finest prog adventurers Marillion

Welcome to Prog Limelight band Emperor Norton
By Rich Wilson published
Young band make a modern twist on classic prog...

Ayreon Universe - The Best Of Ayreon Live album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedGrandiose presentation of Ayreon’s first live performance

Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman - The Sun Will Dance In Its Twilight Hour review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedSuperb second album from the Headspace duo

Operation: Mindcrime - The New Reality album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedReality bites for Geoff Tate’s post-Queensrÿche project

Galactic Cowboys - Long Way Back To The Moon album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedTime to dust off that spacesuit

Tarja - From Spirits And Ghosts (Score For A Dark Christmas) album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedThe soundtrack for a very gothic yuletide from Tarja Turunen

Iain Jennings - The House album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedSolid solo foundations from the Mostly Autumn man

“It really is an original sound and it’s not fair to compare us with Dream Theater." The sotry of Sons Of Apollo, prog's exciting new supergroup?
By Rich Wilson published
With former members of Dream Theater plus hard rock and AOR heroes on board too, Sons Of Apollo are an exciting prospect. Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian tell us more

Twisted Illusion - Insight To The Mind Of A Million Faces album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedScream for me Manchester!

Caligula's Horse - In Contact album review
By Rich Wilson published
Not yet ratedAussie prog metallers Caligula's Horse return with their strongest album yet
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