The Colour And The Shape at 25: how Foo Fighters' second album took Dave Grohl out of Kurt Cobain's shadow
The inside story of the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape, as it reaches its 25th anniversary
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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
From Asking Alexandria to Arch Enemy and Wargasm, these are the week’s essential new metal tracks. Plus: vote for your favourite!
"There are no boundaries": introducing nu gen, the futuristic alternative movement reinventing rock
A new, genre-splicing generation of singer-songwriters is taking over the rock scene. Meet the rising stars of nu gen
Radiohead's proggiest moments
From grungy indie to avant-garde rock, Radiohead have always been restlessly creative. Here's their proggiest tracks
Christina Booth: "I'm no rock star. I'm just a woman who can sing a bit"
Back in 2015 the Magenta singer spoke to Prog about beating breast cancer and her new solo album The Light
How Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears resurrected metal’s greatest icon
The story behind No More Tears, the album that saved Ozzy Osbourne’s career – and possibly his life
“We all want to leave a mark on the planet”: the epic story of the birth of Symphonic Metal
It’s been 25 years since Within Temptation and Nightwish ushered in an era of operatic vocals, big choruses and even bigger dresses
Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come
Prince Of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne talks about Black Sabbath, sobriety, burying the hatchet, beating the booze and sticking it to Lollapalooza
Justin Hawkins is thinking about buying a castle for The Darkness to live in
From writing advertising jingles music in a London bedsit, to headlining Wembley Arena fronting The Darkness, a lot has happened to Justin Hawkins
Apocalypse and orgasm: The crazy story of Aphrodite’s Child 666, Vangelis's cult masterpiece
Before he became a soundtrack king, Vangelis made this cult classic that began as a celebration of late-60s freedom and ended with Salvador Dalí threatening to bomb cathedrals with hippos
Killswitch Engage: “Nu metal? I dislike anything where the guitar player only uses one string”
We put Killswitch Engage’s Adam D and Jesse Leach in a room with Employed To Serve’s Justine Jones and a tape recorder. This is what happened
That time a pre-fame Dave Grohl nearly joined GWAR
“He even came up with a character,” says GWAR frontman Blöthar of the time a pre-Nirvana Dave Grohl almost joined the infamous metal band
Have you spotted the hidden Marillion easter egg in new Gary Oldman spy thriller Slow Horses?
There’s a sneaky reference to Fish-era Marillion in hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses that only hardcore fans of the prog icons will get
Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
From '80s pop to universe-expanding prog, these 10 records shaped Coheed And Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez
How Pythagorean theory, ancient Egyptology and a topless dancer inspired the cover of Hawkwind's greatest album
Throw in British op-art, Balinese art, Czech nouveau art and the cinematic visions of Stanley Kubrick, and you've got yourself a classic
What happened when the boys from Black Country Communion got together again
Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa discuss their careers, wonder why rock’s future will suffer from a lack of small venues, and mention something about a new Black Country Communion album
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the anti-firearm protest song that's as relevant now as it ever was
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1975 hit Saturday Night Special belied the band's pistol-packin’ image, but things were never quite that black and white
The improbable story of the Journey classic that keeps coming back to life
From Mafia finales to Arnold Schwarzenegger: the brilliant and often bizarre and afterlife of Journey’s Don't Stop Believin'
