TesseracT and the tale of Altered State
Album number two. Vocalist number eight. The story of TesseracT's Altered State is quite something...
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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever
The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)
Frost* and Falling Satellites: I hate the term 'neo prog'!
Five years after he called an indefinite hiatus on the band, Jem Godfrey and Frost* returned with their third studio album Falling Satellites
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
From masked nu metal revivialists Blackgold to 'cyber-grind' pioneers Thotcrime, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands
IQ and Frequency: "It's one of our best pieces of work"
Having endured the loss of founding keyboard player Martin Orford during the writing of the album, IQ returned with their powerful tenth album Frequency in 2009
Spock's Beard and the story of Noise Floor
US prog rockers Spock's Beard released their thirteenth studio album, Noise Floor, in 2018. It remains their most recent studio release...
How Korn got over a major fallout about Jesus and dubstep and managed to become a band again
Korn guitarist Head returned to the group in 2013, after his newfound evangelical Christianity caused an acrimonious split in 2005. But could the band survive the next big obstacle coming their way: dubstep?
A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums
Few genres do grandiosity like symphonic metal – and here’s where to start with it
How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end
“When the brown powder marched in, we were done for” says Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham
13 bands keeping occult rock alive who aren’t Ghost
Ghost might be bringing Satan to the masses, but these bands are putting the 'cult' in occult rock and metal
"America is the most satanic country in the world": How Black Sabbath getting huge in the US opened Ozzy Osbourne's eyes to the cut-throat nature of capitalism
"They've found a way of destroying the world by just pushing a button... At times I don't think it would be a bad idea"
Celtic Frost’s Tom G Warrior: “They said I sang like Lemmy with the warts inside his mouth”
From troubled outsider to all-round metal visionary – these are the life and times of Celtic Frost/Triptykon leader Tom G Warrior
9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer
From hip hop legends Public Enemy to Essex rave punks The Prodigy, here are some of the musicians who've sprinkled the Devil's music in amongst their own delicious chaos
Aerosmith's Gap ad may be the greatest single appearance by a band in the entire history of advertising
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry appeared in a Gap advert in 1999: Tyler's daughters and grandchildren later followed in his footsteps
Watch Spinal Tap go toe-to-toe with Jonathan Ross on British prime-time TV
See the band tell Mick Fleetwood to his face why he wasn't good enough to be their 13th drummer
Philip Selway: "Crimson, Floyd... Radiohead have drawn on that ambition"
Radiohead drummer Philip Selway discusses his career to date in Prog Magazine's The Prog Interview...
11 metal songs inspired by Dungeons & Dragons
From Clutch to Probot, here’s an orc’s nest of D&D-indebted bangers to soundtrack your next campaign
Metal on Metal: How Mystic Festival has grown to become one of Europe’s most essential events for metal fans
One off sets played amongst an utterly unique backdrop, a line up to satisfy the taste of any metalhead and the patronage of some legends of the genre, Mystic Festival is a weekend unlike any other on Europe’s festival season calendar
Aylesbury Friars: the story of a venue
The Buckinghamshire venue was instrumental in furthering the careers of David Bowie, Genesis, VdGG, King Crimson, Marillion and more
