Disco balls: Queen's ill-advised adventures in Hot Space
Queen's Hot Space featured an all-time classic in Under Pressure, but Freddie Mercury and John Deacon's fascination with disco, funk and R&B resulted in a much-mocked album
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"Some **** in a clown suit": The six words that changed David Bowie's life
Did an insult from an old man put David Bowie on the road to Let's Dance success?
Every Killing Joke album ranked from worst to best
On a mission to recreate 'the sound of the earth vomiting', the back catalogue of West London's dark prophets of doom Killing Joke is no laughing matter
Threshold, Nightwish, Ayreon, Hayley Griffiths, Hedvig, SKALD and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Check out this week's new prog music here and vote for your favourite. It couldn't be easier...
This video of King Crimson playing Elephant Talk in Tokyo in 1984 proves that when they fancied it, they were one of prog rock's funnest bands
As Bill Bruford notes in his comment on the video, "contrary to some in the commentariat, it wasn't all doom and gloom in King Crimson"
Watch Muse troll a Sunday afternoon TV show's presenter and audience by swapping instruments and taking the piss
When Muse were asked to mime on an Italian TV show they saw it as a golden opportunity to "arse about", to quote drummer Dom Howard
"Have we got anything in common with Iron Maiden? I hope not" - watch peak Axl Rose slyly diss Maiden and Kiss in this cheeky 1988 interview
Axl Rose certainly wasn't shy of sharing his opinion on fellow rock and metal heavyweights back in the day
"I remember System Of A Down going to the Roxy and giving out their eight-track!" - Power Rangers star Jason David Frank on metal, the 90s and making "history" as The Green Ranger
Back in 2017, we talked to the original Green Ranger himself, Jason David Frank, about his career and love of alternative music
Tracks of the Week: new music from Cats In Space, Grace McKagan and more
Eight songs to take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Rockdom
A tribute to late Big Big Train singer David Longdon
Prog pays tribute to the late Big Big Train frontman who touched so many lives, through his music and his warm and engaging personality
Every song on Audioslave's debut album ranked in order of greatness
Audioslave's debut album brought the face of Soundgarden and Rage Against The Machine's engine room roaring into the 21st century. Here's our ranking of its 14 songs, from the mediocre to the magnificent
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
Babymetal, Enslaved and Disturbed - these are the 10 best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
"If people think we’re a heavy metal band...I don't really care": how Load and Reload changed Metallica forever
Metallica were already one of the world's biggest bands in the mid-90s. Then came a chapter in their career that'd change many fans' perceptions of them for good
Lzzy Hale: "When Dio gives you a mission, you follow"
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale talks sibling rivalries, discovering her sexuality and being the first woman to win a Grammy for best metal performance
Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe: "I was on the streets in 2020, getting teargassed and shot at with rubber bullets"
Randy Blythe reveals how war, corruption and environmental destruction made Lamb Of God's new album Omens their most nihilistic yet
Every single Hellraiser film ranked from worst to best
With Hellraiser 2022 now out in the world, we rank the eleven films that make up the horror franchise so far
Jimmy Page on Presence: "You don’t make music like that falling about in the street drunk"
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page reflects on the making of the band's 1976 album Presence, recorded in difficult circumstances in just three weeks
Broken like a marrow: when Judas Priest and Bon Jovi targeted the dance market
Judas Priest and Bon Jovi both made possibly ill-advised forays into dance music but backed away when they heard the results
Meet Birth, the San Diego quartet delivering premium 70s prog for modern ears
Birth's debut album Born is an intoxicating, thrillingly convincing return to the sound of the original prog masters
