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Krautrock. Prog metal. Sax solos?! At The Gates have p***ed on their own rulebook and produced one of the most startling albums of their career with The Nightmare Of Being

Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros main man Perry Farrell picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals how he accidentally leaked David Bowie's phone number

Hard rockers Night Ranger on lockdown recording, new album ATBPO, longevity, and appearing in a cocaine-filled house in Boogie Nights

Half a century on, Don McLean's folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire

The 1984 Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donington is often hailed as the best ever single-day festival by those who know best: the fans who were there

The albums that left a stain on the otherwise unblemished back catalogue of some of the decade’s greatest bands

UPDATED Delve into the history of the world’s biggest artists, explore the many genres of rock and take a closer look at the pivotal moments that shaped our favourite sounds with our guide to the best books about music

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready looks back at the making and the aftermath of their game-changing debut album Ten

The Grateful Dead's best albums are a kaleidoscopic, loose-limbed, ever-adventurous alchemy of psychedelia, country, folk and blues

If you were expecting Judas Priest’s 50th Anniversary Celebration at Bloodstock to just be a perfunctory run through of the hits… well, you’ve got another thing comin’

Ed Wynne has released 15 albums with Ozric Tentacles, has collaborated with Amon Düül UK and Eat Static and, in 2019, issued his first ever solo record, Shimmer Into Nature. Prog catches up with him to reminisce about playing at Stonehenge, opening for Gong and why he decided it was time to make another Ozrics album

We bring you 10 of the most unfairly overlooked and clandestinely brilliant power metal bands

As Wobbler emerge from the murky depths of the human psyche with Dwellers Of The Deep, the Norwegian band talk to Prog about not searching for perfection, why we’re all both gods and monsters, and mastering the art of knowing when to stop

Eight lovely warm plates of the very spiciest rock'n'roll vindaloo

Devin Townsend headlined Bloodstock Festival last night, and his fan-picked setlist was a series of delights from a vast and diverse back catalogue

He was the maverick genius who conceived the Space Ritual and embodied Hawkwind’s progressive spirit in the 70s. But Robert Calvert played with fire for the sake of his art, as we discover in this edited extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground.

One is a prog rock titan who saw the writing on the wall in 1977. The other is a punk hard man who spent the year brawling with other bands. So when Rick Wakeman and The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel got together in 2012, you’d expect bickering, bloodshed and epic keyboard solos, right? Wrong.

Brian May, Rob Zombie, Biffy Clyro, Francis Rossi, Siouxsie Sioux and more posed with their favourite meals... for a good cause

With the Black Album, Metallica changed the game for everyone... including themselves