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A Louder writer on how he accidentally got the only Radiohead interview they did for their last record
As A Moon Shaped Pool turns 9, this writer recollects a night on the tiles in Paris with Thom Yorke & co.
How prog metal icons Dream Theater went full nerd-mode with epic concept album The Astonishing
There’s big, and then there’s Dream Theater’s 2016 prog metal blow-out The Astonishing
The epic story of the Scorpions, the German band who smashed through the barriers to conquer America
The Scorpions proved that Britain and the US didn’t have the monopoly on hard rock and heavy metal
The rise, fall and resurrection of Armored Saint, the cult band who should have been as big as Metallica
Armored Saint were one of the greatest 80s metal bands never to hit the big time
10 epic ballads that show there was more to thrash metal than speed
There was more to thrash metal than speed
In 1984, Paul McCartney shed revealing new light on his relationship with John Lennon
"If you ever got a speck of praise from John, a crumb of it, you were quite grateful." Paul McCartney on John Lennon
How Incubus pushed back against nu metal with Morning View
Incubus may have risen at the same time as nu metal, but they wanted nothing to do with it
When true rebels came out as prog fans: Five essential neo-prog albums of the 80s
The second-wave movement didn’t last long – but its bands revitalised the genre with an attitude and energy that’s still being felt today
