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Big Country wouldn’t have called Steeltown a prog record – but it is
1984 release tackled issues of the day cleverly and with incredible musicality
The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord drank to forget his new songs as he wrote them
His fourth solo album Ghosts In The Park explores emotions that followed the loss of both his parents
How themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust shaped Black Sabbath's album Paranoid
Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid
How Amy Lee channelled a devastating loss into Evanescence's angriest album
Evanescence's 2021 album The Bitter Truth was coloured by empowerment, politics and the loss of Amy's brother Robby
How Celtic Frost laid the blueprint for extreme metal, black metal and death metal with their debut Morbid Tales
After Hellhammer ended, nobody expected Celtic Frost to amount to anything – let alone influence a generation of underground bands
Why Crown Lands’ fourth album Apocalypse is a prequel to second album Fearless
Canadian pair worked with Rush and Foo Fighters producer to deliver a full-throttle return to prog following the new-age and ambient Ritual I & II
"The key to the band's sound is that all the guys in the band are really into progressive rock..." Magic Pie beat a case of writer's block to make sixth album Maestro
Norwegian proggers (with an Icelandic singer) Magic Pie dialled up the heavy rock quota on 2025's Maestro, their first new album for six years
Ranking every album by The Jesus Lizard, from worst to best
Over the course of almost four decades, The Jesus Lizard have made seven wonderfully gnarly noise-rock albums: here's their caustic catalogue placed in order of greatness
