Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… And out roll the usual suspects trying to crack the festive Top 40. Still, it isn’t all about Slade, The Snowman and Sir Cliff. Prog rockers seem to enjoy Christmas more than most...
The week's best new prog music to check out from Earthside, Manzanera and Mackay, Unprocessed and more...
Take five prog and rock musos, give them complete creative freedom and the result is US supergroup Flying Colors’ second full-length, the aptly named Second Nature.
Jesus Jones keyboard player Iain Baker on why the Be Bop Deluxe man is his prog hero
Super producer William Orbit will be joining Hawkwind onstage at the Royal Albert Hall this evening as they celebrate half a century of space rituals and odysseys
Pop, prog and metal collide on James LaBrie’s second solo album – with growling vocals that no doubt horrifed the prog cognoscenti. “That’s not me, I’ve never sung like that in my life!” he says
9/11 brought turmoil just as the benign dictator had decided to completely rewrite the record that would become Snow - but there was even more turmoil to follow
The death of Riverside’s guitarist Piotr Grudzin´ski could have ended the band. Instead, they returned with a new sound on an album about grief, hope and survival.
The trend in Norway was to explore the depths of darkness - but he decided to immerse himself in history instead, and accepts some people will never like his band’s music
You can’t control creativity, as Mikael Åkerfeldt discovered when he tried to take a musical break. Instead, he sowed the seeds for Opeth’s 13th album, In Cauda Venenum.
When it came to recording a follow up to 2009's progtastic Crack The Skye, the band wrote bigger choruses for 2011's The Hunter but their prog roots remained the same
With its twisted arrangements and otherworldly vocals, Family’s mind-boggling 1968 debut set a benchmark in underground music
Eddie Van Halen famously popularised finger tapping, but Steve Hackett was doing it as long ago as 1971
Swedish prog rockers Pain Of Salvation released to volumes of Road Salt in 2010 and 2011. This is the story
Ninth studio album Redemption is their third since Jean Pageau joined, and comes after the Canadians took advantage of enforced hiatus to refine their latest compositions
The Tangent released their sixth studio album COMM in 2011. This is the story
Lapland show at minus 20 degrees presented unique problems - and they weren’t even sure anyone would be there to watch
Gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who all come together on Ayreon's Transitus album, a love story with a difference
How an obscure 60s prog-jazz cover gave Whitney Houston her big break
