How David Gilmour used a pair of pigs’ testicles to get one over on Roger Waters
Never mind the bollocks: When Pink Floyd went to war, guitarist David Gilmour found a loophole in Roger Waters' spiralling demands
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One of the highlights of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Clare Torry's vocal on The Great Gig In The Sky lifted the song to celestial heights
The return of Liquid Tension Experiment
After Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater few people thought they'd see prog supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment again. But in 2021 that's exactly what happened!
The story of Anathema's Weather Systems
With their ninth album, 2012's Weather Systems, Anathema scaled grand new sonic heights and were most definitely in the ascendency
Six great new prog tracks to check out this week
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Broken bones, acid-fried sessions and terrified actors: the making of Can's Tago Mago
In the heady days of 1971, German experimentalists Can pushed the musical envelope to the furthest fringes with their landmark album Tago Mago
The Queensrÿche albums you should definitely own
Queensrÿche were pioneers of progressive metal, leaving their mark with a trio of great albums before a bitter, messy split and a subsequent return to action
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Nightwish's Floor Jansen: 10 records that changed my life
From The Gathering and Evergrey to Alanis Morisette and Queen, Floor Jansen picks the albums that changed her life
Robert Fripp: "Why didn’t I become a blues guitarist? Probably because I wasn’t a very good blues guitarist"
King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp on choosing guitar, musical influences, band principles and heartbreaking departures
How a tragic accident united Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel in grief and led to one of prog's most inspired partnerships
In 1979, an accidental death during Kate Bush's UK tour led to a chance meeting with Peter Gabriel, and a creative partnership was born from tragedy
Losing my way: how I fell out of love with my favourite band, Rush
Some fans never forgave Rush for moving past their swords n' sorcery phase: Classic Rock's Geoff Barton was one
Spock's Beard: The story behind Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
Spock’s Beard's first album with Ted Leonard on vocals was always going to divide fans. Here, the band share the story behind 2013's Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
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The tragic story behind Mastodon's Emperor Of Sand
Mastodon's 2017 album, Emperor Of Sand, continued the prog theme of Crack The Skye. But behind the heaviness, lay a family tragedy
Slipknot's Joey Jordison once picked this as his favourite Pink Floyd song: "It freaked the f*** out of me"
Back in 2009, we asked Joey Jordison to name his favourite ever Pink Floyd song - his answer surprised us
Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering"
Jon Anderson discusses the genesis of his 2019 solo album, 1000 Hands: Chapter One, which was nearly 30 years in the making
"I’ve been booted out of King Crimson about three times": Bill Bruford on a life in music
From Yes and King Crimson to UK and Earthworks, the highly respected drummer with an extremely distinctive sound talks developing a thick skin, suffering for his art and why he doesn’t like looking backwards.
