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IQ’s Peter Nicholls learned to stop hating his voice, love songwriting and keep albums shorter
After watching a YouTube review, the 45-year veterans resisted the temptation to make Dominion another double LP. But they made enough music to limit the time before their next release
Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. Neither did projects that featured just two of them
Massive musical ability crossed with pomposity and excess made it difficult for the supergroup to meet expectations – but even with one of the giant personalities missing, the other pair could struggled to deliver
What if I told you A-ha’s Hunting High And Low is really a prog album?
Believe it or not, the 1985 pop record emerged from a background of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and Morten Harket singing along to Queen songs
Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. Long deleted, the dark secret has become a rare gem
In the process of remastering it for a limited edition, friendships were rekindled, music was re-evaluated, and the band’s current line-up demonstrated what the quarter-century journey had been all about
The prog world of Nightwish’s Troy Donockley
Multi-instrumentalist on the musician he’d most like to work with, his leading inspiration, his guilty musical pleasure and his passion for baking bread
Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko M. Jakszyk, Phase Transition, Barrens and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
Great new prog, from Kill The Robot, Frant1c, Shannon Pearl and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...
How Caligula’s Horse searched for a new direction and new message with Rise Radiant
Guitarist, writer and producer Sam Vallen was as surprised as anyone else when a bid to avoid making another concept album resulted in a record with an underlying – and refreshingly positive – theme
How Mogwai reached number one with As The Love Continues
After struggling through the pandemic to deliver their 10th album, Stuart Braithwaite revealed what they’d learned about doing soundtrack work and maintaining their own post-rock sound
Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Blue Öyster Cult DNA lies within Mike Scott and the Waterboys
It might not be obvious in his songs but it’s clear in his progressive attitude – he wants other musicians to get better so he can aim to outdo them
You may think Ultravox were a synth-pop band. They know they were prog
Midge Ure and Billy Currie aimed to create timeless music by crossing previously-closed musical borders – and they argue that their biggest hit worked because of human imperfections rather than digital precision
Despite death threats, Roine Stolt will keep doing what he does with The Flower Kings
The band’s 13th album, titled simply Love, may or may not contain some political points, but it does contain more examples of the music their leader has loved to create for over five decades
“The world was my oyster, but when I opened it there was a turd inside… When my wife said, ‘I want half of everything,’ I said, ‘Write me a cheque for 450 grand and you can have half the debt!’” Fish on his three-decade solo career
As the former Marillion frontman released final album Weltschmerz, he reflected on going from the depths of debt and divorce to mountainous creative peaks
How Gary Kemp came back from his post-pop wilderness to join the Pink Floyd family
Ex Spandau Ballet member and movie star discusses being inspired by David Gilmour, Syd Barrett and Mick Ronson, the attitude-crushing mid-90s experience that derailed his career, and what drummer Mason is really like
"You can hear how much bigger it sounds!" How Amorphis went large with 2018's Queen Of Time
Thirteen is definitely not unlucky for Finnish prog metallers Amorphis whose Queen Of Time delivered the goods in style
“A wolf in sheep’s clothing”: Deftones’ Diamond Eyes is a cunning prog masterpiece
When tragedy led to ditching the album they’d planned to release, the “Radiohead of metal” delivered something much more unorthodox
It's Prog's Tracks Of The Week!! Essential new proggy sounds from Peter Baumann, AVKRVST, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more...
Cool new prog, from Gösta Berlings Saga, Dave Jones, Red Cain and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...
“Such a foundational thing”: Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood hails The Edgar Winter Group
1973 hit single was a key moment in the singer-guitarist’s musical history
