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Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start
The five-piece group surpassed their own expectations at their first-ever rehearsal. Now, as a four-piece with their fourth record out, they’re more impressive than ever
Who is the prog-powered creator of “revenge pop” targeting? “All those people who didn’t think I could do it”
Inspired by Kate Bush and a childhood of Yes, 10cc and ELO, her debut album contained dark humour – but no hint of stashed body parts
A prog poet formed a group of A-list colleagues and went on a trip into the unknown. They got lost - or so it seemed
His only solo release merged Genesis, Greenslade and Soft Machine vibes with an additional experimental edge. But the real beauty is that it couldn’t have been made any other time than the early 70s
“A big chapter was coming to an end. I couldn’t tell anyone”: Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour
The final road trip with Peter Gabriel featured an over-ambitious stage set, performing a double-album no one had yet heard, and dealing with dangerous and deadly mishaps – all while suspecting their singer was going to quit and the band might end
How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from sludge metal underdogs to generational heavyweights
Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found with the lead single of 2004 masterstroke Leviathan
“He proves it’s possible to turn even short compositions into suites”: The emo pioneer who suddenly went prog
When the band that made his name broke up in 1995, he turned his search for answers into an enthralling and articulate solo debut containing echoes of PInk Floyd and Van der Graaf Generator
“If you listen just for Tool similarities, you’ll miss out”: The heart and soul that went into Soen’s Tellurian
Comfortable with their connections to Opeth and Pink Floyd, the Swedish band evolved on their second album – which features a rhino eating tiny people on the cover
In 1971 Greg Lake enraged Keith Emerson, who immediately quit ELP. The result was acclaimed album Tarkus
Carl Palmer recalls a crisis meeting, arguments over time signatures, and playing the whole album top to bottom in the studio – only to discover their engineer had taken a break
When a 70s bubblegum pop quartet surprised fans by releasing a prog album
Pushing their abilities like never before, their 1978 record – the last with their classic line-up – offered a glimpse at the cliff-leaping experimentation that might have followed
When one of prog’s biggest bands shut down, it left their guitarist facing a void. This is how he bounced back
Suddenly out of work in 2012, he started to take songwriting seriously and learned to stop feeling intimidated by other musicians
10 great psychedelic songs that’ll shake any prog fan’s tree (but aren’t by Pink Floyd)
Revolutionary music from Yes, John McLaughlin, Pretty Things, Tangerine Dream, Strawbs and more, including a song that was prog even before prog was prog
“It was a fear I had. It was unfounded”: Studio star reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a star himself
The Pink Floyd collaborator thought his career would last two years. But in the past five decades he’s had surprise hits, overreacted to a myth about tape, and made colleagues believe his ideas had been their own
Cool new proggy sounds from Jan Akkerman, Soen, Evergrey and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Ace new prog you have to hear from Argovia, Myrath, Engrupid Pipol in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River
Gilmour, Nick Mason and colleagues on assembling the unexpected 2014 album that paid tribute to Rick Wright, and his calming presence in a group who were “never a jolly bunch of friends”
What members of Marillion, Dream Theater, Asia and more think of Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans
It was the double-album that split critics, fans and the line-up who recorded it. We asked a range of prog stars for their thoughts on the 1973 release
TesseracT’s James Monteith on the guitarist and band who changed his approach to music in the 90s
The djent pioneer found inspiration in a player who ignored standard time lengths, came up with unique sounds and played the wrong parts of his instrument – but always managed to groove
“David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The folk artist who missed stardom but won respect
Acclaimed by Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel, he recalls feeling insulted by the way his best-known album was treated, his short stint in a US prison, and his decision to stop writing long notes to fans on their record sleeves
