Latest Prog News
As campaign to save seven grassroots UK venues enters final days, organisers urge fans to donate whatever they can
The charity Music Venue Properties hopes to secure the future of clubs in Bedford, Stoke-On-Trent, Bedford, Nottingham, Brighton, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle by making them community-owned
Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!
UK prog rockers Marillion will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25 and 26
Opeth announce live show at Pompeii's legendary Amphitheatre for July 2026
Swedish prog metallers Opeth will also play concerts in Halifax, Dublin and Rättvik in support of The Last Will And Testament
Get an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the new Big Big Train album Woodcut, only through Prog
Big Big Train will release their latest album, Woodcut, a narrative concept album, in February
Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
Textures will release their new album, Genotype, on January 23 and will tour Europe and the UK in early 2026
Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans
At last! Tales From Topographic Oceans is now even bigger
Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist
Toto will return to American theatres in February and March 2026
Latest Prog Features
“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
Latest Prog Reviews
Hawkwind’s PXR5 plugs into the more celebrated Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Their last album with the wayward genius – showing the band at their most confrontational yet most accessible – returns in remastered vinyl and CD with additional tracks
Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun concludes eight-album circle-of-life story
Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)
Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All, five decades on
The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is vigorous
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds – the Deluxe and Ultimate editions
Sumptuous box sets that gather all available versions plus a wealth of bonus material – not all of which will be welcomed
“An opportunity to reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard
Undervalued 1970 albums, created during period of upheaval, are presented for reinterpretation with help from Steven Wilson and David Singleton
