Ben Myers

It’s been more than a decade since Karnivool released an album – this is the how they became the prog metal fan’s favourite cult prog metal band

Zakk Wylde was one of rock’s great wildmen – until he was told to kick the booze or die

In this classic 2013 interview, Ghost mainman Tobias Forge talks ambition, success and Satan

Guns, goths and politicians - the world according to Misfits frontman and goth-punk icon Glenn Danzig

System Of A Down vocalist hails the Mothers Of Invention leader for more than just his ambitious approach to making music

Out-and-out progressive rock it isn’t, but the 1998 record’s shared values influenced Steven Wilson, Anathema, Radiohead, Dream Theater, Katatonia and many others

Supported by established artists, secured in a family business and a star by the age of 21, her vision and clarity made her prog’s first pop star (and pop’s first prog star)

Wally De Backer’s Grammy-winning 2011 record proves he’s more Brian Eno then Ed Sheeran

Third album Black And White is Exhibit A in a case that also includes Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Steve Hillage and Nik Turner

Triumphant sixth album may be nostalgia for a previous decade, but it stands with the work of other bands who helped make 1973 the genre’s most vintage year

Where other bands flirted with the dark side, listeners just knew this band were living it

Notoriously dysfunctional band’s 1989 album – their first with Mike Patton – made them much more than a cult rock oddity

Novelist Ben Myers (The Gallows Pole/The Offing) salutes Joey Ramone, the king of the underdogs

How Public Image Ltd shifted from post-punk to a more progressive sound on 1979's Metal Box

"We're closer to prog rock than, say, Led Zeppelin," Pete Townshend once said. Ben Myers reckons he was spot on when it comes to Quadrophenia

Funkadelic's Maggot Brain has a solo that sounds like Rick Wakeman being dumped in the ghetto at midnight and told to play for this life!

Some people love bagpipes, some people don't, but no one can deny the part they've played in painting rock'n'roll's magnificent tapestry

It's gone down in history as a classic, but The Clash's self-tiled debut album offered a thrilling but limited blueprint for the future

They certainly did, argues Prog writer Ben Myers...

The Eagles Of Death Metal frontman should stop using the media as therapy following the Bataclan attacks

The Futureheads (679 Recordings/Warners, 2004)

Prog Jim issue 61.