Features Prog Vote now in the 2019 Progressive Music Awards By Prog Magazine( Prog ) published 4 June 2019 Have your say at the eighth annual Progressive Music Awards Page 6 of 9: Best International Band/Artist Introduction Limelight Award Event Of The Year Video Of The Year Album Cover Of The Year Best International Band/Artist Reissue Of The Year Album Of The Year UK Band/Artist Of The Year Last year’s winner: PFMCelebrating those bands and artists championing the progressive cause around the world.Vote for the Best International Band/Artist Of The YearProg NewsletterSign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Current page: Best International Band/Artist Prev Page Album Cover Of The Year Next Page Reissue Of The Year Prog MagazineSocial Links Navigation More about prog“Jean-Michel Jarre said he loved my music, but that I was too acoustic for him. That got me thinking”: Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years“At my level Spotify would be like a turkey voting for Christmas”: Billy Sherwood, Big Big Train,and other artists who pay it forward helped John Holden return to prog after he’d abandoned his ambitionsLatest"You sound sexy": Watch Kid Rock once again prove to be one of the most cringeworthy rockers on the planet as he attempts to flirt with a BBC News reporter during a live TV interviewSee more latest ► Most Popular“I become a Colossus of Maroussi, I can do anything!”: Michael Stipe on the period when R.E.M. became a stadium band and he embraced his inner showman“It’s the perfect encapsulation of youthful anger… It still sounds feral and savage to this very day”: The cult 1980s classic Ghost frontman Tobias Forge calls the perfect extreme metal album“Metal fans are still stigmatised. So I try and write lyrics with meaning, rather than standard metal lyrics”: How Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine set out to bust a few myths with Super Collider Why does metal love Vikings so much? We interviewed Grand Magus, Wardruna and a college professor to find out“I thought Bowie was talented even though he lacked direction. I could hear the star quality in his voice”: Tony Visconti’s tales of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Phil Lynott and U2“It was too Rod Stewart”: the huge Radiohead song that the band have distanced themselves from… and no, it’s not Creep“We were weeping like little babies, trying to figure out whether to continue, and if so how”: How HIM pulled back from the brink to make their final album Tears On Tape“Wordless vocals wail around the memory of his lost love, manifesting a grief too terrible to put into words”: David Crosby’s solo debut proved his prog credentials“It’s the most spontaneous thing I’ve ever been involved in”: the story of Mad Season, the grunge supergroup that Mike McCready hoped would save Layne Staley"Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest albumThe 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now