Dream Theater were drained after The Astonishing, but wrote Distance Over Time in three weeks
The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor
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Great new prog you must hear from Karmakanic, Earthside, Bjørn Riis and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Fab new proggy sounds from Andre Drage, Derev, Dave Francis and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
How Rush and Pink Floyd led James Dean Bradfield to Man – a band he’d previously dismissed
Manic Street Preachers frontman wasn’t convinced by his fellow Welsh musicians, until he discovered the Steely Dan and Little Feat elements of their 11th album
"It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra
Did you know that Pink Floyd and Emerson Lake & Palmer were both instrumental in the creation of Tangerine Dream's fifth album Phaedra? Read on...
The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times
The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today
The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta
An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala
"He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...
King Crimson biographer and Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to percussionist Jamie Muir, who died this weekend, aged 82
Swallow The Sun had to escape from Juha Raivio’s hell. The solution was new album Shining
Finnish prog-doomers’ ninth record contains elements of Queen, Marillion, Metallica’s Black Album and pop production – but most of their mesmerising melancholy remains
“It was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Captain Sensible loved prog, but hid it
The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear
And So I Watch You From Afar were brave enough to debut their new album in full at a festival
Irish band broke the limits of their own ambition when they performed every track of their seventh record at ArcTanGent
Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
Co-founding singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, hiring a shouting woman to conserve his voice, taking a rock-is-dead approach to his final solo albums – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered
“I’d get up in the morning, practise scales at my piano, go off dancing, and then in the evening I’d come back and play the piano all night.” The story of Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside
The story of how 19-year-old Kate Bush became one of the world's biggest music phenomenons, with a little help from David Gilmour and Emily Brontë
When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown and Rush got in trouble with the law - with proggy results
Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way
Kansas’ Joe Deninzon left the USSR and built a musical world out of a surprising coincidence
Violinist discovered MTV and never looked back thanks to the influence of Yes, Rush, Zappa – and the band he’d later join
Revisiting Thom Yorke’s incredible rant about Muse, of whom he is not a fan
The Radiohead man was being pretty chill when talking about acts who have been influenced by his band… and then he remembered the M word
Ace new prog you must hear from Solstice, Vennart, John Lodge, Dim Gray and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Cool new proggy sounds you from Lights Of Skadi, Sally Potter, Pearl Handled Revolver and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Carl Palmer’s lifelong desire for a life beyond classic prog
After Emerson Lake & Palmer’s High Voltage concert, the drummer shared his thoughts on his former bandmates and pondered an unfulfilled ambition
“Things come more difficult to him than anyone”: Peter Gabriel, as seen by his collaborators
Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Steven Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Mike Portnoy, Tom Morello, Trevor Rabin and many others share their thoughts on the Progfather
"In Chicago I barely held on to my underpants": From Genesis to revelations with Peter Gabriel
From Genesis frontman to solo star and beyond: The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Gabriel, the great innovator
