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"If you’re getting compared to bands like Genesis, who’s going to complain?” Why UK prog rockers Ghost Of The Machine's 'difficult' second album, Empires Must Fall, wasn't so difficult after all

Rising prog rock sextet Ghost Of The Machine received rightful acclainm for their Scissorgames debut. Can they match it with second album, Empires Must Fall?

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"It makes me very optimistic for a release at some point this year..." Marilllion update fans on progress on the new album

Marillion are currently working on a follow-up to 2022's An Hour Before It's Dark album

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Marillion share new remix of Go! as they announce 25th anniversary reissue of marillion.com

Marillion will release a new Deluxe Edition of 1999's marillion.com on CD and vinyl in June

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"Someone spat at our saxophone player, so Tim kicked this guy in the mouth – absolutely perfectly in time to the music": A brief history of Cardiacs, the UK's most adored detested band

Cardiacs defied classification for decades, but new album LSD – finished five years after the death of creative lynchpin Tim Smith – was widely hailed as one of the best albums of 2025

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New issue of Prog is on sale now! The essential end-of-year issue!

Featuring Steven Wilson, Genesis, Marillion, Yes, David Gilmour, Rush, EBB, Martin Barre, Steeleye Span and more...

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“I became obsessed with doing the perfect album. I even had them working on Christmas Day!” Producer was perfect for Marillion the first time, a disaster the second time – and didn’t get a third time

He made the move from punk to prog in the early 80s, but it didn’t last

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"We're going at it and The Queen was like, 'Whooh! I love this prog rock!'" Decades after a spliff-weilding start, Solstice have finally hit their stride

Prog stalwarts Solstice could have had Marillion's success - they just didn't want it

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“An op-art Blue Meanie with doves for ears and a planet for an eye? It’s more Marillion than Smiths”: The new wave band who dabbled with prog and inspired The Pineapple Thief, Oceansize and others

Prog writer Jo Kendall reckons they did, inspiring the likes of Oceansize along the way...

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“I argued very strongly that we shouldn’t play Another Brick In The Wall at the school fête, as it was disrespectful. Oh God! That was me”: Slow Horses showrunner Will Smith’s record collection

Stand-up, actor, novelist and producer on how much Marillion means to him, the four lines of Jon Anderson lyrics that bring him to tears, his favourite Vangelis soundtrack and his claim that Dire Straits are a prog band

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“Mikael Åkerfeldt and I were close for a while. We wound up with the same management and drifted apart”: Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)

Stick-collecting Canadian who preferred Motorhead to Marillion says Captain Beefheart didn’t know he was nuts, the Interstellar soundtrack floored him, and the Wildhearts are prog

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“I’ve probably spent all my royalties on the endless pedals that arrive at the door to my wife’s displeasure”: How Marillion’s Steve Rothery forged a new musical alliance – and got addicted to buying pedals in the process

Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning might have sounded like "a firm of accountants" to Rothery's mind but as Bioscope, the two prog icons are creating something new, a mesmerizing trip into the unknown

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“Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion

He discusses embracing artistic tension, avoiding the well-trodden path, escaping his narcissism, what really went wrong with the record industry, the band’s decade in the wilderness and why it took him 28 years to get them to the Royal Albert Hall

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"There’s nothing quite like playing live in the UK!" Marillion announce UK tour dates in September and October

UK prog rockers Marillion follow selling out two nights at Italy's prestigious amphitheatre in Pompeii with UK tour announcement

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Marillion's Steve Hogarth shares cover of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat as he announces new live album

Steve Hogarth will release live album SPQR, with Italian prog rockers RanestRane, on CD, Blu-ray and vinyl, in January

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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

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“It’s the moment the cracks appeared and their decline into preposterousness began. It sinks under the weight of its own self-importance”: 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

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“I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way

After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?

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Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026

UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25

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Marillion/Tangerine Dream offshoot Bioscope cancel December tour plans

Steve Rothery, Thorsten Quaeschning and Alex Reeves were due to tour as Bioscope through Europe in Deceber

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“Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)

Does the only album with four entries suggest there’s a definitive record from the neo-prog giants? Does the split between the Fish and Steve Hogarth eras reveal a preferred vocalist?

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“Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If it had Pink Floyd on the cover, it would have sold millions”: BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty’s prog record collection

The pundit, who met John Wetton and Geoff Downes through their mutual love of the sport, recommends albums by Asia, Supertramp, Marillion and others

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“The song was haunted! Dropouts, disks failing, the channels on the desk would stop working. The guitar had just gone. It wasn’t one of my favourite albums”: Marillion producer Dave Meegan’s fight to deliver Afraid Of Sunlight

He eventually came to love the 1995 release – but he’s glad he didn’t like it at the time, and he helped the band develop a method of working they still use today

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“He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight

Diplomacy abandoned singer Steve Hogarth and keyboardist Mark Kelly in disagreement over 1995 artwork, which was later reinstated. In the end it was just another fight between mates

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"Steve Hogarth bursts into the studio, holding a gun": What happened when Marillion allowed a journalist to play on their new album

In 2008, Marillion got a Classic Rock journalist to play on the album Happiness Is The Road, and things got weird

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“There wasn’t any plan to make a certain kind of album. Everything was all created in the moment”: Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning found it easy to write Bioscope record Gentō, but less easy to finish it

Marillion and Tangerine Dream men aim to play their music live, but other priorities continue to get in the way

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