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“We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn’t totally mock it… It’s only in recent times that I’ve appreciated how complex the music is”: Why Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick needed to be serious - and a send-up

Ian Anderson set out to make “the mother of all concept albums” while incorporating a large measure of Monty Python - but some people laughed at all the wrong places

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"We had a ‘no filter’ rule on this album: make it as crazy as you want." Haken and the story of Fauna

On their seventh studio album, Haken are ready to bust any pre-conceptions about where they might or might not fit musically.

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"We’re not a band that writes about fast cars, hot chicks and partying." How Queensrÿche got their prog metal groove back with The Verdict

Seven years into their reinvention with Todd La Torre at the front, the new, rebuilt Queensrÿche are stronger than ever before. But with album number 15, they haven’t lost sight of their past.

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Enslaved announce Jo Quail will perform Congelia with them at London's opening night of their latest tour

Prog cellist Jo Quail will join Norwegian prog metallers Enslaved at their Islington Assembly Hall show on March 6

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“Genesis, Floyd and ELP all received so much more popularity… I’ve always just accepted who and where we were and I don’t think about why we didn’t reach those same heights”: Andy Latimer is happy if Camel managed to matter

Despite having once discovered that “orchestras are a bunch of little kids and hooligans,” the band leader wanted to return to the Albert Hall after reinventing The Snow Goose

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"It had nothing to with me rejoining Dream Theater!" Mike Portnoy responds to Sons Of Apollo claims

Guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal had discussed Sons Of Apollo demise on Canada's The Metal Voice podcast

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“I’d love for one of my songs to become huge. I believe I’ve written stuff that could easily cross over. But the industry isn’t set up for someone like me to do that”: Steven Wilson once wanted to be a rock star, but became a musician instead

What does it mean to be a figurehead of modern prog? How would mainstream stardom affect daily life? Ahead of the release of Hand. Cannot. Erase., Wilson considered his situation

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“There was this theory that once one major label had a prog band, all the others would follow suit…it didn’t really work like that”: Twelfth Night deserved big-time success with Fact And Fiction. That’s not what happened

They pipped Marillion to the post to be the first of the 80s prog bands to release an album, and fought hard to make it happen - but bad luck trumped their talent

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“A beautiful farewell from an instinctively progressive talent”: Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis made one stunning solo album, then walked away for ever

Vocalist’s 1998 release was full of prog promise for the future, but turned out to be his last artistic statement before his 2019 death

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Great new prog music you have to hear this week from North Sea Echoes, Voivod, Einar Solberg and more...

Cool new prog sounds to check out from Vicinity, Barrus, Reliqa and more...

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"We’re slowly becoming a band with its own identity.” How Riverside made Love, Fear & The Time Machine

Trading in prog metal riffs for a sound inspired by 80s pop, Riverside’s sixth album marked a daring change in direction, which perfectly suits a record that’s all about change itself.

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"The middle of the day was Marillion. Mornings and evenings DeeExpus." What happened when Mark Kelly joined North East prog rockers DeeExpus

The rise of DeeExpus has been swift. Now with their second album King Of Number 33 and Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly in tow, prog stardom awaits.

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“I didn’t know if Ross would be into this kind of music… I sent him an email and he was like, ‘Dude! You have no idea!’ It just fell into place”: How Haken’s Ross Jennings wound up making two albums in 18 months with Nick D’Virgilio and Neal Morse

The unlikely trio, with the same international make-up as Crosby, Stills and Nash, have a third record and live dates on their wish-list

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“We were inspired by the Brits at the start, then the British media forced us to become a different type of band. Made and broken in the UK, you could say”: The prog credentials of Styx

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw believe that despite the big hits, the band always had something more substantial at heart

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"I think that Rush are the best band that have ever existed and ever will." Young UK prog rockers Square Wild state their case

2023 was a big year for Manchester quartet Square Wild, wininng Best Unisgned Band in the Prog Readers' Poll and introducing themselves to the prog community in no uncertain terms

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Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, Midas Fall and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from Caleb Landry Jones, Circuline, Dave McLean, Abstrakt Lake and more...

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“What you’re hearing is an emotional reaction, it’s not us being smart or being good at something. It’s us being excited about what we’re doing because we’re discovering it”: When Motorpsycho completed their politically-aware trilogy with The All Is One

While the experimental Norwegian outfit looked for joy, their 2020 album was also a reaction to the threat of “strong men” like Donald Trump and their “mouthy” politics

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“We’d fly into town, we’d place the road crew in the limos and we’d go in hire cars… we were in it for the music, not the personalities”: John Anthony Helliwell recalls Supertramp’s glory days

Saxophonist, keyboardist and backing singer became the voice of the band between songs because no one else wanted to do it

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“I didn’t want the job with Robert Plant, I wasn’t after it and there were 5,000 guys that were - but they called me. When things come into your life, embrace them; when they leave, let them go”: Francis Dunnery’s lessons in life

It Bites co-founder shares his experiences of Steve Hackett, Genesis, Yes and the music industry - and why he thinks it’s no bad thing that most of prog is a “caricature”

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Great new prog music you have to hear this week from Trevor Rabin, Whom Gods Destroy, If These Trees Could Talk and more...

Cool new prog music to check out from Artificial Language, Alber Jupiter, Blue Öyster Cult and more...

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“However high-falutin’ the intention, you’re still onstage as an entertainer, so make a performance out of it!” Jo Quail claims it’s easy to write orchestral prog metal - and to be fair, she does make it sound easy

Electric cellist’s classical-stroke-metal masterpiece The Cartographer makes maximum impact from one basic concept, but the real magic is in the delivery

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“We broke up after debating the exact time signature of Solsbury Hill!” Before being able to enjoy lively debate with Peter Hammill, Tim Bowness dated an argumentative prog fan

If he hadn’t discovered the genre via a childhood Subbuteo tournament, he might have wound up working in flavoured crisps

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Ihlo to premiere live at ProgPower Europe performance

Scottish prog metal quintet Ihlo to premiere last year's ProgPower show via Bandcamp and YouTube

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“The director told me he wanted a song about death… Not only that, but it was a rabbit”: Mike Batt on Watership Down, his concept albums and the connection between the Wombles, Steeleye Span and (maybe) Hawkwind

Performer, composer and director on his early introduction to prog, the shelved 1973 rock opera that cost him £11,000 and keeping Dave Brock under control

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