Epic, complex and sometimes challenging, prog metal and science fiction are perfect bedfellows. UK prog metal outfit Tesseract know this – they’ve dived deep into the sci-fi pool on their new album, War Of Being, a thought-provoking and occasionally head-spinning concept album centred around two characters, Ex and El, who have crash landed in a mysterious landscape known as The Strangeland. It’s based on an idea by bassist Amos Williams, who is in the process of turning it a novel. With epic sci-fi adaption 3 Body Problem – based on the acclaimed novel of the same name - about to hit Netflix, we asked Amos to recommend the science fiction books that every prog metal fan should read.
