“It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog

Ivar Bjørnson and King Crimson.

Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson is on record as having said his band were never black metal, and also for having invented a pizza named after King Crimson. So the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist thoughts on where metal and prog collide were always going to be interesting – and he touched on those and more with Prog in 2017.

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