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“If they had the flares and beards and the record was from 1971 or 1972, that was what I wanted… records that looked odd and I could afford”: How Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt discovered prog

From extreme metal to Camel and Genesis to collaboration with Steven Wilson, the Swedish musician's career is surely one of the most progressive

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"There are keyboard players who are way better than me who have made albums that aren’t as good as mine!" - The Tangent, Andy Tillison and Auto Reconnaissance

Long standing UK proggers The Tangent discuss the creation of their eleventh studio aobum, 2020's Auto Reconnaissance

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“Updating The Wall for disaffected, mid-90s youth”: The prog roots of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral

Trent Reznor’s 1994 epic explored the collapse of a character like Pink Floyd had done 15 years earlier - but in a musically different manner

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"You start something, then come back after half an hour and you’ve seen the cosmos together." Motorpsycho and the making of Ancient Astronauts

Shape-shifting Norwegian proggers Motorpsycho discuss the creation of their 2022 album Ancient Astronauts, a lockdown album like no other

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“The media built up this mutual hatred between prog and punk, but really I don’t think it existed”: Sonja Kristina on Curved Air’s impact - and the time she nearly quit

Singer became a sex symbol and inspired Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux... but she also pretended to sleep to avoid interaction at parties

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“For Lemmy and I, Hawkwind wasn’t a job, it was like family. That’s why he was so devastated when he got fired”: Stacia Blake’s role in space rock

They both left the pioneering band in 1975, but for dancer and lifelong artist Stacia, the connections were never broken

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“We’ve had a few Floyd moments… we got a giant ghetto blaster on a boat and parked it in the harbour… we closed down an airport for six hours!” The Orb were prog all along

Accidental albums with David Gilmour and Robert Fripp aren’t the only connections Alex Paterson’s psychedelic electronic group have with the progressive genre

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Everything you wanted to know about Rock In Opposition but were too afraid to ask

Check out our RIO playlist and discover some gems from this oft-ignored sub-genre of prog

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“I’m quite happy no one knows who we are!” IO Earth on working out of the spotlight

Birmingham prog rockers IO Earth continue to plough their own unique furrow wthin the music business to ever greater success

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"I listened to my dad's prog records. That's what I wanted to play." Cellar Darling on the music that drives them

Swiss prog trio Cellar Darling have made big strides since the three members quit Eluveitie. 2019's The Spell is their proggiest album yet

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Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson: "Euronymous got me into prog!

How Black metal pioneer Euronymous of Mayhem expanded Enlsaved's Ivar Bjørnson's musical horizons

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Fates Warning to stop releasing new albums

Singer Ray Alder tells Prog the band is "no longer going to release material"...

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“Some people would want me to just be playing jazz-rock in a pub somewhere!" Dave Stewart refuses to bow to fan expectations

Former Egg/Hatfied & The North/National Health man Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin discuss their musical legacy

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Prog teams up with Voyager for a keytar-tastic bundle

Voyager fans won't want to miss out on this exclusive limited edition of the new issue of Prog!

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Pink Floyd grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus BJH, Soft Machine, Voyager, The Fierce & The Dead, Arjen Lucassen, Enslaved, Mystery, Godsticks and more...

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“They gave me the confidence to try anything in Diamond Head”: Brian Tatler’s prog passion is Gentle Giant (and Muse and It Bites)

Veteran NWOHBM guitarist draws a line from jazz-fuelled experimentalists to the world’s heaviest bands

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"Not many bands have played Summer’s End, ArcTanGent and with Hawkwind!" Welcome to the world of The Fierce And The Dead

Rushden quartet The Fierce And The Dead are prog's unlikely heroes who's latest album The Euphoric draws from a diverse selection of influences and sounds great

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"We had the opportunity to reimagine what we do to a certain degree." Big Big Train and the making of Common Ground

Big Big Train's thirteenth studio album Common Ground saw a new line-up but the same classy approach and prog rock sound

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“I thought I’d bitten off more than I can chew”: how Yes guitarist Steve Howe accidentally ended up playing on a Queen hit single

Yes guitarist Steve Howe was having lunch in Switzerland when he was roped into appearing on Queen’s 1991 single Innuendo

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Cults, drugs and religion. The story of Oceans Of Slumber's Starlight And Ash

Oceans Of Slumber vocalist Cammie Beverley opens up on the struggles that helped make her the compelling frontwman she is

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What happened when Avenged Sevenfold released a prog metal concept album

With 2016's The Stage Avenged Sevenfold set themselves on a path away from their original heavy metal sound. This is the story...

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GOAT to release their sinister proggy soundtrack to The Gallows Pole

Secretive Swedes GOAT will release their soundtrack to the BBC's The Gallows Pole digitally in July

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“He’s making different chords underneath all this music… and singing a middle harmony at the same time!” Joe Bonamassa’s love for Chris Squire

A blues guitar icon calling a prog bassist his hero? It’s unusual, but it’s not unheard of

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Marillion and four great gifts in the new issue of Prog, on sale now...

Plus Francis Monkman, Dave Stewart, Renaissance, Rod Argent Wishbone Ash, Lazuli and loads more...

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"The Nice and ELP are, for me, where things went too far. Very good musicians don’t interest me. Proficiency blocks you off from real adventure": John Foxx on prog, punk and the problems of being a pioneer

For 50 years, John Foxx has been making genuinely progressive music that defies categorisation. "My plan was always to make every record different from the last,” he says.

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