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“I saw us in a direct line from big band or modern jazz – but with complex interactive rock rhythms plus improvised solos”: Five Colosseum songs that prove the jazz-rock pioneers’ pedigree

Initially active for only three years, they secured their reputation with a series of impressively pogressive releases that, it’s said, popularised the entire genre

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“There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads

The arrival of Rick Wakeman, the freedom to be adventurous and the discovery of Roger Dean led to the creation of a prog landmark in 1971

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“We started out as a Pink Floyd tribute and evolved from that. Artists who claim to be original are lying through their teeth”: Airbag’s Bjørn Riis used classic prog inspirations to chart a nervous breakdown

His fifth solo album Fimbulvinter was inspired by Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Black Sabbath and others. He aimed to sound like them without ripping them off

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“The first time I played Rush’s YYZ I almost broke my fingers!” Epica bassist Rob Van Der Loo’s prog timeline, from Jon Lord to Dream Theater

Deep Purple’s Concerto For Group And Orchestra opened the door to the Dutch artist’s own career in symphonic rock

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“Not the work of the blues bruiser some supposed him to be, but of an expert in judging precisely when to hang back and when to hit hard”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row

Leaving Cream behind, his third solo album was a proggy affair, composed in a single sitting, exploring one day in the world of a Glasgow tenement

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“The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics

Along with punching out impressive drum parts, he brought Tolkien, Twain and Wilde to bear on the world of prog. Here are just 10 of his best moments

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Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Great new music you need to hear from Gwenno, Wytch Hazel, Rocking Horse Music Club, Schrodinger and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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"The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change

Katatonia release their new album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State tomorrow and share new video for Wind Of No Change

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“We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger

“Taumata-whaka-tangi-hanga-kuayuwo-tamate-aturi-pukaku-piki-maungahoronuku-pokaiawhen-uaka-tana-tahu-mataku-atanganu-akawa-miki-tora”

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Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour

UK prog rockers Haken will support Coheed at their five UK shows

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“Knowingly progressive and endearingly archetypal in a way that only two young pop historians could fathom”: If you thought Ween were taking the piss with The Mollusk, you were wrong

When traditional prog was all at sea in the mid-90s, this shameless concept album, bedecked in Pink Floyd colours, sailed to the rescue

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“I became a punk – I hid my Pink Floyd records and I now had an uneasy relationship with the music”: Siobhan Fahey’s lifelong passion for prog is only hinted at in Bananarama’s name

A Frank Zappa show bored her to sleep, but the Shakespeare’s Sister masterming has remained in love with Roxy Music, Hawkwind and Syd Barrett

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Great new prog from Nad Sylvan, Ihlo, Jonathan Hultén and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Cool prog you need to hear from Grace Hayhurst, Hiroe, Eden Cirus, Hemelbestormer and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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“It remained in the domain of teenyboppers, but prog elements are within its grooves”: What if I told you A-ha’s Hunting High And Low is really a prog album?

Believe it or not, the 1985 pop record emerged from a background of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and Morten Harket singing along to Queen songs

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“I was a budding arsonist – I tried to recreate the cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here by setting fire to my mate’s back”: The prog world of Nightwish’s Troy Donockley

Multi-instrumentalist on the musician he’d most like to work with, his leading inspiration, his guilty musical pleasure and his passion for baking bread

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Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko M. Jakszyk, Phase Transition, Barrens and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Great new prog, from Kill The Robot, Frant1c, Shannon Pearl and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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"You can hear how much bigger it sounds!" How Amorphis went large with 2018's Queen Of Time

Thirteen is definitely not unlucky for Finnish prog metallers Amorphis whose Queen Of Time delivered the goods in style

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The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now! Featuring Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Katatonia, Cosmograf, Savatage, Ghost Of The Machine, Black Country New Road and loads more...

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“We need him much more than he needs us. Prog as a genre owes him a huge debt of gratitude”: The lasting impact of Brian Eno, the glorious anomaly who’s a genre unto himself

Shineback and Valdez's Simon Godfrey lists just some of his hero’s achievements, and hails the creative attitude that’s driven them

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“Dismissed as bland, complacent and of the establishment, it was now outsider music. If you wanted to be a true rebel, you came out as a prog fan”: Five essential neo-prog albums of the 80s

The second-wave movement didn’t last long – but its bands revitalised the genre with an attitude and energy that’s still being felt today

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"If we’d kept things together and stopped arguing, we could have all been multi-millionaires!" The story of Hawkwind's most prog-friendly album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time

Bruised and battle-weary after a punishing live schedule, in 1975 Hawkwind weren’t in the best place ahead of recording their fifth studio LP. But what emerged was a stunning tour de force of science fantasy-inspired progressive space rock

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Stars of the 80s prog scene line up for book launch live event

Members of Pendragon, IQ, Pallas, Twelfth Night and Solstice to feature on panel discussion and an audience Q&A at launch for new 80s prog book

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“I remember wondering how many people could get into this progressive, extreme violin metal”: How Ne Obliviscaris became the first band to successfully crowdfund a world tour

Committed to a unique musical approach they’d developed over a decade, they feared they’d spend their careers trapped in the underground. And they expected a backlash when they asked for fan support – but they needn’t have worried

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“I’ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play… He’s a wonderful husband but professionally it’s done me no favours”: Toyah Willcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson

From post-punk icon and award-winning female solo artist to becoming regarded as just the prog mastermind’s wife, her rebellious creative energy is fired by Roxy Music, Devo, The Tubes and all things off the wall

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“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows

2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

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