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“A lot of it is first takes and demos. Because of what had happened to Neil we didn’t want to re-record – the songs felt too precious”: Rush fans had to wait 11 years for Vapor Trails to become the album it deserved to be

After tragedy shattered drummer Neil Peart’s life, many were just glad to have their 17th studio album in 2002. But it left almost everyone disappointed at the time

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New three-disc compilation highlights the best of psych and prog on the Decca and Deram labels

PSYCH! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 will be released on June 21

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“I was side-of-stage and said, ‘You’ve literally just written that, and you’re going to perform it?’ It was a beautiful rendition… much better than on the album!” The Wilson & Wakeman comedy duo get serious(ish)

Arena and Black Sabbath men’s bond of brotherhood is full of laughs, but latest album Can We Leave The Light On Longer? manages to deal with deeply personal issues

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“We were both big ELP fans, and I’m sure if you look at our record collections back then you’d have seen Yes, Greenslade, King Crimson…” How electronic music duo Underworld grew up with a world of prog

No one would call dance outfit Underworld a prog band. But they grew up influenced by the whole genre, it appears

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Cool new proggy sounds you really must hear from Richard Henshall, Evergrey, Reliqa, Rendezvous Point and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great prog you really should check out from Circuline, Grice, Shumaun and more..

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"It’s a responsibility but also a privilege to share this same kind of consciousness with new generations of people." The fantastic return of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

The story of the Italian prog legends Banco del Mutuo Soccorso return after 25 years with new album Transiberiana

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“The producer was able to see through me to be like, ‘You don’t sound like you believe any of this.’ I love that psychology”: District 97’s Leslie Hunt took singing lessons before she tracked Stay For The Ending

Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford

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“Nothing was too crazy. Nothing was too outrageous. Once we had a beautiful part, we thought we should make it evil and disturbing”: Powered by red wine and bored with prog metal, Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt made Storm Corrosion their way

Porcupine Tree and Opeth leaders’ 2012 collaboration wasn't what many people thought it would be – instead it was something more experimental which they described as “organic pagan minimalism”

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Awesome new prog you really should hear from Trifecta, Eivør, Oh Hiroshima and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds you really should check out from Outrun The Sunlight, Lowen, The Twenty Committee and more..

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“I didn’t even speak English but I could tell Operation: Mindcrime had atmosphere and intelligence… You can’t just replace Geoff Tate with someone who has a great range”: Tobias Sammet says classic Queensryche were fully prog

Avantasia mastermind recalls being blown away by Geoff Tate’s vocals – and struggling to copy what he’d heard

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"Our style has always been defined by the fact that we sound a little like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Marillion." Mystery and the making of One Among The Living

Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoins cult Canadian proggers Mystery, as they prepare to release the strongest album of their career.

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Cool new prog you realy should hear from Marjana Semkina, Dave Foster Band, Pallbearer and more

Great new proggy sounds you really should check out from Bill Fisher, The Bee Tellers, The Omnific, Daniel Davies and more...

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"At 78-years old, he's lost none of his chops and remains in fine voice." David Gilmour's The Piper Calls - the first review

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

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“My role in the black metal scene is probably exaggerated, because I was a visible frontman… In many ways I was just the nerd making music”: Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did

The avant-garde maestro explains why his new, self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet

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“Not even in the territory of prog metal – closer to dyed-in-the-wool prog rock”: Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son remains their best prog album

A good-versus-evil concept story featuring keyboards and a nine-minute title track set the scene for records that would arrive in future decades

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"Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte

After a gap of more than 20 years, Jethro Tull returned with their second album of new material this decade. RökFlöte finds the band exploring Norse mythology with a harder edge than last year’s The Zealot Gene

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New proggy sounds you must hear from Maybeshewill, MONO, Eye and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you really should check out from Julie Christmas, Softcult, Exsomnis and more

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“We got hit with tax bills our former manager hadn’t paid. I was so skint that I got a job as a labourer… Then one day I picked up a guitar again”: The money Caravan spent, and the money they never received

When Pye Hastings and Geoffrey Richardson were interviewed by snooker icon Steve Davis, they admitted their “floaty and disorganised” state meant they were doomed to be victims of bad business decisions

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"It was very mixed – we could get some lovely nuns as well as rockers": The story of Sky, the least rock’n’roll band of all time

A unique insight into the short career of Sky, a band of musos more interested in their chops than chopping out lines

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"We both wanted to rock out, so we started coming up with those kinds of pieces and it made us all feel great so we just kept going." Glass Hammer and the making of Dreaming City

Glass Hammer co-founder Steve Babb tells Prog why the band decided to step into the world of swords and sorcery for Dreaming City.

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How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Big Big Train

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"I don’t think there are too many other genres of music that have fans so loyal and devoted like this..." The story of Australian prog

The rise of Australian progressive music, from its 60 roots to current day Eurovision success

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"It’s always fun to write odysseys. You go on this little musical adventure.” How Motorpsycho made Still Life With Eggplant

As Motorpsycho celebrate almost 25 years on the outer limits of musical exploration we discover where album number 16 has taken Norway’s most popular progstars.

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"If I were stuck on a desert island, I wouldn’t take Never Mind The Bollocks, it'd be Meddle or Foxtrot." The prog roots of Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Seargent and Poltergeist

The story of Poltergeist's 2013 album Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)

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"I think of the band as a progressive band because, with every record, we’re evolving and changing." Coheed And Cambria and the Year Of The Black Rainbow

The story of Coheed And Cambria's 2010 album Year Of The Black Rainbow

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