Epica singer Simone Simons announces debut solo album Vermillion, lead single Aeterna now streaming
Epica’s lead vocalist is going it alone, with help from Ayreon mainstay Arjen Lucassen
Epica’s lead vocalist is going it alone, with help from Ayreon mainstay Arjen Lucassen
Don't get too excited
Pattern-Seeking Anjmals are currently working on their as-yet-untitled fifth album which is due for release later this year
Marillion take their Weekends to France, Spain and Norway for the very first time
Glastonbury 2024 takes place between 26 and 30 June with Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA confirmed as headliners – here’s how you can watch it, wherever you are
UK-based proggers ZIO will release a new live album Elibomevil in August
Focus will release the cunningly titled Focus 12, their 12th studio album, in July
David Gilmour will play a six-night run of live shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in October
UK proggers IQ upcoming Archive Collection release The IQ Weekender 2024 is now available to pre-order
The keyboardist has also talked about the touring hiatus the symphonic metal outfit will take after September’s Yesterwynde album
The new-look Coma Rossi will play this year's Summer's End Festival in October
Richard Tandy was the only ELO musician to feature with Jeff Lynne during all the phases of the band's career
Graham Bond told people he was the son of Aleister Crowley. His life was blighted by drugs. And on May 8, 1974, he died under a train in North London
Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford
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”
Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe
Yes, this actually happened
Freed from the rivalry and constraints within Pink Floyd, the band members held nothing back on their solo endeavours – and here are their best albums
You can’t go wrong with the UK prog metal maestros, but which album is the best of the best?
55 years on, the difficult and driven creator of the zeuhl genre is still developing the theme he introduced to the world in 1969 – no matter how difficult it becomes
Billy Idol’s guitarist discovered his mood for a lifetime when he saw the British icons at Madison Square Garden in 1974
Ranking a back-catalogue as incredible as the Norwegian prog masters’ is a near-impossible job, but someone had to do it
Psychedelic polymath draws a line under a recent difficult past with a personal form of ritual exorcism
Fourth album sees leader James Lascelles taking on weighty subjects, backed up by equally weighty music
Remaster of their 1997 second album – which began life as a Jacob Holm-Lupo solo work – includes vinyl edition for the first time
2007 live set by the West Country’s finest returns in 2CD/DVD package
Classic line-up’s 2001 reunion album is enhanced with the inclusion of In The Land Of The Rising Sun
Seemingly without the use of oxygen tents, the supergroup risk exhausting the listener with The Whirdwind, The Absolute Universe and a selection of crowdpleasers
Second full-length album from melodic prog supergroup is far wider-ranging than the members’ CVs might imply
Infectious enthusiasm glows out of unheard curios and a few previously-released tracks
Steven Wilson band veterans Nick Beggs, Adam Holzman and Craig Blundell build on their 2021 debut
Celebratory 2CD set defies former Genesis guitarist’s claim that he was never a brilliant player