Bitter sweet symphonies

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

Helloween are fully united on the direction they’re headed ...

Green Carnation first spoke about creating a three-album saga in the mid-2000s. Two decades later, the Norwegians are finally releasing the first chapter of their A Dark Poem series: The Shores Of Melancholia . Singer Kjetil Nordhus talks to Prog about the themes and backstory of their long-gestated trilogy.

Amarok prove they’re more than worthy of their ...

IF PARADISE LOST guitarist Gregor Mackintosh gets his wish, music fans might be adding the gloom-driven sounds of his band’s Ascension LP to their Christmas playlists this year, perhaps alongside Yule

Witch Club Satan’s vocalist/guitarist on wild Turbonegro gigs, meeting Necrobutcher and how Dimmu Borgir inspired her to explore witchcraft