Karnivool have returned from the wastes with new ...

One of metal’s buzziest bands is fronted by a sword-waving, chainmail-bikini-clad barbarian who dies and is reborn onstage each night. Step into the world of Castle Rat

Evergrey embrace their proggy grandeur. Niklas Sandin taps ...

Works by Bowie, Crumb, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Schubert, Clarke et al Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Jan Philip Schulze (piano/synthesizer), Bernd Oezsevim (percussion) Challenge Classics CC720038 67 mins Th

Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

Raku ceramicist Catherine Lucktaylor talks about finding inspiration on the Cornish coast