Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

Mike The Pies, Listowel, Co Kerry

London The Roundhouse

Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

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.

Pagan doom, Marmite metalcore, genre-smashing hardcore, razzle-dazzle arena metal… this has been the soundtrack to the decade to date