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New Order’s Peter Hook hails Groundhogs’ Split
By Jo Kendall published
Long before he started playing bass, but after discovering Wishbone Ash and Curved Air, he was introduced to the pioneering power trio’s 1971 album by a future bandmate

"Thank God that genre went away." Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has no love for nu metal
By Stef Lach published
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine pulls no punches when it comes to nu metal bands

"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening."
By Paul Brannigan published
And the moral of Tobias Forge's story is: Don't give up on your dreams

How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
By David West published
Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense

“We took it badly – ‘No one wants us any more!’ We’d never been through the school of hard knocks. We didn’t know what it meant to work hard”: When ELP collapsed, Carl Palmer’s career-long lucky streak ended. But he didn’t give up
By Dom Lawson published
Born into a musical family and a pro by his teenage years with a real-life education in backstage realities, the passionate drummer has seen dreams come true with Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Asia, Mike Oldfield and others

Jethro Tull’s struggle to make Aqualung, in their own words
By Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome published
Their fourth album, a prophetic masterpiece and best-selling work, made them stars – but its creation wasn’t easy

Watch the epic video for Yungblud's new nine minute single Hello Heaven, Hello
By Paul Brannigan published
Yungblud is back, sounding more ambitious than ever on an epic new single nodding towards classic British rock artists

A mountain monastery, a bus in a snowstorm: Von Hertzen Brothers’ Nine Lives was tough work
By Philip Wilding published
The Finnish brothers created a different working method for their fifth album, but to their surprise the results weren’t much different from the previous four. Which was no bad thing

“Now I’m James LaBrie’s biggest cheerleader”: Mike Portnoy on his return to Dream Theater
By Rich Wilson published
Co-founding drummer discusses how easy 16th album Parasomnia came together, his sadness when he thought a reunion might not happen, and how he’s not quite the control freak some people think he is
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