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"They had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side of their album." Few songs evoke fear quite like "Black Sabbath," the first track from the band's debut album released in 1970. This song ...

Opeth leader Mikael Akerfeldt has named what he views as the band's worst song, as well as which one of their 14 albums is the most underrated. In a recent interview with Revolver, the prog ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt looks back on the time he was the most starstruck he had ever been. In a new interview with Revolver, the Opeth mainman recalls meeting Agnetha Fältskog and sharing dinner with her.

In January, Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine united for a co-headlining arena tour to mark the 20th anniversary of both ...

In 2013 – marking the return of Camel when many fans believed they’d heard the last of them – Prog asked five musicians of the moment to choose their favourite album by Andy Latimer’s band.

Trivium's Ascendancy and Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison were released eight months apart. They would become instant ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

Scenes unfold in extended, impulsively mobile shots, which create the impression of a ghost who is no mere passive observer but an alert and active mind. Conjuring a consciousness with a will of ...