Contributed by Brad Dixon

In late 2004, a little-known but hard-working rock band by the name of Cog ventured halfway across the world to Weed, California, to record their debut full-length album. In Weed waiting for them was famed producer Sylvia Massy Shivy and her RadioStar Studios, the venue in which Cog's game-changing album The New Normal would be brought into being. Read more

Contributed by Brad Dixon and Andrew Saltmarsh

We've waited through 15 years, nine albums, four record labels and countless compilations, re-issues and special editions, but in 2008 England's celebrated progressive rock heavyweights Porcupine Tree will venture south to promote their modern dystopian masterpiece Fear Of A Blank Planet. Read more

Contributed by Andrew Saltmarsh

With their second Australian tour looming, Coheed and Cambria's Travis Stever spoke with Andrew Saltmarsh about their new album and their return to our shores. Read more

Contributed by Rhys Brown

"This is by far the darkest and heaviest album that we have done so far," begins Tuomas Holopainen, composer, lyricist and ivory-tickler for Finnish symphonic metallers Nightwish. "The overall atmosphere is really dark, in parts even suicidal." Read more

Contributed by Brad Dixon and Andrew Saltmarsh

mewithoutYou travel in a bus running on vegetable oil, ensure their wardrobes contain only clothes not made in sweatshops, and, occasionally, singer Aaron Weiss chooses to eat waste food from a dumpster rather than create more waste by buying a complete meal for himself. Read more

Contributed by Andrew Saltmarsh

While the tension builds among the prog metal community here in Australia with the impending Dream Theater tour, I caught up with Jordan Rudess the Keyboard Wizard during some downtime at home to have a chat. Read more

Contributed by Brad Dixon

'neath vocalist Boyd Potts has some advice for other musicians in the scene that has spawned him and countless others: get the fuck out. Read more

Contributed by Andrew Saltmarsh

Over the past 30 years, few musicians can say they helped pioneer a style and influence many of today’s bands, while still being part of the scene themselves. Legendary frontman Rob Halford spoke to OzProg.com's Andrew Saltmarsh about his new album MetalGod: The Essentials Vol. 1. Read more

Contributed by Liam McKernan

Mark Kelson is guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter with gothic metal outfit The Eternal, who have recently played support for H.I.M. and Opeth. Kelson spoke to Liam McKernan of The Fallout magazine in late 2006. Read more

Contributed by Andrew Saltmarsh

Dream Theater have been at the forefront of prog for over two decades and still haven't visited our shores, but will a move to Roadrunner change all that? Andrew Saltmarsh discussed the band's Australian tour plans and more with vocalist James LaBrie. Read more