Earlier today, the people behind the Prog Power festival made the following announcement:
This is the hardest decision we have ever had to make, but it is with great regret that we have had to cancel ProgPower UK 3.

 
We have made no secret of the financial difficulties that have dogged our first two […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
On a mild afternoon in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, we climbed aboard a big Swedish tourbus parked almost right outside Cardiff’s illustrious castle in the centre of the city to have a chat with Finnish metal band Omnium Gatherum. Meanwhile, Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne slept soundly in a bunk next door.
We […]

American progressive metal legends, DREAM THEATER, are to release the EP ‘Forsaken’ on March 31 through Roadrunner Records.
The title track is taken from the album ‘Systematic Chaos’ and is joined with three live tracks.
The full track lising is as follows:
01. Forsaken (Edit)
02. Forsaken (Live)
03. Constant Motion (Live)
04. The Dark Eternal Night (Live)

Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X have invited fans to let the band know which songs they’d like to be played during their forthcoming tour. The following was posted to the band’s MySpace blog:
There have been rumblings here and there about the band’s tour setlist & how it needs some changes. We did a setlist poll a […]

The Bloodstock team are pleased to announce that Swedish melodic metallers CLOUDSCAPE have been added to the bill for BOA 2008.
The band originally formed back in 2001 and spent several years honing their style and cutting demos before finally entering the studio to record their self-titled debut album in 2004. The album garnered many positive […]

Highly acclaimed prog masters DREAM THEATER have announced details of their forthcoming ‘Best Of’ compilation. It will include material from the past fourteen years and will feature rare edits and B-sides.
DREAM THEATER’S GREATEST HIT
(…& 21 other pretty cool songs)
Track Listing
Disc 1: (The Dark Side)

“Pull Me Under” (2007 Remix)
“Take The Time” (2007 […]

Nuclear Blast have issued the following statement…
NUCLEAR BLAST is very proud to announce it´s newest addition to the big
family: THE CRINN from Saint Paul, Minnesota. If you like Bands like THE DILLINGER
ESCAPE PLAN or PSYOPUS, you will freak out at THE CRINN. The band, formed in
2004, has been labeled as mathcore, techmetal, techgrind, jazzmetal and […]