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“AI is good at copying stuff and it’s going to get better. But AI is creating with logic and I’m creating with chaos”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg wants to be the most cinematic artist in prog

Second solo album Vox Occulta sees him enjoying melancholy, finding better ways of using an orchestra, fighting through the flu and aiming to look like a mafioso, rather than James Bond

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“Even when I got pretty good fees, I lost money on everything. I was thinking so idealistically”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg releases Vox Occulta, with hard lessons learned from the past

He wants to use a large band to tour his boredom-beating second album – and thinks he’s come up with a way to keep it in budget this time

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“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die. They were slamming my head against a railway track”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on his solo debut 16 – and enjoyed the experience

Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again

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“The decision to omit early music lends credence to the idea that they’re embracing pop influences”: Leprous’ An Evening Of Atonement live extravaganza

It’s all ears on Einar Solberg’s unique voice during this 21-track recording from the Netherlands from early 2025

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Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from Charlotte Wessels, Leprous, Hällas and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog from Altesia, Daniel Vincent Holosoil and All India Radio and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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Leprous share dramatic live clip of Like A Sunken Ship as they announce new live release

Norwegian proggers Leprous will release An Evening Of Atonement in October

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Awesome new proggy sounds from Leprous, Iamthemorning, Jo Quail and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog sounds from Ring Van Möbius, Our Oceans and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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"Intense. But amazing!" Leprous have covered a-ha's Take On Me.And it's brilliant!

Norwegian prog metallers Leprous cover a-ha's 1985 hit Take On Me as part of Musora's Covers On The Spot challenge

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“My uncle would drink, say he was possessed and run after people with knives”: Why heavy metal is turning its back on booze

Metal stardom has long been synonymous with drinking and excess. However, the genre’s musicians are giving up alcohol younger and younger. We investigate why.

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Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup

Arctangent Festival 2025 is stacking up their bill with over 50 names, including Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Green Lung and many more

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The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

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The 10 best prog metal albums of 2024

Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year

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Leprous share drum playthrough video for Atonement

Norwegian proggers Leprous will tour Europe, Latin America and return to North America in the first half of 2025

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“We released a single and some fans complained there was too much pop, it was boring and they missed the odd time signatures … The funny thing is, the verse is in 13/8!” Leprous continue to be progressive even if it doesn’t seem to be prog

Latest album Melodies Of Atonement sees the Norwegians continuing to strip back and seek catchier elements of themselves – including taking influence from hip-hop

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“He taught me how to play songs by Dream Theater, Iron Maiden and King Diamond… though I remember giving up on some of the John Petrucci solos!” Tor Oddmund Suhrke on guitar lessons with Ihsahn and casting musical illusions with Leprous

Melodies of Atonement finds Leprous taking the complex and making it sound simple – and if that confuses prog purists then so be it, says Suhrke. There is no reversing the evolutionary wheel…

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“Being a musician, you feel like you’re failing if you don’t achieve your dreams – that’s why we chose Dream Chaser as the album title”: Rendezvous Point face down their fears with their third album

After comparisons with Leprous, because the bands share a drummer, they’re now expecting comparisons with Muse and Rammstein – but the Norwegian quintet believe they have something more cool and fun than that

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There are only 200 available, so get yours now!

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Jon Anderson graces the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus IQ, Alan Parsons Project, Leprous, Pure Reason Revolution, Meer, Dave Foster Band and loads more...

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"I imagined cutting my hair to have a green reverse mohawk like Keith Flint." Leprous vocalist Einar Solberg picks the 10 records that changed his life

The songs that turned Leprous’s leader from teenage raver to prog metal maestro

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Every Leprous album ranked from worst to best

Ranking a back-catalogue as incredible as the Norwegian prog masters’ is a near-impossible job, but someone had to do it

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“It might be the most accessible thing they’ve put out, but they’ve hardly turned into a garage rock band”: Leprous ditch the excess baggage on Melodies Of Atonement

Einar Solberg isn’t sure their eighth album is prog, although there’s plenty of evidence to argue otherwise

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"Melodies Of Atonement feels like a culmination of two decades’ worth of experience, energy and insight." Leprous show exactly how they've become prog metal royalty

Norway's Leprous might be ditching some of their heaviness, but Melodies Of Atonement is a prog metal masterclass nonetheless

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Leprous share video for brooding new single Like A Sunken Ship

Norwegian prog metal quintet Leprous will release new album Melodies Of Atonement in August

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Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Focus, Gryphon, Tim Bowness, Leprous, Yes, Saucerful Of Secrets, Jadis, ELO, Caligula's Horse, Azure and loads more...

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10 awesome independent UK festivals still to come in summer 2024

Think festival season is nearing its end? Pfft, it's just beginning

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