This Strange Engine was an end and a beginning for Marillion. Dumped by longtime label EMI after “disappointing” sales of previous album Afraid Of Sunlight – just the 400,000 copies – they were forced ...

Marillion announced a scheme to offer free taxi rides across London, England, as a way of promoting their latest album An Hour Before It’s Dark. Fans who quote the LP title when they jump aboard ...

Yet there’s one superb parable. “Sierra Leone” asks what if the miner (a 16-year-old orphan) who unearthed the third largest diamond found in the West African country had regarded it as a ...

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now! It's our first-ever Review-Of-The-Year issue! We felt the achievements of the ...

It was the day the music died. Or rather, it was the day the music journalist died – just a little – on the inside. It is May 2008. At Marillion’s studio, tucked away in the rural idyll of ...

“The Cold War is done, but those bastards will find us another one.” This cry might have come from any current reader of The American Conservative alive in the early 1990s—well, maybe without the ...

Often referred to as the leaders of the neo-progressive movement of the early '80s, Marillion are a great deal more than that. They are purveyors of soulful, powerful, and deeply-moving music, with a ...

Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart So sorry, I never meant to break your heart A reader on Prog Archives named Peter summed the lyrics up of Misplaced Childhood nicely: “The excellent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Not a Lemony Snicket title, but it should be. Every once in a while, I get a press release that thoroughly rubs me the wrong way. Case in point: today’s invitation to an invite-only listening party ...

Marillion confirmed details of their new album An Hour Before It’s Dark, to be released via earMusic on March 4, 2022. The British prog veterans also launched lead track “Be Hard on Yourself,” which ...