A recent post on Reddit asking for dark or scary prog suggestions got me thinking. A selection of ProgBlog's collection of Dark Prog around a photo of L'Ombra della Sera, live in Genoa I wasn’t aware of the sub-genre ‘dark prog’ until I got chatting to the proprietors of Genoa’s Black Widow Records shop. The shop itself is named after the original purveyors of dark prog, the UK’s Black Widow, a favourite of Massimo Gasperini. Black Widow’s debut Sacrifice from 1970 is conside

In mid-May I was in Dublin to see Steve Hackett and while I was there I indulged in some retail therapy. Tower Records in Wicklow Street...