IQ

Label: GEP RecordsRelease date: March 28, 2025Production: Michael HolmesAlbum length: 53.08 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 IQ, the champions of the British neo-prog rock movement, are back with a new studio album called…

Label: Giant Electric PeaRelease date: November 2000Production: Michael HolmesAlbum length: 56.49 minGenre: Neo-Progressive RockRating: 10/10 With "The Seventh House", the cult English neo-prog legends IQ cemented their reputation as…

Self-releasedRelease date: July 21, 2020Production: IQAlbum length: 133.58 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 »A Show of Resistance« is the latest live album from the cult English neo-prog heroes IQ, whose loyal fans have…

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With "Resistance," IQ have made another masterpiece and a leading contender for the best progressive rock album of 2019.

With the double-album masterpiece »Subterranea«, IQ created one of the high points of their turbulent career and, at the same time, one of the key concept albums of neo-progressive rock.

On »Ever« IQ revived their winning symphonic prog rock formula, gave their sound a fitting modern polish and came up with some seriously thrilling pieces, mostly bursting with melodrama, so it's no surprise this is one of the…

IQ's various, mostly unsuccessful attempts to morph into a hybrid prog pop rock band, which peaked on "Are You Sitting Comfortably?", were thankfully short-lived and ended with Menel's (expected and welcome) departure.

With »Nomzamo«, a hybrid of symphonic prog and new wave, IQ pulled off a fun but somewhat controversial sonic mutation that didn't pay off for them in the long run, while the album predictably tanked commercially.

»The Wake« is certainly not the best album in IQ's history, but it still marks the peak of their early period (the eighties) and their step up to the next level of maturity as songwriters and arrangers.

»Tales from the Lush Attic« is a neo-prog classic, despite some rookie songwriting slip-ups and the rather limp production that marks the original version of the album.

"The Road of Bones" has everything IQ fans have been patiently waiting for over the last five years, so their excitement will know no bounds once they realize the neoprog masters have finally delivered a new studio masterpiece after all…

Despite reworking a tried-and-tested recipe, "Frequency" is another excellent album, one where longtime IQ fans will find plenty to be happy about.

In the late nineties, IQ were incredibly busy. Besides studio albums, they were also putting out DVDs, live albums and re-recordings of old albums. And with all those projects on the go, in 1999 they still found the time to put out The L

Location: Reigen / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: November 24, 2007Attendance: 130Ticket price: 20.00€ IQ are a legendary neo-prog band from England who started out in the early eighties and rank among the best in their genre. Even…

You don't just let a chance to see IQ slip by. As a huge fan of this legendary neo-prog outfit, I simply didn't want to miss a show happening so close to our border. The trip to Vienna meant more than just seeing a conc

After the peak of their career (the double concept album Subterranea), IQ could easily have fallen into a creative slump. They might have ended up trying to repeat what they'd pulled off on Subterranea. Luckily, IQ were at the height of…

Before IQ released their first official studio album, they recorded a demo tape called Seven Stories Into Eight. It's a historic recording that shows a band in development, still looking for its true style. More than fifteen years later

Compared with its predecessor "The Seventh House" (2000), "Dark Matter" once again leads the way in its usual helping of mellotron and church-sounding keyboards (organ), while the sheer variety of motifs it captures makes it more of an…