List of progressive metal artists

List of progressive metal artists
The following is a list of progressive metal artists, bands and groups. This list contains some bands that at least at some point during their career played progressive metal. Rooted in the early 1980s, the genre fused mellow progressive rock with a heavy metal aesthetic. Characteristics may include complex song structures, unusual time signatures, lengthy songs and often using concept albums.
Later on, many extreme metal bands began to experiment and developed an array of progressive metal fusions with other genres, including death metal, black metal, thrash metal and avant-garde metal.
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3
10 Years
A
Adagio
Aeon Zen
After Forever
Agalloch
Age of Nemesis
Aghora
Akercocke
Aletheian
Alchemist
Alter Bridge
Amorphis
Amoral
Anacrusis
Angband
Angra
Animals as Leaders
Anubis Gate
Atheist
August Burns Red
Avenged Sevenfold
Ayreon
Azusa
B
Balance of Power
Baroness
Becoming the Archetype
Believer
Benevolent
Benea Reach
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond Twilight
Bigelf
Biomechanical
The Black Mages
Blind Illusion
Borknagar
Born of Osiris
Burst
C
Cacophony
Caligula's Horse
Candiria
Cattle Decapitation
Carbonized
Circus Maximus
CloudScape
Confessor
Communic
Coheed and Cambria
Conception
Coroner
Crimson Glory
Cronian
Cynic
D
Dark Suns
DBC
Death (later)
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Deus Invictus
Dir En Grey (later)
Distorted Harmony
Dog Fashion Disco
Dream Theater
Dysrhythmia
E
Echoes of Eternity
Edge of Sanity
Enchant
Enslaved
Epica
Evergrey
Extol
F
The Faceless
Fates Warning
Frameshift
G
Galactic Cowboys
Gojira
Grief of Emerald
H
Haken
I
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Isis
J
Jinjer
Job for a Cowboy
K
Kalijuge
Kamelot
Katatonia
Karnivool
Katagory V
Kekal
Khallice
King's X
L
Lance King
Leah
Leprous
Liquid Tension Experiment
Loathe
Lotus Eater
M
Manticora
Mastodon
Mekong Delta
Meshuggah
Moonsorrow
Mudvayne
Muse
Mutiny Within
Myrath
N
Narnia
Ne Obliviscaris
Necrophagist
Negură Bunget
Nerverek
Nevermore
Nodes of Ranvier
No Sin Evades His Gaze
O
Obliveon
Obscura
Oficina G3
Opeth
Orphaned Land
P
Pain of Salvation
Pathosray
Periphery
Persefone
Pestilence
Planet X
Platypus
Porcupine Tree
Primus
Prospect
Protest the Hero
Prototype
Proyecto Eskhata
Puya
Pyramaze
Q
Queensrÿche
Quo Vadis
R
Rage
Realm
Redemption
Rhapsody of Fire
Rivers of Nihil
Riverside
Royal Hunt
Rusty Eye
S
Savatage
Scale the Summit
Sculptured
Schaliach
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Gallery
Derek Sherinian
Sikth
Sky Architect
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Soen
Sons of Apollo
Spheric Universe Experience
Spiral Architect
Spock's Beard
Steelscape
Stolen Babies
Stratovarius
Symphony X
System of a Down
T
Tangerine Circus
Tesseract
The Contortionist
The Human Abstract
The Ocean
Therion
Threshold
Tiamat
Tool
Tourniquet
Toxicon
Trivium
Týr
U
Uriah Heep
V
Vanden Plas
Vardøger
Vektor
Vision Divine
Vildhjarta
Voivod
VOLA
Voyager
W
Waltari
Warmen
Watchtower
Winger
Without Face
X
Xysma
Z
Zero Hour
See also
Progressive metal
Progressive rock
Jazz fusion
List of heavy metal bands
References
Christe, Ian (2003). Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. HarperCollins.
^ The Harvard Crimson "Bassist Chris Wolstenholme pens and sings a pair of tracks late in the game, and while they are fine pieces of progressive metal, his admittedly pleasing smooth voice lacks Bellamy's intense vibrato"
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