Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal or prog) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression"...

progressive metal artists, bands and groups. This list contains some bands that at least at some point during their career played progressive metal....

is not tied exclusively to symphonic metal, but may appear in avant-garde metal, progressive metal and gothic metal. Many bands featuring operatic female...

many metal bands from the new wave of British heavy metal – most notably Iron Maiden – onwards displayed progressive rock influences. Progressive metal reached...

Avant-garde metal is influenced by progressive rock and extreme metal, particularly death metal, and is closely related to progressive metal. Some local...

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally...

Draconian, and Type O Negative. Progressive doom is a fusion genre that combines elements of progressive metal and doom metal. Notable bands include King...

British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk and the technicality of progressive music. Philosophically, thrash metal developed...

and vocal techniques. It evolved out of progressive rock, jazz fusion, and extreme metal, particularly death metal. Some local scenes include Los Angeles...

instrumental skill and complex songwriting. Technical and progressive experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely driven...

instrument. Post-metal is related to other experimental styles of metal: avant-garde metal, drone metal, progressive metal, and industrial metal. It has also...

and Cult of Luna helped to pioneer post-metal, while Baroness and Mastodon fused the genre with progressive metal, and Dystopia and Grief did so with crust...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

helped to raise the profile of progressive metal during the 1990s and 2000s Dungen Francis Dunnery and the New Progressives East of Eden Echolyn: Prog band...

technical and melodic, moving to a technical death metal, progressive metal, and melodic death metal style. Schuldiner's main influences as guitarist were...

Progressive metalcore (also called technical metalcore or ambient metalcore) is a fusion of progressive metal and metalcore characterized by highly technical...

umlaut. Queensrÿche – American progressive metal band. Rrröööaaarrr and Dimension Hatröss – albums by Canadian thrash metal band Voivod. They also used it...

Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal) is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music...

Blackwater Park is the fifth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on March 12, 2001, in Europe and a day later in North...

categorised under many different genres, including alternative metal, post-rock/metal, progressive metal, indie rock/pop, and djent. After self-releasing their...

death metal to progressive metal and everything in between." Sharpe-Young described bands such as Pantera, Biohazard and Machine Head as neo-metal, writing...

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts. The band comprises John Petrucci (guitar), John Myung (bass)...

variety of influences, crossing multiple metal subgenres with its roots in metalcore and progressive metal. Their music is currently released through...

than one different styles of heavy metal. Orphaned Land combines folk metal with progressive and doom/death metal. The band formed in 1991, also combining...

Christian metal, also known as white metal, Jesus metal, or heavenly metal, is heavy metal music distinguished by its Christian-themed song lyrics and...

sound has evolved over the 3 albums. Their debut album Ironshore is a progressive metal album, heavily featuring a very unusual electronic instrument called...

metal/Progressive metal) Glittertind (Black/Viking/Folk metal) Hades Almighty (Black/Doom metal) Helheim (Black/Viking metal) Immortal (Black metal)...

Pirate metal Pop metal Power metal Progressive metal Djent Sludge metal Speed metal Symphonic metal Thrash metal Crossover thrash Groove metal Afro-punk...

Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal, and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Cynic recorded a complex, unorthodox...

Images and Words is the second studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on July 7, 1992, through Atco Records. It is the...