A general thread for those who wish to expand within the progressive genre. Click on a artist to hear one of their recommend songs. All forms of prog are welcome and please specify this if possible, ie. Prog Metal, Space Rock, New Prog, ect ect.. I got the idea from the Metal thread that already exists.

The definition of progressive rock: "Progressive rock (often shortened to prog or prog rock) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." Progressive rock bands pushed "rock's technical and compositional boundaries" by going beyond the standard rock or popular verse-chorus-based song structures. Additionally, the arrangements often incorporated elements drawn from classical, jazz, and world music. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy."-Source (more here)

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click on the desired band to hear a sample of their music. If you find any broken links please be quick to report them here.

Some Progressive bands i'm already into:
UPDATED: May 13th, 2011

Porcupine Tree (Psychedelic rock, Progressive metal, Progressive rock)
Oceansize (New Prog, Post-rock, Space rock)
Amplifier (Alternative rock, New prog, Progressive rock, Space Rock)
Steven Wilson (Progressive rock, Progressive metal, Psychedelic rock, Art rock)
Tool (Alternative metal, Art rock, Progressive metal, Progressive rock)
Muse (Alternative rock, Progressive rock, New prog)
Pure Reason Revolution (Progressive rock, Alternative rock, New prog, Electronic)
Pink Floyd (Progressive rock, psychedelic rock)
The Mars Volta (Progressive rock, Experimental rock, Neo-psychedelia)
SikTh (Progressive metal, Avant-garde Metal, Mathcore)
Isis (Post-metal, progressive metal, sludge metal, avant-garde metal)
queensryche (Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal)
The Gathering (Progressive rock, Progressive metal, alternative rock, trip rock)

Other bands suggested here in this thread sofar:
UPDATED: May 13th, 2011

Opeth (Progressive death metal, progressive rock)
Pineapple Thief (Progressive rock, Indie rock, Alternative Rock)
Gentle Giant (Progressive rock, symphonic rock, experimental rock, hard rock)
Beardfish (Progressive rock)
Rush (Hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal)
Ozric Tentacles (Psychedelic rock, Space rock, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion)
Kamelot (Power metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal)
King Crimson (Progressive rock, jazz fusion, experimental rock)
Mansun (Neo-progressive, Rock)
Mew (Alternative rock, Indie rock, Shoegazing, New prog)
The Fall Of Troy (Progressive rock, Experimental rock, Mathcore, Post-hardcore)
Yes (Progressive rock, symphonic rock, art rock, pop rock)
Deadmau5 (Progressive House, Electro House, Trance, Techno)
Riverside (Progressive rock, Progressive metal)
Dream Theater (Progressive metal, progressive rock)
Ashes Divide (Alternative rock,Hard rock,Progressive rock)
Van der Graaf Generator (Progressive rock)
Cog (Progressive rock, alternative rock)
Kingston Wall (Psychedelic, Progressive rock, Acid rock)
Frost* (Neo-progressive rock)
Quidam (Progressive rock)
Demians (Progressive Rock)
Marillion (Progressive rock, Neo-progressive rock, Art rock)
Rishloo (Alternative, Progressive, Visual)
OSI (Progressive rock, industrial rock, electro rock, post-metal, avant-garde metal)
Between the Buried and Me (Metalcore, progressive metal, death metal)
Genesis (Rock, progressive rock, pop rock)
Supertramp (Rock, pop rock, progressive rock)
Jethro Tull (Hard rock, folk rock, progressive rock, blues-rock)
Family (Rock, Progressive rock, hard rock)
Colosseum (Progressive jazz-rock)
Camel (Progressive rock, Symphonic rock, Canterbury scene, Space rock)
Maudlin of the Well (Avant-garde metal, Progressive metal)
Magic Pie (Progressive Rock)
Animals as Leaders (Progressive Metal)
Pain of Salvation (Progressive Metal)
Peter Gabriel (Progressive rock, experimental rock, pop rock, art rock, world music)
Mastodon (Progressive metal, Sludge metal)
Threshold (Progressive metal)
Anathema (Death/doom, Gothic metal, Alternative rock, Atmospheric rock, Progressive rock)
The Cooper Temple Clause (Alternative rock, New prog)
Ayreon (Progressive metal, Progressive rock, Space rock, Symphonic metal, folk metal)
Gazpacho (Art rock/Progressive rock)
Indukti (progressive metal)
Sylvan (neo prog)
Nosound (Italian prog)
Focus (Rock, Progressive rock)
Meshuggah (avant-garde metal, math rock, progressive metal)
The Ocean (Post-metal, Progressive metal, Sludge metal, Experimental music)
Transatlantic (Progressive Rock)
Discus (Prog/Rock Jazz Fusion)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Progressive Rock)
Spock's Beard (Progressive rock, Progressive metal)
Spastic Ink (Progressive metal, technical metal, instrumental music)
Arena (Progressive Rock)
Phideaux (psychedelic progressive gothic rock)
Karnivool (Progressive rock, Progressive metal, Alternative Rock)
Symphony X (Progressive metal, Power Metal, Neo-classical Metal)
Elbow (Britpop, new prog, Electronica, post-rock, Dream pop)
Battles (Experimental rock, Math rock, Post-rock, Progressive rock)
Ephrat (Progressve Rock)
Protest The Hero (Progressive Metal, Mathcore)
BARONESS (Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal)
The Secret Machines (New Prog, Space Rock, Alternative Rock)
The Alan Parsons Project (Art Rock, Progressive rock, soft rock, pop rock)
Dredg (Alternative rock, Progressive rock, Art rock, Experimental rock)
The Samuel Jackson Five (Post Rock, Folk, Progressive Rock Influences)
Mahavishnu Orchestra (Jazz Fusion, Prog)
Neurosis (Sludge metal, Post-metal, Progressive Influences)
Aphrodite's Child (Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock)
Aereogramme (Alternative rock, post rock, Progressive Rock)
Logh (Art rock, Electro rock, Post rock)
Rosetta (Sludge, Post Metal, Progressive Metal)
Rolo Tomassi (Punk jazz, Art punk, Experimental rock, Mathcore)
Periphery (Progressive metal, Experimental metal, Groove metal, Industrial metal)
Dead Letter Circus (Alternative rock, progressive rock)
Battle Circus (Progressive rock, Psychedelic, Dark Cabaret)
Intronaut (Post-metal, Progressive metal, Experimental metal)
Fruupp (Progressive Rock)
Kylesa (Sludge Metal, Progressive Metal)
Shining (Avant-garde metal, industrial metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Sinew (Alternative Metal, Post Metal, Progressive Metal)
Seventh Wonder (Progressive metal, Power metal)
Big Big Train (Progressive rock, post-rock, new prog)
The Orb - Metallic Spheres (Ambient, Progressive Rock)
The Dear Hunter (Indie rock, progressive rock. ambient, experimental rock)



The ML Progressive Playlist on Spotify [courtesy of DorDor]

ATPR - Post Rock/Prog community forum [courtesy of Max Kirby]

The Weekly Prog Top 5 See what other people a listening to now.


Please, discuss.

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I love all those bands mentioned except for Tool, I haven't heard a lot from them.

Opeth are supposed to be pretty good.
Pure Reason Revolution are awesome, kinda similar to Oceansize and PT in a way, although their latest album is very electro rock.
Pink Floyd... no explanation needed
Pineapple Thief, they're ok.

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i would't call muse prog rock, no more. maybe prog pop... the same applies to dredg, who released a disappointing poppy album, yesterday.

i think progressive means something partly new in a music. playing with rhythms, with instruments, with sounds, with electronics.

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yay prog!!!
Luuuurve it. Currently addicted to 60s-70s prog. Mostly to Yes.

I'd recommend:
- Gentle Giant
- Beardfish
Both very unknown but awesome.

and obviously

- Pink Floyd
- Pure Reason Revolution (seriously)
- Tool
- Opeth

Muse are not prog in my opinion. At all!

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Rush? Anyone? Rush are awesome.

And Oceansize are progressive death indie, anyway :P Or so they say

PRR, PT, Oceansize, Pink Floyd, Rush are my favourites.

I'm slowly getting into prog (thankyou Iddy ) and so far, me luffs Pure Reason Revolution, and I'm slowly getting into Porcupine Tree.

I love all those bands listed. Oceansize...I've listened to them but not really delved into them so I will have to put them on my list to explore.

Only a fool doesnt consider the possibility that hes a fool.

Im not insensitive, I just dont care.

Can't believe I forgot to add Pink Floyd (I grew up listening to them). Also, I do listen to some Pure Reason Revolution. Their good, but I'm not entirely fond of them. Also, I agree that Muse don't fit into your traditional prog category, but I'm going by what their Wikipedia page says.

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i would't call muse prog rock, no more. maybe prog pop... the same applies to dredg, who released a disappointing poppy album, yesterday.

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I know a lot of people at least consider Absolution to be very Progressive-y.

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Obligatory concert listing:
Muse at the United Center in Chicago (twice!) and the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, and Lollapalooza!

Well if you read what the definition of progressive rock actually is, I can totally see muse being classified as prog, but yes they are very alternative rock aswell.

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I love all those bands listed. Oceansize...I've listened to them but not really delved into them so I will have to put them on my list to explore.

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You'll love them, each of their three albums have something different that's special about them... Awesome band.

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The Dark Third.

^ They only have two albums so get both if you can. The first one (The Dark Third) is more progressive, the latest is more electronic (called Amor Vincit Omnia) but I love both.


Nobody mentions The Mars Volta??? they're fantastic, I can't get enough of them... and the new songs sound great.

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Obligatory concert listing:
Muse at the United Center in Chicago (twice!) and the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, and Lollapalooza!

ah yes, The Mars Volta, forgot about them and I do listen so edited my first post.

You keep me listening to The Bends

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Mew and The Fall Of Troy are considered to be "new-prog" too.

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^ They only have two albums so get both if you can. The first one (The Dark Third) is more progressive, the latest is more electronic (called Amor Vincit Omnia) but I love both.

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I concur.

Only a fool doesnt consider the possibility that hes a fool.

Im not insensitive, I just dont care.

I like quite a few Prog bands, but my personal favourite ones are usually off-shoots of prog. Six by Mansun (sort of a nu-progressive, or progressive britpop album, if you will) is my favourite Prog album, and I thoroughly recommend it to all. It's like 50 pop tunes in 13 tracks. Fantastic.

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would progressive dance music count in this thread? its amazing stuff and it is Prog...

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i think has become too predictable to be really progressive, though. to me, progressive is something else than anything that existed before. i absolutely understand when someone has a different view in which progressive is more something like a genre (in which i'd count muse in, then).

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king Crimson, court of the crimson king!!! and i love pink floyd too. have to check out porcupine tree when i have time.

volta are great when your in the mood for their long crazy stuff

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I'm into progressive style music.

Anyone heard of KAMELOT?

they're pretty prog

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Ozric Tentacles anybody?

Theyre like psychedelic/space prog

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