Univers Zero
Univers Zero, the Belgian band that founded the Rock in Opposition movement, playing dark, dissonant chamber rock.
Henry Cow
Henry Cow, the founding band of the Rock in Opposition movement and a reference point of the most experimental progressive rock.
Matching Mole
Matching Mole, the band Robert Wyatt founded right after leaving Soft Machine.
Egg
Egg, Dave Stewart’s organ trio and one of the most cerebral bands of the Canterbury scene.
Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North, one of the key bands of the second wave of the Canterbury scene.
Gryphon
Gryphon, the British band that fused medieval instruments with progressive rock.
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep, one of the founding bands of British progressive hard rock in the seventies.
Family
Family, the British band with Roger Chapman’s vibrant voice and a reference point of late-sixties progressive rock.
The Nice
The Nice, Keith Emerson’s band before Emerson, Lake & Palmer and a pioneer in fusing rock and classical music.
Procol Harum
Procol Harum, the authors of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” and pioneers in bringing classical music to rock.
The Aristocrats
The Aristocrats, the instrumental fusion trio of Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann.
TesseracT
TesseracT, one of the founding and leading bands of the British djent scene.
Animals as Leaders
Animals as Leaders, Tosin Abasi’s instrumental trio and one of the founding bands of the djent scene.
Leprous
Leprous, the Norwegian band that grew in the shadow of Ihsahn (Emperor) to become one of the big names in today’s progressive metal.
Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me, one of the key American progressive metal and mathcore bands of the 21st century.
Death
Death, Chuck Schuldiner’s band, regarded as the founder of death metal, with a second, progressive phase from “Human” onwards.
Atheist
Atheist, one of the founding bands of progressive death metal, pioneers in blending jazz fusion into it.
Cynic
Cynic, the pioneers of progressive death metal, known for fusing robotic vocals and jazz-fusion technique on “Focus”.
Watchtower
Watchtower, the Texan pioneers of progressive thrash, with Jason McMaster (Dangerous Toys) on vocals.
Psychotic Waltz
Psychotic Waltz, one of the cult bands of American progressive metal in the 1990s.
Fates Warning
Fates Warning, one of the pioneering American progressive metal bands of the 1980s.
Anathema
Anathema, the Liverpool band that evolved from doom metal towards atmospheric progressive rock.
Katatonia
Katatonia, the Swedish band that evolved from doom-death towards a dark, melancholic progressive rock.
Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation, the Swedish band of Daniel Gildenlöw, a leading name in conceptual progressive metal.
Gazpacho
Gazpacho, the Norwegian band of dark atmospheres straddling progressive rock and post-rock.
Beardfish
Beardfish, the Swedish band of Rikard Sjöblom (now in Big Big Train), reunited since 2023.
Anekdoten
Anekdoten, the Swedish band that revived the Mellotron sound of King Crimson from the 1980s onwards.
White Willow
White Willow, the Norwegian symphonic retro-prog band with touches of folk and gothic.
Wobbler
Wobbler, the Norwegian band reviving the symphonic prog of the 1970s with Mellotron and Hammond organ.
Frost*
Frost*, Jem Godfrey’s British band, which combines neo-prog with electronic pop.
Big Big Train
Big Big Train, one of the leading bands of contemporary British neo-prog.
Flying Colors
Flying Colors, the supergroup of Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Steve Morse and Casey McPherson.
Transatlantic
Transatlantic, the supergroup of Neal Morse, Roine Stolt, Mike Portnoy and Pete Trewavas.
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment, the instrumental supergroup featuring three-quarters of Dream Theater and Tony Levin.
Snarky Puppy
Snarky Puppy, the jazz-fusion collective led by Michael League, winner of several Grammys.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth, a leading guitarist of jazz fusion and progressive rock, admired by Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Return to Forever
Return to Forever, the band of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, a benchmark of 1970s jazz fusion.
Weather Report
Weather Report, the band of Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, one of the pillars of 1970s jazz fusion.
Brand X
Brand X, the jazz-fusion band in which Phil Collins played drums while he was a member of Genesis.
Bruford
Bruford, the solo band of drummer Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson) with Allan Holdsworth on guitar.