UK
UK, the supergroup of John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth and Eddie Jobson.
Alan Parsons Project
Alan Parsons Project, the production and songwriting duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
Asia
Asia, the supergroup of John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Howe (Yes), Geoff Downes (Yes) and Carl Palmer (ELP).
Styx
Styx, the band behind “Come Sail Away” and one of the key American progressive rock and AOR bands of the 1970s.
Kansas
Kansas, the band behind “Carry On Wayward Son” and a benchmark of 1970s American progressive rock.
Barclay James Harvest
Barclay James Harvest, one of the classic British symphonic progressive rock bands of the 1970s.
Curved Air
Curved Air, the British band that combined progressive rock and electric violin, with Stewart Copeland (The Police) as a former drummer.
Soft Machine
Soft Machine, the founding band of the Canterbury scene and a pioneer of rock–jazz fusion in the United Kingdom.
Caravan
Caravan, one of the founding bands of the Canterbury scene.
Renaissance
Renaissance, the British band that fused progressive rock with classical arrangements and the voice of Annie Haslam.
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin’s band, which defined 1970s electric jazz fusion.
Haken
Haken, one of the reference bands of the most recent British progressive metal.
Ayreon
Ayreon, Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s conceptual progressive rock project, with dozens of guest singers on each album.
Meshuggah
Meshuggah, the creators of djent: extreme polyrhythms and eight-string guitars from Sweden.
Mastodon
Mastodon, the Atlanta band that took conceptual progressive metal to “Crack the Skye” and “Leviathan”.
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche, the authors of “Operation: Mindcrime”, one of the reference concept albums of progressive metal.
Symphony X
Symphony X, one of the reference bands of North American progressive metal since the nineties.
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta, the band of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, which emerged from the break-up of At the Drive-In.
Pineapple Thief
The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord’s project, with Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) on drums since 2016.
Riverside
Riverside, Mariusz Duda’s Polish band, which carried on after the death of its founding guitarist.
Änglagård
Änglagård, the Swedish band that revived seventies symphonic prog in the early nineties.
Ange
Ange, one of the reference bands of French progressive rock, led by Christian Décamps.
Gong
Gong, Daevid Allen’s band and its own mythology of “Planet Gong”, somewhere between Canterbury and krautrock.
Amon Düül II
Amon Düül II, one of the reference bands of krautrock, which emerged from an art collective in Munich.
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream, pioneers of electronic music and krautrock from Berlin.
Triana
Triana, the founding band of “Andalusian rock”, which fuses flamenco and progressive rock.
The Flower Kings
The Flower Kings, Roine Stolt’s Swedish band, one of the most prolific in neo-prog since the nineties.
Spock’s Beard
Spock’s Beard, a Los Angeles band founded in 1992 by brothers Neal and Alan Morse, led the revival of North American symphonic rock during the nineties.
Pendragon
Pendragon, one of the key bands of British neo-prog, led from the start by Nick Barrett.
IQ
IQ, one of the founding bands of eighties British neo-prog.
Focus
Focus, the Dutch band that turned an instrumental piece with yodelling, “Hocus Pocus”, into an international hit, and whose guitarist, Jan Akkerman, was voted best in the world ahead of Clapton and Hendrix.
Van der Graaf Generator
Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill’s band: with no permanent bassist, with two saxophones sounding at once, and more popular in Italy than in their own country for years.
PFM
PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi), the most important Italian progressive rock band and the first to break out of Italy: signed to the label of Emerson, Lake & Palmer themselves to try it in English.
Faust
Faust, perhaps the most experimental band in krautrock: a farmhouse turned into a studio, tape techniques borrowed from musique concrète and an album that Virgin sold at the price of a single to make them known.
Can
Can, one of the bands that defined krautrock: two students of Stockhausen, a drummer of near-mechanical precision and a Japanese singer recruited while singing in the street in Munich on the very day he made his debut.
Magma
Magma, the band Christian Vander built around an invented language and a science-fiction mythology of its own, and which ended up giving its name to a whole genre: zeuhl.
Tool
Tool, the most hermetic band in progressive metal: thirteen years between albums, structures inspired by the Fibonacci sequence and a public image that avoids almost any exposure.
Opeth
Opeth, from the death metal with acoustic passages of “Blackwater Park” to the total turn towards seventies progressive rock beginning with “Heritage”: Mikael Åkerfeldt has never stopped changing the band’s sound.
Dream Theater
Dream Theater, the band that took progressive-metal technique to the extreme at the Berklee College of Music, with an unexpected radio hit, “Pull Me Under”, and a drummer’s exit and return that marked two decades of the band.
Marillion
Marillion, the band that revived British progressive rock with Fish in the eighties and that, with Steve Hogarth, ended up inventing the direct fan funding later popularised by Kickstarter.