Bands

Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.

Spiral Architect

Spiral Architect, the Norwegian technical progressive metal band with a single cult studio album.

Shadow Gallery

Shadow Gallery, one of the cult bands of 1990s American progressive metal.

Vanden Plas

Vanden Plas, one of the pioneering German progressive metal bands of the 1990s.

Seventh Wonder

Seventh Wonder, the Swedish progressive metal band with Mattias Olofsson on vocals since 2026, following Tommy Karevik (Kamelot).

Evergrey

Evergrey, one of the leading Swedish progressive metal bands, led by Tom S. Englund.

Circus Maximus

Circus Maximus, the Norwegian technical progressive metal band with the voice of Michael Eriksen.

Redemption

Redemption, the American progressive metal band with Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) on vocals.

Shadowfax

Shadowfax, the American jazz-fusion band with the lyricon as its signature instrument.

Steely Dan

Steely Dan, the duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker that brought the harmonic sophistication of jazz to studio-produced rock.

Passport

Passport, the jazz-fusion project of German saxophonist Klaus Doldinger, also known for the soundtrack of “Das Boot”.

Nucleus

Nucleus, Ian Carr’s British band and one of the pioneers of the fusion of jazz and rock in England.

Colosseum

Colosseum, the British band that pioneered the fusion of jazz and rock in the late sixties.

Billy Cobham

Billy Cobham, the drummer of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and one of the fundamental names of solo jazz-fusion.

Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group, one of the most awarded jazz-fusion projects in history, with Lyle Mays on keyboards.

Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty, the French violinist who brought his instrument to the centre of electric jazz-fusion.

Shakti

Shakti, John McLaughlin’s Indo-jazz fusion band and one of the most influential fusion projects of the seventies.

Novalis

Novalis, one of the key bands of German-language symphonic progressive rock in the seventies.

Eloy

Eloy, one of the pioneering bands of progressive rock and German “kosmische Musik”.

Sylvan

Sylvan, one of the key bands of contemporary German neo-prog, with recurring concept albums.

RPWL

RPWL, one of the leading German neo-prog bands, with clear Pink Floyd influences.

Discipline

Discipline, the American dark progressive rock band led by Matthew Parmenter.

Glass Hammer

Glass Hammer, the American band of epic fantasy and symphonic rock since the nineties.

Echolyn

echolyn, one of the key bands of American progressive rock in the nineties.

Galahad

Galahad, the British neo-prog band led since the eighties by Stuart Nicholson.

Landmarq

Landmarq, the British neo-prog band with the voice of Tracy Hitchings.

Jadis

Jadis, the British neo-prog band in which Martin Orford (IQ) and John Jowitt (IQ) crossed paths before and during their other bands.

Threshold

Threshold, one of the pioneering bands of British progressive metal in the nineties.

Arena

Arena, the British neo-prog band of Clive Nolan (Pendragon) and Marillion’s original drummer, Mick Pointer.

The Tangent

The Tangent, Andy Tillison’s project with a broad cast of musicians from the European neo-prog scene.

Karmakanic

Karmakanic, Jonas Reingold’s project (The Flower Kings, Steve Hackett) with a rotating cast of prog musicians.

Kaipa

Kaipa, Roine Stolt’s first band (The Flower Kings) and a pioneer of Swedish progressive rock in the seventies.

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.

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.

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