The Nice
The Nice, Keith Emerson’s band before Emerson, Lake & Palmer and a pioneer in fusing rock and classical music.
Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.
The Nice, Keith Emerson’s band before Emerson, Lake & Palmer and a pioneer in fusing rock and classical music.
Procol Harum, the authors of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” and pioneers in bringing classical music to rock.
The Aristocrats, the instrumental fusion trio of Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann.
TesseracT, one of the founding and leading bands of the British djent scene.
Animals as Leaders, Tosin Abasi’s instrumental trio and one of the founding bands of the djent scene.
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, one of the key American progressive metal and mathcore bands of the 21st century.
Death, Chuck Schuldiner’s band, regarded as the founder of death metal, with a second, progressive phase from “Human” onwards.
Atheist, one of the founding bands of progressive death metal, pioneers in blending jazz fusion into it.
Cynic, the pioneers of progressive death metal, known for fusing robotic vocals and jazz-fusion technique on “Focus”.
Watchtower, the Texan pioneers of progressive thrash, with Jason McMaster (Dangerous Toys) on vocals.
Psychotic Waltz, one of the cult bands of American progressive metal in the 1990s.
Fates Warning, one of the pioneering American progressive metal bands of the 1980s.
Anathema, the Liverpool band that evolved from doom metal towards atmospheric progressive rock.
Katatonia, the Swedish band that evolved from doom-death towards a dark, melancholic progressive rock.
Pain of Salvation, the Swedish band of Daniel Gildenlöw, a leading name in conceptual progressive metal.
Gazpacho, the Norwegian band of dark atmospheres straddling progressive rock and post-rock.
Beardfish, the Swedish band of Rikard Sjöblom (now in Big Big Train), reunited since 2023.
Anekdoten, the Swedish band that revived the Mellotron sound of King Crimson from the 1980s onwards.
White Willow, the Norwegian symphonic retro-prog band with touches of folk and gothic.
Wobbler, the Norwegian band reviving the symphonic prog of the 1970s with Mellotron and Hammond organ.
Frost*, Jem Godfrey’s British band, which combines neo-prog with electronic pop.
Big Big Train, one of the leading bands of contemporary British neo-prog.
Flying Colors, the supergroup of Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Steve Morse and Casey McPherson.
Transatlantic, the supergroup of Neal Morse, Roine Stolt, Mike Portnoy and Pete Trewavas.
Liquid Tension Experiment, the instrumental supergroup featuring three-quarters of Dream Theater and Tony Levin.
Snarky Puppy, the jazz-fusion collective led by Michael League, winner of several Grammys.
Allan Holdsworth, a leading guitarist of jazz fusion and progressive rock, admired by Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Return to Forever, the band of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, a benchmark of 1970s jazz fusion.
Weather Report, the band of Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, one of the pillars of 1970s jazz fusion.
Brand X, the jazz-fusion band in which Phil Collins played drums while he was a member of Genesis.
Bruford, the solo band of drummer Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson) with Allan Holdsworth on guitar.
UK, the supergroup of John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth and Eddie Jobson.
Alan Parsons Project, the production and songwriting duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
Asia, the supergroup of John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Howe (Yes), Geoff Downes (Yes) and Carl Palmer (ELP).
Styx, the band behind “Come Sail Away” and one of the key American progressive rock and AOR bands of the 1970s.
Kansas, the band behind “Carry On Wayward Son” and a benchmark of 1970s American progressive rock.
Barclay James Harvest, one of the classic British symphonic progressive rock bands of the 1970s.
Curved Air, the British band that combined progressive rock and electric violin, with Stewart Copeland (The Police) as a former drummer.
Soft Machine, the founding band of the Canterbury scene and a pioneer of rock–jazz fusion in the United Kingdom.
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