Caravan
Caravan, one of the founding bands of the Canterbury scene.
Bands
Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.
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.
Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant, perhaps the most musically demanding band of all seventies progressive rock: polyrhythms, medieval influences and musicians who swapped instruments live, not just in the studio.
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson’s fictitious project that ended up becoming a real band: from the home-recorded psychedelic rock of the nineties to the progressive metal of “Fear of a Blank Planet”.
Camel
Camel, the most melodic and least lyric-laden prog of the seventies: the instrumental album “The Snow Goose” even took them to court, over the author of the novel that had inspired it.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the supergroup that took adapted classical music and stadium spectacle to the limit of progressive rock, until their own stage production ended up ruining them.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson’s band and his flute played on one leg: from British blues to the mock concept album “Thick as a Brick” and a Grammy still remembered as one of the strangest in history.
Rush
Rush, the Toronto trio that never changed its lineup for more than forty years: from the epic of “2112” to the success of “Tom Sawyer”, to the retirement forced by Neil Peart’s health.
Yes
Yes, the band that took the instrumental virtuosity of progressive rock to its limit with “Close to the Edge” and that, ten years later, returned to the top of the charts with “Owner of a Lonely Heart”.
Genesis
Genesis, from Peter Gabriel’s progressive theatricality to Phil Collins’s stadium pop: how one of the most ambitious bands of the seventies ended up becoming one of the best-selling of the eighties.