The Wilde Flowers
The Wilde Flowers, a Canterbury band formed in 1964, never released an album in their lifetime, but their members went on to found Soft Machine and Caravan, the direct origin of the so-called Canterbury scene.
Bands
Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.
Wheel
Wheel, a Helsinki band formed in 2015 around guitarist and singer James Lascelles, has released three progressive metal albums between 2019 and 2024.
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson, leader of Porcupine Tree, has maintained a solo career of his own since 2008 with eight studio albums released and a ninth, Requiem for a Village, due on 6 November 2026.
Spiritbox
Spiritbox, a Canadian group founded in 2017 by Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer (ex-iwrestledabearonce), fuses metalcore with electronic and progressive elements.
Jinjer
Jinjer, a Ukrainian band formed in 2008 in Donetsk, combines progressive metalcore with the vocals of Tatiana Shmayluk; five studio albums released between 2014 and 2025.
Oceans of Slumber
Oceans of Slumber, a Houston band formed in 2011, fuses progressive rock with death and doom metal; six studio albums released between 2013 and 2024.
Klone
Klone, a Poitiers group formed in 1999 (previously called Sowat), fuses progressive metal with psychedelic and electronic textures across eight studio albums.
Twelve Foot Ninja
Twelve Foot Ninja, a Melbourne group formed in 2007, blend metal, funk and reggae; they disbanded in 2024 and re-formed in 2025.
Lonely Robot
Lonely Robot is the solo concept project of English guitarist and singer John Mitchell (It Bites, Arena, Kino, Frost*), with six albums released between 2015 and 2026.
Agent Fresco
Agent Fresco, a Reykjavík quartet founded in 2008, combines progressive rock, math rock and art rock; their most recent album is Destrier (2015).
Soen
Soen, a Swedish progressive metal band founded in 2010 by drummer Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth), with seven studio albums released between 2012 and 2026.
3rDegree
Formed in 1990 in New Jersey, 3rDegree combines progressive rock with pop hooks and satirical lyrics; they re-formed in 2005 after eight years of dissolution.
Rocket Scientists
Rocket Scientists, a Los Angeles project led by keyboardist Erik Norlander and singer Mark McCrite since the late eighties, combines symphonic progressive rock with a West Coast influence.
Salem Hill
Salem Hill, a Nashville band formed in 1991, has kept up melodic progressive rock for three decades, with Southern roots and vocals shared among several members.
Fireballet
Fireballet, a North Jersey band born in 1971, released “Night on Bald Mountain” in 1975, produced by Ian McDonald (King Crimson), before disbanding the following year.
IZZ
IZZ, a New York band formed in 1996 by brothers Tom and John Galgano, updates the legacy of Genesis, Yes and ELP with pop hooks and self-produced records.
Djam Karet
Djam Karet, an instrumental quartet from Topanga (California) founded in 1984, combines progressive rock, drone and improvisation in an extensive discography that has continued since the eighties.
Happy the Man
Happy the Man, a Virginia band founded in 1973 at James Madison University, fused British progressive rock with Canterbury-rooted jazz-rock on two albums for Arista.
Starcastle
Starcastle, a band from Champaign (Illinois) founded in 1973, is one of the closest American answers to the symphonic sound of Yes, with six musicians and twin guitars.
Yezda Urfa
Yezda Urfa, a Chicago band founded in 1973, combined the influence of Yes and Gentle Giant; their only album, “Sacred Baboon”, recorded in 1976, was not released until 1989.
Burnin’ Red Ivanhoe
Burnin’ Red Ivanhoe, from Copenhagen, began in 1967 to fuse avant-garde jazz improvisation with the electric rock of the late 1960s, and are the foundational group of Danish progressive rock.
Kingston Wall
Kingston Wall, from Helsinki, fused psychedelic and progressive rock with Eastern mysticism in only three albums (1992–1994) before disbanding and the death of leader Petri Walli in 1995.
Tasavallan Presidentti
Tasavallan Presidentti, from Helsinki, were one of the first and most influential progressive rock groups in Finland, with a strong jazz-rock imprint thanks to guitarist Jukka Tolonen.
Wigwam
Wigwam, from Helsinki, are one of the foundational groups of Finnish progressive rock since 1968; Being (1974) is considered their central album.
Älgarnas Trädgård
Älgarnas Trädgård, from Gothenburg, explored the studio as an instrument on a single 1972 album blending psychedelia, progressive and medieval Scandinavian folk.
Samla Mammas Manna
Samla Mammas Manna, from Uppsala, fused progressive rock, Swedish folk and jazz with circus-like humour; instigators of the Rock in Opposition movement, they disbanded in 2008 with the death of Lars Hollmer.
Trettioåriga Kriget
Trettioåriga Kriget, from the Stockholm area, sing entirely in Swedish and have combined hard rock riffs with progressive structures and Mellotron since 1970.
Panzerpappa
Panzerpappa, from Oslo, play instrumental progressive rock rooted in RIO with a humorous tone, in the vein of Samla Mammas Manna or Henry Cow.
Tusmørke
Tusmørke, from Skien, blend progressive rock, Nordic folk and psychedelia with an imagery drawn from local mythology; they began in 1994 as Les Fleurs du Mal and were renamed in 2009.
Arabs in Aspic
Arabs in Aspic, born in Trondheim in 1997 as a Black Sabbath cover band, evolved into a 1970s-rooted progressive rock marked by the Hammond organ.
Motorpsycho
Motorpsycho, formed in Trondheim in 1989, is one of the most prolific progressive rock groups in Scandinavia, with more than twenty studio albums spanning psychedelic rock, heavy and progressive.
Philharmonie
Philharmonie, a guitar trio (a quartet since 1993) formed in 1988 by guitarist Frédéric L’Épée, formerly of Shylock, with a sound indebted to King Crimson, disbanded in 1997.
Minimum Vital
Minimum Vital, a progressive rock band formed in 1982 in Bègles, near Bordeaux, by twins Jean-Luc and Thierry Payssan, who combine 1970s progressive rock with medieval and baroque music.
Nemo
Nemo, a progressive rock band formed in 1999 in Le Puy-en-Velay by Jean-Pierre Louveton, Guillaume Fontaine and Pascal Bertrand, initially influenced by Genesis and Ange.
Lazuli
Lazuli, a progressive rock band from the south of France formed in 1998 by brothers Dominique and Claude Leonetti, known for singing in French and for using the léode, a stringed instrument invented by Claude Leonetti.
Zao
Zao, a jazz-rock and zeuhl band founded in Paris in 1972 by former Magma members Yochk’o Seffer and François “Faton” Cahen, with violinist Didier Lockwood in the ranks in 1976, disbanded in 2012, after Cahen’s death.
Dün
Dün, a zeuhl band from Nantes formed in 1976, known for a single album, Eros (1981), conceived as a free adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune.
Potemkine
Potemkine, a jazz-rock band with zeuhl influence formed in Toulouse in 1971 by the Goubin brothers, released three albums between 1976 and 1978 before the death of its leader, Charles Goubin, in 1979.
Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath, a French avant-garde band formed in 1982 by bassist Alain Ballaud, with a name taken from Lovecraft’s mythology, disbanded upon his death in 1995.
Eskaton
Eskaton, a zeuhl band formed in Paris in 1970, one of the first groups of the genre outside Magma’s direct orbit, disbanded in 1985 and re-formed in 2011.