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Rush helped influence many progressive metal bands.

The following is a list of progressive metal artists, bands and groups. Note, this list contains some bands that at least at some point during their career played progressive metal. Rooted in the early 1980s, the genre fused mellow progressive rock with a heavy metal aesthetic.[1] It is known for its complex song structures, unusual time signatures, lengthy songs and often using concept albums.[2] For these very reasons, progressive metal bands rarely get heard on major radio stations and videomusic channels. Some bands incorporate jazz fusion to their works, and is often termed technical metal.[3]

Formed in 1981, Queensrÿche are one of the bands that helped popularize the genre.

Later on, many extreme metal bands began to experiment and developed an array of progressive metal fusions with other genres, including death metal, black metal, thrash metal and avant-garde.[3] It also received a lot of experimentation and became common elements in post-metal and sludge metal bands.[4]

Some notable progressive metal bands include Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X and more extreme acts such as Opeth, Atheist and Voivod.

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Progressive metal". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  2. ^ Bowar, Chad. "More Metal Genres". About.com. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  3. ^ a b "Tech/Extreme Progressive Metal". progarchives.com. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  4. ^ "Experimental/Post-Metal". progarchives.com. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  5. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for 3". Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "ProgArchives Experimental/Post Metal section". Retrieved 2007-12-24. ProgArchives section for non-traditional prog metal. The section was diverged from the old Progressive Metal section.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu "ProgArchives Progressive Metal section". Retrieved 2007-12-24. ProgArchives is a website dedicated to progressive music and evaluates artists on their progressive tendencies before listing them.
  8. ^ "Allmusic Agalloch Overview". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc "ProgArchives Tech/Extreme Prog Metal section". Retrieved 2007-12-31. ProgArchives section for extreme metal bands. The section was diverged from the old Progressive Metal section.
  10. ^ "AllMusicGuide Akercocke overview". Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  11. ^ "AllMusicGuide review for the album Dying Vine by Aletheian". Retrieved 2008-07-17.The review asks "A Christian progressive death metal band? Is there really such a thing? ...there sure is."
  12. ^ "AllMusicGuide Amorphis overview". Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  13. ^ "AllMusicGuide Overview of Baroness". Retrieved 2008-07-17.
  14. ^ a b "Exclaim.ca article "Aggressive Tendencies: Year in Review 2007". Retrieved 2008-07-17.Exclaim.ca refers to Baroness as "potential successors to the progressive metal throne" and to Between the Buried and Me as "North Carolina's premier progressive metal export".
  15. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview of Believer". Retrieved 2008-07-17.
  16. ^ "RockDetector artist page for Blotted Science". Retrieved 2008-07-17.
  17. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for Burst". Retrieved 2008-07-17.
  18. ^ cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108269%7Caccessdate=2008-11-16%7Ctitle=Blabbermouth News Archive: JASON BECKER's 'Collection' Out Now}}
  19. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for Carbonized". Retrieved 2008-07-24.The editor writes "the LP delved ever deeper into psychedelics and progressive metal experiments..."
  20. ^ "Rockdetector page for Communic". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  21. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for Communic". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  22. ^ "Rockdetector page for Confessor". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  23. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for Coroner". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  24. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview for Cronian". Retrieved 2008-07-24.The AMG editor describes the sound of their album Terra as "symphonically adorned progressive metal".
  25. ^ "Rockdetector page for Damn the Machine". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  26. ^ "AllMusicGuide review of Dark Suns album Grave Human Genuine". Retrieved 2008-07-03.In the text of the review, AMG notes that they "were being described as full-fledged progressive metal" and later that "...this 58-minute CD is essentially progressive metal..."
  27. ^ "AllMusicGuide biography for Death". Retrieved 2008-07-24.The AMG editor notes that "[T]he astounding musicianship and increasingly sophisticated songwriting found on their later-day efforts may have influenced even more groups exploring the limits of extreme metal's progressive outposts."
  28. ^ "New York Times Music Review: "In a Thickly Textured Maelstrom, Nothing's Left to Chance"". Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  29. ^ a b c "Chicago Reader feature "Liquid Metal"". Retrieved 2008-07-17.The paper reports that the article's featured band "have admirers in world-class progressive-metal outfits like Isis, Mastodon, and Tool
  30. ^ Lethargy Biography on AMG
  31. ^ "AllMusicGuide overview of Nightwish". Retrieved 2008-07-21.
  32. ^ "Orphaned Land - Metal Storm". 2007-11-08.
  33. ^ "Allmusic (Orphaned Land overview)". 2007-11-08.
  34. ^ "allmusic overview of the album Pathosray by Pathosray". Retrieved 2008-11-19.
  35. ^ "IGN Music news feature: Porcupine Tree and Opeth Tour". Retrieved 2008-07-24.IGN reports that "Progressive metal bands team up and criss-cross the U.S."
  36. ^ "PopMatters review of Fear of a Blank Planet". Retrieved 2008-07-24.The editor writes "Fear of a Blank Planet... strips away all the pretenses and takes prog-metal back to its logical basics..."
  37. ^ "NYDailyNews.com feature: Porcupine Tree Branches Out". Retrieved 2008-07-24.The editor refers to Fear of a Blank Planet as "a progressive metal attack." Later in the article, Steve Wilson, the guitarist and creating force behind Porcupine Tree is quoted: "I go through phases...Then metal starting with 'In Absentia.'"
  38. ^ Allmusic Rhapsody Overview
  39. ^ "Encyclopaedia Metallum Progressive Bands". Retrieved 2008-01-09.
  40. ^ "Rusty Eye Unleash Controversial Macabre Music Video". Retrieved 2008-01-09.
  41. ^ "RockDetector page for Sadist". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  42. ^ "allmusic overview for Sculptured". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  43. ^ "RockDetecter page for Sculptured". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  44. ^ "RockDetector page for Sethian". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  45. ^ "allmusic overview for Derek Sherinian". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  46. ^ "Allmusic SikTh Overview". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  47. ^ "RockDetector page for Sinphonia". Retrieved 2008-11-16. The biography describes Sinphonia as "Gothic Progressive Metal."
  48. ^ "AllMusic Stratovarius overview". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  49. ^ "Rockdetector page for Stream of Passion". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  50. ^ "AllMusic overview for Stride". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  51. ^ "RockDetector page for Stride". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  52. ^ "RockDetector page for Sunblaze". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  53. ^ "RockDetector page for Sun Caged". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  54. ^ "Allmusic Therion Overview". {{cite web}}: Text "accessdate2008-03-29" ignored (help)
  55. ^ "Allmusic Tool Overview". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  56. ^ "RockDetector page for Tourniquet". Retrieved 2008-11-16.The biography refers to the band as "Christian Progressive Thrash Metal"
  57. ^ "AllMusic overview page for Tourniquet". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  58. ^ "RockDetector page for Trivial Act". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  59. ^ "RockDetector page for Tundra". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  60. ^ "AllMusic overview for Týr". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  61. ^ "Rockdetector band page for Unexpect". Retrieved 2008-07-18.
  62. ^ "AllMusic overview for Vision Divine". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  63. ^ "RockDetector page for Vision Divine". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  64. ^ "AllMusic overview for Warmen". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  65. ^ "AllMusic overview page for Without Face". Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  66. ^ "RockDetector page for Without Face". Retrieved 2008-11-16.RockDetector refers to Without Face as both "Gothic Metal" and "[A] Progressive Gothic act..."
  67. ^ Review: "Yakuza: Transmutations" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music!
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