Quite often, these artists fill their catalogs with dozens of tracks that are almost equally vicious (thereby making it a challenge to figure out which song is truly the heaviest one in their arsenal) ...

When I was a teenage progressive metal fan, these were the questions I heard ad nauseam. As much as heavy music was considered outsider art during my awkward school years, loving the bands who played ...

In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

UK prog metal haven Arctangent has announced its first bands for 2026. Earlier today (October 30), the Bristol weekender confirmed 37 artists for next year's lineup. They include French avant-garde ...

Here are 11 pre-2000s prog metal bands that deserved to be way bigger! Progressive metal has evolved into an incredibly popular and diverse subgenre over the past 40 years, with countless bands ...

Spiritbox, the progressive heavy metal band behind tracks such as “Jaded” and “Circle With Me,” will visit San Antonio on April 4 during a newly announced 24-city tour. (Live Nation) SAN ANTONIO – ...

France’s Epitaphe are a curious case, because even in their early extreme death/doom days, you could clearly see the band was guided by ambition. They didn’t simply subscribe to the genre’s slow, ...

Las Vegas metal fans will have a chance to see one of progressive metal’s best-known bands live this weekend, with Queensrÿche set to perform at the Cannery Casino Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 5.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett says prog rock music paved the way for heavy metal. The axe-slayer says heavy metal would sound "different today" if it wasn't for the ...

(TheBRHM.com) Most bands that chase reinvention lose the thread and come out sounding like somebody else entirely. Mastodon spent twenty odd years morphing and never once stopped sounding like ...