The following is a list of progressive metal artists, bands and groups. 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. Characteristics may include complex song structures, unusual time signatures, lengthy songs and often using concept albums.
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 metal.
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Adagio
Aeon Zen
After Forever
Agalloch
Age of Nemesis
Aghora
Akercocke
Aletheian
Alchemist
Alter Bridge
Amorphis
Amoral
Anacrusis
Angband
Angra
Animals as Leaders
Anubis Gate
Atheist
August Burns Red
Avenged Sevenfold
Ayreon
Azusa
B
Balance of Power
Baroness
Becoming the Archetype
Believer
Benevolent
Benea Reach
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond Twilight
Bigelf
Biomechanical
The Black Mages
Blind Illusion
Borknagar
Born of Osiris
Burst
C
Cacophony
Caligula's Horse
Candiria
Cattle Decapitation
Carbonized
Circus Maximus
CloudScape
Confessor
Communic
Coheed and Cambria
Conception
Coroner
Crimson Glory
Cronian
Cynic
D
Dark Suns
DBC
Death (later) The Dillinger Escape Plan Deus Invictus Dir En Grey (later) Distorted Harmony Dog Fashion Disco Dream Theater Dysrhythmia