Progressive metal is evolving at a rate of knots. Four decades on from the pioneering efforts of Savatage, Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, the ostensible divide between progressive rock and heavy metal ...

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 ...

Here are the 11 best progressive metal albums of the 2020s (so far)! It’s truly hard to believe that we’re halfway into the 2020s. As the saying goes, however, time flies when you’re having fun, and ...

Here are the six best progressive metal songs over 20 minutes long (ranked)! Plenty of metal styles – such as grindcore, metalcore, thrash metal and death metal – are known for having short song ...

Progressive metal, unlike other sub-genres of heavy metal, borrows heavily from hard rock, classical rock and early heavy metal influences. Although several of the bands on this list might not ...

It has been said that no matter what flavor of heavy metal you prefer or what band you’re most attached to, there is a Swedish group out there that does it better. For fans of progressive metal, ...

This is always a fun conversation, and it’s one that’s worth revisiting every couple of years as the meaning continues to shift: how do we define “progressive” metal? What does it mean to be ...

As the curtain falls down on 2025, we close the year on what has been a glorious year for heavy metal, and indeed what can even go down as one of the greatest in the annals of metal history; ...

Toontrack has announced the release of the Progressive Metal MIDI pack, a collection of drum MIDI grooves performed by TesseracT drummer Jay Postones. This marks the seventy-ninth individual drum MIDI ...

Progressive metal band VOLA have lost most of their equipment in a fire at a Copenhagen storage facility and have launched a GoFundMe.