2009. USA
Progressive Metal
OSI or Office of Strategic Influence is the superband led by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and ex Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. The act is more of a side project where both get together and melt in the pot their style into the already trademark sound this band owns. Incisive Metal riffing and vast electronic backgrounds in an obscure atmosphere is what we hear from this band. The peculiar voice from Moore is also key to the group's original sound.
Posted In
2009,
OSI,
Progressive Metal,
USA
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2009. USA/Netherlands
Progressive Metal/Fusion
http://www.myspace.com/exivious
Featuring musicians from both the best of past and present of Prog Metal (Cynic, Textures), Exivious is a superband playing Instrumental Prog Metal with a unique Fusion flavor on top of it. The project is quite recent and it comes to accomplish a vision that Cynic guitarist Tymon had several years ago in marrying these genres into one. Explosive, intense, mystic complex and precise it may be the door for a new genre in metal.
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2009,
Exivious,
Fusion,
Netherlands,
Progressive Metal,
USA
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2007. England
Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal
Porcupine Tree is the band led by mastermind musician and producer Steven Wilson, probably one of the most relevant figures in Prog Rock nowadays. The band is his foremost project out of the endless he's involved in.
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2007,
England,
Porcupine Tree,
Progressive Metal,
Progressive Rock
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2000. USA
Progressive Metal/Symphonic Metal
Symphony X is a New Jersey based Prog Metal band featuring guitar virtuoso Michael Romeo and my personal favourite voice in modern metal, charismatic Russell Allen.
They have a very clear sound statement towards Symphonic Progressive Metal with a dominant mythology thematic. As this two genres have always been two big in the Metal scene, Symphony X is probably the best exponent melting both in the pot into their baroque metal blast.
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2000,
Progressive Metal,
Symphonic Metal,
Symphony X,
USA
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2000. Sweeden
Progressive Metal/Progressive Rock
http://www.myspace.com/painofsalvation
Pain Of Salvation is an outstanding Progressive Metal band from Sweeden leaded by mastermind Daniel Gildenlöw, who started the band at the age of 11. They are amongst other things responsible of maintaining the forgotten spirit of the conceptual album alive, as every album release of theirs is a unique statement musically and conceptually.
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2000,
Pain Of Salvation,
Progressive Metal,
Progressive Rock,
Sweeden
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2008. USA
Progressive Metal/Math Metal/Instrumental
http://www.myspace.com/animalsasleaders
Animals As Leaders is a project commanded by guitar virtuoso Tosin Abasi in an act that goes far beyond Instrumental Progressive Metal as we know it.
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2009,
Animals As Leaders,
Djent,
Instrumental,
Math Metal,
Progressive Metal,
USA
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2005. Sweeden
Progressive Metal
And then Mikael Akerdfeldt came into the metal scene. Tagging a band like Opeth into one genre is a useless effort of trying to englobe what is a mashup of all things going around this swede genious head, including Metal, Rock, Jazz, Classic Rock, Death Metal.. put up in a prog manner and given the dressing of the obscure and dark classic Opeth appeal.
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2005,
Opeth,
Progressive Metal,
Sweeden
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