Here are the 13 best debut albums by progressive black metal bands (ranked)!

French prog rockers Esthesis, who won Pro g's Best Unsigned Band category in the 2020 Readers' Poll, recently released their ...

Soen is a Progressive Metal band from Sweden who released their new album, Reliance, via Silver Lining Music on January 16th, ...

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 ...

Focus was one of the best prog metal debut albums ever and one of the best prog metal albums of the ‘90s. So, it inevitably ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt argues progressive music has become formulaic, saying modern prog is more about shredding than true innovation.

The secret’s out now. Voivod drummer Michel ‘Away’ Langevin reveals: “Van der Graaf Generator are my favourite progressive band.” But as he explains, it’s not that surprising at all. “I’m from Quebec, ...

Here’s the best “epic” song (lasting 10-plus minutes) from 11 big progressive metal bands! Back in July 2024, Loudwire looked ...

2016’s Fuck Everyone and Run (F.E.A.R.) is the best example of this, being a howl of frustration at an increasingly ...

Mike Portnoy, the legendary drummer best known as a founding member of Dream Theater, has shared his personal picks for the top albums of 2025, offering fans a rare look at what inspires one of ...

The PC gaming progressive metal project, WASD, just released its second album, Escape, which includes chunky, proggy reimaginings of classic tracks from hits like Deus Ex and Warcraft 2, but also some ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...