‘Progressive’ is a pretty loaded term in rock and metal. The word should represent artists who push heavy music forward, expanding its conventions with new sounds and concepts. More commonly, though, ...

Here is the best progressive rock/metal album of each year since 1983. Given its penchant for bizarre concepts, vast track lengths and intimidatingly complex musicianship, it’s little wonder why ...

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, ...

One of the defining elements of metal is the overdriven aggression of it, but there have always been bands willing to go beyond the primal rush of the power chord and take the form to more inventive, ...