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

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 ...

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 ...

‘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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Here’s the best song by 10 legendary prog metal bands! As with progressive rock, a great progressive metal song needs to include both top-notch instrumentation and top-notch songwriting. Therefore, it ...

Progressive metal band Moon Tooth have a new EP coming out on March 6 titled Bastard and they’ve dropped its second single ...

Here are the best ballads from 11 big prog metal bands! We recently looked at the best ballad by 11 big prog rock bands, so it’s only fair that we shine the same spotlight on nearly a dozen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...