progressive metal

Crimson Glory, the Florida heavy metal legends who dropped the sensational news in December 2023 that they were coming back with a revamped lineup, are holding it down with original members Ben Jackson on guitar, Jeff Lords on bass and…

American technical death metal outfit Allegaeon, who released their new full-length album “The Ossuary Lens” via Metal Blade Records on April 4 last year, have unveiled a lyric video for the single Imperial. The single Imperial, taken…

Alogia, XXV Godina, guests The Fifth RiderSaturday, 7 March 2026Zappa Barka, Belgrade, Serbia "Prog power heaven" Alogia is not a particularly active live band, to put it mildly. Since you never know when — or in what lineup —…

Devin Townsend, the Canadian singer-songwriter, elusive musical visionary, genius and sonic terrorist, will release a new studio album, "The Moth", on May 29, 2026. The album is coming out on Insideout Music. The first single and…

The Eternal, the Australian-Finnish dark progressive gothic metal collective who dropped their new EP “Celestial” on January 16 (out via Reigning Phoenix Music), are unveiling a video and single for the track Casting Down Shadows. Before…

Hope To Find, the Turkish progressive rockers and metalheads, released a new EP called "Hiatus in Motion" on March 6, 2026, ending a 12-year break. Hope to Find are a modern progressive rock and metal band formed at the start of the new…

Swedish progressive metallers Dimension Art are unveiling the single and official video for Masquerade, taken from their upcoming new studio album "Labyrinths of Life". The album drops on March 27, 2026. Guitarist and producer Marius…

Evergrey, the Swedish dark progressive metallers from Gothenburg, are announcing their 15th studio album, “Architects Of A New Weave”, which will land on June 5, 2026 via Austrian label Napalm Records. Below you can check out the first…

Teramaze, the Australian progressive metal heavyweights from Melbourne, will release their new studio album "The Silent Architect" on May 8, 2026, via their own label Wells Music. Check out the album single The Invisible Countdown…

Cryptic Shift, the UK's extreme-metal musical oddballs and proud members of the Metal Blade Records family, dropped their studio album Overspace & Supertime on February 27, 2026, and as of today you can stream the whole thing on their…

Port Noir, the Swedish progressive rockers from Stockholm, have announced a new studio album titled “The Dark We Keep”, set to drop on May 15, 2026 via the German label InsideOut Music. The band says it's really proud of how it turned…

Myrath, the Tunisian-French progressive metal heavyweights, are back with a new single, "Breathing Near the Roar", which you can check out below. The new single comes from their upcoming studio album "Wilderness Of Mirrors", announced…

Mattias IA Eklundh, the Swedish experimental musician and, let's be real, one of the weirdest yet sharpest, most brilliant yet blisteringly fast, precise, brazen and unpredictable guitar virtuosos of our time, is back with a new single…

Einar Solberg, vocalist of Norwegian prog-metal greats Leprous – who played CUK Kino Šiška once again on February 3, 2026 (RockLine gig review) – is announcing his second solo album, "Vox Occulta", due out April 24. Four tracks on the…

Pleximents, the progressive metal crew from the Russian city of Tomsk, have dropped a new version of their single Hidden Instigator, recorded with the band's revamped lineup. The single, which originally came out on the EP "Tales of…

Crimson Glory, the Florida heavy metal legends who dropped the sensational news back in December 2023 that they were returning to the scene with a revamped lineup, are set to release a new studio album, "Chasing The Hydra", on April 17!…

Inner Vitriol, dark progressive metallers from Bologna, Italy, will release their new studio album "Semper Tacui" on March 20, 2026. It's a concept record centered on time, and it's coming out via Hidden Store Records. Below you'll find…

Silent Script, the Canadian prog metallers formed in 2016 in Edmonton (Alberta), dropped a brand-new studio album on 2/20/2026 called "Another Day In Bedlam". "Another Day In Bedlam" is already up on the band's Bandcamp page! Over…

Oliver Zisko, Hungarian multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, will release a new album, "PLAN(e)T-based", on May 13. The new album features former members of Cynic, Dream Theater and the Allan Holdsworth band. It's a fusion of…

MACH 1, a new Slovenian progressive and art rock-metal outfit, is announcing the release of its debut studio album "Supersonic" on March 3, 2026. MACH 1 is a five-piece rock-metal band that took its final shape during the pandemic and…

German progressive and technical metal innovators Obscura have released a new music video for the track Stardust from the album "A Sonication", which came out in February 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. The idea is to give fans a taste…

Evergrey, the Swedish dark progressive metal outfit from Gothenburg, are announcing their 15th studio album, "Architects Of A New Weave", which lands on June 5, 2026 via Austrian label Napalm Records. "Architects Of A New Weave" will be…

Acts: Leprous, support: Ihlo & Crystal HorizonDate: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 7:45 PM – 11:00 PMVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Every now and then a ray of light tied to the progressive rock genre manages to shine…

Karnivool, the Australian progressive rockers, dropped their new album “In Verses” on February 6, 2026 via Cymatic Records/Sony Music. It's the band's first record in thirteen years, since its predecessor “Asymmetry” came out. To celebrate…

Voivod, the legendary progressive/thrash metal crew from Jonquière, Quebec, are coming back to Zagreb's Vintage Industrial Bar on Monday, July 13, 2026, as part of the summer dates of their new European tour. Facebook event! Early…

Green Carnation, the Norwegian progressive and death/doom metal outfit formed in 1990 in Kristiansand, will release the second album of their upcoming trilogy, titled “A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis", on April 3 via Season of Mist. Below…

Seventh Wonder, the Swedish progressive metallers on the roster of Italy's Frontiers Music Srl., put out their last studio album "Testament" (RockLine review) back in 2022. Now they're unveiling a fresh original single, Eternal Flame,…

Myrath, the Tunisian-French prog metal heavyweights, are back with a new single, "Soul Of My Soul", which you can check out below. The new single comes from their upcoming studio album “Wilderness Of Mirrors”, announced through earMUSIC…

Curse Of Fate, the Norwegian progressive metal outfit, dropped their new studio album "Behind The Eclipse" on January 30, 2026. The band's third full-length is out via ROAR, part of the German label Reigning Phoenix Music. The album…

After the warmly received debut album “Follow The Blind Man” in 2023, Croatian progressive and melodic metallers Jelusick released a new studio album, “Apolitical Ecstasy”, on September 19, 2025. The new record also came out via Escape…

Karnivool, the Australian progressive rockers, will release their new album “In Verses” on February 6, 2026 via Cymatic Records/Sony Music. It's the band's first album in thirteen years, since its predecessor “Asymmetry” came out. You…

Iotunn, the Danish–Faroese progressive metal alliance, released a new live album, “Waves Over Copenhell”, on January 16 via Metal Blade Records. The release came with a live video and the single The Tower Of Cosmic Nihility, and now…

Opeth, the Swedish prog-rock icons who released their latest album, “The Last Will And Testament”, on November 22, 2024, have unveiled the official video for the track §7 (Paragraph Seven), which you can check out below. The band's 14th…

Queensrÿche, the progressive metal legends from Seattle, are heading back to Europe this summer for a run of live shows! They kick things off on June 6 in Cologne, Germany, and wrap up on July 5 in Cartagena, Spain! The tour mixes…

The Eternal, the Australian-Finnish dark progressive gothic metal collective, have followed the release of their new EP “Celestial” (out January 16, 2026 via Reigning Phoenix Music) with a video for the single Celestial Veil. It comes on…

Kiko Loureiro (support act: Andy Addams)Sunday, November 30, 2025Velden am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Bluesiana — that lone beacon of rock and roll, always the finest blues, and occasionally some metal-sharpened…

Acts: Gojira & Lacuna CoilVenue: Zagreb / SRC Šalata / CroatiaDate: Sunday, 27 July 2025 Gojira returned to Zagreb after three years. At a time when our outlet is going through a complete transformation, and when an older…

SatchVai BandSaturday, 15 July 2025, from 9:30 PM to 11:45 PMPordenone / Parco San Valentino / Italy Sometimes things happen in the world of rock and roll that seem highly unlikely. And yet they do. Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are…

Avenged SevenfoldLjubljana / Križanke / SloveniaWednesday, 18 June 2025, doors at 19:00, concert starts at 21:30 And then there are those special concerts. Special tours. Special bands! They go straight into the "Unforgettable!"…

Evergrey (plus: Inner Vitriol & Klogr)Wednesday, 4. 12. 2024Zagreb / Močvara / Croatia A good two years have flown by in the blink of an eye since we enjoyed an Evergrey concert in Ljubljana. Given the band's track record, we…

Dream TheaterTuesday, October 29, 2024, 7:30 PM to 10:45 PMZagreb / Arena Zagreb / Croatia (for an English version, please scroll down the bar) Dream Theater are that institution of five rigorously trained music professors who…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: October 18, 2024Production: Simone MularoniAlbum length: 56. 27 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 DGM are, we can safely say today, legendary Italian progressive metallers who got…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 30. 8. 2024Production: David Castillo & LeprousAlbum length: 51.40 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Art RockRating: 8.5/10 Leprous, the Norwegian progressive metal and art rock quintet, are back…

Self-releasedRelease date: June 21, 2024Album length: 61.28 minProduction: Seventh DimensionGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Seventh Dimension are a Swedish progressive metal quintet from Stockholm. They've been around since…

Label: Napalm RecordsRelease date: 7. 6. 2024Production: Tom S. Englund & Jonas Ekdahl Album length: Genre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Evergrey, it's fair to say, are the long-lived legends of Swedish progressive metal.…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 19, 2024Production: Vanden Plas & Markus TeskeAlbum length: 55.14 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 Vanden Plas are long-standing progressive metal champions from…

Performers: Black Motel Six, Great Master, DragonHammer, ANGRADate: Saturday, 23 March 2024Venue: Arci Tom, Mantua, Italy In my review of Angra's latest album Cycles of Pain, I expressed the wish that they'd come somewhere close…

Založba/Label: Atomic Fire RecordsDatum izida/Release date: 10/13/2023Produkcija/Producer: Matt SmithDolžina albuma/Running Time: 66.04 minZvrst/Genre: Progressive Metal6.5/10 (for an english version - please scroll down the bar) …

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: 3. 11. 2023Production: Dennis WardRunning Time: 58.20 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8/10 English: »Fabio's Resurrection« Father, I must confess, for I have sinned and am still…

Self-releasedRelease date: 2/27/2023Production: DavidoOFF & Dejan Dimec - DimmeAlbum length: 27.13 minGenre: Instrumental Rock / Guitar Rock / Progressive Metal / Art MetalRating: 9.0/10 DavidOFF, the alias behind which stands…

Acts: Lost Society / Solstafir / AmorphisConcert date: Tuesday, 1 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia And that day finally came — after several years, Zagreb's Boogaloo found its way back onto our concert-going…

Label: Escape RecordsRelease date: September 29, 2023Produced by: Simon JovanovičAlbum length: 53.34 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Heavy MetalRating: 10/10 Dino Jelusić needs no special introduction. In a short time, the Croatian hard…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 18. 11. 2022Production: Karl Groom & Richard WestAlbum length:Genre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 After five years away from the studio, Threshold are back with a new album, "Dividing…

Performers: Leprous / Monuments / KalandraVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Leprous, those brilliant prog-metal oddballs, returned to Ljubljana on the last day of February this year to play…

Label: Century MediaRelease date: January 7, 2022Production: Wilderun, Jens Bogren, Tony LindgrenAlbum length: 01:06:35 Wilderun, an American progressive metal band from Boston, have been around since roughly…

Label: Century Media RecordsRelease date: October 7, 2022Production: Chris “Zeuss” HarrisAlbum length: 60:28 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Believe it or not, Queensryche are back with a new album. “Digital…

Performers: The Shameless, Estriver, Seventh WonderDate: Friday, 4 November 2022Location: Prosecco near Trieste / Kulturni dom Prosek Kontovel (Cassa Delle Culture Prosecco) / Italy Seventh Wonder are today considered a highly…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 10/28/2022Production: Devin TownsendAlbum length: 103.50 min ('de-luxe' (2CD) version)Genre: Progressive Metal / Progressive RockRating: 10/10 "Lightwork" is the latest studio masterpiece from…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 5, 2022Production: Vanden Plas & Markus TeskeAlbum length: 100.50 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Vanden Plas, Germany's long-lived progressive metal veterans, dropped a…

Performers: Evergrey, Fractal Universe, Virtual SymmetryLocation: Ljubljana, Orto bar, SloveniaDate: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Evergrey have finally made it to Ljubljana. These Swedish melodic progressive metallers — with a firmly…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: 7. 10. 2022Production: Sean DowellAlbum length: 62.25 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Power MetalRating: 8.0/10 Borealis, a relatively young Canadian progressive and power metal outfit from Orangeville…

Label: Napalm RecordsRelease date: May 20, 2022Production: Jonas EkdahlAlbum length: 50.20 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.5/10 Evergrey, the gloomy Swedish progressive metal stronghold, have been showing unmistakable signs of…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaDate: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 This year's autumn concert season is undeniably packed. Besides plenty of local shows, many American bands are touring Europe. The Elder and Pallbearer concert…

After a strange period when a flood of concert tours suddenly swept across Europe — all announced left and right, only to be followed by one cancellation after another, especially from American bands (the calculated reasons behind that…

Performers: Soen / Lizzard / OceanhoarseDate: Friday, 9 September 2022Location: San Dona Di Piave / Revolver Club / Italy Soen are finally back on tour. One of those tours that came close enough to Slovenia geographically that a…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: June 10, 2022Production: Seventh WonderAlbum length: 53.11 min. Genre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Seventh Wonder are a progressive metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2000.…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 2/18/2022Production: Arjen Anthony LucassenAlbum length: 66.42 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 From the very first spin of “Revel In Time,” the fourth studio album from…

Location: Zagreb / Dom Sportova / Croatia Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022 "Finally!" — that's what plenty of people thought when the French sensation Gojira finally came within striking distance of Slovenia. The band still hasn't…

Label: Look at Me (Broken Silence)Release date: June 10, 2022Production: Birth ControlAlbum length: Genre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Birth Control, the legends of German progressive rock, are back with "Open Up," their second…

Performers: Devin Townsend, Dream TheaterVenue: Zagreb / Mala dvorana Doma sportova / CroatiaDate: Friday, 27 May 2022 The concert pulse finally surged back to life through this May. Bands are rushing. Everyone's on the road. Across…

Label: Atomic FireRelease date: April 1, 2022Production: Meshuggah & Rickard BengtssonAlbum length: 66.43 min Swedish heavyweights Meshuggah took even more time than usual to put this new album together. It's no secret that…

Venue: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Saturday, April 30, 2022 Pero Defformero, the ever-irresistible parodic crew of four pranksters from Novi Sad, made their way back to Slovenia at the end of this April. After playing to a…

Label: Favored Nations / Mascot Label GroupRelease date: January 28, 2022Production: Steve VaiAlbum length: 46:41 minGenre: Art Rock/Progressive Metal/Guitar RockRating: 9.0/10 It's been a long, long time since the "little guitar…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: March 25, 2022Production: Michael RomeoGenre: Progressive MetalAlbum length: 66.09 min.Rating: 9.0/10 Michael Romeo has gone all in on his solo project. We've been waiting seven years for a new…

Label: Atomic Fire Records Release date: February 11, 2022 Production: Jens Bogren Album length: 55.45 min. Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Progressive Metal Rating: 9.0/10 Amorphis kicked off 2022 with the closing album of a trilogy the band…

Release date: May 12, 2021Label: MS Metal RecordsProduction: Edu Falaschi, Roberto Barros & Thiago BianchiAlbum length: 59.46 minGenre: Power Metal / Progressive MetalRating: 8.5/10 Edu Falaschi is a Brazilian…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 10. 12. 2021Production: Erik Gafvelin WissAlbum length: 53.11 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 With their studio debut “High On Deception,” Cap Outrun set themselves up as a band with a…

Label: Insideout Music / Sony MusicRelease date: 10/22/2021Production: John PetrucciAlbum length:: 70.19 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.5/10 “A View From The Top Of The World” is the fifteenth studio album from Dream Theater,…

Klemen Markelj has put his masterful chops on no fewer than three foreign albums this year. The first is the second album from Irish progressive metal project The Vicious Head Society, titled Extinction Level Event. The second is the new…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: July 23, 2002Production: Douglas A. OttAlbum length: 61.44 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 American prog-rock revivalists Enchant, who often walk the thin line between neo-prog and prog…

Label: Columbia RecordsRelease date: 4/13/2010Production: Atticus Ross & Joe BarresiAlbum length: 53.56 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Progressive MetalRating: 7.0/10 "Year of the Black Rainbow" was the fifth studio album from…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Esa Holopainen & Nino LaurenneAlbum length: 37.24 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Esa Holopainen is the guitarist, one of the founders…

Label: Frontiers Music. Srl.Release date: June 11, 2021Production: Terra OdiumAlbum length: 52.27 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Terra Odium are a new progressive metal outfit, fronted by a crew of old hands. Norway. And…

Self-releasedRelease date: May 9, 2021Production: DavidOFFAlbum length: 28.00 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Art Metal/Instrumental/Guitar RockRating: 9.0/10 DavidOFF is a music project, let's just call it a fully instrumental guitar…

Label: Boing!Release date: 5/7/2021Production: The AristocratsAlbum length: 60.03 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion/Progressive Rock/Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 The Aristocrats are some of the best things to happen in the world of…

Label: Metalville RecordsRelease date: April 30, 2021Production: Simone Mularoni (DGM)Album length: 58.56 min.Genre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 Poverty's No Crime are a German prog metal band who hopped on the train of the…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: June 20, 2011Production: Devin TownsendAlbum length: 72.45 minGenre: Ambient Music/Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 "Ghost" was the second of two studio albums that Devin Townsend released on the…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 20. 6. 2011Production: Devin TownsendAlbum length: 70.49 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 Canadian multi-talented musician and producer Devin Townsend, who walks the thin line between…

Label: Hostile MediaRelease date: 5/28/2021Production: Graham KeaneAlbum length: 60.58 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 The Vicious Head Society is the brainchild of an Irish musical genius: first and foremost a top-tier…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: May 22, 2012Production: Headspace & Jens BogrenAlbum length: 73.37 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 The prog metal/prog rock outfit Headspace started out in 2006 as…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: April 16, 2021Production: Liquid Tension ExperimentAlbum length: 61.43 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 Liquid Tension Experiment is a musical project that put out two albums in 1998 and…

Label: Evil Ink RecordsRelease date: July 29, 2016Production: Tom MondaAlbum length: 67.53 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal/Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 American eclectic proggers Thank You Scientist wowed everyone with…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 9, 2021Production: Aldo LonobileAlbum length: 42.45 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Sweet Oblivion is a musical project backed by the big guns at Frontiers Music…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: Feb. 26, 2021Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 58.34 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 When would a phoenix, that mythological feathered creature from the days of ancient Egypt, actually…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production: Jason BielerAlbum length: 56.49 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Can you even squeeze in a longer artist name? Jason Bieler, the guy fans of…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: November 27, 2020Production: John PetrucciAlbum length: 149.51 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 When the talk turns to Dream Theater, it's clear there's not much room left for cracking…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 29. 1. 2021Production: Iñaki MarconiAlbum length: 42.05 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 So what do you do with the new Soen album? It's good. No debate there. But it's also proof…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 61.47 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Pyramaze have always been an interesting band when it comes to reviewing albums.…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 6. 11. 2020Produced by: Jim Matheos Album length: 72.23 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 Let me kick things off with a bit of "romance." The new Fates Warning album is going to break…

Label: InsideOut MusicRelease date: August 28, 2020Production: Daniel Gildenlöw & Daniel BergstrandAlbum length: 53.32 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Crossover-ProgRating: 9.0/10 Pain of Salvation put out their eleventh…