Progressive Metal

Genre of heavy metal music. Emerged 1984. Wikipedia

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109 artists with 3.1M combined listeners. 53% of them sit in the Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock / Prog Metal community on the map. It shares the most artists with Prog Metal.

Where Progressive Metal sits on the map

• Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock / Prog Metal · 58 artists (53%)
• Math Rock / Japanese Shoegaze / Japanese Math Rock · 18 artists (17%)
• Modern Blues / Modern Blues Rock / Roots Rock · 5 artists (5%)
• Stoner Metal / Stoner Rock / Post-Rock · 4 artists (4%)
• Metalcore / Melodic Metalcore / Alternative Metal · 4 artists (4%)
• Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal / Old School Thrash · 3 artists (3%)

Strongest pairings in Progressive Metal

Progressive Metal artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Polyphia & Plini · 37 shared playlists
2. Plini & Intervals · 36 shared playlists
3. Animals as Leaders & Plini · 34 shared playlists
4. Animals as Leaders & Polyphia · 30 shared playlists
5. Animals as Leaders & Intervals · 30 shared playlists
6. Opeth & Katatonia · 29 shared playlists
7. Polyphia & Intervals · 28 shared playlists
8. Opeth & Dream Theater · 24 shared playlists
9. Steven Wilson & Porcupine Tree · 23 shared playlists
10. Sithu Aye & Intervals · 22 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Progressive Metal, for their size.

• Prog Metal · 27 shared artistsBoth: Symphony X, TesseracT, Leprous
• Progressive Rock · 30 shared artistsBoth: Dream Theater, Opeth, Porcupine Tree
• Djent · 12 shared artistsBoth: Animals as Leaders, TesseracT, Plini
• Swedish Progressive Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Pain of Salvation, Seventh Wonder
• Neo-Progressive · 4 shared artistsBoth: Steven Wilson, Riverside, Vanden Plas
• Norwegian Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Ihsahn, Xanthochroid
• Instrumental Djent · 3 shared artistsBoth: Scale the Summit, Sithu Aye, Syncatto
• Doom Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: Katatonia, Anathema, Antimatter

Artists

109 artists tagged Progressive Metal, ranked by listeners.

1. Dream Theater592.0K listeners
2. Opeth267.3K listeners · Progressive Rock
3. Mastodon208.6K listeners · Metal
4. Porcupine Tree143.7K listeners · Progressive Rock
5. The Mars Volta107.5K listeners
6. Amorphis99.9K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
7. Symphony X97.4K listeners
8. Katatonia94.9K listeners
9. Anathema84.4K listeners · Progressive Rock
10. Steven Wilson79.5K listeners · Progressive Rock
11. Polyphia74.1K listeners · Progressive Rock
12. Animals as Leaders67.9K listeners
13. Periphery64.7K listeners · Metalcore
14. TesseracT47.2K listeners
15. Igorrr45.3K listeners
16. Leprous43.9K listeners · Progressive Rock
17. Riverside43.3K listeners · Progressive Rock
18. Enslaved38.7K listeners · Black Metal
19. Soen37.0K listeners · Progressive Rock
20. Haken35.5K listeners · Progressive Rock
21. Between the Buried and Me32.8K listeners · Prog Metal
22. Pain of Salvation32.7K listeners
23. Ayreon30.8K listeners · Progressive Rock
24. Liquid Tension Experiment29.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
25. Cult of Luna28.8K listeners · Post-Metal
26. Devin Townsend28.5K listeners · Progressive Rock
27. Karnivool27.8K listeners · Progressive Rock
28. Myrath26.9K listeners
29. The Pineapple Thief26.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
30. Nevermore24.4K listeners
31. Evergrey23.4K listeners
32. Zeal & Ardor23.3K listeners · Metalcore
33. Plini22.9K listeners
34. Voivod20.7K listeners · Old School Thrash
35. Intervals20.0K listeners · Djent
36. Strapping Young Lad19.4K listeners · Groove Metal
37. The Ocean18.0K listeners
38. Cynic17.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
39. Dee Snider15.8K listeners · Glam Rock
40. The Contortionist13.8K listeners
41. Quantum13.8K listeners
42. Caligula's Horse13.7K listeners
43. Antimatter13.2K listeners · Post-Grunge
44. Long Distance Calling12.2K listeners · Post-Rock
45. VOLA12.1K listeners
46. Sons Of Apollo12.1K listeners
47. Ihsahn11.9K listeners
48. Minus the Bear11.7K listeners · Brooklyn Indie
49. Scale the Summit11.4K listeners
50. Spock's Beard10.4K listeners · Art Rock
51. Lunatic Soul10.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
52. Ankor9.9K listeners · Rap Metal
53. Vektor9.6K listeners · Old School Thrash
54. Rob Scallon9.3K listeners
55. Unprocessed9.0K listeners · Metalcore
56. Persefone8.8K listeners
57. Brass Against8.1K listeners · Punk Blues
58. Skyharbor7.0K listeners
59. David Maxim Micic6.9K listeners · Prog Metal
60. King's X6.8K listeners · Funk Rock
61. Rishloo6.3K listeners
62. Seventh Wonder6.0K listeners
63. The Devin Townsend Band6.0K listeners
64. Pagan's Mind5.6K listeners
65. Oceans of Slumber5.3K listeners · Progressive Rock
66. Vanden Plas5.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
67. Sithu Aye4.7K listeners · Djent
68. Michael Romeo4.7K listeners · Metal
69. OSI4.6K listeners · Art Rock
70. He Is Legend4.5K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
71. Psychonaut4.2K listeners
72. Maromaro4.0K listeners
73. Earthside3.7K listeners
74. Fair to Midland3.7K listeners · Modern Rock
75. Wheel3.5K listeners
76. Agora3.3K listeners · Urbano Mexicano
77. The Omnific3.3K listeners
78. Arch Echo3.1K listeners
79. Red Handed Denial3.0K listeners
80. Wilderun2.9K listeners · Prog Metal
81. Conception2.7K listeners · Outlaw Country
82. Bulb2.6K listeners
83. Xanthochroid2.4K listeners
84. Syncatto2.1K listeners · Djent
85. Chroma Key1.9K listeners · Alternative Rock
86. Greyhaven1.6K listeners · Nu Metal
87. Corelia1.5K listeners
88. Moris1.3K listeners
89. The Black Noodle Project1.2K listeners
90. Ok Goodnight1.1K listeners
91. Trade Wind1.1K listeners · Grungegaze
92. Sumerian1.0K listeners · Metalcore
93. Ihlo1.0K listeners
94. Kolm1.0K listeners · Alternative Metal
95. The Silent Wedding1.0K listeners · Greek Metal
96. Mother of Millions1.0K listeners
97. Karmanjakah1.0K listeners
98. Som1.0K listeners
99. DINO JELUSIĆ1.0K listeners · Glam Metal
100. Sentinels1.0K listeners
101. Nospūn1.0K listeners · Alternative Metal
102. Artificial Language1.0K listeners · Progressive Rock
103. Lux Terminus1.0K listeners · Progressive Rock
104. Asymmetric Universe1.0K listeners
105. K-Scope1.0K listeners · Progressive Rock
106. Poem1.0K listeners · Neo-Classical
107. Luis Felipe1.0K listeners · Symphonic Metal
108. Shane Fuller1.0K listeners
109. Prymony1.0K listeners