The following is a list of progressive metal artists, bands and groups. This list contains some bands that at least at some point during their career played progressive metal. Rooted in the early 1980s, the genre fused mellow progressive rock with a heavy metal aesthetic. Characteristics may include complex song structures, unusual time signatures, lengthy songs and often using concept albums. Later on, many extreme metal bands began to experiment and developed an array of progressive metal fusions with other genres, including death metal, black metal, thrash metal and avant-garde metal. 0-9 3 10 Years A Adagio Aeon Zen After Forever Agalloch Age of Nemesis Aghora Akercocke Aletheian Alchemist Alter Bridge Amorphis Amoral Anacrusis Angband Angra Animals as Leaders Anubis Gate Atheist August Burns Red Avenged Sevenfold Ayreon Azusa B Balance of Power Baroness Becoming the Archetype Believer Benevolent Benea Reach Between the Buried and Me Beyond Twilight Bigelf Biomechanical The Black Mages Blind Illusion Borknagar Burst C Cacophony Caligula's Horse Candiria Cattle Decapitation Carbonized Circus Maximus CloudScape Confessor Communic Coheed and Cambria Conception Coroner Crimson Glory Cronian Cynic D Dark Suns DBC Death (later) The Dillinger Escape Plan Deus Invictus Dir En Grey (later) Distorted Harmony Dog Fashion Disco Dream Theater Dysrhythmia E Echoes of Eternity Edge of Sanity Enchant Enslaved Epica Evergrey Extol F The Faceless Fates Warning Frameshift G Galactic Cowboys Gojira Grief of Emerald H Haken Henceforth I Iced Earth Iron Maiden Isis J Job for a Cowboy K Kalijuge Kamelot Katatonia Karnivool Katagory V Kekal Khallice King's X L Lance King Leah Leprous Liquid Tension Experiment Loathe Lotus Eater M Manticora Mastodon Mekong Delta Meshuggah Moonsorrow Mudvayne Muse Mutiny Within Myrath N Narnia Ne Obliviscaris Necrophagist Negură Bunget Nerverek Nevermore Nodes of Ranvier No Sin Evades His Gaze O Obliveon Obscura Oficina G3 Opeth Orphaned Land P Pain of Salvation Pathosray Periphery Pestilence Planet X Platypus Porcupine Tree Primus Prospect Protest the Hero Prototype Proyecto Eskhata Puya Pyramaze Q Queensrÿche Quo Vadis R Rage Realm Redemption Rhapsody of Fire Riverside Royal Hunt Rusty Eye S Savatage Scale the Summit Sculptured Schaliach Seventh Wonder Shadow Gallery Derek Sherinian Sikth Sky Architect Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Sons of Apollo Spheric Universe Experience Spiral Architect Spock's Beard Steelscape Stolen Babies Stratovarius Symphony X System of a Down T Tangerine Circus Tesseract The Contortionist The Human Abstract Therion Threshold Tiamat Tool Tourniquet Toxicon Trivium Týr U Uriah Heep V Vanden