Best progressive metal Albums
These albums define progressive metal. Whether you're starting fresh or revisiting classics, this list highlights the records worth your time.
Top progressive metal Artists
progressive metal Albums
Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree · 2007
Hushed and Grim
Mastodon · 2021
Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree · 2000
Closure/Continuation
Porcupine Tree · 2022
The Incident
Porcupine Tree · 2009
When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater · 1989
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater · 2002
Images and Words
Dream Theater · 1992
Awake
Dream Theater · 1994
Train of Thought
Dream Theater · 2003
Parasomnia
Dream Theater · 2025
Magma
Gojira · 2016
From Mars to Sirius
Gojira · 2005
Fortitude
Gojira · 2021
The Way of All Flesh
Gojira · 2008
L'Enfant Sauvage
Gojira · 2012
The Link
Gojira · 2003
10,000 Days
Tool · 2006
Ænima
Tool · 1996
Undertow
Tool · 1993
Fear Inoculum
Tool · 2019
Opiate
Tool · 1992
Lateralus
Tool · 2001
Life Is But a Dream...
Avenged Sevenfold · 2023
City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold · 2005
Terra Incognita
Gojira · 2001
Hail to the King
Avenged Sevenfold · 2013
Wasteland
Riverside · 2018
Silence in the Snow
Trivium · 2015
Vengeance Falls
Trivium · 2013
In the Court of the Dragon
Trivium · 2021
The Sin and the Sentence
Trivium · 2017
In Waves
Trivium · 2011
Ember to Inferno
Trivium · 2003
What the Dead Men Say
Trivium · 2020
Ascendancy
Trivium · 2005
Promised Land
Queensrÿche · 1994
Operation: Mindcrime
Queensrÿche · 1988
Emperor of Sand
Mastodon · 2017
The Hunter
Mastodon · 2011
Blood Mountain
Mastodon · 2006
Q2K
Queensrÿche · 1999
Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Riverside · 2015
Cold Dark Place
Mastodon · 2017
ID.Entity
Riverside · 2023
Eye of the Soundscape
Riverside · 2016
Operation: Mindcrime II
Queensrÿche · 2006
Remission
Mastodon · 2002
Crack the Skye
Mastodon · 2009
Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon · 2014