200 Greatest Progressive Rock Artists

Criteria: These 'Progressive' rock artists were chosen for their complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional playing. For their original use of multi-movement compositions involving theme, structure and scope in addition to their impact on this vital genre of music.
Greatest Prog Rock Artists
1. Yes
2. King Crimson
3. Genesis
4. Emerson Lake & Palmer
5. Pink Floyd
6. Rush
7. Jethro Tull
8. Mothers of Invention
9. Dream Theater
10. Kraftwerk
11. Traffic
12. Dixie Dregs
13. Gentle Giant
14. Van der Graaf Generator
15. The Moody Blues
16. Marillion
17. Frank Zappa
18. Magma
19. Gong
20. Kansas
21. Tangerine Dream
22. Caravan
23. Mahavishnu Orchestra
24. The Soft Machine
25. Family
26. Hawkwind
27. Mike Oldfield
28. Uriah Heep
29. Camel
30. Rick Wakeman
31. Peter Gabriel
32. The Flower Kings
33. Premiata Forneria Marconi
34. The Strawbs
35. Renaissance
36. Can
37. Goblin
38. Wigwam
39. Queensryche
40. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
41. Electric Light Orchestra
42. King's X
43. Anglagard
44. Amon Düül
45. Procol Harum
46. Brian Eno
47. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
48. Eloy
49. Porcupine Tree
50. The Alan Parson's Project
51. Bo Hansson
52. The Beatles
53. Spock's Beard
54. Asia
55. Vangelis
56. Le Orme
57. Tool
58. Fate's Warning
59. Ayreon
60. Baryclay James Harvest
61. Ange
62. IQ
63. Utopia
64. Opeth
65. Ozric Tentacles
66. Symphony X
67. Liquid Tension Experiment
68. Transatlantic
69. Steve Hackett
70. Aphrodite's Child
71. Focus
72. Supertramp
73. Adrian Belew
74. California Guitar Trio
75. Anekdoten
76. Savatage
77. Area
78. Hatfield & the North
79. Styx
80. Happy The Man
81. Nektar
82. Henry Cow
83. Robert Fripp
84. Saga
85. Primus
86. Bozzio Levin Stevens
87. Niacin
88. The Nice
89. Shadow Gallery
90. UK
91. The Mars Volta
92. Atomic Rooster
93. Birth Control
94. Andromeda
95. Roxy Music
96. Pain of Salvation
97. Comus
98. Rhapsody
99. Pendragon
100. Beardfish
101. Stratovarius
102. Coloseum
103. Omega
104. Far East Family Band
105. Roger Waters
106. Kayak
107. Brand X
108. Steve Hillage
109. Egg
110. Pavlov's Dog
111. Faust
112. Toto
113. Yngwie Malmsteen
114. Magellan
115. Spirit
116. Kraan
117. 10cc
118. Evergrey
119. Psychotic Waltz
120. Bill Bruford's Earthworks
121. Blood, Sweat & Tears
122. Glass Hammer
123. Sky
124. Blind Guardian
125. Radiohead
126. Quiet Sun
127. A Perfect Circle
128. Novalis
129. Godspeed You Black Emperor!
130. The Move
131. Portishead
132. Chroma Key
133. Kamelot
134. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
135. Explorer's Club
136. Steve Morse Band
137. Anyone's Daughter
138. Gryphon
139. Echolyn
140. Kenso
141. No-Man
142. Kate Bush
143. FM
144. 801
145. Trans-Siberian Orchestra
146. Kyuss
147. Rare Bird
148. Mullmuzzler
149. Starcastle
150. Farpoint
151. Platypus
152. Nexus
153. Deus Ex Machina
154. Guru Guru
155. Matching Mole
156. Arena
157. World Trade
158. dEUS
159. Hoelderlin
160. Blackmore's Night
161. Giles, Giles & Fripp
162. Curved Air
163. Gordian Knot
164. Dredg
165. Pallas
166. Planet X
167. Watchtower
168. Index
169. Eternity X
170. Qwestion
171. Poegs
172. Ice Age
173. Todd Rundgren
174. Man on Fire
175. Magnitude 9
176. Sinkadus
177. Arcturus
178. Xii Alphonso
179. The Illusion
180. Ulysses
181. Under the Sun
182. Left Coast
183. Frameshift
184. Tiles
185. Divine Regale
186. Neural Mass
187. Heldon
188. Random Hold
189. The Dayjob Orchestra
190. The Tangent
191. B.L.U.E
192. Dynamic Lights
193. Rudess Morgenstien Project
194. Cario
195. Isis
196. Osiris
197. Ambeon
198. Emerson, Lake & Powell
199. Extol
200. Quartermass
Yes
King Crimson

Last Updated: 2024-07-10
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