100 Greatest Progressive Metal Songs

Album covers "Images and Words" and "The Divine Wings of Tragedy"
Criteria: These Progressive Metal Songs were chosen for their musical impact, creativity, originality, influence, and popularity within the genre.

Last Updated: 2018-08-10
Progressive Metal Songs
  Song Name - Artist (song length)
  1. Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper - Dream Theater (9:30)
  2. The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X (20:42)
  3. Schism - Tool (6:46)
  4. Black Rose Immortal - Opeth (20:15)
  5. Pull Me Under - Dream Theater (8:11)
  6. The Odyssey - Symphony X (24:09)
  7. Eyes of a Stranger - Queensrÿche (6:38)
  8. A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater (23:09)
  9. When the Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment (16:57)
10. Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree (17:42)
11. White Walls - Between the Buried and Me (14:13)
12. Roads to Madness - Queensrÿche (9:54)
13. Lateralus - Tool (9:24)
14. Second Life Syndrome - Riverside (15:40)
15. The Czar - Mastodon (10:54)
16. Ænema - Tool ( 6:39)
17. March of the Fire Ants - Mastodon (4:25)
18. Options - Going Nowhere - Anubis Gate (9:26)
19. Guardian - Fates Warning (7:33)
20. Iconoclast - Symphony X (10:53)
21. Art of Life - X Japan (29:00)
22. Crimson - Edge of Sanity (40:00)
23. Obliviøn - Mastodon (5:46)
24. Crystal Mountain - Death (5:07)
25. Bleed - Meshuggah (7:22)
26. Paradigm Shift - Liquid Tension Experiment (8:55)
27. The Sixth Extinction - Ayreon (12:18)
28. Critical Mass Pt. 1-3 - Threshold (13:34)
29. Break the Silence - Seventh Wonder (9:29)
30. Space-Dye Vest - Dream Theater (7:29)
31. In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion - Agalloch (14:45)
32. Eternal - Nightingale (11:21)
33. Home - Dream Theater (12:53)
34. Echoes of Life - Threshold (8:55)
35. Beyond the Pale - Pain of Salvation (9:56)
36. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater (42:00)
37. And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris (11:32)
38. Vicarious - Tool (7:06)
39. Ghost of Perdition - Opeth (10:29)
40. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree (12:02)
41. The Great Escape - Seventh Wonder (30:21)
42. The End Of Millennium Road - Anubis Gate (10:17)
43. Amazing Flight - Ayreon (10:15)
44. Forty Six & 2 - Tool (6:04)
45. Blackwater Park - Opeth (12:08)
46. The Accolade - Symphony X (9:51)
47. Tapestry of the Starless Abstract - Ne Obliviscaris (12:00)
48. The Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater (6:13)
49. Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden (7:20)
50. Iter Impius - Pain of Salvation (6:21)
51. Burden - Opeth (7:41)
52. Through the Looking Glass - Symphony X (13:06)
53. Day Eleven: Love - Ayreon (4:18)
54. The Sleep of Restless Hours - Disillusion (17:03)
55. Oroborus - Gojira (5:21)
56. This Godless Endeavor - Nevermore (8:55)
57. Dance of Balet - Ballerina (14:57)
58. Panic Attack - Dream Theater (7:16)
59. When All is Lost - Symphony X (9:10)
60. Sober - Tool (5:06)
61. To Bid You Farewell - Opeth (10:54)
62. Heading For Tomorrow - Gamma Ray (14:29)
63. Goddess Bound - Protest the Hero (3:35)
64. Way Out of Here - Porcupine Tree (7:47)
65. Awakenings - Symphony X (8:21)
66. Octavarium - Dream Theater (24:00)
67. Gutter Ballet - Savatage (6:20)
68. Visions - Haken (22:25)
69. For to End Yet Again - Arcturus (10:33)
70. Take Hold of the Flame - Queensrÿche (4:54)
71. Carolina IV - Angra (10:37)
72. Into the Everflow - Psychotic Waltz (8:21)
73. Paradise Lost - Symphony X (6:32)
74. Isis and Osiris - Ayreon (11:11)
75. Suite Sister Mary - Queensrÿche (10:41)
76. Pareidolia - Haken (10:50)
77. The Pot - Tool (6:22)
78. Flying Whales - Gojira (7:44)
79. Church of the Machine - Symphony X (8:57)
80. Bleak - Opeth (9:15)
81. Bastard - Devin Townsend (10:17)
82. The Last Baron - Mastodon (13:00)
83. Nothingface - Voivod (4:14)
84. As Icicles Fall - Ne Obliviscaris (9:24)
85. King of Whitewater - Seventh Wonder (7:20)
86. Forced Entry - Leprous (10:20)
87. Hearts Alive - Mastodon (13:39)
88. The Glass Prison - Dream Theater (13:52)
89. The Perfect Element - Pain of Salvation (10:09)
90. Still Remains - Fates Warning (16:08)
91. April - TesseracT (4:48)
92. Glory of the Empire - Circus Maximus (10:27)
93. Rosetta Stoned - Tool (11:11)
94. Azrael - Crimson Glory (5:38)
95. Mr. Gutmann - Pervy Perkin (26:02)
96. Earth Day - Devin Townsend (9:35)
97. Chromatic Aberration - Native Construct (12:28)
98. On the Shores - Ihsahn (10:12)
99. A Life to Die For - Royal Hunt (8:38)
100. Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams - Threshold (9:46)



Images and Words album cover
The Divine Wings of Tragedy album cover
Schism single cover
Black Rose Immortal album cover
Pull Me Under album cover
The Odyssey album cover



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