Some of these bands I like but are not exactly Prog Metal or even Metal in some cases
Bent Knee
Cairo
Circle Takes Square
Coheed and Cambria
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Enchant
Estradasphere
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo
Fair to Midland
Gatherer
Gospel
Incubus
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Kaddisfly
King's X
Long Distance Calling
Magellan
Megadeth
Metallica
Mr. Bungle
Oceansize/Vennart
Platypus/The Jelly Jam
Porcupine Tree
Secret Chiefs 3
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Spock's Beard
Thank You Scientist
The Gathering
Three
Tiles
Time of Orchids
Ulver
Loosely if not overtly "Prog Metal" that I have known but in most cases, I dismissed or, I haven't found the time to check out. Or when I did check them out, I didn't hear the best song to get into them.
A.C.T.
Adagio
Aeon Zen
After Forever
Aghora
Arkhe
Amaran's Plight
Andromeda
Animals as Leaders
Anubis Gate
Ark
Astronoid
Ayreon
Aztec Jade
Balance of Power
Barren Earth
Being
Beyond Twilight
Blotted Science
Brainstorm
Caligula's Horse
Cea Searin
Chrome Shift
Circus Maximus
Cloudkicker
Cloudscape
Communic
Conditioned Response/Pavlov's Dog
Cryptic Vision
Cynthesis
David Maxim Micic
Dark Suns
Dead Soul Tribe
Digital Ruin
Divine Regale
Dominici
Dreamscape
Dysrhythmia
Eidola
Elder
Eldritch
Elegy
Empty Tremor
Esucarys
Event
Evil Wings
Exivious
Explorer's Club
Galexia
Haken
Ice Age
Indukti
Into Eternity
Intronaut
Ion Vein
Ivanhoe
Jag Panzer
Katatonia
Kayo Dot
Kingcrow
Klone
James LaBrie (solo)
Labyrinth
Leviathan
Madsword
Mastermind
Mayadome
Mind's Eye
Mind Key
Nevermore
Nightingale
Nightwish
Nova Collective
Novembre
Oceans of Sadness
Oceans of Slumber
Odd Logic
Odin's Court
Pagan's Mind
Payne's Gray
Periphery
Planet Sarcasm
Polyphia
Prymary
Pyramaze
Pyramid Theorem
Reading Zero
Redemption
Rishloo
Sabaton
Sanctuary
San Voisen
Scar Symmetry
Seventh Wonder
Silent Force
Marco Sfogli
Sleep Parade
Soen
Sons of Apollo
Spectre
Star One
Stramonio
Stride
Subsignal
Sun Caged
Suspyre
Symphorce
Tad Morose
Tetrafusion
Trioscapes
Vox Tempus
Tesseract
The Mayan Factor
The Ocean
Therion
Thought Chamber
Threshold
Time Machine
To-Mera
Tourniquet
Under the Sun
Vangough
Venturia
VOLA
Voyager
Wastefall
Wilderun
Witherfall
Witherscape
Wolverine
Z-Lot-Z
Not enough time to consider (but might like to)
Atheist
Circle II Circle
Dominion (Lou Caldarola)
Freak Kitchen
Gordian Knot
Hammers of Misfortune
Lexeme (Lou Caldarola)
Magnitude 9
Mekong Delta
Slough Feg
Spastic Ink
Toxik (Lou Caldarola)
Wintersong (Lou Caldarola)
Power Metal
Avantasia
Edguy
Helloween
Gamma Ray
Nightwish
Rhapsody
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Symphony X
