A progressive metal supergroup featuring members of Dream Theater and Rudess, Liquid Tension Experiment trades in technical extravagance and jaw-dropping instrumental interplay.

Portland's Lividus pull from melodic death, progressive, and thrash metal, building technically ambitious compositions that reward close listening with layered, shifting dynamics.

Intricate Extreme Progressive Metal from Fort Worth.

Chicago's Lorus have been building intricate, technically demanding progressive metal since 2010, favoring compositional depth and rhythmic complexity over brute force.

Pittsburgh's Lowstate forge progressive and thrash metal into something angular and driving, elevating technical ambition with blue-collar tightness since forming in 2013.

Technical Progressive Metal out of Texas.

Renton, Washington's Luke Taylor is a solo progressive metal project exploring intricate compositions and layered instrumental depth, carving a personal vision from the Pacific Northwest since 2018.

Out of Nashville's eclectic underground, Lunar Satan blend progressive metal intricacy with a decidedly rock-rooted restlessness, built on shifting time signatures and a willingness to follow a riff wherever it leads. Formed in 2020, they chart an unpredictable course.

Portland's Lurid have spent a decade threading classic heavy metal muscle through progressive structures, arriving at something dense and deliberate in the best Pacific Northwest tradition. Their songs unfurl slowly and hit hard.