Timeline of progressive rock

This is a timeline of artists, albums, and events in progressive rock and its subgenres. The timeline is presented in separate articles for each decade.

Timeline by decade

1960s

Newly formed bands

• Omega (1962)
• The Moody Blues (1964)
• Pink Floyd (1965)
• Barclay James Harvest (1966)
• Soft Machine (1966)
• Genesis (1967)
• Van der Graaf Generator (1967)
• Gong (1967)
• Jethro Tull 1967
• The Nice (1967)
• Yes (1968)
• Can (1968)
• Caravan (1968)
• Rush (1968)
• Curved Air (1969)
• King Crimson (1969)
• Renaissance (1969)
• Supertramp (1969)
• Ange (1969)
• Magma (1969)
• Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (1969)

1970s

Newly formed bands

• Gentle Giant (1970)
• Queen (1970)
• Camel (1971)
• Kansas (1971)
• Saga (1971)
• Premiata Forneria Marconi (1972)
• Celeste (1972)
• Machiavel (1974)
• Marillion (1979)

1980s

Newly formed bands

• IQ (1980)
• Fates Warning (1983)
• Pain Of Salvation (1984)
• Dream Theater (1985)
• Dreamscape (1986)
• Porcupine Tree (1987)
• Cynic (1987)

1990s

Newly formed bands

• Opeth (1990)
• Tool (1990)
• Ayreon (1993)
• The Flower Kings (1993)
• Sylvan (1995)
• Evergrey (1996)
• Gazpacho (1996)
• RPWL (1997)
• Symphony X (1997)

2000s

Newly formed bands

• Seventh Wonder (2000)
• Riverside (2001)
• Coheed and Cambria (2001)
• The Mars Volta (2001)
• Haken (2007)

See also

• Progressive rock
• Canterbury Scene
• Symphonic rock
• Avant-rock
• Rock in Opposition
• Neo-prog
• Progressive metal
• Jazz fusion
• Djent

Further reading

• Snider, Charles. The Strawberry Bricks Guide To Progressive Rock. Chicago, Ill.: Lulu Publishing (2008) 364 pages, ISBN 978-0-615-17566-9 (paperback). A veritable record guide to progressive rock, with band histories, musical synopses and critical commentary, all presented in the historical context of a timeline. The book covers only 1967 - 1979.
• Lucky, Jerry. The Progressive Rock Files Burlington, Ontario: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc (1998), 304 pages, ISBN 1-896522-10-6 (paperback). Gives an overview of progressive rock's history as well as histories of the major and underground bands in the genre.
• Macan, Edward. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1997), 290 pages, ISBN 0-19-509887-0 (hardcover), ISBN 0-19-509888-9 (paperback). Analyzes progressive rock using classical musicology and also sociology.