Progressive Metal 2000s Albums - Page 2

Freeman by LABYRINTH: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Paper Blood layers dense keyboard arrangement, hard guitar and forceful vocals into a dramatic progressive-metal setting.

Reason builds a dramatic sound around Andre Matos’s soaring voice, thick keys and classically colored guitar.

Wound Creations introduces Amoral through rapidly changing guitar riffs, abrupt rhythmic shifts and raw growls at high density.

Temple of Shadows combines fast guitar, classical arrangement, Brazilian rhythmic color and soaring vocals to tell a story on a large scale.

FWX uses sharp guitar, restrained rhythm and shadowed vocals to create progressive metal that turns inward.

The second studio album, a concept record drawn from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the band's last for Relapse Records. It opens with "Blood and Thunder".

11 Dreams tightly combines heavy riffs, shifting rhythm and the contrast between clean vocals and growls.

Far from the Sun keeps heavy guitar underneath softer vocals, expansive keyboards and subdued melody.

Accelerated Evolution combines walls of guitar, dense arrangement and soaring vocals to make heaviness and release coexist.

Train of Thought turns Dream Theater toward harder, darker progressive metal through low guitar, precise rhythm and technical keyboards.

The Phantom Agony layers heavy guitar, orchestra, choir and Simone Simons’s clear voice into a large-scale drama.

The Link builds distinctive pressure from low, rolling guitar, machine-like rhythm and heavy roars.

Labyrinth combines fast guitar, bright keyboards and soaring vocals to put European power-metal lift at the front.

Tribe uses hard guitar, shifting rhythm and Geoff Tate’s expressive voice to create tense metal with progressive instincts.

Eyewitness layers weighty keyboards, firm guitar and soaring vocals into a cinematic progressive-metal setting.

Three combines heavy guitar riffs, dark melody and dramatic movement in Armageddon’s melodic-metal world.

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence uses heavy riffs, complex meters, lyrical ballads and an extended suite to examine inner life from multiple angles.

The debut album, released by Relapse Records in 2002 by the band formed in Atlanta in 2000.

Everblack fuses death-metal sharpness, power-metal drama and a vocal approach that moves between clean singing and growls.

Ritual uses dramatic keyboards, fast guitars and expressive high vocals to build Shaman’s expansive narrative.

The Odyssey combines neoclassical guitar, complex rhythm, weighty keyboards and powerful vocals at a high level of density.

Am Universum expands Amorphis beyond a heavy-guitar base with keyboards, saxophone and clean vocals.

Rebirth presents Angra’s renewed lineup through Brazilian rhythmic color and grand power metal.

Terria uses heavy guitar, but places atmosphere, silence and scale at the center of Devin Townsend’s writing.

Terra Incognita introduces Gojira through complex rhythms, low heavy riffs and abrupt shifts in texture.

The Mission is a concept-driven Royal Hunt record that tells its story through thick keyboards and metal riffs.

Embrace the Mystery places Armageddon’s melodic-metal drama around Jeff Scott Soto’s powerful vocal.

Physicist collides Devin Townsend’s enormous sound pressure with introspective, off-kilter melody.

Disconnected deepens Fates Warning’s progressive-metal tension through precise playing and inward-looking songs.

Sons of Thunder connects Labyrinth’s technical playing with accessible, singable choruses.

V: The New Mythology Suite turns Symphony X’s mythic themes into a large-scale progressive-metal narrative.