Progressive Metal 2020s Albums

Browse 19 Progressive Metal albums from the 2020s in the METAL BOOST catalog, with artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.

Albums

The Moth
DEVIN TOWNSEND / / Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

The Moth finds DEVIN TOWNSEND shaping huge progressive-metal sound design, ambient space and introspective melody into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Borderland
AMORPHIS / / Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal

Borderland finds AMORPHIS shaping Finnish melancholy, progressive-metal construction and folk-like melodic color into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Parasomnia
DREAM THEATER / / Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock

Released on February 7, 2025, Parasomnia is DREAM THEATER’s sixteenth studio album and the first full-length studio record to feature drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009

Aspiral
EPICA / / Symphonic Metal, Progressive Metal

Aspiral finds EPICA shaping symphonic-metal grandeur, progressive construction and weight rooted in extreme metal into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye
LABYRINTH / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye finds LABYRINTH shaping Italian power metal speed and progressive architecture into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

PowerNerd
DEVIN TOWNSEND / / Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

PowerNerd keeps DEVIN TOWNSEND’s layered imagination intact while shifting the center of gravity toward shorter, more direct song power.

Cycles of Pain
ANGRA / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

Cycles of Pain turns ANGRA’s Brazilian color, progressive construction and power-metal lift into one extended drama.

Halo
AMORPHIS / / Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal

Halo is a refined fusion of the death-metal weight, folk-derived melody and progressive arrangement that Amorphis have developed over decades.

Lightwork
DEVIN TOWNSEND / / Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

Lightwork retains Devin Townsend’s talent for enormous walls of sound while giving them more air and calm than some of his recent work.

Digital Noise Alliance
QUEENSRYCHE / / Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal

Digital Noise Alliance brings together sharp guitars, accessible progressive turns and a sense of social tension in the current Queensrÿche lineup.

Dystopia Part II
ROYAL HUNT / / Progressive Metal, Melodic Metal

Continuing the dystopian story of its predecessor, Dystopia Part II deepens the setting through André Andersen’s layered keyboards and classically shaped arrangements.

Rescue
SHAMAN / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

Rescue sees Shaman restating the heat and symphonic splendor of Brazilian power metal.

The Puzzle / Snuggles
DEVIN TOWNSEND / / Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

The Puzzle / Snuggles is a useful way to hear DEVIN TOWNSEND from a different angle within the 2021 catalogue.

A View from the Top of the World
DREAM THEATER / / Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock

Dream Theater’s fifteenth studio album gathers complex rhythm, precision unison work and melodic vocals into long-form progressive-metal architecture.

Omega
EPICA / / Symphonic Metal, Progressive Metal

Omega expands Epica’s symphonic-metal scale to a grand, carefully controlled level.

Fortitude
GOJIRA / / Progressive Metal, Death Metal

Fortitude retains Gojira’s low-end groove, machine-like riffs and massive rhythmic force while allowing more melody and openness into the frame.

Welcome to the Absurd Circus
LABYRINTH / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

Labyrinth’s ninth album places its trademark melancholy melody and bright Italian power-metal guitar work inside more varied arrangements.

Long Day Good Night
FATES WARNING / / Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal

Fates Warning’s thirteenth album uses progressive-metal complexity not as a display case, but as a way to trace time and shifting emotion.

Dystopia
ROYAL HUNT / / Progressive Metal, Melodic Metal

Royal Hunt’s Dystopia is a concept work that uses detailed keyboard arrangements, thick guitar and several guest vocalists to dramatize an oppressive future vision.