Timeline of progressive rock

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This is a list of events , artists, and albums constituting a timeline of progressive rock.

1965-1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006


[edit] 1965-1967

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  • Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (USA) (1966)
  • The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (England) (1967)
  • The Doors - Doors (England)
  • Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (England) (1967)
  • Procol Harum - Procol Harum (England) (1967)
  • The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (England) (1967)
  • Soft Machine - Jet Propelled Photographs (England) (1967) - NOTE: Demo Recordings first released 1971 as part of the Rock Generation series by BYG Record - Jet Propelled Photograph was adopted as a title quite some time later
  • The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (England) (1967)
  • Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (USA) (1967)
  • Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free (USA) (1967)
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (USA) (1967)

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[edit] 1968

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  • Caravan - Caravan (England)
  • Family - Music In A Doll's House (England)
  • Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (USA)
  • Jethro Tull - This Was (England)
  • Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (England)
  • Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound (Sweden)
  • Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (England)
  • Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (England)
  • Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly (England)
  • Soft Machine - Volume One (England, although the original album was only available in USA, an import in the UK)
  • The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis (England)

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  • Syd Barrett leaves Pink Floyd after an extended and notorious fling with hallucinogenic drugs which cause him psychological damage.

[edit] 1969

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[edit] 1970

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  • Amon Düül II - Yeti (Germany)
  • Beggars Opera - Act One (United Kingdom)
  • Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (United Kingdom)
  • Cressida - Cressida (United Kingdom)
  • Curved Air - Air Conditioning (United Kingdom)
  • Genesis - Trespass (United Kingdom)
  • Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant (United Kingdom)
  • Egg - The Polite Force (United Kingdom)
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (United Kingdom)
  • Jethro Tull - Benefit (United Kingdom)
  • King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (United Kingdom)
  • King Crimson - Lizard (United Kingdom)
  • Magma - Magma (France)
  • Moving Gelatine Plates - Moving Gelatine Plates (France)
  • Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (United Kingdom)
  • Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By (United Kingdom)
  • Soft Machine - Third (United Kingdom)
  • Supersister - Present From Nancy (Netherlands)
  • T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland (United Kingdom)
  • Van der Graaf Generator - H To He Who Am The Only One (United Kingdom)
  • Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other (United Kingdom)
  • Yes - Time and A Word (United Kingdom)

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[edit] 1971

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[edit] 1972

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[edit] 1973

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[edit] 1974

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[edit] 1975

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[edit] 1976

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  • Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Travelled (USA)
  • Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités (France)
  • Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Come In Un'Ultima Cena (Italy)
  • Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour (England)
  • Camel - Moonmadness (England)
  • Celeste - Celeste (aka Principe Di Un Giorno) (Italy)
  • Cos - Viva Boma (Belgium)
  • Crucis - Crucis (Argentina)
  • Ethos - Ardour (USA)
  • Far East Family Band - Parallel World (Japan)
  • Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (England)
  • Genesis - Wind and Wuthering (England)
  • Gentle Giant - Interview (England)
  • Gualberto - Vericuetos (Spain)
  • Henry Cow - Concerts (England)
  • Jethro Tull - Too Old to Rock & Roll, Too Young to Die (England)
  • Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow (England)
  • Kaipa - Inget Nytt Under Solen (Sweden)
  • Kansas - Leftoverture (USA)
  • Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (Germany)
  • Novalis - Sommerabend (Germany)
  • Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (Italy)
  • Pollen - Pollen (Quebec)
  • Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage Letzte Nächte (Germany)
  • Pulsar - The Strands of the Future (France)
  • Queen - A Day at the Races
  • Rush - 2112 (Canada)
  • Schicke Führs & Fröhling - Symphonic Pictures (Germany)
  • Starcastle - Starcastle (USA)
  • Steve Howe - Beginnings (England)
  • Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life (England)

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  • 10cc: Kevin Godley and Lol Creme leave to pursue solo projects.

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[edit] 1977

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[edit] 1978

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  • Art Bears
  • Sky - Herbie Flowers, Tristan Fry, Francis Monkman, Kevin Peek, John Williams

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[edit] 1979

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  • The Mnemonist Orchestra (developed into Biota)
  • Marillion

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  • Aksak Maboul - Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits (Belgium)
  • Albert Marcoeur - Armes et Cycles (France)
  • Arachnoid - Arachnoid (France)
  • Art Bears - Winter Songs (England)
  • Art Zoyd - Musique Pour l'Odyssee (France)
  • Atlas - Blå Vardag (Sweden)
  • Bill Bruford - One of a Kind (England)
  • Camel - I Can See Your House From Here (England)
  • Dixie Dregs - Night of the Living Dregs (USA)
  • Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (Germany)
  • Eskaton - Four Visions (France)
  • Flame Dream - Elements (Switzerland)
  • FM - Surveillance (Canada)
  • Godley and Creme - Freeze Frame (England)
  • Itoiz - Ezekiel (Spain (Basque))
  • Jethro Tull - Stormwatch (England)
  • Kansas - Monolith (USA)
  • Laurent Thibault - Mais on ne Peut pas Rever Tout le Temps (France)
  • Le Orme - Florian (Italy)
  • Ma Banlieue Flasque - Ma Banlieue Flasque (France)
  • Mezquita - Recuerdos De Mi Tierra (Spain)
  • Mike Batt - Tarot Suite (England)
  • Neuschwanstein - Battlement (Germany)
  • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III (melting face) (England)
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall (England)
  • Robert Fripp - Exposure (England)
  • Sky - Sky (England / Australia)
  • Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings (England)
  • Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica (Italy)
  • Supertramp - Breakfast in America (England)
  • U.K. - Danger Money (England)
  • Univers Zero - Heresie (Belgium)

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  • Richard Wright of Pink Floyd fired from band, stays on "The Wall" tour as paid session musician.

[edit] 1980

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  • Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement (France)
  • Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest (Japan)
  • Art Bears - The World as It is Today (England)
  • Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur (France)
  • Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine (France)
  • Bill Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado (England)
  • Cai - Noche Abierta (Spain)
  • Eskaton - Ardeur (France)
  • Fred Frith - Gravity (England)
  • Genesis - Duke (England)
  • Gentle Giant - Civilian (England)
  • Jethro Tull - A (England)
  • Jon Anderson - Song of Seven (England)
  • Patrick Gauthier - Bebe Godzilla (France)
  • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3) (England)
  • Picchio Dal Pozzo - Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi (Italy)
  • Present - Triskaidekaphobie (Belgium)
  • Rahmann - Rahmann (France)
  • Rush - Permanent Waves (Canada)
  • Sky - Sky 2 (England / Australia)
  • Steve Hackett - Defector (England)
  • Tako - U Vreći za Spavanje (Yugoslavia)
  • The Muffins - Open City (USA)
  • This Heat - This Heat (England)
  • Wurtemberg - Rock Fantasia Opus 9 (France)
  • Yes - Drama (England)
  • Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor (Sweden)

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  • Sky: Francis Monkman (keyboards) departs. Replaced by Steve Gray.

[edit] 1981

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  • Camel - Nude (England)
  • Cartoon - Cartoon (USA)
  • Dün - Eros (France)
  • East - Játekók (Hungary)
  • Eider Stellaire - Eider Stellaire (K001) (France)
  • Eloy - Planets (Germany)
  • Flame Dream - "Out In The Dark" (Switzerland)
  • Fred Frith - Speechless (England)
  • Genesis - Abacab (England)
  • Godley and Creme - Ismism (England)
  • Kayak - Merlin (Netherlands)
  • Kerrs Pink - Mellom Oss (Norway)
  • King Crimson - Discipline (England)
  • Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar (Sweden)
  • Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Picchu (Chile)
  • Mike Batt / Autopilot - Rapid Eye Movements (England)
  • Mike Batt - Six Days in Berlin (England)
  • National Health - D.S. Al Coda (England)
  • Pallas - Arrive Alive (Scotland)
  • Rush - Moving Pictures (Canada)
  • Saga - Worlds Apart (Canada)
  • Sky - Sky 3 (England / Australia)
  • Steve Hackett - Cured (England)
  • The Muffins - 185 (USA)
  • This Heat - Deceit (England)
  • Twelfth Night - Live at the Target (England)
  • Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors (Belgium)

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[edit] 1982

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  • Art Zoyd - Phase IV (France)
  • Asia - Asia (England)
  • Begnagrad - Begnagrad (Konzert for a Broken Dance) (Yugoslavia)
  • Bi Kyo Ran - Bi Kyo Ran (Japan)
  • Camel - The Single Factor (England)
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow (USA)
  • Debile Menthol - Emile au Jardin Patrologique (Switzerland)
  • East - Hűség (Hungary)
  • Etron Fou Leloublan - Les Poumons Gonfles (France)
  • Genesis - Three Sides Live (England)
  • IQ - Seven Stories into Eight (England)
  • Jean-Paul Prat - Masal (France)
  • Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast (England)
  • Kenso - II (Japan)
  • King Crimson - Beat (England)
  • Los Jaivas - Aconcagua (Chile)
  • Mike Batt - Zero Zero (England)
  • Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out (England)
  • P.L.J. Band - Armageddon (Greece)
  • Peter Gabriel - Security (England)
  • Radio Noisz Ensemble - Yniverze (Germany)
  • Rebekka - Phoenix (Germany)
  • Rush - Signals (Canada)
  • Sky - Sky 4 - Forthcoming (England / Australia)
  • Stormy Six - Al Volo (Italy)
  • Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction (England)
  • Univers Zero - Crawling Wind (Belgium)
  • Von Zamla - Zamlaranamma (Sweden)

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[edit] 1983

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  • Sky - Sky 5 - Live (England / Australia)
  • Sky - Cadmium (England / Australia)
  • Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim (Brazil)
  • Genesis - Genesis (England)
  • IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic (England)
  • Yes - 90125 (England)
  • Asia - Alpha (England)
  • Marillion - Script For a Jester's Tear (England)
  • Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (England)
  • Eddie Jobson/ Zinc - The Green Album (England)
  • In Spe - In Spe (Estonia)
  • Kaseke - Põletus (Estonia)
  • Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets (France)
  • Etron Fou Leloublan - Les Sillons de la Terre (France)
  • Eskaton - Fiction (France)
  • Cartoon - Music From Left Field (USA)
  • Von Zamla - 1983 (Various)
  • Godley and Creme - Birds of Prey (England)

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  • John Wetton is fired from Asia in the middle of an American tour and is replaced by Greg Lake.

[edit] 1984

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  • Univers Zero - UZED (Belgium)
  • Marillion - Fugazi (England)
  • Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs (England)
  • Craft - Craft (England)
  • Twelfth Night - Live and Let Live (England)
  • Pallas - The Sentinel (Scotland)
  • Camel - Stationary Traveler (England)
  • Castanarc - Journey to the East (England)
  • News From Babel - Work Resumed on the Tower (England)
  • Jethro Tull - Under Wraps (England)
  • King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair (England)
  • Uppsala - Uppsala (France)
  • Art Zoyd - Le Mariage du Ciel et l'Enfer (France)
  • Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák (The Martian Chronicles) (Hungary)
  • Bi Kyo Ran - Parallax (Japan)
  • Nazca - Nazca (Mexico)
  • Isildurs Bane - Sagan om den Irländska Älgen (Sweden)
  • Gunesh Ensemble - Looking at the Earth (Turkmenistan)
  • Thinking Plague - A Thinking Plague (USA)
  • Pocket Orchestra - Knebnagäuje (USA)
  • Not Drowning, Waving - Another Pond (Australia)
  • Queensrÿche - The Warning (USA)
  • Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking (England)
  • Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Canada)

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  • Sky: John Williams (acoustic guitar) departs. Remaining members tour Australia with Rick Wakeman.

[edit] 1985

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  • Present - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou (Belgium)
  • Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (England)
  • Ozric Tentacles - Tantric Obstacles (England)
  • Patrick Moraz - Bill Bruford - Flags (England)
  • Pendragon - The Jewel (England)
  • Eddie Jobson - Theme of Secrets (England)
  • Asia - Astra (England)
  • Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat (England)
  • IQ - The Wake (England)
  • Bernard Paganotti - Paga (France)
  • Minimum Vital - Envol Triangles (France)
  • In Spe - Typewriter Concerto in D (Estonia)
  • Kenso - Music From Five Unknown Musicians (Japan)
  • Kenso - Kenso III (Japan)
  • Iconoclasta - Reminiscencias (Mexico)
  • Gorizont (Horizont) - Summer in Town (Russia)
  • Debile Menthol - Battre Campagne (Switzerland)
  • Deyss - At King (Switzerland)
  • 5uu's - Bel Marduk and Tiamat (USA)
  • Not Drowning, Waving - The Little Desert (Australia)

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  • IQ - vocalist Peter Nicholls leaves for personal reasons. Replaced by Paul Menel who debuts on 14/11/1985.
  • Pink Floyd - Leader, bassist and lyricist Roger Waters leaves due to internal tensions within the band, and declares the band defunct, however the remaining members still continue, releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987.

[edit] 1986

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[edit] 1987

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  • King Diamond - Abigail
  • Yes - Big Generator (England)
  • Marillion - Clutching at Straws (England)
  • Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave (England)
  • Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (England)
  • IQ - Nomzamo (England)
  • Art Zoyd - Berlin (France)
  • Ezra Winston - Myth of the Chrysavides (Italy)
  • Bellaphon - Firefly (Japan)
  • Iconoclasta - Soliloquio (Mexico)
  • Abel Ganz - Gullibles Travels (Scotland)
  • Isildurs Bane - Sagan om Ringen (Sweden)
  • Deyss - Vision in the Dark (Switzerland)
  • Blind Owl - Debut at Dusk (USA)
  • Thinking Plague - Moonsongs (USA)
  • Doctor Nerve - Armed Observation (USA)
  • Biota - Tinct (USA)
  • Djam Karet - The Ritual Continues (USA)
  • Nimal - Nimal (Various)
  • Not Drowning, Waving - Cold and the Crackle (Australia)
  • Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S. (England)
  • Outer Limits - The Scene Of Pale Blue (Japan)
  • Rush - Hold Your Fire (Canada)

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  • Richard Wright brought back as paid session musician for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, is re-hired as part of the band again.

[edit] 1988

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  • Steve Hackett - Momentum (England)
  • 3 - To the Power of Three (England)
  • Phil Miller - Split Seconds (England)
  • Halloween - Part One (France)
  • Minimum Vital - Les Saison Marines (France)
  • Edhels - Still Dream (France)
  • Devil Doll - The Girl Who Was Death (Italy)
  • Nuova Era - L'Ultimo Viaggio (Italy)
  • Vermilion Sands - Water Blue (Japan)
  • Miriodor - Miriodor (Quebec)
  • Galadriel - Muttered Promises From An Ageless Pond (Spain)
  • 5uu's with Motor Totemist Guild - Elements (USA)
  • Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (USA)
  • Phish - Junta (USA)
  • Crimson Glory - Transcendence (USA)

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[edit] 1989

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  • IQ - vocalist Paul Menel and bass player Tim Esau depart.

[edit] 1990

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  • Apocalypse - Apocalypse (Brazil)
  • Quaterna Requiem - Velha Gravura (Brazil)
  • MCH Band - Es Reut Mich F (Czechoslovakia)
  • Fish - Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors (England)
  • Ozric Tentacles - Erpland (England)
  • Ne Zhdali - Rhinoceros And Other Forms Of Life (Estonia)
  • Minimum Vital - Sarabandes (France)
  • Halloween - Laz (France)
  • King's X - Faith Hope Love (USA)
  • Tiemko - Ocean (France)
  • Solaris - 1990 (Hungary)
  • After Crying - Overground Music (Hungary)
  • Ezra Winston - Ancient Afternoons (Italy)
  • Devil Doll - Eliogabulus (Italy)
  • Providence - And I'll Recite an Old Myth (Japan)
  • Asturias - Brilliant Streams (Japan)
  • Collage - Basnie (Poland)
  • L'Ensemble Raye - Meme en Hiver, Comme un Pinson dans l'Eau (Switzerland)
  • PFS - 279 (USA)
  • Doctor Nerve - Did Sprinting Die? (USA)
  • U Totem - U Totem (USA)
  • Nimal - Voix De Surface (Various)
  • Not Drowning, Waving - Tabaran (Australia/Papua New Guinea)
  • Iona - Iona (England)

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[edit] 1991

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  • Not Drowning, Waving - Proof (Australia) - OST
  • Daniel Denis - Sirius and The Ghosts (Belgium)
  • Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life (England)
  • Fish - Internal Exile (England)
  • IQ - J'ai Pollette D'arnu (England)
  • Genesis - We Can't Dance (England)
  • Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude (England)
  • Galahad - Nothing is Written (England)
  • Marillion - Holidays in Eden (England)
  • Pendragon - The World (England)
  • Deus Ex Machina - Gladium Caeli (Italy)
  • Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Da Qui Messere si Domina la Valle (Italy) - Re-recording of Banco's 1st album and Darwin!
  • Kenso - Yume No Oka (Japan)
  • Motoi Sakuraba - Gikyokuonsou (Japan)
  • Ain Soph - Marine Menagerie (Japan)
  • Miriodor - 3rd Warning (Quebec)
  • Sepsis - Литургия Безумия (Liturgia Bezumia) (Russia)
  • Echolyn - Echolyn (USA)
  • Djam Karet - Suspension & Displacement (USA)
  • Mastermind - Brainstorm (USA)
  • Doctor Nerve - Beta 14 OK (USA)
  • Djam Karet - Burning the Hard City (USA)
  • Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (USA)
  • Yes - Union (Various)

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  • Yes becomes comprised of an eight-man supergroup constituted by members from the "Yes West" camp (Squire, Rabin, White, and Kaye) and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe. The band undertakes a world tour lasting into 1992.
  • Freddie Mercury (Queen) dies of AIDS.
  • IQ - Peter Nicholls (vocals) formally re-joins. Bass player John Jowitt replaces Tim Essau.

[edit] 1992

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  • Jadis - More than Meets the Eye (England)
  • Asia - Aqua (England)
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Black Moon (England)
  • Casino - Casino (England)
  • Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2 (England)
  • Iona - The Book of Kells (England)
  • Roger Waters - Amused to Death (England)
  • Camel - Dust and Dreams (England)
  • Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 - Phases 1/2 (EP) (England)
  • Xaal - On the Way (France)
  • After Crying - Megalazottak Es Megszomoritottak (Hungary)
  • Eris Pluvia - Rings of Earthly Light (Italy)
  • Nuova Era - Io e Il Tempo (Italy)
  • Calliope - La Terra Dei Grandi Occhi (Italy)
  • Sithonia - Spettacolo Annullato (Italy)
  • Il Castello di Atlante - Sono io il Signore delle Terre a Nord (Italy)
  • Devil Doll - Sacrilegium (Italy)
  • Il Berlione - Il Berlione (Japan)
  • Ars Nova - Fear & Anxiety (Japan)
  • Citizen Cain - Serpents in Camouflage (Scotland)
  • Galadriel - Chasing The Dragonfly (Spain)
  • Änglagård - Hybris (Sweden)
  • Landberk - Riktigt Äkta (Sweden)
  • Isildurs Bane - The Voyage - A Trip to Elsewhere (Sweden)
  • Atavism of Twilight - Atavism of Twilight (USA)
  • Dream Theater - Images and Words (USA)
  • Kingston Wall - I (Finland)
  • Tool - "Opiate" (USA)
  • Pentwater - Out of the Abyss (USA)

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  • The Yes Union tour ends and the eight-man line-up falls apart.

[edit] 1993

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  • Tool - "Undertow" (USA)
  • Not Drowning, Waving - Circus (Australia)
  • Daniel Denis - Les Eaux Troubles (Belgium)
  • Jethro Tull - 25th Anniversary Box Set (England)
  • Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift (England)
  • Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair (England)
  • Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: Remixes - Phases 3/4 (EP) (England)
  • Iona - Beyond These Shores (England)
  • Pendragon - The Window of Life (England)
  • IQ - Ever (England)
  • Kingston Wall - II (Finland)
  • Philharmonie - Les Elephants Carrillonneurs (France)
  • Deus Ex Machina - Deus Ex Machina (Italy)
  • Montefeltro - Il Tempo di Far la Fantasia (Italy)
  • Kenso - Live 92 (Japan)
  • Ain Soph - Five Evolved From Nine (Japan)
  • Lars Hollmer & The Looping Home Orchestra - Door Floor Something Window (Sweden)
  • Anekdoten - Vemod (Sweden)
  • Spacious Mind - Cosmic Minds at Play (Sweden)
  • L'Ensemble Raye - Quelques Pièces Détachées (Switzerland)
  • Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom (USA)
  • Echolyn - ..and Every Blossom (EP) (USA)
  • Discipline - Push and Profit (USA)
  • Glass Hammer - Journey of the Dunadan (USA)
  • Magellan - Impending Ascension (USA)
  • Iluvatar - Iluvatar (USA)
  • Nimal - Dis Tanz (Various)

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[edit] 1994

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  • King Crimson reforms as a sextet.
  • Pink Floyd goes on single largest tour the band has ever done. The tour is a hit, grossing a record US$ 300 million. It also marks the first time since 1975 the band plays Dark Side of the Moon live in its entirety.
  • The "90125" era Yes releases Talk on Victory Records. Though plans had been worked on to include possibly Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman, Victory president Phil Carson insists on signing only Anderson, Squire, Rabin, White and Kaye. Talk marks the last album of this version of Yes.

[edit] 1995

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  • The Flower Kings

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  • Tony Kaye retires from Yes while Trevor Rabin leaves the band to concentrate on soundtrack production. Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman rejoin Yes in what fans and critics alike call the reformation of "Classic Yes."

[edit] 1996

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[edit] 1997

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[edit] Events

  • Citing difficulties in agreements over management, Rick Wakeman again departs Yes. Longtime band affiliate Billy Sherwood joins as a full member. Keyboardist Igor Khoroshev also joins.

[edit] 1998

[edit] Newly formed bands

[edit] Albums

  • Present - Certitudes (Belgium)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#∞ (Canada)
  • Nathan Mahl - The Clever Use of Shadows (Canada)
  • IQ - Seven Stories Into Ninety-Eight (England) - re-issue + re-recording of formerly cassette-only debut album
  • Mostly Autumn - For All We Shared (England)
  • Marillion - Radiation (England)
  • Apocalypse - The Best of Apocalypse (Brazil)
  • Arena - The Visitor (England)
  • Forgas Band Phenomena - Roue Libre (France)
  • Priam - 3 Distances / Irregular Signs (France)
  • Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza (Italy)
  • Höstsonaten - Mirrorgames (Italy)
  • Consorzio Acqua Potabile - Robin Delle Stelle (Italy)
  • Ars Nova - The Book of the Dead (Japan)
  • Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (Netherlands)
  • White Willow - Ex Tenebris (Norway)
  • Interférence Sardines - Mare Crisium (Quebec)
  • Pallas - Beat The Drum (Scotland)
  • Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (Sweden)
  • Pain of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake (Sweden)
  • Grovjobb - Landet Leverpastej (Sweden)
  • Roine Stolt - Hydrophonia (Sweden)
  • IZZ - Sliver of a Sun (USA)
  • Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus (USA)
  • Salem Hill - The Robbery of Murder (USA)
  • Thinking Plague - In Extremis (USA)
  • Tortoise - TNT (USA)
  • A Triggering Myth - The Sins of Our Saviours (USA)
  • Glass Hammer - On To Evermore (USA)
  • Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (USA)
  • Shadow Gallery - Tyranny (USA)
  • Ad Infinitum - Ad Infinitum (USA)
  • Explorer's Club - Age of Impact (USA)
  • Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (Sweden)

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[edit] 1999

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First annual North East Art Rock Festival (NEARfest), Bethlehem, PA (USA)

[edit] 2000

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  • Billy Sherwood leaves and Igor Khoroshev is fired from Yes. This leaves Yes for the first time in its history without a fulltime keyboardist.

[edit] 2001

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  • Dream Theater releases Live Scenes From New York which made headlines as the album's artwork (which was released before September 11, 2001) had an image of the New York City skyline "in flames", including a depiction of the World Trade Center. After the terrorist attack, the artwork was recalled and a new version was released. The original artwork is now a rare collectible. [1]
  • Transatlantic, a progressive rock "supergroup" that consisted of members from four of progressive rock's most popular modern bands, released their follow-up studio album titled Bridge Across Forever. Members included Neal Morse (Spock's Beard), Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings), Pete Trewavas (Marillion), and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater). [2]
  • 70s progressive rock icons Yes release the album Magnification. The album contains no keyboardist, but includes the backing of a symphony orchestra. [4]

[edit] 2002

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[edit] Albums

  • Bubblemath - Such Fine Particles of the Universe (USA)
  • Camel - A Nod and a Wink (England)
  • 5uu's/Dave Kerman- Abandonship (USA)
  • Deus Ex Machina - Cinque (Italy)
  • Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (USA)
  • Echolyn - Mei (USA) - Concept album in the form of one long epic length track.
  • Farpoint - First Light (USA)
  • Glass Hammer - Lex Rex (USA)
  • Hidria Spacefolk - Symbiosis (Finland)
  • Höstsonaten - Springsong (Italy)
  • Inviolet Row - Consolation Prizes (USA)
  • IZZ - I Move (USA)
  • Kaipa - Notes From The Past (Sweden)
  • Karmakanic - Entering The Spectra (Sweden)
  • Kenso - Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis (Japan)
  • Mastodon - Remission (USA)
  • Mats / Morgan - On Air With Guests (Sweden)
  • NeBeLNeST - Nova Express (France)
  • O.S.I. - Office of Strategic Influence (Various) - Supergroup with members from Dream Theater, Fates Warning, and Pain of Salvation among others.
  • Paatos - Timeloss (Sweden)
  • Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (Sweden)
  • Planet X - MoonBabies (USA)
  • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (England)
  • Rush - Vapor Trails
  • Sigur Rós - ( ) (Iceland)
  • Sotos - Platypus (France)
  • Sphere3 - Comeuppance (UK)
  • Spock's Beard - Snow (USA)
  • The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future (Sweden)
  • Tony Levin - Pieces of the Sun (USA)
  • Uzva - Niittoaika (Finland)

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  • Growing in popularity since its inception in 1999, NEARfest relocates to Trenton, NJ for the next two years to a venue that seats 1,850. [5] [6]
  • Neal Morse, the frontman and primary contributor for Spock's Beard, leaves the band and eventually pursues a solo career producing albums (progressive rock and otherwise) with strong Christian content. The band continues on without him. [7]
  • Rush released their first studio album since Test For Echo in 1996. Vapor Trails will likely be better known for its controversial recording quality (critics panned it for being too loud and compressed). [9]

[edit] 2003

[edit] Newly formed bands

Pure Reason Revolution

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  • Anekdoten - Gravity (Sweden)
  • Apocalypse - Refúgio (Brazil)
  • Azigza - Kriya (USA)
  • Cast - Al-Bandaluz (Mexico)
  • Divinity Destroyed - Divinity Destroyed (USA)
  • Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes (USA)
  • Djam Karet - A Night For Baku (USA)
  • Dream Theater - Train Of Thought (USA)
  • Farpoint - Grace (USA)
  • Frogg Café - Creatures (USA)
  • Kaipa - Keyholder (Sweden)
  • KBB - Four Corner's Sky (Japan)
  • King Crimson - The Power to Believe (England)
  • Knight Area - The Sun Also Rises (Netherlands)
  • Krakatoa - We Are the Rowboats (USA)
  • Neal Morse - Testimony (USA) - Morse's first album since splitting from Spock's Beard.
  • No-Man - Together We're Stranger (England)
  • Opeth - Damnation (Sweden)
  • Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream (England)
  • Riverside - Out of Myself (Poland)
  • Satellite - A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset (Poland) - First album from members formerly of Collage.
  • Taal] - Skymind (France)
  • The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (USA)
  • The Science Group - Spoors (Various)
  • The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone (Various)
  • Thinking Plague - A History of Madness (USA)

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  • The Mars Volta forms out of the punk group At the Drive-In and releases their first full studio album De-Loused in the Comatorium. The album mixes elements of prog, post-rock, and punk. The release is very successful and becomes an example of progressive rock success in the mainstream. [10] [11]
  • Robert Fripp and King Crimson release The Power to Believe, their first studio album since 2000. [12]
  • The Tangent is formed and releases their first album The Music That Died Alone. The initial lineup of this "supergroup" consisted of Andy Tillison & Sam Baine (Parallel Or 90 Degrees), Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold, & Zoltan Czsorz (The Flower Kings), David Jackson (Van der Graaf Generator), and Guy Manning (Manning). It featured the epic track The Canterbury Sequence, which was an homage to the Canterbury scene of the 1970s. [13]

[edit] 2004

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  • French 70s Zeuhl pioneers Magma release K.A (Köhntarkösz Anteria), a long anticipated follow-up album containing material written in the 1970s. [14]
  • Happy The Man, a popular 70s American group who had reunited a few years earlier, release their first recorded studio album in 25 years titled The Muse Awakens. [15]

[edit] 2005

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  • We Are The Music Makers (U.S.A.)

[edit] Albums

  • Arena - Pepper's Ghost (England)
  • Cerebus Effect - Acts of Deception (USA)
  • Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes
  • Divinity Destroyed - The Plague
  • Djam Karet - Recollection Harvest (USA)
  • Dream Theater - Octavarium (USA)
  • Echolyn - The End Is Beautiful (USA)
  • Frogg Café - Fortunate Observer of Time (USA)
  • Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret (USA)
  • Guapo - Black Oni (England)
  • Indukti - SUSAR (Poland) - With guest vocalist from Riverside.
  • IZZ - My River Flows (USA)
  • K2 - Book of the Dead (England)
  • Kino - Picture (England)
  • Koenji Hyakkei - Angherr Shisspa (Japan)
  • KTU - 8 Armed Monkey (Various) - A collaboration between Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen with Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn of King Crimson.
  • Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral (Japan)
  • Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils (England)
  • Miriodor - Parade + Live at NEARfest 2002 (Quebec)
  • Neal Morse - ? (USA)
  • Nil - Nil Novo Sub Sole (France)
  • Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Sweden)
  • Pallas - The Dreams Of Men (Scotland)
  • Pendragon - Believe (England)
  • Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (England)
  • Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (Poland)
  • Roine Stolt - Wall Street Voodoo (Sweden)
  • Satellite - Evening Games (Poland)
  • Sigur Rós - Takk... (Iceland)
  • The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (USA)
  • The Mars Volta - Scabdates (USA)
  • Underground Railroad - The Origin of Consciousness (USA)
  • Van der Graaf Generator - Present (England)
  • Wobbler - Hinterland (Norway)

[edit] Events

  • 1970s progressive rock legends Van der Graaf Generator reunite and release a double CD titled Present which contained strong lyrical content and an entire disc of improvisations. [16]
  • Kino, a new progressive rock supergroup consisting of members from Porcupine Tree, Arena, Marillion, and It Bites is formed. They release their first album, Picture in 2005. [17]
  • Pink Floyd members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright reunite with Roger Waters, the leading creative force of the band during its 1970s heyday, at Live 8 on July 2nd in Hyde Park, England. Waters had acrimoniously left the band in 1985, and the quartet had last played together during a performance of The Wall in 1981.

[edit] 2006

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  • GPS
  • Mother Military

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  • A combination of high-speed internet connections, MP3 compression, inexpensive streaming web servers, and the iPod/iTunes phenomenon has resulted in an explosion of internet radio stations devoted to playing progressive rock and other similar music. Some of these stations and radio programs have begun podcasting their programming, making it even more convenient to access music online. [18]
  • Former Soft Machine member Elton Dean died.
  • Former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett died on July 7th due to diabetic related complications.
  • Former Hatfield and the North/National Health drummer Pip Pyle died in August.

[edit] See also

[edit] Links and References

[edit] World Wide Web

[edit] Books

  • 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.
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