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This page includes examples of both [[Progressive Rock]] and [[Progressive Metal]]. Being a genre whose parent genres are Rock (or Metal) and Classical music, it deserves a page.
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* [[The Mars Volta]] has the EPIC [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCySloH18MQ "Drunkship of Lanterns"]. Seriously, try saying with a straight face that this song isn't awesome. Regardless of what you think of the band, you can't deny this song's utter epicness. Particularly the last 3 minutes.
** Ditto with [http://www.indyarocks.com/videos/Aberinkula--The-Mars-Volta-1127301 "Aberinkula"]{{Dead link}}.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0F7eFxhXM "Day of the Baphomets"] is utterly awesome. Everything about the song is badass. From the bass solo to the dueling guitar/saxophone bsolo to the crazy percussion solo, everything just works to form one of TMV's best
* [[King Crimson]], just about the most influential and acclaimed prog rock band other than Pink Floyd. Most of their songs fit the crowning moment easily.
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** There's a good reason why ''Close to the Edge'' has been rated more than once as the #1 progressive rock album of all time.
** Especially the segment "I Get Up I Get Down," with the organ flourish at the end. Chills.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207083345/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4495810184823255589 "The Gates of Delirium"]. Between that and "Sound Chaser", you'll be wondering why ''Relayer'' gets bashed.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBP6lFU-J2M "Homeworld"].
** "Fly from Here", proof that even without Jon Anderson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzoNTYTSufY they're still in excellent form.]
** No love for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKftiJS30Cs&fmt=18 "Starship Trooper"] (especially on headphones)?!?!
** No love for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fJQvVFG4g "Awaken"], either?
* [[
** For those who don't care for sports, The Weather Channel's decision to use the song in their 1987 documentary ''Clash of Seasons'' will work - there's no better music to complement footage of destructive tornadoes.
* Michael Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". The first few minutes, having been used as the theme of ''[[The Exorcist]]'', are the most well-known, but they don't sound like, do justice to, or even hint at the majesty of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8l5fthffiE the second half], particularly the buildup to and entrance of the bells (begins at 2:25 in the video).
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** [[Four Words]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZ1QCjA8pk&feature=related "Far Above The Clouds"].
** "Amarok". A song so epic, it's an ''hour'' long!
* The year is 1989. For the first time in its history, a Grammy is given for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. The award is given to Jethro Tull for ''Crest of a Knave''. '''Over ''Metallica'''''. [[What Do You Mean
** Tull's record company published a press ad with a picture of Ian Anderson's metal flute, with the headline: This is a metal instrument.
* [[
** [[
*** The ending part of "Eulogy". Or "Parabola". Or most of ''Undertow''.
** Hell, the entirety of ''Lateralus'' deserves a CMoA, but the highlights would have to be Maynard James Keenan's ''epic'' metal scream at the end of "The Grudge", "Schism", "Parabol/Parabola" (especially the transition between the two of them, god''damn'' it's so amazing), Lateralus, and then the procession of "Disposition/Reflection/Triad".
*** Of course, ''Lateralus'' becomes much more coherent (and thus, extremely epic) when one realizes the album is really meant to played in an entirely different order, (hinted at by the repeat references to spirals in the lyrics) which brings it from merely being a very good prog-rock album to a insanely insightful concept album.
** Don't forget about "Pushit" and "Vicarious" too. And as with most [[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noz6-KaT4fA "Jambi"] anyone? Mostly that awesome bassline and talk box...
** Heck, their entire catalog qualifies as [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. But you are forgetting "Right in Two"...
** Keenan's side project band Puscifer brings us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxdXj7PxRU "The Humbling River"].
* REO Speedwagon's "Roll With The Changes." It's a joyous enough song to begin with, and guaranteed to make you sing along to it...and then the Hammond organ solo starts and makes it EPIC.
* [[Genesis (
** Speaking of Peter Gabriel, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzZEj-jjF0 "Sky Blue"] is just awesome.
*** As are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD4ncW65w14 "The Tower That Ate People"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WC-5VFcliE "Signal To Noise"].
** This agnostic-minded troper considers listening to the end of this song to be the closest he's come to having a spiritual experience.
** See "Supper's Ready" and toss in "The Musical Box", "Mama", "Invisible Touch", "Land of Confusion", "Home By The Sea", and "Domino". Also, Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" and anything from ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' and ''[[Brother Bear]]''.
** "Feeding the Fire" is Phil Collins' best song, with or without Genesis. Why the fuck did they only use it as a B-side for?
*** Phil Collins' tenure as the lead singer tend to be more slow-burners than containing the sudden explosive and awesome parts like the end of "Supper's Ready", "Giant Hogweed", "Musical Box", half the songs from ''The Lamb Lies Down'', etc.
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* Chris Squires' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kfI76YeX90 "Hold Out Your Hand"] is pretty epic. Keep in mind the lead instrument in the song is bass guitar!
* Prog superband Transatlantic's 70+ minute epic ''The Whirlwind'' has some truly amazing moments. Part XI, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KmbNBLNO8 "Is It Really Happening?"], in particular the second half.
* [[The Beatles (
* The band Dead Letter Circus. All of their songs probably count, but standouts include "Here We Divide", "One Step" and "The Space On the Wall".
* If you ever thought [[The Eighties]] didn't produce any good prog (besides perhaps [[Marillion]]) then [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWOugKLRaNQ I'll be very happy to prove you wrong with "Outer Limits" from IQ]. Dated 1985 and suitably epic in scope. There is no soul left to save in you if the climax of the song doesn't do anything for you:
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''You better see it's getting black''
''You're not alone, surrender now''
''You're gonna fall in line, you better learn this time''
''I'm trying to get there''
''I'm falling from nowhere...'' }}
* Chicago's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkGQHnwVjE "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon"] was one of the first successful prog-rock epics from a non-British band. And "Elegy", from which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pona5KNmkJk "The Approaching Storm"] is one of its movements, is arguably the proto-"Starless", from the haunting poetry to the atonal middle section. Yeah, there was a day when ''Chicago'' out-King Crimsoned King Crimson.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p-BcIOwic "Mother Superior"]. This wasn't here why? Listen, then say it's anything less than awesome with a straight face. You will fail.
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