Prog AtlasProgressive Rock
A Guide to Progressive Rock, Scene by Scene
From Canterbury’s whimsy to Krautrock’s pulse, from the Italian RPI to the modern wave: the scenes, bands and essential albums that make this music endless.
Prog Atlas maps progressive rock the way people actually listen to it: by scene, by band, album by album. I’m Marcus Stone, author of the Beyond the Sound book series, and this site is the companion to those books.
Here you will find the stories, the records and the rabbit-holes, from Genesis and King Crimson to PFM and Banco, from Can and Tangerine Dream to Marillion and Opeth, organised so you can wander from a whole scene down to a single album and back again. When you want the full story of a scene, the books are there to tell it.
Explore by scene
Eight worlds of progressive rock. Pick a thread and pull.
The books behind the site
Beyond the Sound tells the story of progressive rock one scene at a time. Beyond the Alps covers Italian prog, Beyond the Thames the British scene and Beyond the Rhine German prog and Krautrock; Beyond the Atlantic and Beyond the Decades are in preparation. See all five books.
Start here
New to the site? A few good doors in: read about Prog Atlas, look through the Beyond the Sound books, or dip into the blog for guides, listening notes and deep dives.