Music festivals are the best way to tackle your band bucket list. Here at Proglodytes, we thought we would try and compile a list of all of the progressive rock/metal music festivals that we knew of, in case there is one that is happening close to you. If you are aware of one that we left off, or if we need to update any details, please let us know, and we’ll make sure to keep it up to date.

North America

Cruise to the Edge 2025
Date: April 4-9th, 2025
Venue: Cruise Ship
City, Country: Puerto Plata, Great Stirrup Cay
Website: https://cruisetotheedge.com/

Bands: Robert Fripp and David Singleton, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Big Big Train, The Aristocrats, Riverside, Haken, IQ, Saga, Pendragon, Von Hertzen Bros, Caligula’s Horse, Gazpacho, Beardfish, Moon Safari, Magic Pie, Thank You Scientist, Trifecta, Karmakanic, Temic, Jazz Sabbath, Alex Skolnick Trio, Dave Kerzner and Friends, Kyros, Dave Cureton, Pure Reason Revolution, The Beggs Sisters.

Legalize Lex 2025 (Doom, Psychedelia, Prog)
Date: April 18-19, 2025
Venue: Al’s Bar
City, Country: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Legalize-Lex/61555343011739/

Bands: Horseburner, Lo Pan, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, Hashtronaut, Rebreather, Crop, Shi – 死,Friendship Commanders, Swamp Hawk, Weed Demon, Blind Scryer, Veilcaste, Radian, Stormtoker, Starviper, Sympathy Jar, Ponddigger.

Terra Incognita Prog Festival
Date: May 16-17th, 2025
Venue: La Chapelle Spectacles
City, Country: Quebec City, Canada
Website: www.terraincognita.quebec

Bands: Friday- Le Prog Show. Saturday- Kaos Moon, Edensong, IZZ.

Cascadence (formerly Seaprog)
Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Venue: Rainer Arts Center
City, Country: Seattle, Washington
Website: https://seaprogfest.org/

Bands: Gong, Khu.eex, more TBA

Prog on the Lake
Date: August 9, 2025
Venue: Arts on the Lake
City, Country: Kent Lakes, NY, USA
Website: 

Bands: Involute, Head With Wings, Haishen, EcSoveriegn, LarkWay, others TBD.

Progstorm Festival
Date: August 9-10, 2025
Venue: Le Ministere
City, Country: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Website: https://www.progstorm.com/

Bands: Saturday- Into Eternity, The Anchoret, Fleshvessel, Omnivide, The Aphelion.

Sunday-Karcius, The Reticent, From Dying Suns, Imminent Sonic Destruction, Ashbreather.

ProgDay
Date: August 30-31 (Labor Day Weekend), 2025
Venue: Storybook Farm
City, Country: Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA
Website: http://www.progday.net/

Bands: TBA

ProgPower USA XXIII
Date: September 3-6, 2025
Venue: Center Stage Theater
City, Country: Atlanta, Georgia USA
Website: http://progpowerusa.com/

Bands: Wednesday- Rabid Lione’s Dawn of Vistory, Green Carnation, Eclipse, Secret Sphere, Aries Descendant.

Thursday- Sonata Arctica, VOLA, Iron Savior, Ancients, Maestrick, Alterium 

Friday- Orden Ogan, Vanden Plas, The Night Flight Orchestra, Bleakor, Temic, Majestica.

Saturday- Symphony X, Skald, Cemetery Skyline, Jelusick, All for Metal, Aviations.

Progstock 2025
Date: October 9-12, 2025
Venue: Williams Center
City, Country: Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Website: http://www.progstock.com/

Bands: The Cyberiam, Pattern Seeking Animals, Beer for Dolphins, Steve Hogarth, IO Earth, Discipline, Orpheus 9, Patrick Moraz. Possible/probable acts: Melanie Mau and Martin Schnella, Rachel Flowers.

Morsefest 2025
Date: October16-18, 2025
Venue: New Life Fellowship Church
City, Country: Cross Plains, TN, USA
Website: http://www.progstock.com/

Bands: Neal Morse & The Resonance, Cheeto’s Magazine, Cosmic Cathedral, We Came from Space.

Europe

Midwinter Prog
Date: January 25, 2025. Next year announced for February 7th, 2026.
Venue: Grote Zaal
City, Country: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Website: https://www.facebook.com/midwinterprogfestival/

Bands: Lesoir, Avkrvst, Rendezvous Point, The Flower Kings, Riverside

Fusion 2025
Date: March 6-9, 2025
Venue: Stourport Civic Centre
City, Country: Stourport-on-Severn, England
Website: http://www.fusionprogfestivals.com/

Bands: Thursday- Final Coil, Godsticks, Amplifier.

Friday- Buzzelliott, Ellesmere, The Mighty Bard, Lazuli.

Saturday- Splink, Haze, Grace and Fire, Karmamoi, Tiger Moth Tales (full band), Kyros, Von Hertzen Bros.

Sunday- The Book of Revelations, Shaven Primates, Hipokamp Projekt, Dominic Sanderson, Sprigganmist, Solstice.

We Låve Rock Festival 2025
Date: March 22-23, 2025
Venue: Grønsand Gjestegård
City, Country: Hurum, Norway
Website: https://www.welaverock.no/

Bands: Pain of Salvation, Kristoffer Gildenlow, Pil & Bue, Cyan, Confirmation Bias, Bresk

Artrock Festival XII
Date: April 11-13, 2025
Venue: Neuberinhaus Reichenbach
City, Country: Vogtland, Germany
Website: https://prog-rock.club/

Bands:  The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Colosseum, Atomic Rooster, Abel Ganz, Zio, Golem, Viper Soup Complex, Karnataka, Aphodyl, The Emerald Dawn, T.P.S.C., Vanden Plas, Krissy Matthews Band, Tim Bowness, Philosophobia, Anton, Seventh Station.

The Winter’s End Progressive Rock Festival 2024
Date: April 24-27th, 2025
Venue: The Drill Hall, Lower Church St, Chepstow
City, Country: Chepstow, Wales, United Kingdom
Website:  http://www.winters-end.co.uk/

Bands: Thursday- Yes Please, Skylines.

Friday- Airbag, Lesoir.

Saturday- Wobbler, Haze, Aerostation, Dikajee.

Sunday- Arena, Antimatter, Credo, Light Damage, Viper Soup Complex.

Prog Metal Mania
Date: May 2-3, 2025
Venue: BAckstage Werk
City, Country: Munich, Germany
Website: https://progmetalmania.com/

Bands: Friday-Disillusion, Obsidious, F.K.U, Vulkan, Loch Vostok, Ihlo, Jester’s Tears.

Saturday- Scar Symmetry, Poem, Xaon, Turbulence, Aeons, Soulsplitter, John Macaluso (Solo Drum Show)

Midsmmer Prog Festival
Date: May 23-24, 2025
Venue: Openluchttheater
City, Country: Valkenburg, The Netherlands
Website: http://midsummerprog.com/

Bands: Soen, Weather Systems, Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows, Sylvan.

Dark Side of the Rock II
Date: May 29-June 1, 2025
Venue: The Bet
City, Country: Tarbes, France
Website: https://www.parvis.net/spectacle-vivant/dark-side-rock-ii

Bands: Gerald, Jack Dupon, Poil Ueda, Lohi/Acid Mother Temple, Boolvar.

Comendatio Music Fest 2025
Date:  June 21-22, 2025
Venue: Paço Da Comenda
City, Country: Rua de Coimbra, Tomar, Portugal
Website:  https://www.facebook.com/comendatiomf

Bands: Saturday– Ihsahn, Oceans Ate Alaska, The Cost, Killus.

Sunday- VOLA, Humanity’s Last Breath, The Broken Horizon, Phase Transition.

RADAR Festival
Date: July 3-6- 2025
Venue: 02 Victoria Warehouse
City, Country: Manchester, England
Website: https://www.radarfestival.co.uk/

Bands: Carpenter Brut, Bob Vylan, Underoath, Zeal & Ardor, Vukovi, Normandie, Yonaka, As December Falls, Intervals, As Everything Unfolds, Novelists, Lake Malice, Allt, David Maxim Micic, Floya, Pintglass, Tiberius, Ghostkid, Oni, Dream State, Future Palace, Shelf Lives, Artio, Cyan Kicks, Arch Echo, Continents, Avralize, Lastelle, Genn, Tropic Gold, Air Drawn Dagger, Hero in Error, Mother Vulture, Deity’s Muse, Waterlines.

Prog for Peart
Date: July 18-19, 2025
Venue: The Northcourt
City, Country: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
Website: https://www.progforpeart.com/#/

Bands: Amarok, Sylvan, Comedy of Errors, Wallner, The Emerald Dawn, Retreat from Moscow, Viper Soup Complex, Hat’s Off Gentleman It’s Adequate (Thursday pre-festival part night and jam session), more TBA.

Eppyfest
Date: July 26-27, 2025
Venue: Smokey Joe’s Diner
City, Country: Cheltenham, UK
Website: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eppyfest/1064621

Bands: Saturday- The Witching Tale, Sans Froid, The Crooked Penny.

Sunday- Steve Bingham, Seas of Mirth, William D. Drake.

Porto Antico Prog Fest 2025
Date: August 2-3, 2025
Venue: Piazza delle Feste Ponte Embriaco
City, Country: Genoa, Italy
Website: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eppyfest/1064621

Bands: Aliante, L’Uovo di Colombo, Presence, more TBA

ArcTanGent 2025
Date: August 14-17, 2025
Venue: Fernhill Farm
City, Country: Bristol, UK
Website: https://arctangent.co.uk/tickets/

Bands: Wednesday- Wardruna, Slift, Kalandra, Year Of No Light, Teeth Of The Sea, Colossal Squid Healthyliving, Hundred Year Old Man, Underdark, God Alone, Thank, Sans Froid.

Thursday- Headliner Tba,Leprous, Melvins, Arab Strap Sungazer, We Lost The Sea, The Fall Of Troy, Pelican, Kylesa Lowentangled Hair, Rezn, Battlesnake, Tayne, Meryl Streek, Maud The Moth Drongo, Ni, Horrendous, Royal Sorrow, The Gorge, Bipolar Architecture Codespeaker, As Living Arrows, Street Grease, Lemondaze.

Friday- Karnivool, Mew, Green Lung, Envy, We Lost The Sea, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gost Between The Buried And Me, Future Of The Left, Vower, Ithaca Car Bomb, Delving, Alpha Male Tea Party, Coilguns Heave Blood & Die, Anciients, Giant Walker, Papangu, Mt, Onsra, Meth, Eyes Overhead, The Albatross, Palmeras Negras, Chalk Hands, Sure, Yoshizawa, Hexcut.

Saturday- Tesseract, Clown Core, Rolo Tomassi, Between The Buried And Me, Unprocessed, Interarma Adebisi Shank, Dvne, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum,Ahab Kayo Dot, Vessels, Sugar Horse, A Swarm Of The Sun, Omo, Sometime In February, Love Rarely, Burner, Boneflower, Vincent Vocoder Voice.

A New Day Festival 2025
Date: August 15-17, 2025
Venue: Mount Ephraim Gardens
City, Country: Faversham, UK
Website: http://www.anewdayfestival.com/

Bands: Friday- Caravan, David Cross Band, Sons Of Liberty, Sacred Geometry Band, Dead Writers, Soft Machine, Lightnin’ Willie & The Poorboys, Extc, Zac Schulze Gang, Tytan, Voodoo Lake, Macade

Saturday- IQ, Penguin Café, Flor De Loto, Splink, Almamor, Skinny Molly, Lifesigns, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The Fierce & The Dead, The Emerald Dawn, Ebb, Kindred Spirit Band

Sunday- Hawkwind, Colosseum, Mostly Autumn, Man, Doctor Feelgood, Albion, Doris Brendel, Z Machine, The Members, Kt Bush Band, Soulweaver

Crescendo
Date: August 15-17, 2025
Venue:  Esplanade du Concié
City, Country: Saint Palais Sur Mer, France
Website: http://festival-crescendo.com

Bands: Friday- !GéRald!, Indrek Patte, Beardfish

Saturday- The New Planet, Regna, HiPoKaMP Project, Traveler.

Sunday- Edenya, VEctor K, Hayley Griffiths Band, Happy End.

Complexity Fest
Date: August 23rd. 2025
Venue: Patronaat Haarlem
City, Country: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Website: https://www.facebook.com/complexityfest

Bands: Car Bomb, Imperial Triumphant, Papangu, meth., L’orne.

Pulterkammer
Date: August 29-30, 2025
Venue: Hamar Teater
City, Country: Hamar, Norway
Website: Pulterkammer Website

Bands: MEER, more bands TBA

Wha’s Like Us
Date: August 30, 2025
Venue: The Drygate
City, Country: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/548019638116794

Bands: Comedy of Errors, EBB, Long Earth, Machinary, The Wizards of Progg

Nene Valley Rock Festival (Rock, Prog, Blues)
Date: September 4-7, 2025
Venue: Grimsthorpe Castle
City, Country: Bourne, UK
Website: https://www.nvrf.rocks/

Bands: Thursday-Dare, Yes Please, Ebb, John Verity, Long Road Home, Delfinia, Dancing Wu Li Masters.

Friday- Cats in Space, Franck Carducci and the Fantastic Squad, Oye Santana, The Mentulls, Gypsy’s Kiss, Blackballed, Splink, Izengard, Zopp, Ruby Dawn, Stray, Gerry Jablonski, Leadfeather, Vmbra, Troyen, Z-Machine,, more tba.

Saturday- Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Quo Connection, Chris Bevington Organisation, Galahad, Square Wild, Landmarq, The Blue Lena, John Hackett Band, Spriggan Mist, Hammerhead, The Whisky Flowers, Soulweaver, Jeanice Lee, Long Earth

Sunday- Uli Jon Roth, Atomic Rooster, Ken Pustelnik’s Groundhogs, Haze, McHale’s Permanent Brew, Winter in Eden, The Dead Can Wait, Albany Down, The Skys, Hekz, Candacraig, Heronimus Fin, Tribe3, Ashley Sherlock Band, Telger, more tba.

2Days Prog +1 Festival
Date: September 5-7, 2025
Venue: Campo Sportivo, Via Chiesa
City, Country: Veruno Novara, Italy
Website: https://www.facebook.com/VerunoProgRockFestival/

Bands: Agitation Free, Ars Nova, Alphataurus, Lifesigns, Terra.

IQ’s Prog Rock Fest Weekender
Date: September 26-27, 2025
Venue: Casino de Paris
City, Country: Paris, France
Website: https://www.karnataka.org.uk/iq-prog-rock-fest-weekender-paris-2025/

Bands: IQ, The Watch plays Genesis, Karnataka, RPWL.

Be Prog! My Friend
Date: September 26-27, 2025
Venue: La Carpa Poble Espanyol
City, Country: Barcelona, Spain
Website: https://www.beprogmyfriend.com/en/

Bands: Tesseract, Pineapple Thief, The Deer Hunter, Wather Systems, Threshold, Von Hertzen Brothers, Dry River, Cheeto’s Magazine, Lampr3a, Moonloop

Euroblast Festival
Date: September 26-28, 2025
Venue: Essigfabrik
City, Country: Cologne, Germany
Website: http://www.euroblast.net/en/

Bands: TBA

The Summer’s End Festival
Date: October 2-5, 2025
Venue: Chepstow Drill Hall
City, Country: Chepstow, England
Website: http://www.summersend.co.uk/

Bands: Thursday- Solstice plus Dorie Jackson

Friday-Sunday: Magenta, Discipline, Also Eden, Tiger Moth Tales, Kristofer Gildenlow, Verbal Delirium, Confirmation Bias, Andy Tillison, Abel Ganz, Stuckfish, Freedom to Glide, Oddleaf, Vlyes, Hats Off Gentleman, It’s Adequate, Storm Deva, Ruby Dawn.

ProgPower Europe
Date: October 3-5, 2025
Venue: JC SJIWA Baarlo
City, Country: Baarlo, The Netherlands
Website:  http://www.progpowereurope.com/

Bands: Elegy, Extol, Kingcrow, Kyros, Major Parkinson, Mayfire, NoSpun, The Cryptex, The Dear Hunter, Threshold, Tiberius, Traels, Voidchaser.

Camp HRH
Date: November 13-16th, 2025
Venue: Camp HRH
City, Country:   Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Website: http://www.hrhprog.com/

Bands: Asia (feat. John Payne), Focus, Foghat, Curved Air, Headspace, Lifesigns, Hawklords, Aisles, Seventh Station, Voda, Doris Brendel, Abel Ganz, Herds, The Space Falcons, Teiger, Mother Black Cap, Refestramus, Yuval Ron Trio, Bobbie Dazzle, Spriggan Mist, Paradise 9, The Brackis, Kindred Spirit, Ebb, The Skys.

Danfest 14
Date: November 28-30, 2025
Venue: The International Music Venue
City, Country:   Garden Street, Leicester, UK
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/the-international-music-venue/danfest-14/4276770339234214/

Bands: Friday- Tiger Moth Tales, Third Quadrant, Herds

Saturday- The Emerald Dawn, Comedy of Errors, John Hackett Band, 25 Yard Screamer, Machinary

Sunday- Landmarq, Credo, Kindred Spirit Band, Beatriz Players, Lillith’s Army.