The 11 Best Emo-Prog Albums of All Time

Here are the 11 best emo-prog albums of all time!

We’ve already looked at the 10 best emo-prog bands of all time, celebrating the artists who’ve done the best jobs of combining the hectic experimentations and angsty songwriting of post-hardcore/emo with the advanced musicianship and unconventional instrumentation/structures of progressive rock.

Clearly, that fusion requires some concessions on both sides of the stylistic aisle to be listenable and logical (otherwise, we might get something that sounds like the musical lovechild of Usurp Synapse, Funeral Diner, Rush and Genesis, and nobody wants that!)

So, the bands we picked – such as Coheed and Cambria and Dance Gavin Dance – unite only the most fitting elements of in order to avoid melding incongruous extremes.

When done well, the results can be incredible, as we’re about to discuss by jumping into the 11 best emo-prog albums of all time!

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As with our prior lists of the best progressive black metal albums and the best progressive death metal albums, most of our selections come from bands who also appeared on our respective list of best bands representing those styles. Yet, there are a few outliers who didn’t make the cut for that feature but have at least one knockout LP worthy of inclusion here.

If you’re already familiar with these records, you’ll probably be happy to see them here, and if there are any that you’ve not heard before, why not check them out as you read our thoughts about them?!