10 Albums That Will Make You Love Prog Rock

10. Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

The biggest hurdle that comes with prog rock is how much you have to take in at one time. When you have something that's really meticulous from one note to the next, it's going to become a bunch of mush when you try to take that into stadiums around the world. If you want to play prog in arenas though, you make music that sounds good playing out of arenas.

Granted, it's not like Muse is necessarily the most prog centric band of the bunch these days. Going further down the rabbit hole with different pieces of arena rock and electronic rock, they have certainly carved out their own niche. Upon their first arrival on the scene in the '00s though, Black Holes and Revelations is where everything came together, making for songs that Queen would have made if they somehow went into an even more art rock direction than they were before.

From one song to the next, it's almost like you're getting a completely different experience every time, like the power ballad Starlight put right next to the dance funk of Supermassive Black Hole. Muse definitely had the stadium crowd in mind here too, and songs like Assassin and Invincible have riffs that seemed designed to be played only through the massive speakers that you see in the likes of Wembley Stadium. Compared to the other garage rock acts out at the time, this was more than just another rock album. This was a full blown rock opera coming from space.