The term may bring to mind Woodstock-era prog-rock groups like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes charging off on extended instrumental passages to show off their classical music influences.

On the flip side, there wouldn’t be any music to back the singer ... From prog metal to jazz-influenced rock to tech death and more, instrumental bands are just as capable of crafting incredible ...

Here is a list of bands that have made an impression on the world of instrumental rock music by extracting all the emotion from the genre and leaving all of the words behind. Following guitarist ...

Here are 11 instrumental outfits that ... their influences come from all genres of music, which certainly makes sense. CHON is a progressive math rock band from San Diego, California and have ...

It’s hard to imagine improving on the music from The Beatles, the band born in Liverpool, England, from four teenage friends ...

Sure it’s magnificent, but it’s surprising that an instrumental piece – by definition ... fans used to lyrics and a voice. Rarely can bands get away with ‘doing an Eno’.

Instrumental rock music is at the heart of Rush’s discography ... of that solo from Alex Lifeson… “YYZ” is pure art. Jam bands are known for their great instrumentals, but we have to ...

Say the words ‘instrumental guitar ... post-hardcore and math-rock to create daring, invigorating guitar-led music that stands apart from anything that went before. In fact, it seems almost unfair to ...

This group began when Shane and Tom got together ... a band call Goblin that plays orchestrated and more ambient instrumental rock-music for movies that do not exist! On their second album they ...