While focusing on progressive metal, jazz metal, instrumental metal, and "djent", The Collective will feature a wide variety of metal sub-genres that showcase the musicianship and composition of modern-day artists and bands. Guests may include artists, students, and industry professionals who will talk about what makes progressive metal successful today. The Collective will appeal to not only the classic metalhead, but also music nerds that appreciate the subtleties of contemporary music composition.
Wave of Babies
Animals As Leaders
Informal Gluttony
Between the Buried and Me
It's Bad. We're Hit, Man, We Are Hit.
Cloudkicker
Prophet For Profit
Consider the Source
Bleak
Opeth
Wazzlejazzlebof
Trioscapes
Narrow Salient
Scale the Summit