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{{short description | English progressive rock band}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use British English|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Porcupine Tree | image = Porcupine Tree - Live at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (June 24, 2023) - 9012 (cropped).jpg | caption = Porcupine Tree performing in 2023 | landscape = yes | origin = [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Hertfordshire]], England | genre = {{Flatlist| * [[Progressive rock]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Jon |last=O'Brien |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steven-wilson-mn0000455886 |title=Steven Wilson | Music Biography, Credits and Discography |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=29 June 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620175447/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steven-wilson-mn0000455886 |archive-date=20 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web |last=Raggett |first=Ned |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/porcupine-tree-mn0000854203 |title=Porcupine Tree |website=AllMusic |date=26 April 2001 |access-date=8 July 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906013245/http://allmusic.com/artist/porcupine-tree-p168248/biography |archive-date=6 September 2011}}</ref> * [[progressive metal]]<ref name="metalstorm1">{{cite web|url=http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7&bandname=Porcupine+Tree |title=Porcupine Tree |publisher=Metal Storm |access-date=8 July 2011}}</ref> * [[post-progressive]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Mettler|first=Mike|title=Stripped down and reimagined in brass, Porcupine Tree takes on a whole new life|url=http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/gavin-harrison-of-porcupine-tree-on-cheating-the-polygraph/#ixzz4Pq5leMJy|website=[[Digital Trends]]|date=14 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113122408/http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/gavin-harrison-of-porcupine-tree-on-cheating-the-polygraph/#ixzz4Pq5leMJy|archive-date=13 November 2016}}</ref> * [[psychedelic rock]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Partridge|first=Christopher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g05THJPH5xUC&pg=PA166|title=The Re-Enchantment of the West: Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture|date=2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-567-08269-5|page=166}}</ref> * [[experimental rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/porcupine-tree-return-with-new-single-harridan-and-closure-continuation-album-announcement-3084235 |title=Porcupine Tree return with new single 'Harridan' and 'CLOSURE/CONTINUATION' album announcement |date=November 2021 |publisher=NME |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> }} | years_active = {{hlist|1987–2010<ref name="technologytell.com">{{cite web|url= http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/16233/branching-out-entertainmenttell-com-interviews-colin-edwin-of-porcupine-tree/|title= Branching Out: Entertainmenttell.com Interviews Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree|date= 8 April 2013|first= Howard|last= Whitman|website= TechnologyTell.com|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130412020404/http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/16233/branching-out-entertainmenttell-com-interviews-colin-edwin-of-porcupine-tree|archive-date= 12 April 2013|access-date= 18 June 2016|df= dmy-all}}</ref>|2021–present}} | label = {{flatlist| * [[Delerium Records|Delerium]] * [[Snapper Music|Snapper]] * [[Lava Records|Lava]] * [[Transmission Recordings|Transmission]] * [[Roadrunner Records|Roadrunner]] * [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] * WHD * Headspin * [[Peaceville Records|Peaceville]] * [[Kscope]] * [[Music For Nations]] }} | spinoffs = | website = {{URL|porcupinetree.com}} | spinoff_of = | current_members = * [[Steven Wilson]] * [[Richard Barbieri]] * [[Gavin Harrison]] | past_members = * [[Colin Edwin]] * [[Chris Maitland]] }} '''Porcupine Tree''' are <!-- This article is written in British English, which commonly treats collective nouns as plural. Please do not change "are" to "is". --> an English rock band formed by musician [[Steven Wilson]] in 1987. During an initial career spanning more than twenty years, they earned critical acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, developed a cult following, and became an influence for new artists.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=16 August 2017|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/porcupine-tree-050907/|title=Finding a Prickly Place in History|website=[[PopMatters]]|first=Eddie|last=Ciminelli|quote=[...] Through the years, they have amassed over a dozen albums in their discography, [...] while collecting critical adulation and a cultish following. Porcupine Tree’s fans are some of modern music’s most loyal but faceless; journeying with the band from one stepping stone to the next, no matter how distant their evolution finds them straying from their last effort.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170816091540/http://www.popmatters.com/feature/porcupine-tree-050907/|archive-date=16 August 2017}}</ref> The group carved out a career at a certain distance away from mainstream music, being described by publications such as ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' and ''[[PopMatters]]'' as "the most important band you'd never heard of".<ref>{{cite magazine|access-date=4 August 2017|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-11-30/steven-wilson-and-richard-barbieri-on-the-magic-of-porcupine-tree|publisher=TeamRock.com|magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]|issue=77|title=Porcupine Tree: In For The Quill|first=Dave|last=Ling|date=9 February 2005 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619095510/http://teamrock.com/feature/2005-02-09/porcupine-tree-in-for-the-quill|archive-date=19 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=4 August 2017|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/131241-outcast-from-the-mainstream-an-interview-with-steven-wilson/|title=Outcast from the Mainstream: An Interview with Steven Wilson|date=21 September 2010|first=Stephen|last=Humphries|website=[[PopMatters]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924061541/http://www.popmatters.com/feature/131241-outcast-from-the-mainstream-an-interview-with-steven-wilson/|archive-date=24 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=4 August 2017|url=http://www.metalblast.net/interviews/kill-your-ipod-an-interview-with-steven-wilson/|title=Kill Your iPod: An Interview with Steven Wilson|author= J Salmeron |publication-date=22 November 2013|website=Metalblast.net|date=26 October 2013|location=Bremen, Germany |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610034540/http://www.metalblast.net/interviews/kill-your-ipod-an-interview-with-steven-wilson/|archive-date=10 June 2016}}</ref> The band began as a solo project for Wilson, who initially created all of the band's music himself. By late 1993, however, he wanted to work in a band environment, bringing on frequent collaborators [[Richard Barbieri]] as keyboardist, [[Colin Edwin]] as bassist, and [[Chris Maitland]] as drummer to form the first permanent lineup. With Wilson as lead vocalist and guitarist, this remained the lineup until February 2002, when Maitland left the band and [[Gavin Harrison]] was recruited to replace him. Porcupine Tree's early sound evoked various styles of [[psychedelic rock]], [[space rock]] and [[experimental rock]], later moving towards a more [[progressive rock|progressive]]/space rock direction comparable to that of [[Pink Floyd]]. Upon signing with [[Kscope]] [[record label]] in the late 1990s, the band began to approach a more mainstream [[alternative rock]] sound. By the early 2000s, the band had signed to a [[major record label]] and shifted their sound again, this time in a more [[progressive metal]] direction. In 2010, after the tour in support of their 2009 studio album ''[[The Incident (album)|The Incident]]'', the band became publicly inactive as Wilson committed himself to his solo work and other members began working on their own separate projects. However, Wilson, Barbieri and Harrison continued to intermittently work on material in secrecy over the course of the following decade, leading to the release of their album ''[[Closure/Continuation]]'' on 24 June 2022.
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