Don

No wonder you don't find DT all that progressive, you think Radiohead and The Mars Volta are progressive. Sorry to tell you but you seem to have prog rock mixed up with experimental rock. Radiohead and The Mars Volta are experimental rock and not the least bit progressive - according to me and every other music critic I have ever corresponded with.


Funny you say that, because I find them to be the best progressive metal band. And are you saying you've heard every single signed prog metal band in the world?
I don't know how you could say they're not original if you've heard songs like "The Great Debate" or "Misunderstood," for example.


Just about every single Tool song creates the exact same moods by employing uninteresting styles and phrases. There is nothing original about Tool. Their use of boring chord progressions and mediocre melodies are far from original. And I've previously spoken about their so called "original lyrics."

You talk about how DT steal ideas from old prog bands, but did the obvious ever occur to you? That every single modern band (and every musician while we're here) has "stolen" something from other bands (or music). DT have found a way to compose music which has been obviously influenced by many of their favourite bands but at the same time made it their own by never repeating their sound. DT don't even have a trademark sound because each of their albums are so distinct. And as for Symphony X, you do know that their V album (music and concept) was admittedly to be pretty much stolen directly from DT's Scenes From a Memory, don't you?

I know someone else who needs to not only be shot (for thinking The Mars Volta are progressive) but injected with a slow acting virus causing irrefutable pain.