to the discussion going on for the past few posts....

Dream Theater is pretty awesome, ther are probably my fav prog metal band. Octovarium (the DT album I know the best by far) is okay for the most part but The Answer Lies Within, Sacrificed Sons and the title track my god... The title track is my favorite song ever unless you count instrumental stuff.

I attended Prog Nation (infact, anyone remember DT being mentioned in the Chronical or was it the Murcury because Rudess was using an Iphone app? I was at the very concert they got the cover photo from) and was pretty disapointed when they didn't play any of the above three songs.

I posted the title track on the metal battle thread and DistOb was totally like "Uh... I'm not sure this is better [of course it's not, how the *&^% can you top Octovarium] but it's different *insert Lamb Of God*

if Distant hadn't pertended he new something better than Octovarium, I would still be winning (and it looks like I am with Guns 'n Roses' Estranged) but that's aside the point...


Anyways...

Just picked up some of that feared Viking music by Enslaved, "Eld" and "Isa" ("Fire" and "Ice", how nice, lol!) Very impressive progressive black(Viking) metal. Eld is old school 90's minimal black metal with multi-segments and tempo changes. "Isa" has the big and modern production value...both equally stunning.

Yea, yea so the guy on the cover is dork.

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Enslaved are a personal favourite of mine and if you don't have Below The Lights and Mardraum: Beyond the Within then you need them ASAP.

I like Opeth a lot, and a bit of Protest The Hero. Between The Buried And Me's colors is one of the more interesting albums the past decade, it probably needs a few more listens from me.

Thanks for the tip! Enslaved is absolutely amazing.

I love Ayreon, Riverside and Opeth. I like Dream Theater and Pain of Salvation.
And I am going to try to listen to something from Symphony X, Anathema, Katatonia.
I am not sure about Orphaned Land... is it good? (Do you have some other recommendations for me?)

Sieges Even
Tomorrow's Eve
Echoes Of Eternity

You'll definitely love Anathema (begin with Alternative 4).
There's a Metal Opera by Aina named Days of Rising Doom. Similar to Ayreon, but not as good.
You might as well like Shadow Gallery (try Room V or their new album Digital Ghosts), Fates Warning (try Disconnected) or even Queensrÿche (try Operation: Mindcrime or Empire).

I should definitely check these out.

Thanks for recommendations! :thumb:

I watched some Youtube video of Orphaned Land... Interesting, I really like this oriental sound and also the fact that they have some songs in hebrew :)
I think I am going to try them too.

After glancing through here I noticed my name being slammed. Umm dude I know 'Octavarium' is great but the point of the metal battle thread started to drop off. So that means people were posting just random songs and judging songs posted previously...

I am a huge DT fan and own all their albums except Dream & Day Unite. I also love 'Octavarium' (the song itself, the album is alright though). So yeah, I can post what I want man, I wasn't knocking the masterpiece that is 'Octavarium' okay?