Progressive metal anyone?
 

there has to be other progressive metal fans here.
if so feel free to list favorite bands, post links, or whatever.
good prog bands i like are
pain of salvation, opeth, symphony x, kamelot, adagio, anathema, riverside, OSI, tool, ayreon, and orphaned land, among others. i might have links if you need them, just request and ill see.

hell yes

Dream Theater, Opeth, Death (latter years), Rush, Orphaned Land, Cynic, Atheist, Edge of Sanity

Symphony X
Opeth
Devin Townsend
Pain of Salvation


.V. Check out Devin Townsend..i have a link for an upload in the thread i made about him.

Dream Theater, Opeth, Death, and a bunch of others I cannot think of at the moment.

Oh and Rush are not at all Metal. They are Prog rock.

les, yeah i should check it out, i havent listened to really any of devin townsend for some reason. oh and nice avatar. i listen to mos def too haha

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...-townsend.html
Check it.

*downloads*

Spiral Architect

still kickass though, they have had quite the influence on many of the 80s and 90s progressive metal bands

The new Symphony X leaked today...first album since The Odyssey which was 2002.

^ havent heard anything about the new one yet.
the oddysey was decent though

Listen to bands like:

KING CRIMSON
HAWKWIND
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
YES

for a great introduction to some of the originators..and of course..PINK FLOYD (links available).

i havent heard barely any king crimson actually. i remember opeth citing them as an influence though i think

TRhey were the first Prog ROCK band. This person is obviously looking for metal.

King Crimson is one of my favourite bands ever, but they're not prog metal (you probably knew that already). As far as influences go, Camel (an equally awesome prog rock band and another of my fav ever) is probably the biggest. In fact, Barclay James Harvest is an influence too.

Anyway... this is mainly straight prog metal. Of course there's prog death like Opeth, prog thrash like Mekong Delta, prog folk like Tyr etc...

Pain of Salvation
Spiral Architect
Ephel Duath
Ayreon
Nevermore
Cynic
Alarum
Devin Townsend
Spastic Ink
Savatage
Dream Theater / LTE
Peccatum
Maudlin of the Well
Symphony X
Sun Caged

seltzer u have excellent taste, most of which mirrors my own :]

Few members are expressing some growing interest in this, thought it might be a good topic for discussion.

What would people suggest to be "staples" of progressive metal?

Yeah but they were also proto metal.

Listen to Larks Tongue in Aspic 2 and tell me it dosen't sound metal, Fripp even said he considered KC to be "metal with a brain".

would it be right to say that between the buried and me and the dillenger escape plan were porgressive?

BTBAM have some prog influences (they did a cover Three of a Perfect Pair) but certainly I wouldn't call them prog.

I quite like progressive metal.
Seltzer's list is excellent.
I would especially recommend Pain of Salvation, Spiral Architect, Devin Townsend, Spastic Ink(these guys are crazy) & Maudlin of the Well. Actually, F*ck it and listen to them all :D

Anyways, just a few more suggestions-

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey
Choosing between this and Parallels is so damn annoying. Epic and awesome.

Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
Weird, obscure, complex stuff. The vocals add even more to the weirdness. Definitely something i don't come across very often.

Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
An amazing concept album with superb melodies, mindblowing guitar work(and i really mean it) backed with excellent keyboards. Sounds even a little bit power-metallish at times, but tbh, I think that's a good thing here.

I have to say I consider Kamelot the kings of progmetal, but I also love Shadow Gallery, Threshold, Silent Edge, Epica, Adagio, Fairyland, Labyrinth, LAcuna Coil and a hundred others BUT I hate Pain of Salvation --- sorry, I just cannot get into them.
PS I hate "death vocals", not that that refers back to PoS, but it does leave both Haggard and Opeth out for me...

Stick to your Guns.

Dream Theater from Images and Words to Six Degrees is the definition of prog metal. Most prog metal bands are just trying to replicate what Dream Theater did.

Pain of Salvation, however, is amazing. One of the most creative and emotion-inducing bands I've ever heard. I wouldn't even label them as prog metal, they're completely their own thing.

Dream Theatre are not well liked on these forums. It could be because they are boring as fuck but that's a narrow minded view...























































although I do agree.

Strange that you mention the Psychotic Waltz album. I recieved that in the post this morning from my friend in Germany.

Add 'Anacrusis' to this list.

Well, It's definitely damn weird. You might even dislike it on the first listen.

Right on! Emotions and Progressive is how I would describe them as well. The vocals more or less make or break the band :cool:

I love progressive metal. One of favorite bands of all time is Dream Theater, I also enjoy Queensryche and Pain of Salvation.

Would recent Porcupine Tree be considered progressive metal?

Some of it, though they're more based in simply rock.

Opeth is the only prog metal band that I'm into really.

What album by Opeth would you recommend most?

I like Watershed the best, but Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park are good as well.

Still Life is good too.

All Prog Metal bands with very, very few exceptions are based on simple rock constructions and are fundamentally no more complex than Nickelback - and that includes Opeth, who sound more than a bit like Nickelback on their latest album, Watershed, to my ears.

It is not true to say that Prog Metal is a blend of Prog and Metal - this myth needs stamping on (as if old school Proggers didn't know this already in their hearts!), because generations are growing up not understanding what Prog was really about.

The term "virtuosic" appears with depressing frequency to describe music that uses often remarkable virtuosic playing techniques to create music that is, from a compositional point of view, almost entirely unremarkable - which contrasts completely with the likes of Gentle Giant.

Prog is not about lots of scale practice, owning a Mellotron or sounding a bit like Pink Floyd (or allegedly Camel, in the case of Opeth).

I know from past experience how sensitive Prog Metal fans can be, so let's clear the air immediately by saying that this post is emphatically NOT a bashing of any band (including Opeth!), merely a pointing out of home truths.

Still Life and Watershed are my favourites from Opeth.

I really couldn't get into Watershed at all. Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park are my favourites but generally their whole output is superb. The juxtaposition of brutal riffing and ambient acoustic work makes them one of my favourite bands.

Despite my earlier post from a couple of years ago when I was quite into metal, I'm generally not a fan of prog metal and I find that it tends to completely miss the point of what prog rock is about. Opeth is one of the few bands that grasp it... I'd say Morningrise is my favourite of theirs.

I still have time for bands like Arcturus, Meshuggah, Pain of Salvation, Maudlin of the Well, Slough Feg and Devin Townsend who push the envelope. And the prog/tech twists on other metal genres like death/thrash tend to go down well - I've always been a fan of bands like Coroner, Mekong Delta, Voivod, Artillery, Lykathea Aflame, Gorguts and Demilich.

Queensryche would be ok, but vocals makes me want to go deaf
And about Opeth, it enters my top 3bands at all. Morningrise and Still life are my favorite albums

Seltzer have you heard the new Slough Feg album yet?

I can't say I have. Have you got it?