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Points: 394 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2014 at 09:51
Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by progrockdeepcuts progrockdeepcuts wrote:

This is a time period I've been examining quite a bit lately. Mr. Bungle, latter-day Cardiacs, Praxis, and Thinking Plague come to mind.

Ooh, you are so right Ian. How could I forget about Mr. Bungle?


HT! Good to see you here.

I think Praxis and Bungle probably best embody prog in the 90's as they both borrowed from other genres at the time (hip hop, dub, metal, etc), thereby adding their own take on progressive or avant progressive rock.

I've also been listening to the Finnish band Hoyry-kone and American band Doctor Nerve, who both had great mid-to-late 90's releases.


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Points: 7849 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2014 at 20:27
Creating a post apocalyptic- Neo-classical- dark gothic progressive metal album that was conceptual to the book of revelations was pretty revolutionary sounding to me.

Saviour Machine for their break out legend pt 1:1 in 1997 blew me away and gets one of my votes for hearing something so different and so powerful.

Psychotic Waltz are another very proggy act, that pounded out 4 albums that really shook the Prog metal world, namely with Into the Everflow in 1992. Pretty incredible.

Anglagärd. Wow. Need I say more with 1992's Hybris? That was a pretty big album.

And my final vote for most proggiest of the 1990's is Dream Theater.
What they did from 1992 to 1999 was very extraordinary and they pretty much reinvented the Prog metal wheel and set new standards in the genre itself. DT and Saviour Machine get my top votes for really showcasing great creativity in the progressive world with in their respective genres.

I would also have to say that it was Prog metal, as a genre, underwent the most radical changes of any genre in prog music in general. Went through a major overall in the 90's I think.
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Points: 7849 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2014 at 21:00
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

FSOL are a fantastic band, their more retro-psychedelic sideproject Amorphous Androgynous being worth a listen too. I'd wager that as far as guitar-based music goes, the most progression and outside-the-box thinking in the 1990s happened in the more extreme metal subgenres during the decade's first half. (not just the technical death metal but also the more abstract variety of black metal too)


I think DEAD CITES (1996) was one of their very best albums. But yes FSOL are incredible as are Aphex Twin, Autechere and THE ORB. :) Electronic music, namely IDM went viral in the 1990's.
huge. :)
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Points: 7849 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2014 at 21:05
Originally posted by Redug Redug wrote:

I read a great formula for Meshuggah somewhere, it went something like this:
Meshuggah = clueless fans x lack of musical knowledge.
Seriously, they aren't that technical, their guitarist has gone on record saying he doesn't know essentially any theory. Their drummer is good, and incorporates more advanced theoretical concepts than the rest of the band, but he's not the end of the world. (Also, as a drummer, in my opinion most of his work is incredibly clinical) 
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Meshuggha are very good and extremely creative. They have some of the oddest guitar time sigs and odd metering with in the drumming aspect of the bands overall sound. And yet they are able to make it all work nicely.
Personally I gotta give them a ton of credit. ;)
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2014 at 21:26
I don't know what progressive means in this context tbh

Edited by Polymorphia - March 18 2014 at 21:26
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