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10 heavy brain-melting prog albums
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Poll Question: Pick your favorite(s) and comment
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
16 [16.49%]
17 [17.53%]
6 [6.19%]
8 [8.25%]
3 [3.09%]
1 [1.03%]
2 [2.06%]
26 [26.80%]
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    Posted: July 10 2022 at 06:54
Heresie or Symphonic Holocaust but also love Zeit and Les Morts Vont Vite.
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Khan - Space Shanty
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Synphonic Holocaust
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I find Captain Beyond quite a bit heavy but certainly not as much as Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys. 
I'm not familiar with all the albums on the list, but the comparison to 'as heavy as any metal band' seems surely to me exaggerated.


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Space Shanty all the way.

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Les Morts Vont Vite is an amazing album but Space Shanty is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Univers Zero ahead of Shub Niggurath. Khan is a great album but positively soothing in comparison to those 2.
Same votes for me. Most of the options on offer here have a fond place in my collection (though I have not heard the Saharah - probably should).

Heresie is maybe the heaviest platter UZ laid down other than Ceux du Dehors - which is just about maximum heaviosity possible.
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Khan is my favorite but it's far from heavy IMO.
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bump! 

Captain Beyond – Captain Beyond (1972)


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A fine selection but in the spirit of the poll question, then it comes down to the wire between the Shubs' scare fest and the terror that is the UZ masterpiece!
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Space Shanty. 
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Automatic Fine Tuning - A.F.T. (1976), way ahead of its time album, before Malmsteen, or any guitar hero out there
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Originally posted by Crane Crane wrote:

Totally forgot about how muscular that Khan album is. Sounds like a powered up version of Zappa’s Roxy band.

It's a little gem for sure! It also got my vote. Great record.

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Zeit!
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Originally posted by Duddick Duddick wrote:

Apparently I can’t vote in this poll for some reason...

I think you need 40 points before you can vote in a PA poll, so you shouldn't have to wait too much longer. Smile
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Apparently I can’t vote in this poll for some reason but if I could it would be for AFT since no-one else has. An album totally ignored upon release and ever since. A marvellous barrage of interlocking dual guitars and inventive rhythm section

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Khan, followed by Morte Macabre and Univers Zero
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Univers Zero ahead of Shub Niggurath. Khan is a great album but positively soothing in comparison to those 2.
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Interesting list! 

When I think of using the term "brain-melting" I can't help but turn to the Back to the Future reference: (which was, appropriately, an acerbic guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen). With this in mind, I find three of the six that I know to be appropriate "brain melters" but can't figure out the inclusion of Space Shanty, Mort Macabre, or even Zeit! 

Perhaps something more like King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King or Magma's MDK or Klaus Schulze's Irrlicht or Peter Gabriel's third eponymous album would have been more fitting--something that hits you like nothing you never, ever expected to hear upon first listen.

I'm looking forward to exploring the four I don't know!
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