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Kleynan 
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Could Mars Volta be considered dark????? If so... Tetragrammaton of the new album is a 17-minute epic. Feel free to flame me again.... hehe.
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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chamberry
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 13:25 |
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micky
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 13:39 |
 Kleynan wrote:
micky wrote:
dude you need to listen to some DARK prog hhahahah 
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Getting there. Been listening to alot of Godspeed and Opeth. Besides that, I need to study my dark side some more.  |
hahah ...good man.... the dark side (the non- DT side which is
just meerly evil and must be exorcised from this site) is a good
place. I love happy music as much as anyone.. being a certified
Yesfreak as I am.. but the dark side explores the parts of us and of
life.. that are truly dangerous.. and fun.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Runaway
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 17:29 |
The Flower Kings - Devils Playground, Silent Infierno, Rollin The Dice, Christianopel
Spock's Beard - The Water
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herbie53
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 18:30 |
Excuse me, Runaway, but THE FLOWER KINGS is considered Light Prog. And Roine Stolt assumes it in the inlay of his 'The Flower King' album. Songs like 'Devils Playground' have some dark parts, but others very clear, or 'light'...
And about SPOCK'S BEARD... is difficult to see them as a dark band. His leader was christian (and get out of the band because of that). 'The Water' is a fantastic song, but for me isn't so 'dark'... (in the conception we are talkin' here).
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chamberry
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 22:58 |
Check out the reviews of Fantomas - Delirium Cordia 
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Meddler
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 23:00 |
Reading reviews for Delirium Cordia gives me that pins and needles feeling.... Ive been meaning to get it, but I never get around to it.  Btw, I started on Yanqui too.
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chamberry
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 23:46 |
Well, I always think of it as an experience instead of a song and thinking like that makes me appreciate the album more. It's very demanding and you have to be in a right mood to play it. Buy at your own cost  We have to spread the world of our fellow Godspeed. People need this.
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OpethGuitarist
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 03:38 |
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I dunno parts of Pawn Hearts really scare the hell outta me.
Agalloch is also a band id suggest for dark tunes.
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back from the dead, i will begin posting reviews again and musing through the forums
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 13:36 |
el böthy wrote:
Just one person said something about ther ebeing more light epics than dark...
Hey, so much talk about Godspeed!...now I definitly will check them out!
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You have no idea what you've been missing. 
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When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong
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gong
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 14:46 |
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Genesis - "Lamb..."
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omri
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:45 |
Back to the question :
I know some light and some dark epics. Let's see (unmentioned only) :
Light
Renaissance - Song of Scheherezade
Yes - Roundabot
Genesys - Get'em out by friday & Canutility and the coastliners
Kansas - Cheyene anthem
Rush - 2112
Can - You do it right
Focus - Hamburger concerto
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King crimson - Lark's tongue in aspic pt I
Peter Hamil - A louse is not a home
Genesys - The musical box
VDGG - After the flood
Amon dull II - Phalus dei
Can - Haleluwah (mentioned but I'm trying to show that some can be both light and dark)
Magma - De futura
Vangelis - Heaven and hell (it's debateable but I concider it dark)
I think it's a tie, at least to my knowledge.
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Philéas
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:41 |
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Two I came to think of atm:
Rush - The Necromancer (although it has a happy ending)
Rush - 2112 (fairly dark. The ending can be interpreted in several ways)
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valravennz
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:55 |
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Well...almost everyone has mentioned GY!BE and I agree. They are hard to beat in "Dark" prog music. That goes for VDGG as well. I also think that Marillion's "Brave" is a good candidate for Dark prog.
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp
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micky
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:53 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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chamberry
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 20:42 |
gong wrote:
Genesis - "Lamb..." |
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Faaip_De_Oiad
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 21:38 |
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"Brown Light Upon Us" by Toby Driver is the darkest song ever writen. And yes. I feel it's an epic although im sure most would disagree there.
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micky
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 22:29 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 02:22 |
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I'm very fond of MORTE MACABRE's "Symhonic Holocaust", which runs about 17-18 minutes. It's more a long jam though, than a carefully constructed epic though. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR's "Godbluff" album has a long fine section of music building up from the two first songs on album side A, "Undercover Man" and "Scorched Earth", I have always seem them as a one entity.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 02:27 |
VDGG - Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (of course)
Kebnekaise - Balladen om björnbär och nätmelon (It has it's dark moments)
Meshuggah - I (OMG )
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Dark prog epics
I know.... the first sign of Peart's inability to write a great
song.... a classic D&D inspired romp... ruined by a damn happy
ending... pfff... great music though 
