Necrophagist, Yay or Nay?

YAY.

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I believe that it was rejected at least two years ago, and the Prog Metal parameters may have changed enough for it to be considerable again (and the team has some different faces/ ideas).  Now that this has been moved to "Suggest New Bands" rather than "General Music Discussions" (where I thought it might be moved), the power-that-be (he who moved it) is, to an extent, offering it another chance -- at least when it comes to members voicing their opinions on its prog-worthiness in the suggestions forum intended for such things.  As to whether the Prog Metal team want to reconsider, that's up to them.

I know your yay/nay question referred to whether people like them or not, but since this was moved to this Suggestions forum rather than General Music Discussions, it would be more appropriate for it to mean "Is it Prog, or not?" Yay for Prog, nay for not Prog.

Oh, and what about Cephalic Carnage? ;)

I love Necrophagist and still can't wait for the day they come to Melbourne to do a gig.
But for the "are they prog or not" question, it's a nay and to be honest, I don't think they will be reconsidered by the prog metal team again.
They are Technical Death Metal, and while being one of the best in the genre IMO, they are nothing more, nothing less.
In a way, I can liken them to the Joe Satriani situation..... very obvious virtuosity, some experimentation, but for the most part nothing really progressive about it.
Necrophagist use a lot of the same/similar song structures for many of their songs, are not compositionally complex at all and don't have much experimentation either.

Hey, if Necrophagist gets in then Nile should be allowed in too!!!

Definitely nay. Decent, highly skilled band having very little to do with prog. But at this point we might as well throw them and Nile into prog related, and we can just change the category to "bands that don't belong here but several members enjoy."

Logan's observation was correct. Moved. 

Oh crap.

Now that it's moved, it would change the meaning of the poll completely.
I already voted Nay:( but now that it's here in General Discussions, it's a Yay.
Goddamnit:\

Necrophagist is ultra brutal death metal first and foremost, but that doesn´t mean they shouldn´t be on PA IMO. I think there are lots of elements on Epitaph that should earn them a place here. First of all because of the extreme virtuosity displayed. There are time signature changes here and there that is not ordinary on other death metal albums and of course the beautiful classical influenced sweeping guitar solos. I´ll admit that necrophagist is on the edge of what PA should include, but they are not much different from other tech death metal bands which are already included on this site: Martyr, Gorod and Death for instance.

After listening to the myspace page, while recognising that that often is not an ideal way, or sufficient, to judge a band for a Prog category, I would say that this is a Tech/Death metal band with some progressive tendencies.  That said, I'm hardly an expert on the style of music.  Interestingly, though wikipedia does not list it, Cephalic Carnage has a stronger case from what I know, but I know CC better.

Nay for me, to be honest (whichever the question is).  I'm not really a fan of death metal, and based on my too limited listening experience, and inexperience with the style, it's not really Prog (though I discern a certain prog metal relatedness).  However, some who know the music and style much better than I (which is a ton of people really) think it proggier.  I love to share my ill-informed opinions. :)