Symphonic Metal Heaven

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 Cristi wrote:

^ & ^^I said to myself I won't be posting in this thread or the poll, but these lists are so inaccurate, it bothers me, i don't even know why. Wherever you are copying these lists from, they're not doing a good job. 

First of all, progressive metal and symphonic metal are two different genres, why put them together?! 

Second, a lot of the bands mentioned there are not symphonic metal:

Allen/Lande can be considered power metal at best, it's melodic heavy metal.
Ayreon (and whatever other Arjen projects) are not symphonic metal. 

The Beyond is an obscure progressive metal band, difficult to find, what's it doing here? (proof you're just copying titles, say it isn't so). 

Eye for an Eye & The Edge are by a band called Twilight whose keyboardist will go on and form Beyond Twilight much later. 

Blind Guardian is a power metal band, they even started as a speed metal band, same as Helloween. They have symphonic elements, but cannot be considered a symphonic metal band (like After Forever, Epica and Nightwish and the likes). 

Wherever you copy these titles, find better resources, like metalmusicarchives and/or metal storm. 
Okay, just to show that I DO follow your sage advice - especially when it comes to Metal - I've now happily deleted all of the following Progressive Metal bands from my listings, which sadly includes Dream Theater, but happily includes Dimmu Borgir and Opeth, who I'll never be tempted to listen to again. The only Progressive Metal band remaining is my all-time favourite, Ayreon, so it remains Actual Fantasy if you think I'm going to delete Ayreon too. 

Deleted Progressive Metal Bands:-

Allen-Lande
The Beyond
Beyond Twilight
Blind Guardian
Circle II Circle
Circus Maximus
Conception
Dimmu Borgir 
Dream Theater 
Evergrey
Fates Warning
Haken
Magnus Karlsson
Mastodon
Opeth 