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Poll Question: What heavy prog metal album does it for you?
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    Posted: July 08 2005 at 08:35
The bands where picked from another thread, but only albums that are reviewed on progarchives are included in the poll.

Here's how our reviewers rated them:

4.67 - Arcturus - The sham mirror
4.52 - Ark - Burn the sun
4.62 - Cynic - Focus
4.86 - Devin Townsend - Terria
3.48 - Dream Theater - Train of Thought
4.30 - Evergrey - In search of truth
4.33 - Meshuggah - Destroy erase improve
4.53 - Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.50 - Pain of salvation - One hour by the concrete lake
4.37 - Spiral architect - A Sceptic's Universe
4.23 - Tool - Lateralus
4.60 - Voivod - Dimension hatross
4.33 - Zero Hour - The Tower's of Avarice
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Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve, followed by DT's TOT!
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Pain Of Salvation!  I love the concept, its just awesome.
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Pain Of Salvation!  I love the concept, its just awesome.


I put my vote on PoS too, it's magnificent!
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Tool is better than everyone.


ToT is cool too. 

but seriously.   Lateralus is on a level all its own.
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I love Arcturus, and they surely are a prog band, but they alwas have been, in all their albums, and not just "the sham mirrors". Same with Opeth, and with most of the bands you have mentioned. So i think the question should be "the best prog metal band", which is totally subjective and not necessarily much easier to choose.
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Tool is better than everyone.


ToT is cool too. 

but seriously.   Lateralus is on a level all its own.

I don't like Lateralus too much. Everytime I hear it, I'm amazed ... the quality of the music, the ambition and the discipline are outstanding. But it totally lacks emotion and feeling. IMO that's why Maynard put the project on halt and devoted his entire attention to APC.
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Tool-Lateralus...even though I love every album on the list.Especially Cynic,Opeth,Meshuggah,PoS and Ark


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Originally posted by Coya Coya wrote:

...So i think the question should be "the best prog metal band", which is totally subjective and not necessarily much easier to choose.




Well, there are already good polls for best prog metal band, for a good one, check here! You won't find Dream Theater there, and I was also afraid to put Train of tought in this poll, because DT have so many more fans than the rest, which often makes the poll useless... And we all know that the majority thinks DT is the best anyway!
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Originally posted by Progzilla Progzilla wrote:

Originally posted by Coya Coya wrote:

...So i think the question should be "the best prog metal band", which is totally subjective and not necessarily much easier to choose.




Well, there are already good polls for best prog metal band, for a good one, check here! You won't find Dream Theater there, and I was also afraid to put Train of tought in this poll, because DT have so many more fans than the rest, which often makes the poll useless... And we all know that the majority thinks DT is the best anyway!

!! (even though, the poll was not THAT good )

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Originally posted by Coya Coya wrote:


!! (even though, the poll was not THAT good )



HAHAHA!
Which poll is REALLY any good?! They all lack the alternative that you would like to choose...  This poll must  suck pretty bad when only some 15 people bothered to answer...
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Originally posted by Progzilla Progzilla wrote:

Originally posted by Coya Coya wrote:


!! (even though, the poll was not THAT good )



HAHAHA!
Which poll is REALLY any good?! They all lack the alternative that you would like to choose...  This poll must  suck pretty bad when only some 15 people bothered to answer...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

well, maybe you are right and this poll sucks, but at least you can get answers to your opinions, and that makes it entertaining, actually, i do like it!

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One: I'm stunned that Cynic has gotten zero support. Insanity!

Two: Blackwater Park seem to be the Opeth album that is mentioned most frequently on this site. Am I the only one who thinks they started getting stale on that album?

Three: And no Fates Warning on this list? Definitely a problem of framing...
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See, I can't vote with a clear conscience... because I haven't heard more than half of these albums! They're on my list, for sure!
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I chose PoS in this poll, but personally, I would go for:

PoS: Remedy Lane,

DT: Awake,

Shadow Gallery: Legacy,

Symphony X: V The Mythology Suite,

Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade Of Grey.

Before any of the ones I know on that poll...ho humm.
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Points: 16544 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 15:54
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I chose PoS in this poll, but personally, I would go for:

PoS: Remedy Lane,

DT: Awake,

Shadow Gallery: Legacy,

Symphony X: V The Mythology Suite,

Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade Of Grey.

Before any of the ones I know on that poll...ho humm.


I don't think Remedy Lane is a heavy Progressive Metal album at all.
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The idea of this poll was to get the REALLY HEAVY albums in, to see what fans of heavy prog metal like. The line has to be drawn somewhere,  so I would rule out Pleasent shade of grey and Legacy, but I'm sorry I didn't include Awaken the Guardian for example. I was going to include Sympony X - The odyssey, but what can I say, some things you just forget...

Hey, why don't we make a poll with ALL the prog metal bands on progarchives?! Oh wait,
i guess that what the prog metal TOP 100 is for...   Now THAT'S a real good listing!!!

Keep the candidates coming though, it's valuable to all of us who like prog metal. Hopefully the poll and the thread will give you some new bands to listen to. And check out the thread I mention in the first post.




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I'm devoted to PoS!

But, my second option was Blackwater Park.
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Has anyone heard any albums by the following prog metal bands:
 -Riverside
 -Green Incarnation
 -Andromeda
 -Matraz
 -Ice Age
 -Sieges Even
 -In The Woods
 -Eternity X
 -Fantomas
 -Abydos
 -Power Of Omens
 -Superior
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