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richardh

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 01:20

Hawkwise wrote:

No

never heard of them

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 06:50

richardh wrote:

Hawkwise wrote:

No

never heard of them

Sounds like a death metal band...

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 07:27

I don't think of Liquid Tension Experiment as Prog Metal otherwise they would be included

DT - Metropolis pt 2
DT - Train Of Thought
DT - Systematic Chaos
Rush - 2112
Haken - Aquarius
Ayreon - something
Iron maiden - A Matter Ofr Life and Death

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:12

If we're going by all three subs then something like this:

Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
Fen- Epoch
Burst- Lazarus Bird
Virgin Black- Requiem Mezzo Forte
In the Woods...- Liveatthecaledonianhall
Intronaut- Valley of Smoke

If Its just vanilla prog metal then these:

Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
Riverside- Anno Domini High Defenition
To-Mera- Earthbound
Dream Theater- Scenes From a Memory: Metropolis Pt2
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Vanden Plas- The God Thing
To-Mera- Delusions
Diablo Swing Orchestra- Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delerious
Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
Epica- The Divine Conspiracy

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:14

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9. Epica - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

I think you mean The Divine Conspiracy, Divine Wings is a Symphony X album. Wink

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:14

Position 1 is rock solid, positions 2 to 10 can vary according to my current state of mind ...

1. Dream Theater - When Dreams and Day Unite

2. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey

3. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

4. Devin Townsend - Terria

5. Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime

6. Shadow Gallery – Carved in stone

7. Ayreon – Into the electric castle

8. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

9. Devin Townsend – Addicted

10. Mekong Delta – Wanderer at the edge of time

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:38

1. Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow

2. Dream Theater - Images & Words

3. Fates Warning - Parallels

4. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

5. Cynic - Focus

6. Opeth - Blackwater Park

7. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry

8. Fates Warning - Inside Out

9. Dream Theater - Awake

10. Burst - Prey on Life

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:46

sleeper wrote:

dtguitarfan wrote:

9. Epica - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

I think you mean The Divine Conspiracy, Divine Wings is a Symphony X album. Wink

Yes, I had put a Symphony X album in my list and so I typo-ed when I got to Epica.

It's hard to pick a top ten. I just went with my first instinct but had all kinds of albums I wanted to fit in after.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 09:50

Purposefully picking only one album from each artist, order is very hard because these are all 5* albums for me.

1. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

2. Devin Townsend - Terria

3. Cynic - Traced in Air

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Negura Bunget - OM

6. Ephel Duath - Painter's Pallette

7. Pain of Salvation - Perfect Element

8. Animals as Leaders

9. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

10. maudlin of the well - Bath

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 10:23

I'm not what I'd consider a metalhead, neither have yet to have enough exposition to the extreme and progressive metal genre, unfortunately, though I am very much into metal this last year.

A few names come up though:

Kayo Dot- Coyote

Deathspell Omega- Fas Ite... , Kenose

Dodheimsgard- Supervillain Outcast

Virus- Carheart

Myster Mobius s/t

Negura Bunget- Om

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Of Natural History, In Glorious Times

Unexpect- In A Flesh Aquarium

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 10:37

Dang didn't get an Unexpect album in there. Not sure who I'd replace though.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 13:25

I don't like "Edge Of Sanity" that much. Therefore, logically, neither do you!

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 13:27

I didnt like most of what I heard from Edge of Sanity but Crimson is full of superb riffage.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 13:50

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Dream Theater - Awake

Opeth - Watershed

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

Death - Symbolic

Dream Theater - Metropolis 2

Cynic - Focus

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Dream Theater - Images and Words

Opeth - Deliverance

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 14:00

frippism wrote:

I'm not what I'd consider a metalhead, neither have yet to have enough exposition to the extreme and progressive metal genre, unfortunately, though I am very much into metal this last year.

A few names come up though:

Kayo Dot- Coyote

Deathspell Omega- Fas Ite... , Kenose

Dodheimsgard- Supervillain Outcast

Virus- Carheart

Myster Mobius s/t

Negura Bunget- Om

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Of Natural History, In Glorious Times

Unexpect- In A Flesh Aquarium

Coyote? Love that album but not remotely metal, closer to chamber rock or jazz than anything.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 14:00

dtguitarfan wrote:

sleeper wrote:

dtguitarfan wrote:

9. Epica - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

I think you mean The Divine Conspiracy, Divine Wings is a Symphony X album. Wink

Tell me about it, I could have put in a completely different top 10 with almost the same level of quality.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 14:25

sleeper wrote:

Coyote? Love that album but not remotely metal, closer to chamber rock or jazz than anything.

To say it pretentiously, it's not metal in the traditional sense, but it's unnerving in a way that reminds me of metal, so I count it as metal.

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 14:38

In no particular order:
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Planet X - Moonbabies

A couple albums I love but don't necessarily go with the theme of this thread:
Opeth - Heritage (It's not metal, but one of the best non-metal albums by a prog-metal band)
Derek Sherinian - Oceana (Mostly jazz-fusion, with a couple metal riffs; Derek's albums are usually prog-metal)

Edited by darkshade - May 15 2012 at 14:40

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 15:38

How hard is this! I wrote down my list of 10...then looked at what other people had put...then ripped up my list and started over! A very difficult list...so many bands..its difficult enough listing the ones I've got...and there must be hundreds that i've never heard too! hopefully by looking at everybody elses list it will point me towards some new bands :)

Dream Theater - 6 Degrees

Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Ayreon - 01011001

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Dream Theater - Change of Seasons

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son

Pain of Salvation - Perfect Element

Epica - Design Your Own Universe

Niceto see Planet X - Moonbabies get a mention :)

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Posted: May 15 2012 at 15:46

Ten favorites from someone who doesn't really like the genre in question, but was once a teenage metaller. I don't mind my metal to somehow progress, challenge and stretch the limits of its genre, but prog-metal has very little or no appeal to me.

Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye

Vektor: Black Future

Voivod: Dimension Hatröss

Enslaved: Isa

Burzum; Filosofem

Opeth: Blackwater Park

Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: Dark Clouds Blacken the Sky on the Eve of the Thousandth Sacrifice

Death: Leprosy

Metallica: ...And Justice For All

Mastodon: Leviathan

Does Guapo qualify? If so Five Suns in, Leviathan out.