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    Posted: March 14 2021 at 11:27
So, this title is taken from an article posted at Louder, the exact name being:

10 brain-melting prog albums that are as heavy as any metal band


This obviously cannot fit the space left for the subject but you get the idea. I decided to put these in a poll and see what responses the fellow forum users will give, so please vote (I will allow multiple voting) and comment whether or not you agree that these albums are 'as heavy as any metal band'. Should you disagree, please feel free to give your personal suggestions for this category, I am curious to see. Smile

With all this being said, I have to admit I haven't listened to all of these but the ones I know I absolutely love and I can see why they are being included, so how do you find them?

Here's also the link to the article, in case you want to see for yourself:
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Khan - Space Shanty.
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Captain Beyond piloting the Space Shanty, in that order.
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I love Space Shanty, but I have to give it to Les Morts Vont Vite - incredibly underrated album.
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Khan - melts in your brain, not on your wrist, just like a Chocolate Watchband.  Wink

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I love Zeit and Heresie. I don't quite get what Space Shanty is doing on that list, but then that particular album never got me anyway.
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By the way, Art Zoyd's Champ des Larmes is really really heavy, even more so than they usually are.
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Khan . . .
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5 of those on that list I know nothing about,  of the others Khan and Captain Beyond are often on my turntable. Brain mellting...? Not so much.
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Totally forgot about how muscular that Khan album is. Sounds like a powered up version of Zappa’s Roxy band.
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My brain is pretty safe with these albums.

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The Sahara album is sadly very overlooked. I like the albums of Khan, Universe Zero, Tangerine Dream and Captain Beyond a lot too. Ramses and Shub-Niggurath never really got me. I am not familiar with the other three.


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     Khan - Space Shanty (1972)
     Tangerine Dream – Zeit (1972)
Morte Macabre – Symphonic Holocaust (1998)     
     Captain Beyond – Captain Beyond (1972)     
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^^ I have For All The Clowns by Sahara...I'll definitely ck out Sunrise.

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Interesting list! 

When I think of using the term "brain-melting" I can't help but turn to the Back to the Future reference: (which was, appropriately, an acerbic guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen). With this in mind, I find three of the six that I know to be appropriate "brain melters" but can't figure out the inclusion of Space Shanty, Mort Macabre, or even Zeit! 

Perhaps something more like King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King or Magma's MDK or Klaus Schulze's Irrlicht or Peter Gabriel's third eponymous album would have been more fitting--something that hits you like nothing you never, ever expected to hear upon first listen.

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Univers Zero ahead of Shub Niggurath. Khan is a great album but positively soothing in comparison to those 2.
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Khan, followed by Morte Macabre and Univers Zero
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Apparently I can’t vote in this poll for some reason but if I could it would be for AFT since no-one else has. An album totally ignored upon release and ever since. A marvellous barrage of interlocking dual guitars and inventive rhythm section

Edited by Duddick - March 14 2021 at 16:05
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Originally posted by Duddick Duddick wrote:

Apparently I can’t vote in this poll for some reason...

I think you need 40 points before you can vote in a PA poll, so you shouldn't have to wait too much longer. Smile
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