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    Posted: December 21 2008 at 11:10
  1. Opeth - Still Life
  2. Death - Symbolic
  3. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
  4. Opeth - MAYH
  5. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
  6. Tool - Lateralus
  7. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  8. Meshuggah  - Destroy Erase Improve
  9. Cynic - Traced In Air
  10. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
  11. Cynic - Focus
  12. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance (OK, it's not prog, but it's proggish)
  13. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
  14. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
  15. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
  16. Isis - Panopticon
  17. Anathema - Judgement
  18. Opeth - Morningrise
  19. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
  20. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
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  1. Tool - Lateralus
  2. Fredrick Throdendal´s Special Defects - Sol niger within
  3. Pain of Salvation - The perfect element part 1
  4. Opeth - Blackwater park
  5. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
  6. Between the buried and me - Colors
  7. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the eye
  8. UnExpect - In a flesh aquarium
  9. maudlin of the well - Leaving your body map
  10. Mastodon - Blood mountain
  11. Meshuggah - obZen
  12. Kayo Dot - Blue lambency downward (even though there is no metal whatsover here...)
  13. Opeth - Still life
  14. Frantic Bleep - The sense apparatus
  15. Arcturus - The sham mirror
  16. Meshuggah - Catch 33
  17. Tool - Aenima
  18. Opeth - Watershed
  19. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R.
  20. Pain of Salvation - Remedy lane
  21. Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making
  22. Hord - Reborn from chaos
  23. Opeth - Ghost reveries
  24. ...In the woods - Omnio
  25. Grayceon - Grayceon

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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by progrules progrules wrote:

And about Vandenplas' masterpiece: I almost put it on no.1. There have hardly been better songs than Silence, Wish you were here and of course January Sun. I get ecstatic when I hear these !
 
 
It spent much of Summer 2006 going around and around in the car's CD player... I feel the same as you about the album, and my reason for pointing it out on your list, is because I thought I was just about the only one who felt that way about the impeccable song writing...which raises the hairs on the back of my neck...Embarrassed
 
anyway, now I find there's at least 3 of us... you, me and Sleeper...Big smile
 
I'm gonna say a very harsh thing now: Those who foolishly or deliberately ignore Vandenplas are LOOSERS !!  (and are missing out on fantastic prog metal)  Disapprove
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Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Top albums from the start of the 21st century.



Good idea!



And let's not forget about the beginnings:



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Originally posted by progrules progrules wrote:

And about Vandenplas' masterpiece: I almost put it on no.1. There have hardly been better songs than Silence, Wish you were here and of course January Sun. I get ecstatic when I hear these !
 
 
It spent much of Summer 2006 going around and around in the car's CD player... I feel the same as you about the album, and my reason for pointing it out on your list, is because I thought I was just about the only one who felt that way about the impeccable song writing...which raises the hairs on the back of my neck...Embarrassed
 
anyway, now I find there's at least 3 of us... you, me and Sleeper...Big smile
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

 
And although I thought I would have to wait for Mike to post his list so I could copy the link to generate the list, I think that I stumbled upon the correct list. 
 


^ nice! It's surely the correct list, although the "_tagmetal" is a bit redundant (and cause the word "metal" to appear twice in the heading).Tongue



And here's a slightly modified chart which only includes one album per artist:




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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

It is a great list.  I think the only 2 that I don't have and haven't heard are numbers 18 and 25.
 
 
One remark about no.18: hardly anyone knows it and I only know it thanks to the streamsong on our site !
Makes me wonder: does anybody listen to those streams ? I believe they are here to check out bands and find new ones. I must admit I don't do it often enough myself, it's also a matter of lack of time I think but it's really rewarding to check out streamsongs. Just try the the one of Marco Sfogli (it's on PA would you believe it ?). I'm almost certain you will love it !
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

 
 
Ok, here's mine (ish):
 
1. Pain Of Salvation: Remedy Lane
2. Tool: Lateralus
3. Symphony X: V The Mythology Suite
4. Dream Theater: Scenes From A Memory
5. Pain Of Salvation: The Perfect Element
6. Dream Theater: Awake
7. Arcturus: The Sham Mirrors
8. Pagan's Mind: Celestial Entrance
9. Vanden Plas: Christ.0
10. Therion: Lemuria/ Sirius B
11. Shadow Gallery: Legacy
12. Circus Maximus: Isolate
13. Therion: Theli
14. Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
15. Pagan's Mind: Enigmatic Calling
16. Kamelot: The Black Halo
17. Beyond Twilight: For The Love Of Art
18. Dream Theater: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance
19. Dream Theater: Images & Words
20. Blind Guardian: A Night At The Opera
21. Threshold: Dead Reckoning
22. Arcturus: La Masquerade Infernale
23. Vanden Plas: Beyond Daylight
24. Symphony X: The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
25. Nightwish: Wishmaster
 
phew....Wink
 
Talking about a great list my friend. Funny you contribute for the second time (after the neo thing) and somehow I expected that Wink. Another funny thing is I have the same blanks as Rushfan with those albums. I know Arcturus for instance but I don't have any albums and I have one by Therion and one by Beyond Twilight but not the same as you. As I also said in the neo thread: there's a lot to discover.
And about Vandenplas' masterpiece: I almost put it on no.1. There have hardly been better songs than Silence, Wish you were here and of course January Sun. I get ecstatic when I hear these !
 
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not all classed as metal --

Spastic Ink  Ink Compatible
Tool   Lateralus
Opeth   Ghost Reveries
1980  1980
Spiral Architect   A Sceptic's Universe
Blotted Science   The Machinations of Dementia
Behold..the Arctopus   Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning
Sleep Terror   Probing Tranqulity
Liquid Tension Experiment   LTE 2
Dysrhythmia   Barriers and Passages
Collapsar   s/t
SGM   Of Natural History
Indukti   SUSAR
Iron Maiden   s/t
AngelWitch   s/t
Sabbath   Volume IV
Voivod   Dimension Hatross
Metallica   And Justice For All
CounterWorld Experience   Fraktal
Unexpect   In a Flesh Aquarium
Opeth   Still Life

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I will include albums of Technical/Extreme/Post/Experimental Metal, because I still am not a fan of the Progressive Metal split.
 
1. Ayreon - The Human Equation
2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3. Dream Theater - Images & Words
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Opeth - Blackwater Park
6. Therion - Sirius B
7. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
8. Angra - Holy Land
9. Symphony X - The Odyssey
10. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
11. Devin Townsend - Terria
12. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
13. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
14. Threshold - Hypothetical
15. Therion - Lemuria
16. Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
17. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
18. Pain of Salvation - Entropia
19. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
20. Shadow Gallery - V
21. Adagio - Sanctus Ignis
22. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
23. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
24. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
25. Queensryche - Promised Land
 
Also some great albums by Symphony X, Opeth, O.S.I., Haggard, Ayreon and others are missing here.
 


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Top albums from the start of the 21st century.

Sorry bit more than 25! Embarrassed

Artist Album Year Rating
Fragile Vastness A Tribute To Life 2005 9.9
Day Six Eternal Dignity 2003 9.9
Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane 2002 9.8
Astarte Syriaca Darkened Light 2008 9.8
Beyond Twilight For The Love Of Art And The Making 2006 9.8
Communic Payment Of Existence 2008 9.7
Myrath Hope 2007 9.7
Tool Lateralus 2001 9.7
Suspyre When Time Fades 2008 9.7
Symphony X The Odyssey 2002 9.6
Soul Secret Flowing Portraits 2008 9.6
Riverside Second Life Syndrome 2005 9.5
Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls 2008 9.5
Riverside Out Of Myself 2004 9.5
Dream Theater Octavarium 2005 9.5
Redemption The Origins Of Ruin 2007 9.5
Anathema A Natural Disaster 2004 9.5
Kamelot The Black Halo 2005 9.5
Zero Hour A Fragile Mind 2005 9.5
Thessera Fooled Eyes 2006 9.5
Zero Hour Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond 2006 9.5
OSI Office Of Strategic Influence 2003 9.4
OSI Free 2006 9.4
Nation Beyond The Aftermath Odyssey 2007 9.4
Dream Theater Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 2002 9.4
Redemption The Fullness Of Time 2005 9.4
Sieges Even The Art Of Navigating By The Stars 2005 9.4
Menahem Angels And Shadows 2008 9.4
Vanden Plas Christ.O 2006 9.4
Ark Burn The Sun 2001 9.4
Spheric Universe Experience Anima 2007 9.4
Sun Caged Artemisia 2007 9.3
Superior Ultima Ratio 2002 9.3
Deadsoul Tribe A Murder Of Crows 2003 9.3
Pagan's Mind God's Equation 2007 9.3
Communic Conspiracy In Mind 2005 9.3
Fates Warning Disconnected 2000 9.3
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1 The Human Equation - Ayreon
2 Scenes From A Memory: Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater
3 Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness - Green Carnation

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Here's the short list
 
 
1.  Queensryche : Operation Mindcrime
2.  Opeth: Watershed
3.  Pain of Salvation: The Perfect Element
4.  Devin Townsend: Terria
5   Opeth: Ghost Reveries
6.  Opeth: Still Life
7.  Riverside: Second Life Syndrome
8.  Dream Theater: Awake
9.  Indukti: SUSAR
10. Green Carnation: Light of Day, Day of Darkness
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^Something tells me he didnt forget.Wink

  1. Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part 1
  2. Opeth- Blackwater Park
  3. Dream Theater- Scenes from a Memory
  4. The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
  5. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
  6. Dark Suns- Grave Human Genuine
  7. Liquid Tension Experiment- LTE2
  8. Indukti- SUSAR
  9. Virgin Black- Requiem Mezzo Forte
  10. Sieges Even- The Art of Navigating by the Stars
  11. Dream Theater- Images and Words
  12. maudlin of the Well- Bath
  13. Opeth- My Arms, Your Hearse
  14. Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
  15. Dream Theater- Awake
  16. Threshold- Clone
  17. Cynic- Traced in Air
  18. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
  19. To-Mera- Delusions
  20. Mastodon- Blood Mountain
  21. Vanden Plas- The God Thing
  22. Between the Buried and Me- Colors
  23. Opeth- Still Life
  24. Threshold- Hypothetical
  25. Cult of Luna- Somwhere Along the Highway
I would have placed Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye at #2, but I dont really consider them a metal band.


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^^how exactly, could anyone ever 'forget' Ayreon?....Pinch
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^ You forgot Ayreon too. Wink
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^^ooops...forgot Mindcrime...damn...Embarrassed
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It is a great list.  I think the only 2 that I don't have and haven't heard are numbers 18 and 25.
 
There are a lot more on Jared's list that I haven't heard: 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 22.
 
And although I thought I would have to wait for Mike to post his list so I could copy the link to generate the list, I think that I stumbled upon the correct list. 
 


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Originally posted by progrules progrules wrote:

Last week I did the same thing with Neo prog and I enjoyed it a lot so it's time for my other great love in prog: prog metal. Let's see if we can have some fun again. Here's the kick off:
 

1

Liquid Tension Experiment

LTE2

2

Vandenplas

Christ0

3

Symphony X

V: The new Mythology

4

Shadow Gallery

Room V

5

Anubis Gate

Andromeda Unchained

6

Dream Theater

Systematic Chaos

7

Ayreon

Into the Electric Castle

8

Ice Age

The Great Devide

9

Dream Theater

Six Degrees

10

Symphony X

The Odyssey

11

LTE

LTE

12

Dream Theater

Images and Words

13

Amaran's plight

Voice in the Light

14

Threshold

Dead Reckoning

15

Redemption

Origins of Ruin

16

Riverside

Second Life Syndrome

17

Pain of Salvation

The Perfect Element

18

Marco Sfogli

There's Hope

19

Shadow Gallery

Tyranny

20

Threshold

Wounded Land

21

Ice Age

Liberation

22

Pain of Salvation

Remedy Lane

23

Riverside

Rapid Eye Movement

24

Threshold

Critical Mass

25

Redemption

Fulness of time

 
Before everyone jumps on this list saying: how can you place that one so low ! I can simply say: these are all stunning, I repeat STUNNING albums, almost equal in quality and greatness to me (could also have done 25 no.'s 1 but that looks a bit stupid, so ...).
 
gosh Henk, that's a really great list you have there....the biggest clappy goes to you for putting Christ.0 so high up the list....ClapClapClap
 
Ok, here's mine (ish):
 
1. Pain Of Salvation: Remedy Lane
2. Tool: Lateralus
3. Symphony X: V The Mythology Suite
4. Dream Theater: Scenes From A Memory
5. Pain Of Salvation: The Perfect Element
6. Dream Theater: Awake
7. Arcturus: The Sham Mirrors
8. Pagan's Mind: Celestial Entrance
9. Vanden Plas: Christ.0
10. Therion: Lemuria/ Sirius B
11. Shadow Gallery: Legacy
12. Circus Maximus: Isolate
13. Therion: Theli
14. Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
15. Pagan's Mind: Enigmatic Calling
16. Kamelot: The Black Halo
17. Beyond Twilight: For The Love Of Art
18. Dream Theater: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance
19. Dream Theater: Images & Words
20. Blind Guardian: A Night At The Opera
21. Threshold: Dead Reckoning
22. Arcturus: La Masquerade Infernale
23. Vanden Plas: Beyond Daylight
24. Symphony X: The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
25. Nightwish: Wishmaster
 
phew....Wink
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#1 Images & Words - Dream Theater
#2 Octavarium - Dream Theater

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