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Points: 3830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:07
Originally posted by eduardossc eduardossc wrote:

My best advise is: Keep away from Metal prog. There is way too much real progressive rock to stay busy for the rest of your life.

I once started buying "Iron maiden´s" albums, "Dream T´s" and some other metal bands. I might have spent enough money to buy every important album by "Banco", "PFM", "Rush", "Camel", "Jethro", and many "one album" bands I had not in that period of time. Today I still don´t have them all and regret everyday I bought all that metal.

If you were not impressed and found out every album is similar to other, trust me, buying more won´t make you feel any different.



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Points: 257 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:11

  The only good thing I´m getting after bashing The Flower Kings and metal prog is that next time I will place all my senses on The Flower Kings. Now I´m interested ¡¡. If many people like it, it can´t be as boring as I hear it.

  Metal prog....naaahhh. That requires too much of a wide mind for my taste.
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Points: 3830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:14
Prog metal's not a bad genre.  Before you write it off completely, listen to the album "Be" by Pain Of Salvation, with the lyric booklet with you.  If anything, you'll at least get a much different view than you currently possess.
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Points: 199 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:23
Definitely get Tool - Lateralus if you liked what you initially heard, it is a brilliant record (my personal all time favorite along with Aenima), but not for everyone.

I think other good distinct choices might be:

Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane or Perfect Element
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Fates Warning - Parallels (quite soft) or Awaken the Guardian (quite old and "heavy")
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Dream Theater - Images and Words

There are tons of others, but I think those are the ones to check out first (at least I did before venturing to the lesser know prog metal bands). Rush in modern standards are not metal so I wouldn't include them into this list.







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Points: 16451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:28

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

Prog metal's not a bad genre.  Before you write it off completely, listen to the album "Be" by Pain Of Salvation, with the lyric booklet with you.  If anything, you'll at least get a much different view than you currently possess.

 Definitely!

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