"Proggy" songs by non-prog bands

Great topic!

^All due to the writing of Randy Rhodes. His material after RR's death became decidedly more pop-metal. This is my favorite:

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Bruce Dickinson  "Man Of Sorrows"

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I almost forgot the most obvious. well, maybe just the intro.

This Parliament song from 1970's Osmium has a proggy feel to it to me (as do some others off the album).

Two melodic metal bands come to mind, Blind Guardian and Sonata Arctica:

Blind Guardian's And Then There Was Silence. Why I would call it proggy is the length of the song, a chorus that doesn't repeat, or actually no part at all that repeats just as it is, many melodies, highly polyphonic with multiple guitar and vocal lines on top of each other, big fast/slow and loud/quiet contrasts:


Sonata Arctica's White Pearl, Black Ocean. Proggy because of continuity/very few repetitions as above no verse/bridge/chorus, again many contrasts in tempo and loudness, some polyphony, some unusual rhythms/breaks

Both in my opinion more unusual and progressive than many things that so-called progressive metal bands have done, just with the typical melodic/power metal sound of the respective band. Certainly more interesting than Dream Theater ;)

Something classical:

Piano Piece by Edvard Grieg, proggy because witty/funny, changes of atmosphere and tempo, lots of unexpected pauses and "holes" in it.

And two Maiden songs that are IMHO already crossing the border to prog:


(Starts at 1.10)

Enjoy!




Edited by Desert_Storm - April 01 2012 at 10:55

Tapfret wrote: irrelevant wrote: AlexDOM wrote: Freebird? Certainly not in my opinion.  Maybe?