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Poll Question: Who is your favorite modern progressive metal band?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [8.70%]
11 [23.91%]
5 [10.87%]
4 [8.70%]
2 [4.35%]
4 [8.70%]
1 [2.17%]
1 [2.17%]
1 [2.17%]
1 [2.17%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [2.17%]
3 [6.52%]
1 [2.17%]
1 [2.17%]
1 [2.17%]
3 [6.52%]
2 [4.35%]
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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Haken: Virus is my favorite prog-metal album ever.

One man's train wreck is another man's classic I guess LOL

I genuinely can understand why someone might like Virus but I am going to go out on a limb here and say you haven't been keeping up with prog metal generally over the previous 10 years before virus was released. Is that a fair assessment? I don't say that in a condescending manner, I just believe that for people who have been consistently following the modern prog metal scene are likely to find Virus a fairly unoriginal attempt at capturing that sound. If Im wrong on this, let me know. No sense in me continuing to believe an inaccurate intuition Smile
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

If Cellar Darling are classified as prog metal (which they should be IMHO) then they would be top of my list of modern prog metal artists.  They're first two albums are fantastic!

I just clicked on the first track listed on Spotify... Im blown away. Thank you for this! 

However, if that track is anything to go by, this is definitely more of a heavy prog group. 
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Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:

Really love The contortionist, The Ocean, Mastadon, Gojita and Intronaut.



Based on your taste in music, you are obviously a scholar and a gentleman. 
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nice poll, tough choice, I like a few bands here quite a bit, some i don't care for, true, but great poll anyway. Thumbs Up
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none from the list, no vote
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Originally posted by b_olariu b_olariu wrote:

none from the list, no vote


Who would you pick?
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Originally posted by ssmarcus ssmarcus wrote:

To everybody that said "from the list" - who else would you have included here? 

Ill reiterate, I deliberately did not want to include Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Opeth, etc. I wanted that next tier or generation of bands to be reflected in this poll. So I am indeed curious what else was deserving to be here. 

As I said, I also enjoy Arcane, Votum's Harvest Moon, Proghma-C's Bar-do Travels, Fen, Seiges Even, Mastodon, Agalloch, and Negura Bunget's Om.
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Animals as Leaders.
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Definitely have to go with Gojira. The Link, From Mars to Sirius, and The Way of All Flesh are like a modern metal holy trinity for me 

But I'd also put Between the Buried and Me, Mastodon, Animals as Leaders, and Protest the Hero as strong runner-up bands Smile
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Elder followed by Gojira, Mastadon, The Ocean and VOLA in that order
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Almost none from the list, some are ok to me
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Voted Elder.
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Of that list, I've only heard a bit of Haken and Leprous... that's it. I seem to remember thinking that both were OK, but not enough of my thing to start exploring their discographies. Maybe if I'd given them more time and repeated listens, I'd get hooked on them, but I just didn't have the inclination.... Ermm
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Vola got my vote. One of the best bands in recent years. Smile
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I don't know any of the bands in the poll so my irrelevant non-vote goes to Ayreon. Smile
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^ If you want to sample, here's one of my favorite tracks from my favorite releases.

Tie between Haken and BtBaM, so the latter gets my vote. 
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:


Tie between Haken and BtBaM, so the latter gets my vote. 

BTBAM is not exactly my thing. There is a Romanian band called White Walls that apparently is very much influenced by BTBAM and i like that band quite a bit. EmbarrassedSmile
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Originally posted by ssmarcus ssmarcus wrote:

To clarify, I am using the term "modern" to disqualify any legacy legendary acts like Opeth, Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc. I know that's not a scientific or exact cut off but I am trying to isolate the new-ish acts as best I can. 


This post is almost four years old, but I see that this poll confused a few people.  And I'm not really sure what is considered Prog Metal, or PM enough. I might have done this as must not have released its debut album before 1998 or something like that.  I was going to say post 2000, but the late was a good year for releases on the metal side.  I like lots included in PA's Experimental/ Post Metal and various of it I have not really thought of as metal, such as Uboa.  I also like in that category Boris, maudlin of the Well, Neurosis, but that was founded in the 80s, Pelican, Sigh.... I anyway, I went with Between the Buried and Me from the list. There are albums I like included in all of the metal categories at PA (and in all of the categories at PA, for that matter).

EDIT: Reading though page two, looks like there is some very good stuff mentioned for me to check out more from.



Edited by Logan - March 14 2025 at 10:04
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