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Poll Question: Who is your favorite modern progressive metal band?
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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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Had there been "Other", I would have picked it for either Devin Townsend, Anubis Gate or Teramaze.
But for the sake of options, Periphery gets my vote for growing more on me since the beginning. Vola comes second.
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Haken from this list.
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The Contortionist from this list. 

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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Caligula's Horse from this list. Though their most recent was a misstep.
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By and large, Haken for me, but I'm disgusted by what they are playing now, so I'll click on BTBaM.

Btw Ne Obliviscaris looks out of place here. 


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

But i cant choose between two very differents bands

Elder: great band, i enjoy a lot the album "Lore" and "Omen", they are heavy psych, prog, sludge, stoner, they added a mellotrom in their last work.

VOLA: the guys from Denmark are great, djent riffs + Mew melodies + Asger voice sound to me like Roland Orzabl of Tears for fears, very unique sound.
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Voted for Elder..even if I find the production of their albums downright horrendous. The drums especially get on my nerves after a while. If they just emplored a more natural way of capturing the drums they would gain so much in dynamics and tension. Oh well...the songs are all pretty good and I really dig the electronics they’ve started to implement.
I also really like Vola although I wouldn’t call them progressive metal. More like metal with art-pop tendencies. Anyhoo I hope all this Toyota Corolla nonsense soon is over with, because I would love to go see these guys in a live setting.

Fave modern progressive metal though for me is Oranssi Pazuzu and Waste Of Space Orchestra. They nail the production as well as incorporating psychedelic and something akin to symphonic elements to the music. Add one Finnish Navajo medicine man on vocals..and I’m sold. Indians always attracted me far more than cowboys. I blame Hiawatha and Yakari
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Haken: Virus is my favorite prog-metal album ever.
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Easily Haken.

Mastodon's Crack the Skye is of the same caliber as any Haken album, though.
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Originally posted by digdug digdug wrote:

from the list    Haken

but was looking to vote for Riverside

Likewise. I really like Haken, though: they're the only prog-metal band that comes anywhere near Riverside.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Voted for Elder..even if I find the production of their albums downright horrendous. The drums especially get on my nerves after a while. If they just emplored a more natural way of capturing the drums they would gain so much in dynamics and tension. Oh well...the songs are all pretty good and I really dig the electronics they’ve started to implement.
I also really like Vola although I wouldn’t call them progressive metal. More like metal with art-pop tendencies. Anyhoo I hope all this Toyota Corolla nonsense soon is over with, because I would love to go see these guys in a live setting.

Fave modern progressive metal though for me is Oranssi Pazuzu and Waste Of Space Orchestra. They nail the production as well as incorporating psychedelic and something akin to symphonic elements to the music. Add one Finnish Navajo medicine man on vocals..and I’m sold. Indians always attracted me far more than cowboys. I blame Hiawatha and Yakari

I agree. VOLA are not progressive metal. More like crossover prog. With their new album out, I think they should be reassessed for PA inclusion.


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Animals As Leaders

Given your profile pic, I think we all could have guessed that LOL

In your honest opinion, do you think AAL don't get enough love here on the archives? I personally think thats true. Like in prog metal circles outside of this place, AAL albums are very highly regarded but they kind of fall flat on this site's rankings. 
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Originally posted by Homotopy Homotopy wrote:

By and large, Haken for me, but I'm disgusted by what they are playing now, so I'll click on BTBaM.

Btw Ne Obliviscaris looks out of place here. 

Can you elaborate on that? I genuinely disliked their latest record. It was sloppy and meandering. They do not seem to be cut out for making long purely heavy albums. WIthout that ecclecticism characteristic of everything up to Affinity, they can't seem to hold their own. 
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Voted for Elder..even if I find the production of their albums downright horrendous. The drums especially get on my nerves after a while. If they just emplored a more natural way of capturing the drums they would gain so much in dynamics and tension. Oh well...the songs are all pretty good and I really dig the electronics they’ve started to implement.
 

I hear this. They seem to employ the techniques of post-rock production (think Russian Circles or Cult of Luna) which I guess makes sense from a certain point of view but it absolutely eliminates the drums' punchiness. 
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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. 
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Originally posted by ssmarcus ssmarcus wrote:

Originally posted by Homotopy Homotopy wrote:

By and large, Haken for me, but I'm disgusted by what they are playing now, so I'll click on BTBaM.

Btw Ne Obliviscaris looks out of place here. 

Can you elaborate on that? I genuinely disliked their latest record. It was sloppy and meandering. They do not seem to be cut out for making long purely heavy albums. WIthout that ecclecticism characteristic of everything up to Affinity, they can't seem to hold their own. 

yep that is the feeling I have now although I did like Vector. The latest (bar the first track) is near unlistenable for me.
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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

Mastodon's Crack the Skye is of the same caliber as any Haken album, though.

I mean Ill take Crack the Skye over any Haken album any day of the week (no disrespect to Haken). Honestly Id taken Crack the Skye over most albums of any genre of any era any day of the week... 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

yep that is the feeling I have now although I did like Vector. The latest (bar the first track) is near unlistenable for me.

Literally word for word my feelings exactly. I have a feeling I am going to like looking at your top rated albums lol 
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