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Hercules 
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Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Near York UK
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 Posted: November 21 2007 at 10:35 |
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Despite being a big fan of classical metal, I've only heard 3 prog metal bands that do anything for me - Riverside (Second Life Sydrome is really excellent), Ayreon and Opeth (I can even cope with the growls because the music is so good).
Tool are a little bit dull if pleasant and inoffensive, Dream Theater may be wonderful musicians but their singer stinks and their music is full of cliches. Messugah - well they really are horrendous; their music is, well not music in my view, mostly just a ghastly noise of complex, unmelodic riffs which rapidly makes me want to smash the CD player. Pity, you can tell they're excellent musicians on the few occasions when they stop trying to be the heaviest thing around. Likewise The Dillenger Escape Plan. I recently bought a selection of CDs by bands recommended on this site which I hadn't heard; Riverside (SLS), Opeth (Blackwater Park), Ayreon (The Human Equation) were great, Tool (Lateratus) was OK and Messugah, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Of Natural History) and The Mars Volta (Frances the Mute) were complete disasters - not my thing at all.
I will have to investigate some of the other bands recommended here. I like melody and clear, memorable riffs you can head bang to (Budgie is my favourite metal band with Metallica a close second) so which would be the best to try next?
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Space Dimentia
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Joined: August 25 2005
Location: England
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Points: 440
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 08:42 |
DT - Images and Words
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy or V: The New Mythology Suite
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
Threshold - Wounded Land or Critical Mass
Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three sons of Seven
can I also add Opeth: Still Life?
These are in no particular order as thay change daily and upon my mood at the time
Edited by Space Dimentia - November 21 2007 at 08:43
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Prog is music for the mind
Hear your Orphaned child!
Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17
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Darklord55
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Joined: September 08 2007
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Points: 357
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 08:10 |
My top five right now, but always could change at a moments notice:
Opeth-Ghost Reveries
Dream Theater-Systematic Chaos I know! But I really like this one.
Meshuggah-Chaosphere
Symphony X-The Odyssey
Dream Theater-Metropolis and Opeth-Blackwater Park tied.
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Casartelli
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Joined: June 17 2006
Location: Netherlands
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Points: 401
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 08:09 |
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Oops... I knew I forgot one... ANATHEMA
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Ahmadbarqawi
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Joined: May 10 2007
Location: Jordan
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 07:43 |
My top 5 (favorite albums & not best) would have to be:
1- Anathema: Judgement
2- Riverside: Second Life Syndrome
3- Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
4- Liquid Tension Experiment: 2
5- Savatage: Streets
& also: Remedy Lane & Scenes from a Memory are way up there
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{Flashlights shade shrunken views
Of a red demon’s foxtrot in brews
Guns & flowers crown morning news
Panic-stricken guilt now ensues}
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aapatsos
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Joined: November 11 2005
Location: Manchester, UK
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Points: 9226
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 06:41 |
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first this must probably go under top 10s and lists...
then...
1. DT - Images and Words
2. Queensryche - OM
3. Fates Warning - APSOG
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element pt.1
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Casartelli
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Joined: June 17 2006
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 06:05 |
Excluding the 'new' genres that moved out of the 'progressive metal' subgenre, I think my holy trinity should look like:
Dream Theater - Awake
Fates Warning - A pleasant shade of gray
Queensr˙che - Operation: mindcrime
Including them, The Gathering's Mandylion surpasses everything (in advance sorry for the bold statement, Mike  )
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archivep
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Joined: March 27 2006
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Points: 117
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 05:56 |
 Majestic_Mayhem wrote:
archivep wrote:
1.DT "Images & Words" 2.DT "Awake" 3.ARK "Burn The Sun" 4.DT "Metropolis..." + "Train..." 5.FATES WARNING "A Pleasant Shade of Gray" "Images..." is for me the absolute peak of progressive metal with the perfect songwriting, musicianship and the production. I think it has not been reached yet. |
Quite an overstatement there my friend. Images and Words is trully a benchmark of progressive metal as a genre, but there are loads of other bands other than Dream Theater who made better albums than that. So anyways, here is my top 5 in no particular order:
Pain of Salvation- Entropia
Dream Theater- Awake
Tool- Lateralus
Symphony X- V
Ayreon- The Human Equation
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No everstatement my friend... For me it´s a fact. I´ve heard plenty of prog metal and so called prog metal albums in many years, but simply DT is the top for me.
Everybody has an opinion, so I respect yours, my friend.
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JayDee
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Joined: September 07 2005
Location: Elysian Fields
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 05:33 |
archivep wrote:
1.DT "Images & Words"
2.DT "Awake"
3.ARK "Burn The Sun"
4.DT "Metropolis..." + "Train..."
5.FATES WARNING "A Pleasant Shade of Gray"
"Images..." is for me the absolute peak of progressive metal with the perfect songwriting, musicianship and the production.
I think it has not been reached yet.
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Quite an overstatement there my friend. Images and Words is trully a benchmark of progressive metal as a genre, but there are loads of other bands other than Dream Theater who made better albums than that. So anyways, here is my top 5 in no particular order:
Pain of Salvation- Entropia
Dream Theater- Awake
Tool- Lateralus
Symphony X- V
Ayreon- The Human Equation
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toolis
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Joined: April 26 2006
Location: MacedoniaGreece
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Points: 1678
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 05:25 |
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1.DT "Images & Words"
2.Queensryche "Promised Land"
3.Sieges Even "A Sense Of Change"
4.Angra "Holy Land"
5.Fates Warning "A Pleasant Shade of Gray"
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...
-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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archivep
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 05:08 |
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1.DT "Images & Words"
2.DT "Awake"
3.ARK "Burn The Sun"
4.DT "Metropolis..." + "Train..."
5.FATES WARNING "A Pleasant Shade of Gray"
"Images..." is for me the absolute peak of progressive metal with the perfect songwriting, musicianship and the production.
I think it has not been reached yet.
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