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and as long as you live in germany do you know if sieges even are back again? 
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Originally posted by Miaugion Miaugion wrote:

Uhm, and your top 15 collection is mostly excellent IMO, e.g. these choices:

Originally posted by Hammill Hammill wrote:


6) VAUXDVIHL-TO DIMENSION LOGIC
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10) CORONER-NO MORE COLOR
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13) MEKONG DELTA-DANCES OF DEATH AND OTHER WALKING SHADOWS


Very few people can remember these albums today. Mekong Delta were strangely fantastic! I'm almost tempted to add Celtic Frost's innovative "Into the Pandemonium" to the list.


i believe that mekong delta was the mostly underground band of heavy metal, i still remember a reporter in a greek magazine who gave 10 out of 10 for their cover in pictures at an exhibition and wrote: mr emerson you took your metal answer
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Top 15 Progressive Metal Albums Of All Time

  1. Scenes From A Memory Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater
  2. Images And Words - Dream Theater
  3. Octavarium - Dream Theater
  4. Awake - Dream Theater
  5. The Perfect Element Part 1 - Pain Of Salvation
  6. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
  7. The Human Equation - Ayreon
  8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
  9. Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Liquid Tension Experiment
  10. Into The Evenflow - Psychotic Waltz
  11. V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X
  12. A Social Grace - Psychotic Waltz
  13. Remedy Lane - Pain Of Salvation
  14. Room V - Shadow Gallery
  15. Into The Electric Castle - Ayreon

 
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Uhm, and your top 15 collection is mostly excellent IMO, e.g. these choices:

Originally posted by Hammill Hammill wrote:


6) VAUXDVIHL-TO DIMENSION LOGIC
[...]
10) CORONER-NO MORE COLOR
[...]
13) MEKONG DELTA-DANCES OF DEATH AND OTHER WALKING SHADOWS


Very few people can remember these albums today. Mekong Delta were strangely fantastic! I'm almost tempted to add Celtic Frost's innovative "Into the Pandemonium" to the list.
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Originally posted by Hammill Hammill wrote:

fates warning's awaken the guardian is another masterpiece of us power metal, one of the best metal albums ever


Yes, well ... err ... uhm ... I'd say it's an album of transition from power metal to prog metal. It's generally regarded as one of the first real prog metal albums. Ask Mr Portnoy, he'll say the same, and apart from that he'll say that "The Spectre Within" and "Awaken the Guardian" embodied the direction his then new band 'Majesty' had to take (in his opinion). So, for me it's really okay to call it early 'prog metal' (with lots of Black Sabbath influences of course).

(Just today I've bought the new remastered edition:

Disc 1: Remaster;
Disc 2: Demos & Live Bootleg;
Disc 3: Live-DVD, bootleg quality, historical document

--- and it's forking amazing! )
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Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

Dream Theater - Train of Thought

Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

Pain of Salvation - Entropia

Liquid Tension Experiment I

Liquid Tension Experiment II

Opeth - Damnation
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In no particular order. and not sure every album on the list is pure metal.

Angra Holy Land (Carolina IV)
Dream Theater Images And Words 
Dream Theater Scenes Of A Memorie, Metropolis part II
Fantomas Delirium Cordia
Queensr˙che Operation Mindcrime
Queensr˙che Empire
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Threshold Wounded Land
Threshold Clone
Threshold hypothetical
Uriah Heep Look At Yourself
Arena Immortal? (I know, but it is close enough for me)
Ayreon Into The Electric Castle
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Rainbow Rainbow Rising
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Originally posted by Miaugion Miaugion wrote:

01 Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
02 Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
03 Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
04 Voivod - Nothingface
05 Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
06 Queensryche - Rage for Order
07 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
08 Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
09 Dream Theater - Images and Words
10 Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
11 Voivod - The Outer Limits
12 Dream Theater - Awake
13 Watchtower - Control and Resistance

And I could add

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

as they're listed in the Archives but they do not necessarily belong here. They don't play Prog but POWER METAL, one is influenced by Queen, the other's heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin.

Honourable mention:

Enchant, a brilliant band with a brilliant singer, one of the best voices of all time. Unfortunately, they haven't managed to write their definitive magnum opus.




fates warning's awaken the guardian is another masterpiece of us power metal, one of the best metal albums ever
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01 Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
02 Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
03 Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
04 Voivod - Nothingface
05 Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
06 Queensryche - Rage for Order
07 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
08 Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
09 Dream Theater - Images and Words
10 Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
11 Voivod - The Outer Limits
12 Dream Theater - Awake
13 Watchtower - Control and Resistance

And I could add

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

as they're listed in the Archives but they do not necessarily belong here. They don't play Prog but POWER METAL, one is influenced by Queen, the other's heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin.

Honourable mention:

Enchant, a brilliant band with a brilliant singer, one of the best voices of all time. Unfortunately, they haven't managed to write their definitive magnum opus.


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Dream Theater- Images and Words

Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory

Dream Theater- Awake

Pain Of Salvation- BE

Pain Of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part I

Pain Of Salvation- Remedy Lane

Queensryche- Rage for Order

Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime

Ayreon- The Human Equation

Evergrey- The Inner Circle

Fates Warning- A Pleasant Shade of Gray

Angra- Angels Cry

Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite

Threshold- Subsurface

Kamelot- Epica

(Theres more probably)
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All the Dream Theater ones (Excluding live albums)... (9)
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 & 2
Savatage: The Wake Of Magellan
Savatage: Poets And Madmen
Symphony X: Symphony X
Queensryche: Promised Land
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Sorry,I had to choose 2 each for Shadow Gallery,Symphony X and PoS.


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In no particular order

1.Dream Theater-Scenes from a Memory

2.Kamelot-The Black Halo

3.Pain of Salvation-The Perfect Element

4.Pain of Salvation-Entropia

5.Tool-Lateralus

6.Opeth-Blackwater Park

7.Sieges Even-A Sense of Change

8.Dead Soul Tribe-A Murder of Crows

9.Shadow Gallery-Tyranny

10.Shadow Gallery-Room V

11.Symphony X-The Divine Wings of Tragedy

12.Symphony X-V:The New Mythology Suit

13.Andromeda-Extension of the Wish

14.Pagan's Mind-Celestial Entrance

15.Riverside-Out  of Myself


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Points: 400 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 29 2005 at 17:40
ok i know that this is a vey restrictive number but i cannot ask you to give yopur 100 neither your 5 top prog metal (when i say metal i mean metal) albums.Please try to choose ONLY one album from the bands you like.  in my opinion the 15 best prog metal albums are:

1) PSYCHOTIC WALTZ-INTO THE EVERFLOW

2) QUEENSRYCHE-RAGE FOR ORDER

3) FATES WARNING-PERFECT SYMMETRY

4) SIEGES EVEN- A SENSE OF CHANGE

5) DREAM THEATER-AWAKE

6) VAUXDVIHL-TO DIMENSION LOGIC

7) WATCHTOWER-CONTROL&RESISTANCE

8) GARDEN WALL-CHIMICA

9) VOIVOD-DIMENSION HATROSS

10) CORONER-NO MORE COLOR

11) SHADOW GALLERY-CARVED IN STONE

12) PAIN OF SALVATION-ENTROPIA

13) MEKONG DELTA-DANCES OF DEATH AND OTHER WALKING SHADOWS

14) MIND OVER FOUR-GODDESS

15) ETERNITY X-THE EDGE
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