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heyitsthatguy 
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 Posted: December 20 2007 at 01:47 |
 sean wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
sean wrote:
so i just bought between the buried and me's "colors" today. i'm about halfway through and this stuff is really blowing me away. i had high expectations because of all the fanfare about this but this is really great. maybe now i can go back through the older stuff. i didn't like what i had heard from alaska too much before but i think it warrants being checked out. |
I would definitely give Alaska a chance.
An interesting BtBaM album is the album of covers called The Anatomy Of.They play quite a few prog tunes,and what is surpising is tunes that you think they would ruin(Queen's "Bicycle Race")they play to perfection.
My favorite cover on the album is their version of Soundgarden's "The Day I Tried to Live".Tommy Rogers sings his a** off on that tune. |
i see they do quite the assortment of songs on that album. i really want to hear three of a perfect pair especially. but i will definitely be giving the older stuff a try. i'm looking forward to their tour with dream theater, opeth, and 3. |
as am I  their covers are spot on for the most part actually as for Alaska, I'd listen to as many samples as possible, because while there are some tracks on there I really like (Selkies ranks with their best songs, and Backwards Marathon is really good too) a lot of it is too death-y for me. The Silent Circus other than Mordecai did nothing for me.
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Era V.
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:18 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
Era V. wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
This thread and the experimental/post metal thread aren't allowed to slip onto page 2 of this section,it's against forum rules and guidelines.
Check these guys out,they deserve more recognition:
Monogono -
There is a streaming sample up on their page. |
They're really, really good! Thanks for the recommendation dude, hearing everything from King Crimson and Return to Forever to Death and BTBAM!
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It's nice that someone actually took notice of this and checked them out,and I'm glad you liked them.
Their Amuk album is superb.  |
Well y'know...gotta keep up to date with my peers! 
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sean
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 20:19 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
sean wrote:
so i just bought between the buried and me's "colors" today. i'm about halfway through and this stuff is really blowing me away. i had high expectations because of all the fanfare about this but this is really great. maybe now i can go back through the older stuff. i didn't like what i had heard from alaska too much before but i think it warrants being checked out. |
I would definitely give Alaska a chance.
An interesting BtBaM album is the album of covers called The Anatomy Of.They play quite a few prog tunes,and what is surpising is tunes that you think they would ruin(Queen's "Bicycle Race")they play to perfection.
My favorite cover on the album is their version of Soundgarden's "The Day I Tried to Live".Tommy Rogers sings his a** off on that tune. |
i see they do quite the assortment of songs on that album. i really want to hear three of a perfect pair especially. but i will definitely be giving the older stuff a try. i'm looking forward to their tour with dream theater, opeth, and 3.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 16:44 |
sean wrote:
so i just bought between the buried and me's "colors" today. i'm about halfway through and this stuff is really blowing me away. i had high expectations because of all the fanfare about this but this is really great. maybe now i can go back through the older stuff. i didn't like what i had heard from alaska too much before but i think it warrants being checked out. |
I would definitely give Alaska a chance.
An interesting BtBaM album is the album of covers called The Anatomy Of.They play quite a few prog tunes,and what is surpising is tunes that you think they would ruin(Queen's "Bicycle Race")they play to perfection.
My favorite cover on the album is their version of Soundgarden's "The Day I Tried to Live".Tommy Rogers sings his a** off on that tune.
Edited by TheProgtologist - December 18 2007 at 16:45
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sean
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 13:38 |
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so i just bought between the buried and me's "colors" today. i'm about halfway through and this stuff is really blowing me away. i had high expectations because of all the fanfare about this but this is really great. maybe now i can go back through the older stuff. i didn't like what i had heard from alaska too much before but i think it warrants being checked out.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 01:48 |
ProgBagel wrote:
http://www.myspace.com/forcesatwork
Pretty interesting. |
Wow.......very impressive.
I am going to add them to our chart.
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ProgBagel
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:46 |
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http://www.myspace.com/forcesatwork
Pretty interesting.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 15 2007 at 22:56 |
Era V. wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
This thread and the experimental/post metal thread aren't allowed to slip onto page 2 of this section,it's against forum rules and guidelines.
Check these guys out,they deserve more recognition:
Monogono -
There is a streaming sample up on their page. |
They're really, really good! Thanks for the recommendation dude, hearing everything from King Crimson and Return to Forever to Death and BTBAM!
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It's nice that someone actually took notice of this and checked them out,and I'm glad you liked them.
Their Amuk album is superb.
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ProgBagel
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Posted: December 15 2007 at 21:39 |
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Another hand for Canvas Solaris. A true driving force in tech.
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Era V.
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Posted: December 15 2007 at 08:38 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
This thread and the experimental/post metal thread aren't allowed to slip onto page 2 of this section,it's against forum rules and guidelines.
Check these guys out,they deserve more recognition:
Monogono -
There is a streaming sample up on their page. |
They're really, really good! Thanks for the recommendation dude, hearing everything from King Crimson and Return to Forever to Death and BTBAM!
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 12 2007 at 22:45 |
This thread and the experimental/post metal thread aren't allowed to slip onto page 2 of this section,it's against forum rules and guidelines.
Check these guys out,they deserve more recognition:
Monogono -
There is a streaming sample up on their page.
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Bj-1
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 19:35 |
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Dark Angel started out as a thrash band (an excellent one as well) but got more technical as time passed by. The "9 songs, 67 minutes, 254 riffs" album was their last album I think, named "Time Does Not Heal". It's one of the best later thrash albums actually, in my opinion, and it's highly recommended if you like proggy and more technical thrash alà Justice era Metallica or Rust In Piece era Megadeth!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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sean
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 19:25 |
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has anyone heard of a tech metal band named dark angel? i'm interested to hear them because i saw one of their albums advertised as "9 songs, 67 minutes, 254 riffs" or something like that. i thought that kind of thing fit in with this thread, though i don't believe they are listed (however wikipedia did say something about progressive thrash).
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ProgBagel
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 14:04 |
FruMp wrote:
not really prog metal but I highly recommend Autopsy's Mental Funeral album, it combines the fat riffage of stoner metal with the brutality of death metal along with the atmosphere of early celtic frost. They do lots of wicked tempo change stuff that makes the standard death metal devices work so much better especially when a wailing solo kicks in at the same time.
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hahaha. Yeah they are pretty god. 
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FruMp
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 20:55 |
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not really prog metal but I highly recommend Autopsy's Mental Funeral album, it combines the fat riffage of stoner metal with the brutality of death metal along with the atmosphere of early celtic frost. They do lots of wicked tempo change stuff that makes the standard death metal devices work so much better especially when a wailing solo kicks in at the same time.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 18:23 |
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Tourniquet sounds very interesting,thanks for the recommendation!!!!!!!
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Era V.
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 12:27 |
So I've been spending some time trying to get back into the roots of this whole tech-metal thing...some recommendations, some of them very obvious some not; Possessed, Pestilence, Believer, Tourniquet, Detritus (those last three are christian metal bands incidentally - don't let it put you off, some of the most technical music you'll ever hear, especially Tourniquet).
I've been thinking that some of those really early super fast thrash and death metal bands just had amazing technique, the likes of Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel - there's some crazy stuff going on there. Those musicians had to make themselves awesome players because they didn't learn their techniques....they created them! To play death metal nowadays all you have to do is look at some tab and then thrash away, but back then....they were really carving forward.
Anyway, bit of a rambling post - my utmost recommendation for today though is Tourniquet - get the albums Pathogenic Ocular Disonance and Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm and take it from there!
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ProgBagel
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Posted: December 01 2007 at 14:55 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
ProgBagel wrote:
Just out of curiousity..what kind of file is 'Gamma Knife' on the Canvas Solaris page on the archives. Or what quality is it...the version on my cd seems to be a really toned down version of it. |
I added that,and just checked it out and it sounds a little...OFF.
That has happened once before to a sample I added,it's almost like it's playing at the wrong speed,but the sample is from my cd and plays fine.
I will delete it and try again. |
I think the sample sounds better.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: November 30 2007 at 12:30 |
ProgBagel wrote:
Just out of curiousity..what kind of file is 'Gamma Knife' on the Canvas Solaris page on the archives. Or what quality is it...the version on my cd seems to be a really toned down version of it. |
I added that,and just checked it out and it sounds a little...OFF.
That has happened once before to a sample I added,it's almost like it's playing at the wrong speed,but the sample is from my cd and plays fine.
I will delete it and try again.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: November 30 2007 at 12:28 |
guano wrote:
Are there any 'extreme death metal' sites that have streaming music? You know, for us poor folk who have to use dialup? I'm 'dying' to hear some of this music, but cd purchases are out of the question at the moment. |
Check some of the bands here in the archives under Tech/Extreme.....I am adding samples to a lot of band pages.
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