Prog Metal: Addition Voting

What about Dragonforce, Ring of Fire, Otep, Coheed and Cambria.

Mike I have made some other suggestions on your other thread envolving this matter.

TheProgtologist wrote: Why don't you all stop with naming other bands that ought to be included?We did all that in the Re-Organizing Prog Metal thread.Why don't you just stick to the 15 bands we are talking about and considering.

Sorry Jody, I encouraged them to do so ...

But you're right, this is getting too confusing ... so I created another thread:

Prog Metal: Possible new additions

there you can post any band which isn't mentioned yet.

And I renamed this thread to:

Prog Metal: Addition Voting

so please, limit your posts in THIS thread to the bands which are currently scheduled for voting.

yes I also think Sonata Arctica are kind of progressive
and for the other bands, I think every band should be added to the archives, except Blind Guardian and Avantasia.

I vote for The Black Mages. Thanks to Uematsu, I'm listening to Focus, ELP, and Camel.

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Why don't you all stop with naming other bands that ought to be included?We did all that in the Re-Organizing Prog Metal thread.Why don't you just stick to the 15 bands we are talking about and considering.

Majestic_Mayhem wrote: nice! ^ i really wish i could.... i wish i could (and know how to) upload them somewhere...

Come on ... most bands have a website:

http://www.secretsphere.com/

Majestic_Mayhem wrote: hey guys, have you heared SecretSphere?i think they sound like angra and kamelot. what do you think? (am i allowed to post this here? anyways, i just did!)

I added them to the chart - maybe we'll discuss their addition. Feel free to mention any other band which you feel is missing. Of course it would be best if you also post a link to a page with audio samples ...

Enslaved definitely deserves to be considered for inclusion in the "Progressive black" subgenre and thus into the archives, based on their last 3 albums (Monumension, Below The Lights and ISA). ISA is one of the most innovative black metal albums I have heard in a long time, a fresh breath into a genre that has become somewhat stale as of late.

Their older stuff is more brutal and more pure metal, but still with some prog qualities (A 16 minute epic named 793(The Battle of Lindisfarne) is one example).

In addition to that, it would be really cool to have a band from my hometown, Bergen, included in the archives


As per TP's instructions, commenting about bands on the list. Only heard Mastodon's "Leviathan" album, and based on that album alone I'm hesitant to call it progressive.. but it's up to you guys eventually.

Vintersorg's two first albums, "Till Fjälls" and "Ödemarkens Son" are more Folk Metal than prog imo. "The Focusing Blur" on the other hand, I'd say fits the prog metal label quite nicely. I'm for including Vintersorg.

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Just to avoid misunderstandings: You can vote and I'll add the votes to the page, but the decision whether or not to add the artists will be based on the team members' votes. But I really think that it would be interesting to see how the opinions of the team members relate to the public opinion.

 

Majestic_Mayhem wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Drew wrote: Dang- I should be a prog-metal expert! Feel free to cast your votes too ... I'll add you to the results. That goes for all of you! where can we vote, here, or on you site?... sorry,,..

you just post your votes here, and I'll add them to my page.