Hello everybodyyyyyyyyy!

avalanchemaster wrote: what other bands are you interested in from my list?  ask away and I will try to be as concise and helpful as possible.....

Well I want to check out all the avant in your list, since I want to get into that genre.

the only Camel I own:
Mirage, a Live record  (both very good and I want more.....)

Rush:
2112, hemispheres, moving pictures, exit stage left, signals...(have not heard anything newer than the one with "roll the bones")

Opeth:
I am on the fence with these guys.  I have been listening to them since '99, so I am no stranger to their sound- which has its limits....even if it is brilliant!  But I think my favorite was their departure from their "usual" sound:  Damnation.
really I think a lot of them tend to blend together song for song and album for album and I really do not see it necessary to own them all.


what other bands are you interested in from my list?  ask away and I will try to be as concise and helpful as possible.....

other stuff I like:
The Residents, Arcturus, Anacrusis, Alas, Altered aeon, Arsis, Atheist, Art bears, Derek Bailey, Believer, Behold...the arctopus, Tim Berne, Borknagar, Bublemath, Canvas Solaris, Camel, Capharnaum, Carnival in coal, Captain Beyond, Cocteau Twins, Codeine, Coil, Confessor, Covenant, Coprofago, Coroner, Continuo Renacer, The Cure, Crom-tech, Miles Davis, Dazzling killmen, Dead Horse, Death, Dead Soul Tribe, Diabolical Masquerade, Depressive AGe, Devil Doll, Deserts of traun, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Al Di Meola, Disharmonic Orchestra, Doctor Nerve, Dodheimsgard, Dredg, DRI, Don Caballero, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Dysrhythmia, Ebony Tears, Edge of sanity, Danny Elfman, Ephel Duath, Emperor, Entombed, Embraced, Enslaved, Estradasphere, Extol, Faith no more, Fantomas, Finch, Final, Forbidden, The f**king Champs, Jason Becker, Frank Gambale, Genesis, Goblin, Godflesh (anything Justin Broakdrick related), Gordian Knot, Gorguts, Gorod, Gory Blister, Gregor Samsa, Herbie Hancock, Hardwired, PJ Harvey, The Haunted/At The Gates, Helstar, Henry Cow, Allan Holdsworth, Hollenthon, Greg Howe, The Human Abstract, Charlie Hunter, Idaho, Ihsahn, Illogicist, Imperium, In flames (early), Insomnium, Isis, Into The MOat, Jesu, Ron Jarzombek, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Katatonia (all), Keelhaul, Kayo Dot, 5uus/Dave Kerman (anything really), King Crimson, Korum, Koenjiyakkei, Kraftwerk, Kronos Quartet, Helmet, Kreator, Last crack, Lengsel, Lux Occulta, Mew, Macabre, Alex Machacek, Tony Macalpine, Michael Manring, The Mars Volta, MARTYR!, Massacre, Mastodon, maudlin of the well, Mekong Delta, Melvins, Mental Home, Meshuggah, Miasma and the carousel of headless horses, Mind over four, Mirrorthrone, minibosses, miRthkon, Moonspell, Mutant, Ennio Morricone, Conlon Nanncarrow, Necrophagist, Neglected Fields, Neurosis, Nevermore, Nile, Non Human Level, Obliveon, Obsidian, Ohm(hello, Chris Poland?), October Tide, Oingo Boingo, Opeth, Oxiplegatz, Pain of Salvation, Paradise Lost, Jaco Pastorius, MIke Patton (anything he touches), Pavor, Peccatum, Pestilence, Planet X, Porcupine Tree, Primordial, Primus, Protest the hero, Psychotic Waltz, Psychotogen, Psyopus, Psycroptic, Queensryche (early), Quicksand, Radiohead, Ram-Zet, Toxik, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rollins Band, Rope, Rush, Sadus, Sanctuary, Satyricon (early-mid), Scar Symmetry, Sceptic, Scholomance, Sculptured, Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle, Sigh, Shape of Despair, Sikth, The sisters of mercy, Skeleton Crew, Skinny Puppy, Sleepless, Slint, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Soilwork (early to "natural born chaos"), Sonic Youth, Solefald, Spastic Ink, Spawn of possession, Spheric Universe Experience, Spiral Architect, Star of Ash, Stinking lizaveta, Strapping YOung Lad, Stressball, Sugarcubes, Sunny Day Real Estate, SUP/Supuration, Swallow the sun, Swans, Symbyosis, Tears for fears, Textures, Theory in practice, Therapy?, Thinking Plague, This Hear, Thought Industry, Tiamat, Thou Shalt Suffer, Time of Orchids, Today is the day (early), Tin hat trio, Tomahawk, Tool, Devin Townsend, Trepalium, Trivium (some), Tub Ring, UK, Twisted into form, Ulver (ALL), Univers Zero, U Totem, MOtor Totemist guild, Steve VAi, Van Der Graaf Generator, Ved Buens Ende, Virus, Vintersorg, Single Unit, Voivod, Vuvr, Scott Walker, Watchtower, Weather Report, Winds, Wintersun, Wolverine, X-legged Sally, Frank Zappa, Zaar, Sotos, Far Corner, (any and all RIO and art rock/avant garde really), almost anything by John Zorn and on the Tzadik label........................

what do you think?

Unexpect?

Welcome to the forum. Glad you're here.

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avalanchemaster wrote: I have been using the Prog archives for some time now, but never noticed the forum until someone on another message board (Relapse) pointed it out. I enjoy progressive thrash, some prog metal (even though most of it is formulaic and boring to me)....Lots of RIO (goddamn I LOVE this sub genre) and as much Avant Garde as I can get my hands on.  I also love experimental jazz, Technical Death metal and technical metal period.  I also enjoy some classical.  Most of my collection (now bordering on 900 cds and 350 cdrs) is mostly metal, but almost all of it is obscure.  I am obsessed with music.  I play a 6string John Myung Bass Guitar and an Ibanez guitar and have recently started playing piano again.  I have ideas to incorporate the wild playing of Orthrelm/Mick Barr with the beats of Aphex Twin at his most crazy....with insane samples and a little bit of The Residents thrown in for good measure.......but alas, I do not have all of the necessary equipment.  Speaking of Mick Barr, he just released a cd on Tzadik with him playing accompanied by a drum machine.  Lately I have been listening to Rope (from Chicago- Avant Jazz), Ephel Duath, The Residents, Thinking Plague, This Heat, and many more................. and HELLO TO UUs

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blaughida wrote: Welcome! Your username is very appropriate given the current discussion of songs about disasters in the non-music prog lounge.

explain please?

Welcome!

Your username is very appropriate given the current discussion of songs about disasters in the non-music prog lounge.