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    Posted: September 13 2010 at 13:48
If you want to stretch your horizons, you can try TO-MERA.
I am now listening to Delusions (2008) and blown away - a mix of DT/Symph X, jazz, Opeth, gothic with female vocals - great album
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Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

I dunno if you've heard "Traced in Air" by Cynic, but it's one of my all-time favorite albums and, I believe, the best metal album of the '00s. Nothing else sounds quite like it. 

I haven't....thank you.
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I dunno if you've heard "Traced in Air" by Cynic, but it's one of my all-time favorite albums and, I believe, the best metal album of the '00s. Nothing else sounds quite like it. 
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Death metal from Finland with jazz- and funkinfluences.
I only own the "A Warm Glimpse" record.
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While some are not Prog Metal through and through:
  • Mind's Eyes
  • Kamelot
  • Opeth
  • End
  • Tool
  • Riverside (kind of Neo Proggy at times)
  • Gallahad (Ditto)
  • maudlin of the Well (there's some metal in there, kind of experimental though)
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my ultimate favourite band is Primitai, you should give them a listen as they've recently beaten Iron Maiden to the number one album spot. definitely worth listening to!
their songs are awesome, i listen to them 24/7..
hope you like!
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by WyattEarp WyattEarp wrote:

@ Snow Dog  What do you mean you got to be kidding me?
 
Since you've been on Progarchives for 5 years you must know  good quality music.
Well
Listening to Heavy Metal bands,i love Uriah Heep(not the 1st),their one of the bands that influenced my love for Prog-Art Rock.
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They beautifully combine Prog and Heavy Metal,even though their under the Heavy Prog section.
They on their earlier stuff,they did a excellent job of combining Prog and Metal.
 
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If your open mind enough to appreciate Heavy Metal outside the box,you could see my point.
I think what he's getting at is that they arent metal.

Yes that and the fact he thinks I haven't heard Uriah Heep...I mean..what? Plus the fact that they suck anyway.Tongue
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Well, I suggest you try Balkandji. Bulgarian band playing delightful folk metal, ooooh yeah!! Rawks

I see Pagan's Mind had been mentioned, that one's compulsory.
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Originally posted by WyattEarp WyattEarp wrote:

@ Snow Dog  What do you mean you got to be kidding me?
 
Since you've been on Progarchives for 5 years you must know  good quality music.
Well
Listening to Heavy Metal bands,i love Uriah Heep(not the 1st),their one of the bands that influenced my love for Prog-Art Rock.
And
They beautifully combine Prog and Heavy Metal,even though their under the Heavy Prog section.
They on their earlier stuff,they did a excellent job of combining Prog and Metal.
 
Now
If your open mind enough to appreciate Heavy Metal outside the box,you could see my point.
I think what he's getting at is that they arent metal.
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Italian's VIII Strada are well worth checking out.

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@ Snow Dog  What do you mean you got to be kidding me?
 
Since you've been on Progarchives for 5 years you must know  good quality music.
Well
Listening to Heavy Metal bands,i love Uriah Heep(not the 1st),their one of the bands that influenced my love for Prog-Art Rock.
And
They beautifully combine Prog and Heavy Metal,even though their under the Heavy Prog section.
They on their earlier stuff,they did a excellent job of combining Prog and Metal.
 
Now
If your open mind enough to appreciate Heavy Metal outside the box,you could see my point.
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Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter..you can hear obvious DT influence but you can hear alot of meshuggah influence as well..they dont have any power metal influence like symphony x. Lots of piano and acoustic stuff to blend with the metal. Also Pagans Mind is a very good band
 


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Originally posted by WyattEarp WyattEarp wrote:

Coming from a guy that grew up on Metal.
 
Uriah Heep(Founding Father of the Progressive Metal genre)
 
I recommend the Magician's Birthday and Demons and Wizards Albums.
Especially the title track on the Magician's Birthday Album.


You have got to be kidding me.
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I still have to buy the albums, but for what I've heard on YouTube, Alcest is very good too, specially "Eclaille de Lune", which is the album I've heard. This is a french "group" consisting of only one person doing all instruments, however it sounded very good. I just read a review about a band call "Artcell" from Bangladesh, I only heard one song on Youtube, but it was interesting.
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I've had a couple of recent discoveries of bands I now love:
 
Disillusion - Gloria. Someone also mentioned their first, Back to Times of Spendour (has much more death growls), but I absolutely love Gloria. Has an industrial undertone and some of the vocals are a bit Rammstein, but it has some varied genre influences and is a great album.
 
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome. A 5 piece from Norway that also combine various influences to create a fantastic album IMO. Their tempo changes blend so well it's almost Opeth-like.
 
 
Oh yeah, there's a band called Porcupine Tree that are pretty good Smile
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Originally posted by Nathaniel607 Nathaniel607 wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

One of my favourite PM bands, very little known:

 
I literally cannot get this album - I CANNOT find it anywhere! I love the tracks you showed... can you find it anywhere lol?


I'm glad you liked them. These tracks were from their demo, which if I'm not wrong was never released. It just circulated over the internet (I don't know if legally or not). They have an official album out but the purchase links don't work as the band site is down, I just saw this Ouch
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

One of my favourite PM bands, very little known:

 
I literally cannot get this album - I CANNOT find it anywhere! I love the tracks you showed... can you find it anywhere lol?
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Coming from a guy that grew up on Metal.
 
Uriah Heep(Founding Father of the Progressive Metal genre)
 
I recommend the Magician's Birthday and Demons and Wizards Albums.
Especially the title track on the Magician's Birthday Album.
Then
The Masterpiece:Hall of the Mountain King Album by Savatage
 
Litmus
That's right bringing back the Lemmy era of Hawkwind!
Their Aurora album is Mind Blowing,it'll mess your world up.
Wayyy more Edgier,Heavier and above all more Spacier than the Lemmy era Hawkwind could ever dream.
 
Then
Recently last but not least.
 
Blood Ceremony:
New up and comers in Prog rock.
With that wicked and also hot babe Alia O'Brien on lead vocals and flute
Playing Metal in the tradition of Black Sabbath
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Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
(if you can tolerate death growls)
 
Exxasens - Beyond the Universe
(this is instrumental, more on post-rock side)
 
Isis - Wavering Radiant
(this is post-metal, and the most "weird" among these)
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what about messhugah?, isis?
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