Recommend me some "EXTREME PROG METAL"

First two seminal Death Metal releases for the deathster in the prog-

Nile are perhaps one of the most unlistenable bands on the planet but there latest one is a supreme mix of death metal insanity mixed with their egyptian motif. Now this is not prog. by any standard definition but the level of musicianship is simply stunning. I mean no one plays faster and more brutal than this. The speed is simply enough to make you wonder how do they do it. Worth at least one listen just to hear this cacophany played out in real time. Their previous release is just chaos. Totally unlistenable except as a soundtrack to insanity.  

Suffocation-Pierced From Within. Well simply amazing and never to be replicated, I hope!!!! Death metal taken to its most complex formation of riffing complexity.

Now for me the latest piece of craziness to come out of progressive/thrash is England's Biomechanical- It is a mix of Pantera meets Symphony X meets Judas Priest played with some Watchtower influence. Now this is heavy OK. But if you chance to open yourself to it is an amazing tour de force of complex riffing and insane vocals that Cynic and Watchtower have never envisaged. I truly believe in the passing of time this album will reach legendary status. The riffs tumble by at a rather disturbing rate and never ever seem to settle down.

This is the one you are looking for I believe.

And as for the death metal releases feel free to ignore those recommendations, I know this is not a death metal site OK, but Biomechanical is not death metal. It is Biomechanical. Extreme progressive rock is what it is.

 

Edited by blunt

blunt wrote: I mean no one plays faster and more brutal than this. The speed is simply enough to make you wonder how do they do it. Worth at least one listen just to hear this cacophany played out in real time. Their previous release is just chaos. Totally unlistenable except as a soundtrack to insanity.

Nile are a very produced, accessible (for death metal) and listenable band. Origin is faster and Wormed make Nile sound like Britney Spears in the brutal factor. Nile is no soundtrack to insanity. Go find Portal's 'Seepia' album. Now THAT is a soundtrack to insanity.

Behold... The Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
The most technical/fast/amazing intsrumental progressive metal you will
ever hear.

Orthrelm - Asristrar Vieldrioxe
99 songs and 12 minutes long.

Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Best and most recent Fantomas, which contains a healthy dose of Naked
City.

Yeti - Things to Come... / Volume Obliteration Transcendence
Prog-metal for depressed, pot smoking, guys who like slow music.

Tarantula Hawk - Tarantula Hawk (I & II)
KInda like Yeta, but chage the Magma for some space rock.

A lot of excellent recommendations above

To this I'd like to add Cryptopsy, Lykathea Aflame, Martyr (the Canadian one, not the Czech one!), Immolation (although if you're Christian you're likely to find the lyrics disturbing), Capharnaum, Necrophagist, Psycroptic, Textures, Atheist, Spawn of Possession, Decrepit Birth... ufff, there's lots more, but let's leave it at that for now.  

On the dead thrash metal side, see if you can still get hold of The Shining Path's No Other World (on Day Eight Music Records), recorded in 1993. It is worth comparing with the very different, heavy Hammond organ-lead prog fusion of The Jonas Hellborg Group's "e" - same line-up, Hellborg and Johansson brothers (but without vocalist Gary Cooper) and recorded within 18 months of each other