Best Prog-Metal band?

 

Hey, you're a lawyer  I studied Law for one year last year!

First: Great poll! Second: A hell of a tough one! Third: For which band in hell should I decide?

 

Thinking, thinking, thinking...

 

Choice:

I've just discovered Pain Of Salvation. What a pretty prog metal outfit they are! I just can't get enough of The Perfect Element and Remedy Lane recently. Daniel Gildenlöw is already my favourite singer in progressive metal. What an incredible diverse range he has! Just need their other albums too. I've always liked Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Queensryche and almost all the other bands mentioned above but the problem is that I've listened to them too much over the years or their style isn't really my cup of tea (Meshuggah, sometimes Tool). At the moment there is no competition for the emotive, creative Swedish duo Pain Of Salvation and Opeth. Since the style of Pain Of Salvaton appeals a bit more for myself, I go with 'em. That can change any other day by the way! This is just a moment-decision.

 

P.s.: Kamelot and Evergrey aren't really prog, they are power metal bands wich prog relations. But that doesn't mean that they are misplaced on list.

Savatage is my favourite band from the whole poll, but since the question is what is the best "prog metal band" they need to get excluded for the competition.

 

That was really a tough one though!

 

In most part I agree with you Tristan. Bands like Anathema or Pain Of Salvation remain as unmatched in their emotional approaches. I also agree that Dream Theater are very technical, and show off almost all of the time, but that there's NO emotion in their music is simply wrong and I (and believe me, many others as well) disapprove with you oppinion. DT have several emotional parts in their music, which can't be overheard. Maybe those moments do not appeal to you for youself, but if you listen very openly to some of their more mellow songs, like the bluesy ballad Through Her Eyes (what a sad one, get's me almost allways I listen it in flue of the Scene From A Memory album) you will find out, that they also can write some really heart-wrenching and emotional tunes if they want. Find it out for yourself! If you have tried and it hasn't succeeded, alright. Than their try of emotional attribution fails to touch you. Or you are one of those listeners, who finds DT sounds generally "cheesy" in such moments, like many others do.

 

 

Opeth on top(you cannot beat these guys. perfect music IMO)

Meshuggah close second(absolutely brilliant and innovate math metal)

 

I hate DT with a passion!!!

 

Dream Theater

Queensryche

Symphony X

Tool

Kamelot

Second place goes to Mekong Delta (Visions Fugitive)

Third to Cirith Ungol (any album)

Fourth to Trouble  (Run To the Light)

Fifth to Fates Warning (upto Perfect Symmetry)

Sixth to Manilla Road (Deluge)

Seventh to Indukti

etc

etc

etc............

 

also honorable mentions

Ayreon

POS

Symphony X

Fates Warning

Tool

Devin