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Post Heavy Prog bands that aren't metal or directly related to metal, like being on the hard rock/heavy metal border, my list may help you see my definition of heavy

Amon Duul II - first three albums are very heavy, and Eye Shaking King might as well be the heaviest song ever written

Mahavishnu Orchestra - goddamn they were heavy

Guru Guru - possibly the dirtiest music ever made (that is still very listenable)

King Crimson - generally a heavy atmosphere to their music but the always managed to knock you to the floor at least once on an album

Magma - very weird, very dark, very heavy

some honorable mentions

ELP, Nektar, Univers Zero , German Oak, Lard Free, Ash Ra Tempel

Aaron

Edited by Aaron - January 02 2007 at 17:35

Present and Shub-Niggurath are heavy and doomy, a lot like Univers Zero.

Try White Willows album, Storm Season. The second guitar player is riffing and sounds like a metal player but overall the music isnt metal at all.
Wobbler can get a bit heavy, especially in Rubatto Industry and Clair Obscur
Tiles are very similar to Rush so they're an obvious choice.
Strangefish are heavy but can sound very upbeat.
Proto-Kaw are another obvious group due to their relationship with Kansas

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

Some modern ones: Taal, Nemo, Muse (not Prog, but on this site as Prog related...), Pure Reason Revolution (they have a couple of pretty heavy moments) and of course modern KC.

Hey aaron i'm glad to hear that AMON DUUL II and GURU GURU are heavy because i had them both on my list to order,and i love heavy.How about AZIOLA CRY,TOOL and KING CRIMSON's ba#%$rd child!

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

Aside from the ones mentioned here are some names from the top of my head:

Bigelf
Guapo
Eskaton
Island
Hoyry Kone
Out of Focus
Vinegar

I love heavy prog bands which are NOT Prog metal.I like some Prog metal,but no the most(and I say ABSOLUTELY NO to Power-Prog metal,sorry).This is always a surprise to find that Prog band ROCKS! While Porcupine Tree or PRR have their guitars tuned in D,they are not Metal...anyway,they are pretty ROCKY...
Same goes to Scandinavian Prog - even guitarless parts in ANEKDOTEN music are heavy due to Jan Erik's wonderful roaring bass! Listen to Russian LITTLE TRAGEDIES - they are growing heavier and heavier!!! I always loved this ROCKY side more then simply METAL one.Listen to "Get'em Out By Friday" - it ROCKS and it needs no low-tuned guitars or two bass-drum drumkits...and it's beautiful!

Obviously Crimson -- the terriffic The Power to Believe is about as close to modern metal as my collection gets. Awesome power -- even scary at times!

IQ can be rather heavy (at least to my old ears), especially with some guitar work that's "metal-esque." (I like it though -- when they "cook," they really cook!)

Another guy who can really rock, and bring in metal elements (despite being listed under "prog folk, last time I checked) is multi-instrumentalist Steve Unruh. (He's really all over the place, stylistically -- another example of the inexact process of assigning narrow genres to artists, who "care not" for our restrictive categories.)

Porcupine Tree can be really heavy at times, too (too much for me -- I also find their stuff too overtly derivitive of Floyd for my tastes).

Finally, good old Steve Hackett can really get heavy, at times. Check out tracks like "Mechanical Bride," "A Tower struck Down," etc.

Edited by Peter Rideout - January 03 2007 at 14:25

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

memowakeman wrote:

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are very heavy, without being metal...

True
The same thing could be said about The Mars Volta, specially in De-loused

"You want me to play what, Robert?"

The early (progressive) era QUEEN was really heavy. Thumbs Up

Pink Floyd's "The Nile Song" is worth mentioning too.

Percussion, sir!

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