The Tech/Extreme Prog metal appreciation

 

I have all the Cavas Solaris   Did start with Cortical Tectonics.

Have both Collapsar "s/t" and "Integers"

Only have "Skullgrid" by Behold...the Arctopus

Have "Barriers and Passages" and "Pretest" by Dysrhythmia

"Gretzky" by Electro Quarterstaff

Sent 12 bucks to the eMail to Sleep Terror, so hopefully I'll get that cd soon.

Love the Blotted Science cd.

 

And I still can't find a copy of Continuo Renacer.

 

Spent some time Indricothere, but haven't picked it up yet. 

 

So, now I'm off to see about an Altera Enigma Octopus with Super String Theory.

 

 

 

 

If I may interrupt here for a short post:

 

Are we not entitled to respond to an accusation like this? I think we are, and here is mine.

 

We the collaborators here put in a lot of time and effort into adding bands, which means, writing bio's, adding the whole discography (and M@X the owner insists on that, whether all of it is prog or not), and we also write reviews and promote bands in the form of interviews, features/threads etc and discuss those things in threads/sections that are not accessible to the whole forum.

 

By having a comment like "utter failure", we feel like all our work goes to the drains and not respected/appreciated. If not for all our work, there would be no PA database, no bands to appreciate here (you could that in some other place, sure but you're here now thanks to that work).

 

So an utter failure would be quite an extreme word to use; we do the best with the limits of the site's structure and rules (which are not set by us, but from above us) and if we miss bands, we rely on our fine members to suggest them and not shove our so-called failure in our face.

 

As for Gorguts, it's on the PMT voting chart and Jody explained the team's opinion, which may be wrong in your opinion, but no one denies you the opportunity to discuss Gorguts in the forum. Sure, it is not as good as having them in PA database but one can always make a thread or send a PM to that PMT asking for their inclusion and explaining shortly why it is such a failure.

 

I happen to agree that Obscura itself should be in PA's Extreme/Tech prog metal; (I know the other albums as well and I think they're not prog metal material) but there's a way to do things and one will not get them with that kind of approach.

 

Cheers

 

Assaf

 

 

 

 

Definitely; the PMT have reconsidered bands before and added those after initially being voted no.

Anyway, I'll leave it to the fabulous 3, Jody, Mike and Teo to discuss this and I'll go back to reading and thread and occasionally posting something regarding to music alone and not PA work.

 

 

Anyone heard the latest Thanatoschizo - Zoom Code?

 

 

 

yeah, as you know Im used to forums where we nudge and snipe at eachother in the most absurd/extreme(and sometimes humorus) fashion and at the end of the day everyone pretty much gets along, actually when I first signed on here about 2 years ago I got "warned" that I was too brash in my attitude, hehe....okay, but I only started frequenting here again when I saw that this forum had become more active  with an assortment of music topics, in addition to the regular Prog topics,

 

anyhow you can just replaced harsher word of "failure" with the safer "misstep"...which I still think it is, but honestly it doesn't matter all that much to me, the funny thing is I don't even like Gorguts that much, and Obscura wouldn't even clock in one of my top 1000 albums of all time!....hell, I didn't even like their first 2 albums when they came out, but at least I recognize the uniqueness and significance of Obscura---and find it astonishing why at least that album wasn't included yet a band like Wolves in the Throne Room is, (which is a whole new argument all together), ....but as I pointed out I have nothing invested here as so many of you do, I have no pull only a small voice, that is all

 

With that being said, I have been swimming in of metal, the kind of metal like my coffee, BLACK. I must admit, I'm only scratching the surface, but most of the bands I've been listening to are excellent.

 

Ulver (firs couple of albums)

Wolves in the Throne room

Negura Bunget

Enslaved

Emperor

Isahn

Alcest (the most tame BM you'll ever find)

To name a few...

 

Isahn has become a big favorite of mine, even though his vocals are ridiculusly raspy, he manages to create dark, progressive black metal, and even has guest singers from all corners of the metal spectrum come in on his album (garm from Ulver, and Mickael Ackerfeldt). My favorite BM band is still WitTR, soooo goood, their backround is a little creepy though.

 

While all the albums are really good (Negura Bungets OM being the best), a lot do get a little obnoxious, and dont ever tend to mellow down. Besides Alcest of course. Can any of you recomend me any black metal bands in the vein of Alcest, with mellower, almost post rockier atmospheres?

 

Thanks, I've been recomeded Deathspell Omega a couple of times, I'll be sure to jump on getting some albums as soon as I can.