Tech/Extreme Related Artists?

I´m not much of an Emperor fan ( I prefer Samoth´s Zyklon if I listen to anything from those gentlemen) but I agree that Prometheus is their most progressive album.

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

Superb album, for any fan of death metal this is a must have, especially the song User~Maat~Re.

I'd disagree with that.  Nile is not progressive, nor is Necrophagist or Spawn of Possession, etc. etc. 

Yeah, I would never consider them for inclusion. But they are one of the most progressive bands out there that remain outside of the prog umbrella.

Coroner were generally considered technical/ semi-progressive thrash metal in the late eighties/ early nineties but they´ve been rejected here on PA. They are borderline IMO ( especially because of Grin). I´m not too sure myself.

A thing for anyone here that is suggesting bands they believe could be prog related is that, IMHO, generally we don't just want bands that have progressive elements, because that can open the flood gates way too wide.
We want you to convince us how those bands have influenced progressive tech/extreme artists, how they may have helped shaped the genre while not actually being inside the genre itself and why they are important.

Sure, there are these bands that are being suggested here as being "borderline", but if these bands are relatively unknown, then how would they have been influential to the genre then?

Think about it guys......why do we have Iron Maiden, Metallica and Black Sabbath?
These are pretty well known bands that helped shape prog metal in some way. The fact they are well known and thus were much easier for bands to get a band a hold of to listen to, to influence their style, is key.
Maybe Path of Debris is more progressive than Maiden, but f**ked if I've ever heard of them, and not a chance they have influenced anywhere near as much of the Tech/Extreme bands that Maiden did. See what I mean now?
There are plenty of bands that are more progressive than Sabbath, but didn't make the cut for either Prog Metal or even Related.
The bands that should be suggested for related shouldn't just be any "borderline" band, I really want you guys to take into consideration the other points I (and hey, possibly quite a few others) consider as being of strong importance for inclusion into Related before you come and suggest them.
And then, perhaps an admin, maybe even our man of metal on the admin team, Jody himself might take a serious look at those suggestions.


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - May 11 2009 at 04:25

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: Maybe Path of Debris is more progressive than Maiden, but f**ked if I've ever heard of them, and not a chance they have influenced anywhere near as much of the Tech/Extreme bands that Maiden did. See what I mean now? There are plenty of bands that are more progressive than Sabbath, but didn't make the cut for either Prog Metal or even Related.

Excellent point.

Still, Gorguts should be added.

btw, you guys should add me to the progressive metal team. i'm pretty much the sh*t. 

I don't beleive I suggested that Nile should be here. I merely stated that their approach is very progressive.

As was already stated, the band (Gorguts) only needs one yes vote to get in on PA in an actual prog genre (Tech/Extreme) regardless of how influential they are perceived to be, because that's the way of the voting process anyway. If a band is on the charts for actual prog metal, and is cleared, it doesn't matter at all how influential they are.