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Poll Question: Who is your favorite?
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All these prog metal bands are noted for incorporating a heavy amount of jazz and/or jazz fusion elements into their distinctive style.  Which one is your favorite?

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AAL/Cynic/Atheist/Meshuggah

Can't choose.
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I admittedly haven't heard all of them.  I like all the ones I have except for Cynic.

I'll go with Yakuza, just over Zu, Meshuggah, Intronaut, Special Defects, and AAL
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Where's Blotted Science? Tongue We need such, uh, heavy post-bop bands in this poll.
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I must admit that the metal - jazz combination doesn't always work very well for me.
But luckily you didn't add Liquid Tension Experiment, those are really SickTongue

Yakuza and (earlier before they 'sang') Intronaut are the top for me.
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Oh wow, I didn't even include any Ron Jarzombek projects.  Failure on my part.
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Where's Death in this poll? Their later stuff is jazzy as hell. especially the Human/Individual Thought Patterns/Symbolic trilogy.

Hell I'd rank ITP as one of my favorite jazz albums ever. Chuck was writing stuff on par with guys like Herbie Hancock in my opinion.
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Anyway, Jonas Hellborg's Art Metal > all. 
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I was debating putting Art Metal up there but AFAIK that's his only really "heavy" release.
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Zu is prog metal?  Hmm, I wouldn't place them there.  
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I guess Meshuggah from the list  (I'd add Counter-World Experience)
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The majority of Jonas Hellborg is not metal at all, though it's awesome stuff.

Gotta choose the masters - Cynic. Though this may be my favorite genre, love all of it.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Zu is prog metal?  Hmm, I wouldn't place them there.  


We have them under avant-metal on MMA.
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Planet X, Sherinian's solo albums, that sort of sruff ... Not a massive fan of the more extreme ones in Jazz terms, they don't seem to gel for me. I do have The Painter's Pallette, Traced In Air and Animals As Leaders ... Not bad :)
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Meshuggah followed by Atheist.
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Dysrhythmia, Endl.Sproadic, Exivious, Behold The Arct. etc. the instru ones
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Zu is prog metal?  Hmm, I wouldn't place them there.  


I'd say they're not really metal at all based on the vast majority of their work. I might be able to see it for the last album, but even then I'd say not.

ANYWAY, from the list I'd pick Cynic just over Meshuggah and Zu.
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Cynic of course, atheist a distant second though. 
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Zu by only the slightest margin over Shining.
 
Cynic and Athiest are great but seem more influenced by 70s jazz fusion than by the 60s jazz that I prefer.
 
I see that Yakuza is included here... After seeing them live I don't know thats what I would call them. Apart from having a sax in the band there really isn't anything jazzy about them. Structurally their music takes more from world music traditions than it does from jazz. While Jazz is incorperated into the music to some extent it seems to be more on a surface level than many of the other bands listed. However I have not heard their most recent work so maybe they are more jazz informed now? If so I might be inclined to buy a CD.
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