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    Posted: March 19 2019 at 18:08
Hey everyone!
I have suddenly become interested in the heavier side of Prog again. I have been listening to a lot of Still Life/Blackwater Park era Opeth and The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus. I also really enjoy Enslaved's album "E".

My question to you is: Could you recommend something proggy but also heavy along these lines?

I have tried to YouTube new bands, but a lot of them just seem to focus on straight up Black Metal or Death Metal, and I need a little more prog in the mix to enjoy this type of music.

Thanks!
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Ihsahn's solo albums







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Devin Townsend... try Retinal Circus. There's another one I liked a little while ago, the band is Wilderun, the album Sleep at the Edge of the Earth.
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Sons Of Apollo -Psychotic Symphony

It features 2 ex Dream Theater members ( Portnoy and Sherinian) plus Billy Sheehan and a guitarist that was once in Guns N Roses ( not that one!) . It's filed under Prog metal and a lot of people have avoided it because of the Dream Theater connection but it is rather good actually. In my top twenty albums for 2018 and there wasn't too much in this genre that I liked or had heard during the last 12 months.
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Haken's latest album Vector is much harder than previous releases.
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-Agalloch: The Mantle, Ashes Against The Grain, ...
-Borknagar: Urd.
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My bench marker for "heavy progressive" is Gorguts, so I may be of little/maximum use depending on your ears today, lol.

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Meshuggah - Chaosphere. It literally crushes your soul.
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-Between The Buried And Me,
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Borknagar is perhaps something you should seek out they are really cool and progressive, but also Ved Buens Ende is quality
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Thanks so much, everyone! I'm currently trying out Borknagar and Agalloch. Looks like Agalloch is what I was looking for.

I'm into Devin Townsend already. Gonna try Sons of Apollo soon.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Haken's latest album Vector is much harder than previous releases.
 
yep good one that.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Meshuggah - Chaosphere. It literally crushes your soul.
 
yep probably the only band with 'growling' vocals that I can stomach
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Meshuggah - Chaosphere. It literally crushes your soul.
 
yep probably the only band with 'growling' vocals that I can stomach
I do enjoy bands with growling vocals, only the music blows me away, the ‘vocals’ are just ‘there’......I tolerate them.

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Originally posted by Tasartir Tasartir wrote:

Looks like Agalloch is what I was looking for.
 
Last week, I ordered The Mantle and Ashes Against The Grain. And I've got Narrow Of The Margin. Wink


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Originally posted by Tasartir Tasartir wrote:

Hey everyone!
I have suddenly become interested in the heavier side of Prog again. I have been listening to a lot of Still Life/Blackwater Park era Opeth and The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus. I also really enjoy Enslaved's album "E".

My question to you is: Could you recommend something proggy but also heavy along these lines?

I have tried to YouTube new bands, but a lot of them just seem to focus on straight up Black Metal or Death Metal, and I need a little more prog in the mix to enjoy this type of music.

Thanks!

well, if you like the prog death Opeth, you should try Witherscape, Barren Earth and Be'Lakor. Even Insomnium might do the trick. 
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Hi

Easy ... turn the bass knob all the way to that end, and then the trouble knob all the way to that end. Then get speakers that have heavy duty WOOD cabinets, and a nice magnet on its 12 inch woofer ... now get a room with lousy acoustics (typical living rooms!), turn it up loud and ....

There you go heavy.

Or you could cheat ... do what LA radio used to do in the early FM days ... change the turn table 1% slower, and most listeners can not tell the difference, and it always sounds heavier ... specially when the band wasn't!

Have fun! I'm the worst "suggester" around here ... metal machine music might be the heaviest album I got ... but I'm not sure that metal heavy folks will get it ... wtf is this?

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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi

Easy ... turn the bass knob all the way to that end, and then the trouble knob all the way to that end. Then get speakers that have heavy duty WOOD cabinets, and a nice magnet on its 12 inch woofer ... now get a room with lousy acoustics (typical living rooms!), turn it up loud and ....

There you go heavy.

Or you could cheat ... do what LA radio used to do in the early FM days ... change the turn table 1% slower, and most listeners can not tell the difference, and it always sounds heavier ... specially when the band wasn't!

Have fun! I'm the worst "suggester" around here ... metal machine music might be the heaviest album I got ... but I'm not sure that metal heavy folks will get it ... wtf is this?

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are you making fun of the OP and his thread? Because that's rude and I do not see the point. Or is it that anything metal related is to be ridiculed or something? 
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Something heavy?
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

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are you making fun of the OP and his thread? Because that's rude and I do not see the point. Or is it that anything metal related is to be ridiculed or something? 

Not really ... what is hard to figure out is what is his definition of "heavy" ... because there are so many things that are so heavy as to be weightless ... up to and including lyrics.

My only thoughts were that I hoped that it would bring about a clearer definition of what he was looking for ... because I'm not sure it is clear at all ... there is a lot of very light stuff in progressive that is very heavy ... however, I am not sure that this is something that he is looking for or wanting.

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