10 more progressive metal bands in a poll

10 more progressive metal bands, pick your favorite, vote and leave a comment. 

Don't know many of these (so I won't vote) but...Green Carnation of the ones I do. 

OSI and Green Carnation are the only two I'm familiar with. Voted Green Carnation.

progaardvark wrote: OSI and Green Carnation are the only two I'm familiar with. Voted Green Carnation.

Ditto.

I'll add that Light of Day, Day of Darkness is the only Green Carnation album that I have heard.

Ark, Vanden Plas and Circus Maximus and Mind´s Eye are a mixed bag for me now. I appreciated that kind of Style many years ago, but now don´t enjoy it.

^ Interesting, I wonder then if I enjoyed Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation so much because I haven't fully developed a taste for metal and thus my taste buds (or more aptly ear buds) lack the discernment and sophistication that comes with more knowledge and experience.

Edited by Logan - March 01 2021 at 23:54

OSI is a no-brainer out of these. (I don't know all)

^Because I can hardly stand many of the modern prog metal bands, surprisingly or not. With the exception of bands like OSI, DT, Haken, Caligula's Horse (for the most part), FW, and some more, I find this one of the most 'regressive' sub-genres of prog.


Edited by A Crimson Mellotron - March 02 2021 at 00:53

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: Logan wrote: ^ Interesting, I wonder then if I enjoyed Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation so much because I haven't fully developed a taste for metal and thus my taste buds (or more aptly ear buds) lack the discernment and sophistication that comes with more knowledge and experience. It's all preference, my friend! Every band on this list makes me want to listen to something else instead lol.

Some preferences can carry more weight for me when they come from a place of greater knowledge and understanding. So sure, but I am much more ignorant when it comes to this than many others and therefore lack the kind of knowledge that would lead to more discernment (tastes commonly become more refined the more you become acquainted with a genre and of course one becomes more adept at making good comparisons and judging greatness the more one knows). Not all opinions are equal or as valid, some are more informed and better thought out than others. That is the only album I have heard out all of these, so I can't even compare it to other Green Carnation albums -- I don't know how the band is overall, I can only judge this album and not in a very knowledgeable way where I can compare it to lots of similar ones to judge the quality comparatively.

I was wondering about something similar earlier when I posted my first message in this topic but opted not to type it out. As I am not a Prog Metal fan, I would rather expect that those albums I would like in Prog Metal would not be as likely to be considered great albums by the Prog Metal cognoscente than albums chosen by those who have much greater knowledge and experience when it comes to such musical avenues. Mine is very uncultured and uninformed opinion. There's lots of music where I know too little of its ilk to even venture an opinion on the merits of the music.

Recently I watched a crime-drama film which I loved and I read the critics reviews which were mostly lukewarm at best. One of the complaints was that the film was derivative and full of clichés. It's not a style I have watched a lot of, so I wouldn't be comparing it to many others of the ilk. Those who better know that particular filmic species I think would be better able to judge the greatness. There is music and film that I know is not great but I still love, and music I love and dislike where I have no opinion on its greatness within the music pantheon. Might be great for me, but that's just a "I love it" commentary, not an estimation on its intrinsic quality.

I have become less concerned about how great music or art generally is and instead it's more about just how much I like it (good or bad, I don't care as much now as long as it's good for me). When I was in film studies I tried to build various models or frameworks for more objective analysis (at least to be more objective within the context of the framework) -- some of that is easy, and the frameworks themselves showed a kind of value bias. For instance, if a historical film, I generally valued an attempt at historical accuracy. Certain aesthetic qualities and standards of workmanship I valued etc. I tended to value a certain professionalism over ineptitude etc.

Edited by Logan - March 02 2021 at 01:03

A Crimson Mellotron wrote: ^Because I can hardly stand many of the modern prog metal bands, surprisingly or not. With the exception of bands like OSI, DT, Haken, Caligula's Horse (for the most part), FW, and some more, I find this one of the most 'regressive' sub-genres of prog.