Artists you question or object to in PA

1. Do the team members listen to the same album from the nominated artist and discuss why or why not to approve, or is it just a vote from each team member? 

2. Does it need to be a unanimous vote to include a artist or does majority rule?

3. Currently, unless the website has not been updated, (crossover, post/math rock, eclectic, experimental, RPI, tech/extreme, and prog metal), have an even number of members. If the vote ends in a tie, who breaks the tie?

4. Do you listen to the artists entire catalogue or just random songs?

5. Has an artist that was initially approved ever been removed from PA due to further consideration?

6. Has an artist that has been initially rejected get approved after further discussions?

7. On average, how many artists do you review in a week?

Thanks. 

I have been on the Prog Metal team for a very short time, but I’m happy to answer what I can to the best of my ability.

Is this the Exises you are talking about?  Exises | EXISES | Tribunal + Divebomb Records (bandcamp.com)

Is this their debut or sophomore album?  Can you provide a link to stream the sophomore album if it's not?

If you would like to see them included in the archives, then you should suggest their addition through the suggestion thread "Suggest New Bands and Artists".  That is the first step to getting the bands music to the genre teams.  Make sure to read the submission rules:  PLEASE READ FIRST - Artist Submission Procedure - Progressive Rock Music Forum (progarchives.com)

PM meeting tonight....Are you bringing the booze and the mudshark bait Steve?

(just kidding about the PM meeting btw, but the drunken debauchery is always welcome)

you can suggest Exises for progressive metal. 

I think we’ll have to agree to disagree here. To use your example, there is no need to listen to all ten albums of a band if two of them show they are prog. As Mike said, some weeks the prog metal team have upwards of half a dozen submissions to get though. It simply wouldn’t be practical to attempt to listen to every album from every band submitted. And it’s simply too haphazard to listen to the odd song from each (yes, I know you said “at least one”, but that’s irrelevant as far as I’m concerned). If I’m going to listen to several songs from an album, I may as well listen to the entire album - and often that is necessary in prog anyway - as the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, so to listen to only some of the parts will not give the full picture.

So a whole album I will listen to. If it is prog, then I vote for yes, unless I am worried it is not representative of the band as a whole. (For example, Bad Religion is likely not ever going to be considered a prog band - but they did release a prog album. Imagine if the first album I listened to were “Into the Unknown” by that band. It’s prog. But it’s the only prog album in their discography and it is completely uncharacteristic.) if I think something is prog, but I need to listen further, then I will listen to another album. If I think something is not prog from the first album I listen to, then I will listen to another. If that doesn’t seem prog to me, then I temporarily vote unsure, while I find out which album/s I should be listening to, in order to find prog. I prefer inclusion, rather than exclusion, so if a band I submitted, I will do my best to find that prog. But sometimes I can’t, and I have definitely voted no a fair few times.