Do you stay away from prog-metal? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Just curious about how much prog metal people listen to on here and what their opinions of it are. I find that sometimes it creeps into my prog without me realizing it. When it does I usually don't have an issue with it though since I don't normally have much of a problem with it.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - May 12 2022 at 09:41

Other.

I would have voted “Almost Never”, but the text in parentheses doesn’t apply to me.

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

Usually but not always

I like the Avant, some extreme and math style metals but not the core.

Ian

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no

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I don’t avoid it, but it’s not my usual fare. I do have reasonably eclectic tastes. I often like a riff-based heavy metal (more in the classic sense) approach to music, but most if that is maybe more a kind of heavy rock by modern standards at least. I would like to hear more bone-crunching and brutal or evil riffage (to use the terminology of my teens). There is plenty of Prog music I like with metal qualities, such as Secret Chiefs 3, Morglbl,and Taal, And I like Kayo Dot and Maudlin of the Well very much. A lot of what I like which I think has metal qualities is likely better describes as experimental rock. There is plenty of post-metal that I like, but that’s kind of a different beast than what I tend to think of as Prog Metal. I like quite a bit of experimental metal oriented things. There are albums in our straight, more conventional I would think, Prog Metal category that I like, and I’m sure lots more to discover. No doubt the wider the way the Prog Metal term is used, the more I would enjoy (as should be expected). I’d like to hear some Canterbury metal scene Indo Prog Metal/ Raga Krautmetal sung in Kobaian.

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Completely. No matter how much I’ve tried, I cannot get into it, so I gave up a while ago.

Edited by Manuel - May 13 2022 at 16:29

The metal sub-genres have never been where I seek out new music, but when I hear about something new, exciting, or "extraordinary", I give it a shot. I have reviewed a lot of great metal albums, but most of what I hear is not really my cup of tea. Usually they have to have good melodic sensibilities and lots of atmospheric parts.

Some of my favorites:

Votum Harvest Moon

Proghma-C Bar-do Travels

Riverside Second Life Syndrome

Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream

Agalloch The Mantle

Ghost Medicine Discontinuance

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Cynic Focus

The Contortionist Clairvoyant

Leprous Coal

Dream Theater Awake

Angra Holy Land

Epica Chasing the Dragon

Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Grey

Scardust Strangers

Karnivool Asymmetry

Kettlespider Kettlespider

Caligula's Horse In Contact

Seiges Even The Art of Navigating by the Stars

Tool Lateralus

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Most of the time.

I used to listen to quite a bit of metal (the more underground kind) in the past, then had a few years' break when I didn't listen to any of it at all but am now getting interested in it again.

I like some technical death metal now and then, but generally metal must be horrible and crude and reek of sewers and rotten corpses.

It would probably be more helpful if what the OP meant by prog metal was defined, at least loosely. Because prog metal is fairly meaningless without qualification, covering a wide variety of sounds and styles, and having changed, evolved and (yes) progressed over decades.

There are definitely some styles of metal (prog or otherwise) that I struggle to find something I enjoy much (or at all), and other styles where I’m far more likely to enjoy listening to them.

But I wouldn’t avoid any style of music. I’m willing to give anything a go, because who knows until you’ve listened to something whether or not you will like it? Yes, you can have a good idea whether or not you might like something, or not - and more often than not, that idea probably turns out to be right. But there have been so many occasions where I’ve been surprised to really enjoy something.

I would never tell anyone that the way the choose to listen to music is wrong, and I’m not one of those “open minded” snobs who believe that anyone who doesn’t have an open mind is bad. But I do wonder, because of how vague the OP is, how much is being included/avoided in the definition of prog metal. For example, there are three prog metal “genres” in PA, and an acknowledged crossover with some other PA genres. Outside PA, the “genre” brutal prog is recognised, but within PA brutal prog bands can be found more or less evenly between RIO/Avant and the two outlying prog metal genres. Also outside PA, a lot of what is called heavy prog in PA is simply considered prog metal. It is definitely not uncommon, for example, to hear Rush called prog metal.

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

As those who were around years ago will remember, I used to listen to quite a lot of 'traditional' Prog & Symph-Prog Metal and still enjoy a lot of it when I hear it, but own precious little now. I haven't actually heard Dream Theater's new album yet for instance, which would have been unheard of a decade ago. That isn't because I have an aversion to it or am not interested; more that I think I hit a mental brick wall with metal in general because I didn't feel it was saying anything new to me.

What I would say is I've stepped back from the heavier stuff though; Communic's Waves Of Visual Decay is unlikely to get much future airplay for instance... it's arguably their best album, but too heavy for my tastes these days.

Edited by Jared - May 12 2022 at 01:42

Poll Question: Do you stay away from prog-metal?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes always (not a fan at all)	7	[8.05%]
Most of the time (with rare exceptions)	20	[22.99%]
Usually but not always (sometimes it creeps in)	12	[13.79%]
Sometimes but I still listen to it on occasion	13	[14.94%]
Not usually (I like quite a bit of it)	18	[20.69%]
Almost never (I like most but not all)	8	[9.20%]
Never (big fan of prog-metal)	4	[4.60%]
What's prog-metal?	0	[0.00%]
Other	5	[5.75%]
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