Prog Bands I Dislike

Im gonna nominate Dream Theater.   So far i have listened to 4 albums by them and i am not impressed.   These guys are supposed to be the poster boys of progressive metal aswell.   I think their fairly over rated to be honest.  When DM make lengthy songs, its like they just random shuffle it together from lots of riffs and melodies they have created in the drawing board room and hope that the song will make sense.

Ive listened to albums from prog metal bands that are seemingly influenced from Dream Theater, but they are better at at, like Dark Water and Dreamscape.

The albums of Dream Theater ive listened so far are Images and Words, Awake (terrible album), Falling Into Infinity, Train of Thought, and as of writing this, halfway through Scenes From A Memory.  To me, between 80% to 90% of all those songs from all those albums are bog standard at best.   And so far i do not think DT are good at making 10 minute plus songs, and they do sound like they are not planned and constructed well (hence why i said put together by random shuffle).

I only have the one Darkwater album, Calling The Earth To Witness, but id rate it better than any of the DT albums ive heard so far.

I have 2 albums by Dreamscape, Very, and End of Silence.   The latter is a great album, and End of Light is easily one of the best epic length prog songs ive ever heard.  the former is not as good, but still worth owning if your into prog metal, and still better than any of the DT albums ive heard thus far.

I also prefer Kevin Moore of the three Keyboard players for his musicality even though Rudess is a monster player. Similarly, I never quite got how Pertucci got elevated to the status he's gotten - in those days Shrapnel Records was attracting so many of these guys and other guys with more originality like Greg Howe never got the same kind of recognition. (He did get to play some big stages with Michael Jackson - wearing Jennifer Batten's wig!!!) Don't get me wrong, Pertucci is a monster and the amount of music all of those guys memorize for a gig is mindboggling. 

DT is for me more important historically for carrying the torch through the dark days of grunge and then spreading the flame than their actual work. 

telefunk wrote: The worst band I can think of that has any kind of international status is Transatlantic. Contrary to most bands that up their game in a live context, Transatlantic was probably the worst prog concert I have ever had the misfortune to witness, besides maybe Laurie Anderson, but she is not really prog. Endless noodling and Beatles covers and drum solo's by that horrible Dream Theatre drummer. Please let this stop soon!

Couldn't agree more, and this is coming from someone who is a massive fan of Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt.