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Poll Question: Which is the first Prog Metal Band?
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    Posted: April 11 2006 at 17:01

For me ATOMIC ROOSTER without doubt. And for you?

 

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It's a tough call. Historically it would have too be Purple.The Rod Evans period really set the pace for the keyboard driven complexity of latter prog. I'm a huge fan of Atomic Rooster's In Hearing Of. Personally that it is the most proggy hard rock album of the early seventies.Followed by the Heep.
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  1. Purple
  2. Rush
  3. Heep
  4. AR
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^^^Rush don't even come into it. Their first album was what...75? Long past the time when the seeds for prog-metal where sown. Even then Rush's early albums where hard rock based with little too do with prog.
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Originally posted by Witchwoodhermit Witchwoodhermit wrote:

^^^Rush don't even come into it. Their first album was what...75? Long past the time when the seeds for prog-metal where sown. Even then Rush's early albums where hard rock based with little too do with prog.

But Rush wrote big prog metal epics , I think Rush were the first prog metal band to define how its done even today
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^^^Yes, but they aren't the first. Check out Deep Purple's and Uriah Heeps early epics.Well before Rush's time.
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Originally posted by Masque Masque wrote:

Originally posted by Witchwoodhermit Witchwoodhermit wrote:

^^^Rush don't even come into it. Their first album was what...75? Long past the time when the seeds for prog-metal where sown. Even then Rush's early albums where hard rock based with little too do with prog.

But Rush wrote big prog metal epics , I think Rush were the first prog metal band to define how its done even today

Exactly, ask to DREAM THEATER

 
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does High Rise count? their album Sea Shanties was pretty heavy for its time 69'

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Cetrainly it is much difficult to decide what band invented the Prog Metal, because, if we reason, in the Prog Metal there are elements that send again also to King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, VDGG, Gentle Giant, PFM, Le Orme, UK, Jethro Tull and and to all the Prog produces in the 70's! I took the band that universally the Metallers indicate like the dear from them. The Atomic Rooster became a Metal Prog (for me is a sub genre of the prog), but this is another speech.

 

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Rooster for me
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prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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I voted for Atomic Rooster.  I feel they are more of a metal band than Uriah and Purple just aren't prog enough for me to consider.
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High Tide & Blue Cheer

are probably the first 2 examples of heavy metal...

Deep Purple (I voted for them)

are the first example of metal meet prog! (group & orchestra, child in time etc...)

Rush

clearly defined the prog-metal genre!

 
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Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

does High Tide count? their album Sea Shanties was pretty heavy for its time 69'
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Heep for me.
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Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix Dragon Phoenix wrote:

Heep for me.


Same here.But Purple rulezz too!!!
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Deep Purple ( but I've never listened to Rush, so I can't be sure :-)
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