15 best prog metal albums

In no particular order

1.Dream Theater-Scenes from a Memory

2.Kamelot-The Black Halo

3.Pain of Salvation-The Perfect Element

4.Pain of Salvation-Entropia

5.Tool-Lateralus

6.Opeth-Blackwater Park

7.Sieges Even-A Sense of Change

8.Dead Soul Tribe-A Murder of Crows

9.Shadow Gallery-Tyranny

10.Shadow Gallery-Room V

11.Symphony X-The Divine Wings of Tragedy

12.Symphony X-V:The New Mythology Suit

13.Andromeda-Extension of the Wish

14.Pagan's Mind-Celestial Entrance

15.Riverside-Out  of Myself

All the Dream Theater ones (Excluding live albums)... (9)
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 & 2
Savatage: The Wake Of Magellan
Savatage: Poets And Madmen
Symphony X: Symphony X
Queensryche: Promised Land

01 Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
02 Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
03 Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
04 Voivod - Nothingface
05 Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
06 Queensryche - Rage for Order
07 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
08 Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
09 Dream Theater - Images and Words
10 Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
11 Voivod - The Outer Limits
12 Dream Theater - Awake
13 Watchtower - Control and Resistance

And I could add

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

as they're listed in the Archives but they do not necessarily belong here. They don't play Prog but POWER METAL, one is influenced by Queen, the other's heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin.

Honourable mention:

Enchant, a brilliant band with a brilliant singer, one of the best voices of all time. Unfortunately, they haven't managed to write their definitive magnum opus.


Edited by Miaugion

In no particular order. and not sure every album on the list is pure metal.

Angra	Holy Land (Carolina IV)
Dream Theater	Images And Words
Dream Theater	Scenes Of A Memorie, Metropolis part II
Fantomas	Delirium Cordia
Queensrÿche	Operation Mindcrime
Queensrÿche	Empire
Symphony X	V: The New Mythology Suite
Threshold	Wounded Land
Threshold	Clone
Threshold	hypothetical
Uriah Heep	Look At Yourself
Arena	Immortal? (I know, but it is close enough for me)
Ayreon	Into The Electric Castle
Metallica	Ride The Lightning
Rainbow	Rainbow Rising

Hammill wrote: fates warning's awaken the guardian is another masterpiece of us power metal, one of the best metal albums ever

Yes, well ... err ... uhm ... I'd say it's an album of transition from power metal to prog metal. It's generally regarded as one of the first real prog metal albums. Ask Mr Portnoy, he'll say the same, and apart from that he'll say that "The Spectre Within" and "Awaken the Guardian" embodied the direction his then new band 'Majesty' had to take (in his opinion). So, for me it's really okay to call it early 'prog metal' (with lots of Black Sabbath influences of course).

(Just today I've bought the new remastered edition:

Disc 1: Remaster;
Disc 2: Demos & Live Bootleg;
Disc 3: Live-DVD, bootleg quality, historical document

--- and it's forking amazing! )

Top 15 Progressive Metal Albums Of All Time

1. Scenes From A Memory Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater
2. Images And Words - Dream Theater
3. Octavarium - Dream Theater
4. Awake - Dream Theater
5. The Perfect Element Part 1 - Pain Of Salvation
6. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
7. The Human Equation - Ayreon
8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
9. Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Liquid Tension Experiment
10. Into The Evenflow - Psychotic Waltz
11. V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X
12. A Social Grace - Psychotic Waltz
13. Remedy Lane - Pain Of Salvation
14. Room V - Shadow Gallery
15. Into The Electric Castle - Ayreon

 

and as long as you live in germany do you know if sieges even are back again? 

Miaugion wrote: Hammill wrote: and as long as you live in germany do you know if sieges even are back again? Yes, the new album by the Holzwarth brothers ("The Art of Navigating by the Stars") is going to be released on September 26. Just check out their website for further details. (Unfortunately, "Steps" had that lousy singer but "A Sense of Change" was really okay IMO, a bit like a splintered, fragmented version of "Hemispheres" by Rush. But to be honest I lost my interest afterwards and never listened to the later albums.)

Sieges Even are releasing a new album?AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miaugion wrote: Hammill wrote: and as long as you live in germany do you know if sieges even are back again? Yes, the new album by the Holzwarth brothers ("The Art of Navigating by the Stars") is going to be released on September 26. Just check out their website for further details. (Unfortunately, "Steps" had that lousy singer but "A Sense of Change" was really okay IMO, a bit like a splintered, fragmented version of "Hemispheres" by Rush. But to be honest I lost my interest afterwards and never listened to the later albums.)

if you listen to sophisticated and uneven you might be dissapointed, because they changed their style a lot to something more powerfull with a lot of solos and much heavier than steps and sense of change. IMO they are both great (sophisticated and uneven) eventhough they don't reach the high levels of steps and sense of change.

Sorry, but I'm gonna have to put a few CDs for a few bands, eh, it happens

No particular order, that would take way too long!

1.) Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
2.) Pain of Salvation - BE
3.) Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
4.) Dream Theater - Images and Words
5.) Dream Theater - Octavarium
6.) Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
7.) Shadow Gallery - Room V
8.) Symphony X - The Odyssey
9.) Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
10.) Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (hey it's pretty heavy, I think it fits)
11.) Ice Age - Liberation
12.) Andromeda - II=I
13.) Devin Townsend - Terria
14.) Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
15.) Ayreon - The Human Equation (Again, questionable if it's metal but it's heavy a lot)

Prog metal rules