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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

I want to recommend a band I added to the archives in this paricular sub,a band called In Mourning.
 
 
 
HIGHLY recommended,especially if you dig Opeth.


I saw the album in another thread, the album art just caught my attention. Fantastic band. Can't get enought of them.Thumbs%20Up


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Originally posted by Demonoid Demonoid wrote:

Should check out zero hour's dark deceiver.
Excellent technical  progressive metal Smile
Something like spiral architect.
Intense vocals too.(not harsh/extreme vocals)

Also, i second all the watchtower/Blotted Science/Spastic Ink suggestions in this thread!


Actually, I just heard Dark Deceiver for the first time last week,  the band is really beginning to become more tech prog metal oriented rather than just prog metal.
Excellent album, very heavy, very dark and intense. I love itSmile and I think the band are getting better at their art as time goes on.


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^ love that album ... especially how the are able to combine the melodic side (which reminds me of Fates Warning) with the technical/intense experimentation of bands like Meshuggah (Downtuned guitar riffs, few polyrhythms but highly irregular breaks and signatures) or Cynic/Atheist (especially the bass).
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all right, glad I found this thread.......so this is my bread and butter style in metal, and I noticed that quite a few of the essentials are missing from this thread, so I will try to suggest some of my favorites:

7for4 (heavy fusion)
Sieges Even (the best best best technical prog metal band ever!!!)
Abigor (tech industrial avant garde black metal)
Altered Aeon  (tech thrash death metal)
Anacrusis (tech thrash)
Anata  (tech death metal)
Annon Vin (tech prog metal)
Arcturus (avant garde dark metal)
Arsis (tech death)
ATROX!!!!!!! (avant garde greatness!!!)
The Axis of Perdition (great, weird, dark ambient/industrial black metal)
Mick Barr (avant garde flying mosquitoes of death)
Believer (tech thrash)
Blut Aus Nord (awesome dissonant black metal)
Borknagar (progressive extreme)
Cadaver/Cadaver Inc. (tech thrashy black metal)
Carnival In Coal (avant garde greatness)
Coroner (best thrash band ever??)
Covenant (melodic black metal)
Cynic
Deadsoul Tribe (buddy lackey of Psychotic Waltz- new band)
Deathspell Omega (exceptional, progressive, avant garde black metal-  my all-time fave in the genre)
Diabolical Masquerade (tech death, avant garde)
Depressive Age (tech death)
Depresy (tech death)
Disharmonic Orchestra (old school tech death)
Dodheimsgard/DHG (avant garde industrial black metal)
Dog Fashion Disco (avant gumbo metal- a la faith no more/Mr. Bungle)
Electroction 250 (tech thrash- all over the place metal)
Emperor (the godfathers of modern 2nd and 3rd wave black metal)
Enslaved (mid era is essential for progsters who like it heavy- progressive black metal)
Ephel Duath (started as great progressive black metal- turned into jazzy, jarring, dissonant avant garde metalcore????  highly highly highly recommended!)
Extol- (tech black metal to start, tech thrash, newer stuff is very poppy and not as good)
Fleurety (avant garde black metal)
The f**king Champs (tech thrash instrumentals)
Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)
Gorod (tech death)
Gory Blister (tech death)
Helstar (tech thrash greatness)
The Human Abstract (melodic tech deathcore)
illogicist (new album feat. Marco Minneman- tech death)
Into The Moat (dillinger escape plan multiplied times crazy)
Kadenzza (plain shred weirdness)
Kreator (tech thrash-to a degree)
Lengsel (black metal progressive)
Luciferion (tech melodic death)
Manes (avant garde black metal/post black metal)
Martyr (the best tech death, post-thrash, heavy fusion band to ever exist!!!!!!)
Mekong Delta (tech progressive thrash- huge fans of Mussgorsky)
Mirrorthrone (prog black metal)
Lux Occulta (avant garde black metal)
Korova/korovakill (avant garde thrashy blackened wierdness)
Mutant (Theory In Practice side project- black metal)
Necrophagist (tech death)
Neglected Fields (tech death)
Non Human Level (darkane side project- tech death)
Obliveon (tech thrashy death)
Oxiplegatz (avant garde death metal)
Peccatum (avant garde post black metal)
Protest The Hero (tech thrashy death)
Psychotic Waltz (the best?)
Psychotogen (tech death)
Psycroptic (tech death)
Psyopus (spazzcore death tech)
Ram-Zet (avant death)
Realm (tech thrash)
Reflux (tech deathcore)
Rope (avant garde dark jazz)
Sadus (tech thrash/death)
Sceptic (tech death)
Scuptured (progressive avant greatness)
Scholomance (awesome tech death with keys)
Sigh (avant black metal/thrash)
Sikth (tech death a la Meshuggah)
Octopus (tech death a la Meshuggah, only much, much, much better)
Solefald (avant garde post black metal)
Spastic Ink/Blotted Science/Ron Jarzombek
Watchtower (tech thrash- one of the best ever)
Tiamat (only Wildhoney- progressive death metal/doom)
Trepalium (tech death)
Devin Townsend (progressive metal)
Ulcerate (tech death a la Gorguts)
Spawn Of possession (tech death)
Virus (avant garde post black metal)
Vuvr (avant garde strangeness that is fantastic)
Winds (progressive avant garde metal)
Wintersun (tech death)


that oughta keep you busy for a while.....  WinkSmile

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^A nice list with many absolutely brilliant bands, but I'm not sure that each fits this thread.
There are some for me unknown bands on the list, i 'll check them out!
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I forgot to say:

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Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

all right, glad I found this thread.......so this is my bread and butter style in metal, and I noticed that quite a few of the essentials are missing from this thread, so I will try to suggest some of my favorites:

7for4 (heavy fusion)
Sieges Even (the best best best technical prog metal band ever!!!)
Abigor (tech industrial avant garde black metal)
Altered Aeon  (tech thrash death metal)
Anacrusis (tech thrash)
Anata  (tech death metal)
Annon Vin (tech prog metal)
Arcturus (avant garde dark metal)
Arsis (tech death)
ATROX!!!!!!! (avant garde greatness!!!)
The Axis of Perdition (great, weird, dark ambient/industrial black metal)
Mick Barr (avant garde flying mosquitoes of death)
Believer (tech thrash)
Blut Aus Nord (awesome dissonant black metal)
Borknagar (progressive extreme)
Cadaver/Cadaver Inc. (tech thrashy black metal)
Carnival In Coal (avant garde greatness)
Coroner (best thrash band ever??)
Covenant (melodic black metal)
Cynic
Deadsoul Tribe (buddy lackey of Psychotic Waltz- new band)
Deathspell Omega (exceptional, progressive, avant garde black metal-  my all-time fave in the genre)
Diabolical Masquerade (tech death, avant garde)
Depressive Age (tech death)
Depresy (tech death)
Disharmonic Orchestra (old school tech death)
Dodheimsgard/DHG (avant garde industrial black metal)
Dog Fashion Disco (avant gumbo metal- a la faith no more/Mr. Bungle)
Electroction 250 (tech thrash- all over the place metal)
Emperor (the godfathers of modern 2nd and 3rd wave black metal)
Enslaved (mid era is essential for progsters who like it heavy- progressive black metal)
Ephel Duath (started as great progressive black metal- turned into jazzy, jarring, dissonant avant garde metalcore????  highly highly highly recommended!)
Extol- (tech black metal to start, tech thrash, newer stuff is very poppy and not as good)
Fleurety (avant garde black metal)
The f**king Champs (tech thrash instrumentals)
Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)
Gorod (tech death)
Gory Blister (tech death)
Helstar (tech thrash greatness)
The Human Abstract (melodic tech deathcore)
illogicist (new album feat. Marco Minneman- tech death)
Into The Moat (dillinger escape plan multiplied times crazy)
Kadenzza (plain shred weirdness)
Kreator (tech thrash-to a degree)
Lengsel (black metal progressive)
Luciferion (tech melodic death)
Manes (avant garde black metal/post black metal)
Martyr (the best tech death, post-thrash, heavy fusion band to ever exist!!!!!!)
Mekong Delta (tech progressive thrash- huge fans of Mussgorsky)
Mirrorthrone (prog black metal)
Lux Occulta (avant garde black metal)
Korova/korovakill (avant garde thrashy blackened wierdness)
Mutant (Theory In Practice side project- black metal)
Necrophagist (tech death)
Neglected Fields (tech death)
Non Human Level (darkane side project- tech death)
Obliveon (tech thrashy death)
Oxiplegatz (avant garde death metal)
Peccatum (avant garde post black metal)
Protest The Hero (tech thrashy death)
Psychotic Waltz (the best?)
Psychotogen (tech death)
Psycroptic (tech death)
Psyopus (spazzcore death tech)
Ram-Zet (avant death)
Realm (tech thrash)
Reflux (tech deathcore)
Rope (avant garde dark jazz)
Sadus (tech thrash/death)
Sceptic (tech death)
Scuptured (progressive avant greatness)
Scholomance (awesome tech death with keys)
Sigh (avant black metal/thrash)
Sikth (tech death a la Meshuggah)
Octopus (tech death a la Meshuggah, only much, much, much better)
Solefald (avant garde post black metal)
Spastic Ink/Blotted Science/Ron Jarzombek
Watchtower (tech thrash- one of the best ever)
Tiamat (only Wildhoney- progressive death metal/doom)
Trepalium (tech death)
Devin Townsend (progressive metal)
Ulcerate (tech death a la Gorguts)
Spawn Of possession (tech death)
Virus (avant garde post black metal)
Vuvr (avant garde strangeness that is fantastic)
Winds (progressive avant garde metal)
Wintersun (tech death)


that oughta keep you busy for a while.....  WinkSmile




I've bolded the stuff I know and listen to/have listened to.
I don't think Kreator is really all that technical, no more technical than Testament or Megadeth's Rust In Peace.
Protest The Hero is probably more appropriately described as technical progressive/metalcore, they aren't really thrash per se.
NecrophagistHeart but obviously not in the archives. One of my favorite death metal bands to listen to for sure.
Mekong Delta really just falls under thrash metal, even though I realise it's a technical step up from many thrash bands.
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That's a huge list.
 
I'll check some of it out, it seems up my alley.
[QUOTE=darkshade] [QUOTE=Sckxyss]
I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde!

Al di Meola.

[/QUOTE]

haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde
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some other notable bands:
 
absorbed
acid death
atheist
demilich
deeds of flesh
dissonance
detachment
embrionic death
epoch of unlight
liers in wait
esicastic
ninth level
nocturnus
psypheria
symbyosis
terminal function
thy nature
winter bestowed
absonant cadence
aydra
blastfame
carcariass
darkness remains
dim mak
droys
esqerial
forgotten silence
lykathea aflame
monstrosity
polluted inheritance
obscure disaster
disincarnate
deathrow
spooge
toxik
beneath the ashes
dive in minds
dungortheb
exivious
hypnotheticall
agretator
alarum
korum
the unchallenged
aletheian
yattering
crowpath
sinners bleed
textures
atrophia red sun
capharnaum
delirium endeavor
pavor
secular threat
thrawn
violent dirge
virulence
 

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Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:


Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)


I just noticed they don't have Obscura listed in the archives, man what an utter failure Thumbs%20Down
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Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:


Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)


I just noticed they don't have Obscura listed in the archives, man what an utter failure Thumbs%20Down
 
I know.  I think someone mentioned that in this thread already.....I think, as do you, that it should be included in the archives... (Gorguts- Obscura)

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Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:


Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)


I just noticed they don't have Obscura listed in the archives, man what an utter failure Thumbs%20Down
 
That was absolutely uncalled for and extremely rude.It's people like you that makes me wonder why I bother dedicating a lot of my free time for over 4 years doing what I do here on the Progressive Metal Team.
 
We considered Gorguts when the PMT were first formed but rejected them because I personally didn't want to add a band on the basis of one proggy album in their discography.


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^Clap
If we added every band on the basis of one proggy album, heaps of bands that wouldn't suit the archives would have to be added.
And for people that haven't done so, please check to see if a band has already been rejected or is being voted on first.
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Wow, i can't thank you enough for that Art Metal recommendation Mike. Their single myspace sample has been enough to get me addicted. I have alot to catch up on in this thread :D

Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Any of you guys check out Negura Bunget? They're an experimental black metal band from Transylvania Romania. They're extremely creepy, and their album OM is practically a masterpiece!


I adore Negura Bunget! (albeit, they've certainly progressed very much since their early albums) They're style is really closer to Post Metal than most of the other bands in the Tech/Extreme genre,  so it's understandable that they don't get the attention that alot of the other Tech Prog bands do.
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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:


Gorguts (brilliance, no matter how you slice it)


I just noticed they don't have Obscura listed in the archives, man what an utter failure Thumbs%20Down
 
That was absolutely uncalled for and extremely rude.It's people like you that makes me wonder why I bother dedicating a lot of my free time for over 4 years doing what I do here on the Progressive Metal Team.
 
We considered Gorguts when the PMT were first formed but rejected them because I personally didn't want to add a band on the basis of one proggy album in their discography.
 
Because other users like myself appreciate your work.  Don't worry when the lights go out he'll get the soap treatment.
 
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On topic, I can't seem to get enough of Canvas Solaris.  New album and I still want more.
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^I had no idea how much I would like them, geezus, they are a stunning band
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Originally posted by Plankowner Plankowner wrote:

On topic, I can't seem to get enough of Canvas Solaris.  New album and I still want more.
 
If you've only heard the newest one(The Atomized Dream),I would get Cortical Tectonics next.I like it a little more than their debut.


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apparently Ephel Duath is working on a new album for this year, should be interesting


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Check these guys out,an instrumental band called Super String Theory.
 
 
 
Other good instrumental bands I love:
 
Collapsar
Continuo Renacer
Behold...the Arctopus
Dysrhythmia
Altera Enigma
Electro Quarterstaff
Sleep Terror
Blotted Science
Indricothere
Octopus
 
All these bands are in the archives and all have streaming samples on their band pages.


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