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Points: 1774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2016 at 22:45
Taurus II by Mike Oldfield is pretty hard rocking:
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Having grown up with a brother who was an early metal head I have to say, without hesitation or question, that Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Humble Pie, Alvin Lee, Jeff Beck Group, Blind Faith, Thin Lizzy, Nazareth, AC/DC and even Uriah Heep and Rush were quintessential to the original "Heavy Metal" assignation. Any of those bands who have been admitted as "prog bands" or even proto- or prog-related earn my vote for the answer to the OP.   
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There are lots of metal bands with prog elements.  Most of the suggestions here fall under that category.  As doe prog bands with metal elements, other than the very obvious King Crimson?  Jethro th Tull flirted with metal every once in a while.  If you are willing to stretch a point you might say that Yes included teeny tiny bits of metal on Fragile anf CTTE.  Honestly though, the influence has been nearly entirely prog to metal until metsl exploded in popularity in the '80's.
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What a bizarre framework for this question. The 80's were a time of killing prog elements, not adding elements to it.

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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

There were metal bands influenced by prog in the '80s, but they were considered metal and not prog. Since the 80s there has been a growing metal influence in some prog. So, from my view, the OP is looking for a metal band from the 80s that was influenced by prog, not a prog band from the 90s influenced by metal.

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Michael Schenker Group~Desert Song
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I was thinking that Scorpions did not really start their metal/thrash until their 3rd album ... "In Trance" I think it was called ... in 1975. "Lonesome" Crow was more "progressive", if the long cut fits, then "Fly to the Rainbow" was more of a trip and rock/blues thing ... and then "In Trance", it went totally out and loud and rip!

I still like the album "Fly to the Rainbow" a heck of a lot! There are a couple of things worth playing in a show from that album that stand out, whereas most anything else after ... is too much the same for my ear. Some good things here and there, though, no doubt!

I, much more, thought that things like Edgar Broughton Band, that were way too weird and far out were very "metallic" in that they were very raw ... and when they cleaned up stuff neatly, they did "Oora" and "Bandages", and both those albums are sublime, although not quite "metal", but with some really special touches.

On interest, is Tony McPhee with The Groundhogs. And "Crosscut Saw" and "Black Diamond" are very heavy power blues, with a lot of metal touches, though I think that many folks get turned of by his singing, but when you hear "Live Right", it's enough for you to go ... wow ... that's well done! And you go back, and yeah it is.

I was thinking Uriah Heep, but honestly I fell out of that loop, even with Deep Purple in the midst of it at the time. The European scene and many other bands were far better defined and interesting for me.
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For early 80's prog rock that boasts some metal in their sound but would not be categorized as metal due to it being only one element of the overall sound...Japan had more than a few acts doing exactly that.

Novela were one of the first...here's a track from 1980.
Starless (whom I dig), a female fronted prog act with hard rock and metal elements, released their first album in 1985. Here's a track from it.

Like how some of theJapanese bands at the time were named after classic 70's Brit albums.Smile

Also, lots of kimono wearing in the metal scene from Ningen-isu to Onmyo-Za. Shouldn't be a surprise though.Tongue

As for ancient Greek culture as a metal theme, the most brash, cheesiest, most metal lovin' heavy metal band of them all, Manowar, has a 28 minute epic song called "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts" on their The Triumph of Steel album.LOL
No shortage of Greek mythology-based metal tracks for sure, such as "Flight of Icarus" by Iron Maiden.
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The Australian underated band called "Good rats" and their 1974 "Tasty" L.P.
It was an absoutely amazing record where Hard rock clearly turns to Prog


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'Tull and 'Giant had occasional metal guitar riffs sprinkled throughout.
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