Recommend me some "EXTREME PROG METAL"
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Topic: Recommend me some "EXTREME PROG METAL"
Posted By: Kohllapse
Subject: Recommend me some "EXTREME PROG METAL"
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:01
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Could you recommend me some "extreme prog metal" albums
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:17
Fantomas - Suspended Animation - I guarantee you havent heard anything like this before, cartoon schizo freakout metal at its finest. ------------- 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:25
Symphony x- the odyssey  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:42
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Definitely Extreme Enough! Not as fast as some Extreme Prog Metal, but sometimes definitely heavier.... |
horza wrote:Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:45
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It's not progressive but have you ever heard of Nile? -------------  |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:46
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Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve, Chaosphere and Nothing ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 19:10
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ANYTHING by Meshuggah,really. Also try Cynic-Focus ------------- |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 19:56
And ELP's Love Beach ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 19:56
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Yannis "Love Songs" Pure thrash. -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 20:12
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Dude,you forgot John Tesh.Now THERE"S a headbanger!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 20:14
Whoah man im not really into that German fetish metal thxs very much! -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 20:18
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Posted By: antibiotic
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 20:56
Seeing as no one else who replied had anything good for you (in my opinion, bar the Cynic recommendation) here's some stuff you would be interested in checking out: Portal (Aus) -- "Seepia" and "The Sweyy" (These guys are genious!) The Axis Of Perdition (UK) -- "Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital" EbonyLake (UK) -- "On The Eve Of The Grimly Inventive" Alarum (Aus) -- "Eventuality" (Kinda similar to Cynic, but really good none the less) Stargazer (Aus) -- "The Scream That Tore The Sky" Gorguts (Can) -- "Obscura" and "From Wisdom To Hate" (earlier stuff isn't interesting from a prog perspective) Edit: Typo |
Posted By: Kohllapse
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 03:13
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thanks for the recommendations guys, if you have any more please list them -------------
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 05:27
Try JOHN ZORN! 
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Posted By: Interbeing
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 05:49
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Here is a few to start you off
- Ephel Duath (progressive black jazz metal) - In the Woods (progressive Black metal) - Atheist (progressive death, with jazz elements) - Phantasmagory (progressive black/death metal) - Mystical Gate (doom/progressive metal) - Light? (Progressive doom/death metal) hope that helps |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 06:16
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Good call Interbeing, at least on the ones I know of
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 08:37
Opeth - Blackwater Park Meshuggah - Nothing Borknagar - The Olden Domain, Epic Cynic - Focus Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors Extol - Undeceived Solefald - In Harmonia Universali Fantomas - Delirium Cordia Here's a few you might want to check out.. but I think you already know at least a few of these. |
Posted By: Kohllapse
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 11:19
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Actually I know all of them except fot this one  -------------
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Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 12:39
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opeth... ------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: blunt
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:09
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First two seminal Death Metal releases for the deathster in the prog- Nile are perhaps one of the most unlistenable bands on the planet but there latest one is a supreme mix of death metal insanity mixed with their egyptian motif. Now this is not prog. by any standard definition but the level of musicianship is simply stunning. I mean no one plays faster and more brutal than this. The speed is simply enough to make you wonder how do they do it. Worth at least one listen just to hear this cacophany played out in real time. Their previous release is just chaos. Totally unlistenable except as a soundtrack to insanity. Suffocation-Pierced From Within. Well simply amazing and never to be replicated, I hope!!!! Death metal taken to its most complex formation of riffing complexity. Now for me the latest piece of craziness to come out of progressive/thrash is England's Biomechanical- It is a mix of Pantera meets Symphony X meets Judas Priest played with some Watchtower influence. Now this is heavy OK. But if you chance to open yourself to it is an amazing tour de force of complex riffing and insane vocals that Cynic and Watchtower have never envisaged. I truly believe in the passing of time this album will reach legendary status. The riffs tumble by at a rather disturbing rate and never ever seem to settle down. This is the one you are looking for I believe. And as for the death metal releases feel free to ignore those recommendations, I know this is not a death metal site OK, but Biomechanical is not death metal. It is Biomechanical. Extreme progressive rock is what it is.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:13
Wait for Machinations of Dementia (or whatever silly name it has!) some time next year. I'm pretty sure that'll blow any death metal away in terms of technicality although I doubt it'll be brutal (and no singer  )
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Posted By: antibiotic
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 05:11
Nile are a very produced, accessible (for death metal) and listenable
band. Origin is faster and Wormed make Nile sound like Britney Spears
in the brutal factor. Nile is no soundtrack to insanity. Go find
Portal's 'Seepia' album. Now THAT is a soundtrack to insanity. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 08:11
Wormed are very f**king brutal. They also have a completely impenetrable concept, and it's impossible to follow the words even if you have the lyrics in front of you. My guess is they just made random noises and then wrote the lyrics afterwards . I think we're getting somewhat far from prog though..? 
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Posted By: Typography
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 06:56
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Behold... The Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
The most technical/fast/amazing intsrumental progressive metal you will ever hear. Orthrelm - Asristrar Vieldrioxe 99 songs and 12 minutes long. Fantomas - Suspended Animation Best and most recent Fantomas, which contains a healthy dose of Naked City. Yeti - Things to Come... / Volume Obliteration Transcendence Prog-metal for depressed, pot smoking, guys who like slow music. Tarantula Hawk - Tarantula Hawk (I & II) KInda like Yeta, but chage the Magma for some space rock. |
Posted By: Hamatai
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 08:15
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 13:07
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A lot of excellent recommendations above To this I'd like to add Cryptopsy, Lykathea Aflame, Martyr (the Canadian one, not the Czech one!), Immolation (although if you're Christian you're likely to find the lyrics disturbing), Capharnaum, Necrophagist, Psycroptic, Textures, Atheist, Spawn of Possession, Decrepit Birth... ufff, there's lots more, but let's leave it at that for now. |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: September 26 2005 at 19:41
| Most of the ones I had in mind have been mentioned. There are the obvious ones like Opeth, Meshuggah, Death and Atheist (who you've probably heard already). There are also some great technical death metal bands who may not be prog in the strictest sense but should fit the bill (Nile, Necrophagist, Gorguts, even later Emperor). |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 12:15
| On the dead thrash metal side, see if you can still get hold of The Shining Path's No Other World (on Day Eight Music Records), recorded in 1993. It is worth comparing with the very different, heavy Hammond organ-lead prog fusion of The Jonas Hellborg Group's "e" - same line-up, Hellborg and Johansson brothers (but without vocalist Gary Cooper) and recorded within 18 months of each other |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 12:31
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Hellborg and the Johansson brothers are absolute masters of their instruments. I haven't heard the album, but I'm sure it won't disappoint. ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |