15 best prog metal albums
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Topic: 15 best prog metal albums
Posted By: Hammill
Subject: 15 best prog metal albums
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 17:40
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ok i know that this is a vey restrictive number but i cannot ask you to
give yopur 100 neither your 5 top prog metal (when i say metal i mean
metal) albums.Please try to choose ONLY one album from the bands you
like. in my opinion the 15 best prog metal albums are: 1) PSYCHOTIC WALTZ-INTO THE EVERFLOW 2) QUEENSRYCHE-RAGE FOR ORDER 3) FATES WARNING-PERFECT SYMMETRY 4) SIEGES EVEN- A SENSE OF CHANGE 5) DREAM THEATER-AWAKE 6) VAUXDVIHL-TO DIMENSION LOGIC 7) WATCHTOWER-CONTROL&RESISTANCE 8) GARDEN WALL-CHIMICA 9) VOIVOD-DIMENSION HATROSS 10) CORONER-NO MORE COLOR 11) SHADOW GALLERY-CARVED IN STONE 12) PAIN OF SALVATION-ENTROPIA 13) MEKONG DELTA-DANCES OF DEATH AND OTHER WALKING SHADOWS 14) MIND OVER FOUR-GODDESS 15) ETERNITY X-THE EDGE ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 30 2005 at 19:25
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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 -------------  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 30 2005 at 19:26
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Sorry,I had to choose 2 each for Shadow Gallery,Symphony X and PoS. ------------- |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: July 01 2005 at 03:39
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All the Dream Theater ones (Excluding live albums)... (9) |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 01 2005 at 15:40
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Dream Theater- Images and Words Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory Dream Theater- Awake Pain Of Salvation- BE Pain Of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part I Pain Of Salvation- Remedy Lane Queensryche- Rage for Order Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime Ayreon- The Human Equation Evergrey- The Inner Circle Fates Warning- A Pleasant Shade of Gray Angra- Angels Cry Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite Threshold- Subsurface Kamelot- Epica (Theres more probably) |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 01 2005 at 21:42
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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. ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 13:46
fates warning's awaken the guardian is another masterpiece of us power metal, one of the best metal albums ever  -------------
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Miaugion wrote:Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 15:03
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In no particular order. and not sure every album on the list is pure metal.
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Posted By: Dream Theater
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 15:07
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Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory Dream Theater - Train of Thought Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy Pain of Salvation - Entropia Liquid Tension Experiment I Liquid Tension Experiment II Opeth - Damnation ------------- [IMG]http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Images/Travel_Article_Library/Sacred-Travel/Machu-Picchu-350.jpg"> [IMG]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a63/panchopc1/machupicchu-1.jpg"> |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 15:58
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!  ) ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 16:23
Uhm, and your top 15 collection is mostly excellent IMO, e.g. these choices:
Very few people can remember these albums today. Mekong Delta were strangely fantastic! I'm almost tempted to add Celtic Frost's innovative "Into the Pandemonium" to the list.  ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: July 02 2005 at 21:44
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Top 15 Progressive Metal Albums Of All Time
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Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 13:31
i believe that mekong delta was the mostly underground band of heavy metal, i still remember a reporter in a greek magazine who gave 10 out of 10 for their cover in pictures at an exhibition and wrote: mr emerson you took your metal answer  -------------
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Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 13:32
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and as long as you live in germany do you know if sieges even are back again?
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Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 20:16
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.) ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 20:51
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Sieges Even are releasing a new album?AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 20:58
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How could I forget both LTE albums? Add Liquid Tension Experiment- 1 and 2 and then delete Kamelot- Epica and Evergrey- The Inner Circle off my list. |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 04 2005 at 08:21
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. -------------
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Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 08:57
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TOP 10 (NOT 15) 1.FATES WARNING - A PLEASANT SADE OF GRAY 2.QUEENSRYCHE - OPERATION MINDCRIME 3.FATES WARNING - PARALELS 4.DREAM THEATER - METROPOLIS PT2 5.DREAM THEATER - IMAGES AND WARDS 6.PSYCHOTIC WALTZ - A COSIAL GRACE 7.TOOL - LATERALUS 8.QUEENSRYCHE - PROMISED LAND 9.PAIN OF SALVATION - BE 10.STAR ONE - LIVE ENJOY |
Posted By: Deadwing12
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 09:22
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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  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Deadwing008/?chartstyle=Basquiat"> 
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Posted By: Vanwarp
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 10:16
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15 FAV/BEST Prog Metal Albums (from 15 different prog bands):
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 12:27
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no one has mentioned ayreon´s human equation... it must be.... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 14:54
Sure? Look here:
You blind banana you ...   ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: July 13 2005 at 17:14
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sorry... what happened to me ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: DarioIndjic
Date Posted: July 14 2005 at 00:23
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In no order: 1.Green Carnation - Light of day,day of darkness 2.Winds - Imaginary direction of time 3.Winds - Reflection Of The I 4.Dream Theater - Images and Words 5.Opeth - Blackwater Park 6.Opeth - Still Life 7.Pain Of Salvation - Perfect Element 1 8.Pain Of Salvation - Be 9.Evergrey - Solitude+Dominance+Tragedy 10.Kekal - Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams 11.Threshold - Critical Mass 12.Therion - Deggial 13.Therion - Vovin 14.Anathema - Natural Disaster 15.Riverside - Out Of Myself ------------- Ars longa , vita brevis |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 22:50
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i don't know! maybe: dream theater - images superior - behind mercyfulfate - don'T break the oath symphony x - divine wings of tragedy LTE - 2 eternity x - the edge treshold - extinct instinct sieges even - sense of change spastic ink - ink complete gordian knot - gordian knot POS (rather alterno prog) - perfect element pt 1 riverside - out of myself dream theater - octavarium conception - in your multitude ark - ark
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Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 23:14
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Dream Theater - Awake Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Ayreon - The Human Equation Meshuggah - Nothing Tyr - Eric The Red Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur Shadow Gallery - Tyranny Opeth - Blackwater Park Symphony X - V The New Mythology Suite Borknagar - Epic Dead Soul Tribe - The January Tree Strapping Young Lad - City Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence ------------- ARTEMIA - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic" rel="nofollow - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic L.i.E. - http://www.reverbnati |
Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 00:01
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I think it's just a matter of time. They could already make a really great "Best Of..." album. ------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 21 2005 at 13:20
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Top 25 prog metal records of all time:
1. Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime" 2. Fates Warning - "Awaken The Guardian" 3. Savatage - "Streets - A Rock Opera" 4. Psychotic Waltz - "Into The Everflow" 5. Psychotic Waltz - "A Social Grace" 6. Dream Theater - "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory" 7. Threshold - "Wounded Land" 8. Dream Theater - "Awake" 9. Dream Theater - "When Dream And Day Unite" 10. Savatage - "Gutter Ballet" 11. Fates Warning - "The Spectre Within" 12. Symphony X - "The Divine Wings Of Tragedy" 13. Symphony X - "V - The New Mythology Suite" 14. Threshold - "Hypothetical" 15. Shadow Gallery - "Room V" 16. Fates Warning - "Parallels" 17. Fates Warning - "Perfect Symmetry" 18. Fates Warning - "No Exit" 19. Psychotic Waltz - "Bleeding" 20. Pain Of Salvation - "The Perfect Element" 21. Fates Warning - "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray" 22. Dream Theater - "Octavarium" 23. Queensryche - "Rage For Order" 24. Dream Theater - "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence" 25. Watchtower - "Control And Resistance"
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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: July 26 2005 at 21:08
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In no particular order 1. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime 2. Dream Theater - Images and Words 3. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia 4. Rush - Moving Pictures 5. LTE - 1 6. LTE - 2 7. Pain Of Salvation - Be 8. Transatlantic - Stoly Morse Portnoy Treswavas 10. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite 11. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory 12. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 13. Rush - subdivisons 14. Angra - Angels Cry 15. Savatage - Gutter Ballet |
Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: August 08 2005 at 04:28
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1. Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot 2. Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow 3. Mekong Delta - Kaleidoscope 4. Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian 5. Watchtower - Control And Resistance 6. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 7. Opeth - Deliverance 8. Death - Individual Thought Patterns 9. Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows) 10. Fates Warning - FWX 11. Ark - Burn The Sun 12. Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite 13. Cynic - Focus 14. Queensryche - Promised Land 15. Coroner - Mental Vortex Good to see Mekong Delta on some lists. Sweet memories... |
Posted By: Avenged7X
Date Posted: August 20 2005 at 23:49
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Whats wrong with the Odyssey
i like it
dt- sfam dt-sdoit symph x- odyssey symph x- v tool- lateralus tool- aenima lte- 1 and 2 rush- moving pictures (even tho its not exactly metal) kansas- leftoverture ( " " ")
Avenged Sevenfold- Chek them out ------------- Watch the sparrow falling.... |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 00:02
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Of those bands that I've heard:
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Posted By: undefinability
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 00:42
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(Not in any real order, just scrambled.) 1. Metropolis pt.2: Scenes From a Memory by Dream Theater, 2. Legacy by Shadow Gallery, 3. Lateralus by Tool, 4. Celestial Entrance by Pagan's Mind, 5. The Odyssey by Symphony X, 6. V: The New Mythology Suite by Symphony X, 7. Images and Words by Dream Theater (this isn't really metal, but it'll be given such a label, anyway), 8. Bridge Across Forever by Transatlantic, 9. Angels Cry by Angra, 10. The Human Equation by Ayreon, 11. ÆNIMA by Tool, 12. Carved in Stone by Shadow Gallery, 13. Suspended Animation by John Petrucci, 14. One by Neal Morse, 15. The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X. ------------- "Don't listen to me." |