Children Of Bodom you say...
That is just a band that passes by, nothing special.
It´s like thry can´t decide wether they should play death or power, same thing with the singer, he can´t decide wether to growl or to sing normally.
My favourites among prog bands:
Dream Theater - great instrumentalists
Symphony X - Heavy and one of the worlds best singer, Sir Russel Allen
Pagans Mind - A great band that I just have discovered
Vanden Plas - Wonderful german prog
Evergrey - Almost the greatest album ever is...
Finally, I have found a metal community!!! =)
I am new here as you can understand :P
I like all kinds of metal. My hobbies are Metal and Computer gaming (mostly Warcraft III) and going on LAN.
I have just listened to the test clips on ironmaiden.com, and i´m not impressed but maybe i´m wrong. I think that all off you seems to love it though :)
I´ve heard the new singer and I can´t really agree with you that he is that great, he is pretty talanted though :) But I still like Matt Barlow better, It´s a pitty he left the band :(