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The first real British prog rock breakthrough was King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" from 1969. Other British bands doing "art rock" at that time were the Nice, the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and the Soft Machine, who put out an amazing album called "Volume One" in 1968. They...

there are always the ladies: After Forever, Nightwish. Porcupine Tree are prog, just not really metal at all.

http://opeth.goddamnbastard.org/

Downloaded this show over the weekend, great set, 9 songs including "Credence". Sound is good, a little muffled, and this annoying woman is continually talking over the music near the recorder, but still a great document of that night. I also have the first HOB show, which has better sound...

It's Robert Plant. Runner up: Mick Jagger.

Journey "Escape" back in 1980, next up was Foreigner "4"

Anathema "Judgement" is a rock album that could've been a smash hit if it had the right publicity, similar to Pink Floyd in that it's not metal but it rocks harder than British alternative bands, to me it has a lot of the same feeling as the post-Anneke Gathering. I have the first two...

i for one can't see how well MOTW's music transfers to the stage, so i'm not dying to hear them play, but the best part would be to put some faces with the music. seeing opeth enhanced my understanding of the band because i got to see the actual guys who were doing this amazing music. for...

What's amazing is that MOTW is such a great band, yet they don't tour and play only rarely, usually at a metal fest or with another Dark Symphonies band at some tiny club. They're from the Northeast US, yet have never played New York City, which is overrun with average rock and metal bands...

sinatra from the 40's billie holiday from the 30's

just curious how many long time listeners are here. i'm in the middle, MAYH was the most current

After Forever, amazing debut, solid second album was recently released

Personally I love black metal, way more than the Swedish death bands like EOS, In Flames, Soilwork, etc. The best black metal I've heard is: Nokturnal Mortem, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Abigor, early Burzum, early Emperor, Krieg, and Carpathian Forest "Black Shining Leather". After getting all of the...

Very interesting interview Jim. Some highlights: Mike was drunk every night on the US tour. Said highlights of the tour were Atlanta, Brooklyn, L.A., and that the Chicago House of Blues is their ideal club, the one that all clubs after it were compared to. The London shows were also...

looks great, considering it's an American festival, In Flames, Nile, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, maudlin of the Well, Iced Earth, all are headlining bands worth seeing, too bad there's not more black metal, not too many Norwegians there, but I guess Americans love their death metal