Alleged 'Progressive' Albums

[jack_morgan]

Here is the list right from sym x site:

Official Progressive Albums Chart – Top 10

1.Tame Impala – Currents
2.Muse – Drones
3.Roger Waters – Amused To Death
4.Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova
5.Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space
6.Faith No More – Sol Invictus
7.Symphony X – Underworld
8.Pink Floyd – The Endless River
9.Tim Bowness – Stupid Things That Mean The World
10.Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Here is what it looks like when you remove the pathetic crap:

Official Progressive Albums Chart – Top 10

3.Roger Waters – Amused To Death
4.Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova
7.Symphony X – Underworld
8.Pink Floyd – The Endless River
10.Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Here is what it looks like when you remove the sentimental picks:

Official Progressive Albums Chart – Top 10

4.Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova
7.Symphony X – Underworld
10.Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Here is what it looks like when you objectively rate based on awesomeness and musical brilliance:

Official Progressive Albums Chart – Top 10

1.Symphony X – Underworld
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9.Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova
10.Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Even Nightwish is questionable, and I have been a Joe fan all my life (long life), but his SS album,while OK, basically, it is nothing that comes close to Symphony X.

Finally, then, this is what we are left with:

Official Progressive Albums Chart – Top 10

1.Symphony X – Underworld
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In other words, nothing on that list comes even close, and it is a joke that Sym X is '#7'.

One of these days, ppl with real talent are going to take over the world.

 

[no country for old wainds]

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[Draehl]

Okay.

 

[Baroque]

Symphony X is good, but not the be all end all of progressive metal. Most of the best progressive bands use extreme vocals though, which puts off a lot of entry level "progressive" metal fans. Symphony X is power metal for the most part, they haven't been truly progressive since The Odyssey or V imo.

 

[no country for old wainds]

the symphony x stuff i've heard is genuinely some of the worst shit i've ever had the displeasure of listening to, and i'm much more open to cheesy euro power/neoclassical/etc (i know they're american but you know what i mean) than a lot people on this board. they strike upon a whole bunch of my pet hates and i always go running back to my dark moor CDs.

 

[Omni]

Nightwish is definitely not a progressive metal band.

Also, who cares about this anyway?

 

[Baroque]

the symphony x stuff i've heard is genuinely some of the worst shit i've ever had the displeasure of listening to, and i'm much more open to cheesy euro power/neoclassical/etc (i know they're american but you know what i mean) than a lot people on this board. they strike upon a whole bunch of my pet hates and i always go running back to my dark moor CDs.

Their saving grace is Michael Romeo who is truly an Yngwie Malmsteen caliber neoclassical guitar player. He also composes some quality classical interludes and such. Otherwise I would have little interest in the band. Their recent phase of trying to be "more metal" is pretty cringeworthy. They need to stick to the neoclassicism that made them internet famous.

 

[suckerleaf]

Most of what people call Progressive sounds extremely Regressive to me.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

 

[CiG]

Wake me up when the new Orne record comes out.

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Fucking destroyed mate.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Orne is like the closest thing we will ever get to a Reverend Bizarre reunion.

 

[CiG]

Not to mention I don't even want a Reverend Bizarre reunion, unless it's strictly to play a show or something. They finished that band on too perfect an end note to reverse it.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't really desire to hear any new music, but if they got announced for Hammer of Doom fest I think I may just have to make the journey out there for that shit. Especially if it's the complete original lineup of Albert, Peter, and Earl.

 

[CiG]

I'd try my hardest to make something like that.