Anyone know of any good prog metal bands?

[warchild7.62]

I'm looking for great prog metal bands along the lines of Meshuggah and Born of Osiris. Suggestions?

 

[The Butt]

Band Recommendations forum.

 

[Doomguy]

Pain of Salvation
Spock's Beard
Alchemist
Augury
Devin Townsend (and all his other projects)

 

[Onder]

I fucking hate "prog metal".

 

[The Butt]

Same. Only band that I can tolerate that even remotely fits this category is Between the Buried and Me.

 

[VelociBrad]

I fucking hate "prog metal".

yep. same.

 

[mutantllama]

I like bands that are slightly prog metal like Fates Warning, Adramelch, Atheist, but that's it really.


Stick with prog rock.

 

[Dagon666]

Early Messhuggah (when they still had some thrash in em) is good prog metal, but when it get's to much it just sounds awkward and out of genre (the genre being heavy metal) imo.

 

[gundamterran]

How are Meshuggah and Born of Osiris prog rock at all? Meshuggah has always been Technical "Post"-Thrash, and Born Of Osiris is shitty deathcore mixed with "djent".

 

[Lateralus14]

I like bands that are slightly prog metal like Fates Warning, Adramelch, Atheist, but that's it really.


Stick with prog rock.

This, there's kinda two ways to call a band prog metal; first there's the prog archives kinda definition that lumps bands together that sound like Dream Theater / Ayreon or Meshuggah / Textures, then there's just metal that's clearly written with progressive structures and ideas like Fates Warning, Adramelch, The Chasm, Revelation, etc.

Imo the latter is the only good kind typically.

 

[Psychonaut]

Sieges Even

 

[The Butt]

This, there's kinda two ways to call a band prog metal; first there's the prog archives kinda definition that lumps bands together that sound like Dream Theater / Ayreon or Meshuggah / Textures, then there's just metal that's clearly written with progressive structures and ideas like Fates Warning, Adramelch, The Chasm, Revelation, etc.

Imo the latter is the only good kind typically.

Oh, if The Chasm counts, then them too.

 

[unknown]

Zero Hour and Ansur

*moving this*

 

[Einherjar86]

Sieges Even

Great band.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I like bands that are slightly prog metal like Arch-era Fates Warning...

Fixed. A Pleasant Shade of Gray and Disconnected are entirely tr00 prog, and fucking awesome at that.

 

[Prog_Please]

I'm looking for great prog metal bands along the lines of Meshuggah and Born of Osiris. Suggestions?

Maybe try the new EP by TesseracT. I think you'll enjoy that one. I also second the Zero Hour recommendation. Start with "The Towers of Avarice", that's my personal favorite.

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

Is Opeth not progressive metal? That's what I think of when I hear progressive metal, unless progressive metal and progressive death metal are that entirely different. I want something like Opeth that's not Porcupine Tree.

Oh and what about Primordial?

 

[unknown]

Opeth? Sure. Primordial? No. Primordial is generally labelled as Folk or Pagan metal.

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

Interesting. Would you happen to know anything similar to Opeth? I'm looking for something with acoustic sections, or even full songs, but I like dark sounding music, really dark. And I love Opeth's balance of Black and Death metal, similar to both but not quite either, anything like that or are they pretty unique?

Sorry warchild I kind of stole your thread

 

[unknown]

Ikuinen Kaamos...there are a couple others but I can't think of them at the moment. You may also be interested in The Morningside