Best Heavy Prog?

[Lonnie Tate's Forearms]

I'm very familiar with symphony x's music(I have all the albums except the first, and I've heard about 5 songs off that one) and I'm fairly familiar with Dream Theater(though there's a ton of stuff I haven't heard) and I was wondering what some other good heavy prog bands there are. I was able to dowload an Adagio song after seeing them mentioned here, and it was very good so that's definitely a band I want to look into. I heard some magnitude 9 clips a long time ago and that sounded good too, but I've never been able to find anything online. I'm kind've weary of buying things I've never really haerd. People who like radio music have it easy.

 

[Brett]

Haha, nice avatar. Hollywood/Hulk Hogan ruled.

About your question, hopefully people can answer because I want to know good heavy prog bands as well.

 

[HeavyMetalLiker]

Haha, nice avatar. Hollywood/Hulk Hogan ruled.

About your question, hopefully people can answer because I want to know good heavy prog bands as well.

Nice pointless response there, really informational

And before you say the same thing about me, Kings X has some promise because that got that kick ass x at the end of their name

 

[Lonnie Tate's Forearms]

Hey come on now, don't be saying negative things to a fellow Hogan fan.

 

[SevenString]

try these:

Vanden Plas - Beyond Daylight
ARK - Burn the Sun
Threshold - Critical Mass
Sun Caged
Kamelot - Karma

and of course, one of MY personal favorites, Leslie Spring - Gods and Machines

another thing to try is an internet radio station that takes requests, like www.proggedradio.com

that way you can "try before you buy"

 

[Brett]

Nice pointless response there, really informational

Hell yeah it was.

Hey come on now, don't be saying negative things to a fellow Hogan fan.

Thanks. Hogan was my hero as a kid and loved him during his recent run with the WWE.

 

[jsudrum78]

anything by Evergrey.......also check out internet radio sites such as proggedradio.com. They continuously stream the best prog metal and you can also request songs from their database. And it's all legal. Ads on their site pay for the legal rights to play the music.

 

[soulshred]

I also like Andromeda.

 

[Snowmaker]

Star One - Space Metal
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance
Angel Dust - Bleed
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth (not exactly prog, but really good)

 

[Vlakey]

My recommendations: (sorry for repetitions)

Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE2 (instrumental album)
Ark - Burn The Sun
Threshold - Extinct Instinct
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Rage - Welcome To The Other Side

 

[theodyssey]

the word is "informative", not "informational". That's not even a word.

 

[SaTriaNi]

Pain of Salvation - Remedy lane
Evergrey - everything
Sun Caged - s/t
Ayreon - flight of the migrator
Andromeda - 2=1
Nevermore - Dead heart in a dead world (this is not really prog but I think every prog lover also likes this album because it kicks ass!)

 

[Demonspell]

Add these to the list:

Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
Zero Hour - The Towers Of Avarice

 

[karelrulez]

Opeth, heavy, and alot of prog influences.

 

[theodyssey]

i second opeth. especially the song "demon of the fall". not the most proggy of tunes, but it will rip you a few more assholes; it's heavier than fuck. The deliverance album may be more heavy prog that you are looking for if you don't mind some cookie monster vocals (which are done extremely well... he also has a great clean voice)

 

[Velocity]

Blackwater Park is totaly awesome, you should buy Blackwater Park by Opeth, The Leper Affinity is a blast!

 

[Prog Maiden]

Zero Hour and Evergrey - it's nice to hear some heavier prog, with lower ranged vocalists

I'd also recommend Into Eternity, although they're considered progressive death their death growls are pretty easy to tolerate and there's still plenty of clean vocals as well. They seem to have some pretty strong Death influences... Their new album is HIGHLY recommended.

 

[SevenString]

that's right... how the hell could i forget Evergrey? and Star One?

get the Star One "Live on Earth" DVD: this is freaking COOL! Russ Allen does a lionshare of the singing, so you can't go wrong.

 

[karelrulez]

The guy above me is so totally right, get that DVD it's awesome \m/

 

[ABQShredHead]

I have to throw my hat into SevenString's ring - he has some great choices there. What I've heard of Vanden Plas has been great, and Threshold was quite powerful indeed.

I dig Artension's New Discovery CD, but that isn't all that heavy. It was a nice discovery for me though.