Best of Power, Best of Prog
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zinescene
Member
It's almost like he had that list memorized... and ready to go!
You aren't that far from the truth. Memorize... no quite the opposite. Horrible memory. I'm a list nerd, i like to keep track and write down all my favorite songs from all my favorite genres from gothic metal to prog to power metal to blsck/death metal to 70s and 80's metal. Guess I'm just funny like that.
Braxil
Member
Here's my stab at this:
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Fates Warning - The Apparition
Queensryche - Screaming in Digital
Crimson Glory - Red Sharks
Psychotic Waltz - Halo of Thorns
Payne's Gray - ...To End Infinity
Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon
Stratovarius - Out of the Shadows
Threshold - Into the Light
Angra - Time
Conception - Roll the Fire
Blind Guardian - I'm Alive
Iced Earth - Brainwashed
Eternity X - The Confession
Kamelot - We Are Not Separate (Roy Khan version)
Symphony X - Sea of Lies
Rhapsody - Warrior of Ice
Devin Townsend - Night
Royal Hunt - Tearing Down the World
Tarot - Warhead
Nightwish - Sacrament of Wilderness
Labyrinth - Lady Lost In Time
Zero Hour - Eyes of Denial
Edguy - Babylon
Evergrey - Nosferatu
Vanden Plas - Iodic Rain
Ark - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pain of Salvation - In the Flesh
Spiral Architect - Spinning
maudlin of the Well - Heaven and Weak
Dark Moor - Starsmaker
Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep
Andromeda - In The Deepest of Waters
Mechanical Poet - Hermetical Orchard
Riverside - Out of Myself
Disillusion - Fall
Threshold - Pressure
Circus Maximus - Abyss
Cynic - Adam's Murmur
Leprous - He Will Kill Again
I tried to go in more or less chronological order so it's easier to see how the styles developed and tried to include as many different bands as possible while avoiding ones I felt were too generic.
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Fates Warning - The Apparition
Queensryche - Screaming in Digital
Crimson Glory - Red Sharks
Psychotic Waltz - Halo of Thorns
Payne's Gray - ...To End Infinity
Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon
Stratovarius - Out of the Shadows
Threshold - Into the Light
Angra - Time
Conception - Roll the Fire
Blind Guardian - I'm Alive
Iced Earth - Brainwashed
Eternity X - The Confession
Kamelot - We Are Not Separate (Roy Khan version)
Symphony X - Sea of Lies
Rhapsody - Warrior of Ice
Devin Townsend - Night
Royal Hunt - Tearing Down the World
Tarot - Warhead
Nightwish - Sacrament of Wilderness
Labyrinth - Lady Lost In Time
Zero Hour - Eyes of Denial
Edguy - Babylon
Evergrey - Nosferatu
Vanden Plas - Iodic Rain
Ark - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pain of Salvation - In the Flesh
Spiral Architect - Spinning
maudlin of the Well - Heaven and Weak
Dark Moor - Starsmaker
Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep
Andromeda - In The Deepest of Waters
Mechanical Poet - Hermetical Orchard
Riverside - Out of Myself
Disillusion - Fall
Threshold - Pressure
Circus Maximus - Abyss
Cynic - Adam's Murmur
Leprous - He Will Kill Again
I tried to go in more or less chronological order so it's easier to see how the styles developed and tried to include as many different bands as possible while avoiding ones I felt were too generic.
AngraRULES
Member
Braxil
Member
How do you pick Time over Carry On?
I thought it was a track that showed off more sides of the band than Carry On does, I didn't intend to pick "greatest hits" all the way through.
AngraRULES
Member
Nice suggestions guys. I really appreciate the energy put forth here.
I especially like the two that have specific tracks listed. This gives me a chance to see if I can match up tracks and gain a consensus. Sure it may be like asking everyone what their favorite color is, but if I got enough "data points", I might be able to compile a truly "best of" for the genres, or at least a "favorite of Progpower attendees" list.
Any more lists?
I especially like the two that have specific tracks listed. This gives me a chance to see if I can match up tracks and gain a consensus. Sure it may be like asking everyone what their favorite color is, but if I got enough "data points", I might be able to compile a truly "best of" for the genres, or at least a "favorite of Progpower attendees" list.
Any more lists?
So far I only see two folks' lists? I know there must be dozens of regulars that frequent these forums and willing to voice their opinions. Getting ready to make up a care package for these potential Progpower attendees. Are there no other knowledgable Progpower alumni willing to get involved and help - share their vast wisdom??
zinescene
Member
Other recommendations I've thought of.
After forever - Digital deceit, Open, Come
Delain Frozen, Sleepwalkers Dream, Mother Machine
Dark Moor Swan Lake
Heed I Am Alive, Last Drop of Blood
Jag Panzer Frozen In Fear, Take To The Sky
Kamelot Call of the Sea, Forever, Wings of Despair, The Spell, Rule The World
Holy Mother Wars, Toxic Rain
Nevermore Born, My Acid Words, Bittersweet Feast, Emptiness Unobstructed, Believe In Nothing,
Nightmare Cosmovision
Nightwish - Bless The Child, Nemo, Dark Chest of Wonders, End of All Hope
Pagans Mind Hallo Spaceboy, Through Osiris eyes, The Celestine Prophecy
Wolf Night Stalker, Evil Star, I Am The Devil
Seven Kingdoms After The Fall
Stormwind Passion, Touch The Flames
Stranglehold - Total Eclipse
Tad Morose - Anubis
Royal Hunt Paper Blood
After forever - Digital deceit, Open, Come
Delain Frozen, Sleepwalkers Dream, Mother Machine
Dark Moor Swan Lake
Heed I Am Alive, Last Drop of Blood
Jag Panzer Frozen In Fear, Take To The Sky
Kamelot Call of the Sea, Forever, Wings of Despair, The Spell, Rule The World
Holy Mother Wars, Toxic Rain
Nevermore Born, My Acid Words, Bittersweet Feast, Emptiness Unobstructed, Believe In Nothing,
Nightmare Cosmovision
Nightwish - Bless The Child, Nemo, Dark Chest of Wonders, End of All Hope
Pagans Mind Hallo Spaceboy, Through Osiris eyes, The Celestine Prophecy
Wolf Night Stalker, Evil Star, I Am The Devil
Seven Kingdoms After The Fall
Stormwind Passion, Touch The Flames
Stranglehold - Total Eclipse
Tad Morose - Anubis
Royal Hunt Paper Blood
edgeofthorns
24 Hours Ago...
Two hours of Savatage...then ask them if they think they're worthy of attending! 
Seriously though, I'd start them out on the building block bands of the genre. Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, (early) Angra, (early) Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Savatage, (early) Edguy, Iced Earth and Symphony X as great examples. If they don't like those bands, then I highly doubt you'll be able to turn them onto newer bands within the genres of prog and power metal. That's simply my opinion.
~Brian~
Seriously though, I'd start them out on the building block bands of the genre. Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, (early) Angra, (early) Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Savatage, (early) Edguy, Iced Earth and Symphony X as great examples. If they don't like those bands, then I highly doubt you'll be able to turn them onto newer bands within the genres of prog and power metal. That's simply my opinion.
~Brian~
zinescene
Member
I think it's just a matter of taste as much as I've tried I can not get into Iced Earth I would substitute Sonata Arctica or Kamelot in their place same with Symphony X I would substitute threshold I think there a lot more accessible for a new listener
I'm relatively new to the game. You won't find much in my discography pre-1998, and those I do have I'm not a huge fan of aside from some Savatage and Dream Theater.
Prog:
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes & Trains (back to back)
Dream Theater - Overture 1928 & Strange Deja Vu (back to back)
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation - Beyond the Pale
Ayreon - Day 16 - Loser
Shadow Gallery - The Andromeda Strain
Leprous - Bilateral
Vanden Plas - On My Way To Jerusalem
Orphaned Land - Ocean Land
Kingcrow - Evasion
Crossover:
Kamelot - Moonlight
Kamelot - Center of the Universe
Sonata Arctica - White Pearl, Black Oceans
Symphony X - Accolade II
Symphony X - Evolution
Power:
Edguy - King of Fools
Edguy - Lavatory Love Machine
Serenity - Heavenly Mission
Serenity - State of Siege
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say A Word
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Angra - Nova Era
Prog:
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes & Trains (back to back)
Dream Theater - Overture 1928 & Strange Deja Vu (back to back)
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation - Beyond the Pale
Ayreon - Day 16 - Loser
Shadow Gallery - The Andromeda Strain
Leprous - Bilateral
Vanden Plas - On My Way To Jerusalem
Orphaned Land - Ocean Land
Kingcrow - Evasion
Crossover:
Kamelot - Moonlight
Kamelot - Center of the Universe
Sonata Arctica - White Pearl, Black Oceans
Symphony X - Accolade II
Symphony X - Evolution
Power:
Edguy - King of Fools
Edguy - Lavatory Love Machine
Serenity - Heavenly Mission
Serenity - State of Siege
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say A Word
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Angra - Nova Era
zinescene
Member
Threshold
1. Ashes (from March of PRogress)
2. Return of the Thought Police (March of Progress)
3. Slipstream (Dead Reckoning)
4. Elusive (Dead Reckoning)
5. This is Your LIfe (Dead Reckoning)
6. Pilot in the Sky of Dreams (Dead Reckoning)
7. Phenomenom (Critical Mass)
8. Light & Space (Hypothetical)
Sonata Arctica:
1. Misplaced (Reckoning Night)
2. Replica (Ecliptica)
3. Full Moon (Ecliptica)
4. Victoria's Secret (Winterheart's Guild)
5. DOn't Say a word (Reckoning Night)
6. My Selene (Reckoning Night)
7. Weballurgy (Silence)
8. San Sebastian (Silence)
1. Ashes (from March of PRogress)
2. Return of the Thought Police (March of Progress)
3. Slipstream (Dead Reckoning)
4. Elusive (Dead Reckoning)
5. This is Your LIfe (Dead Reckoning)
6. Pilot in the Sky of Dreams (Dead Reckoning)
7. Phenomenom (Critical Mass)
8. Light & Space (Hypothetical)
Sonata Arctica:
1. Misplaced (Reckoning Night)
2. Replica (Ecliptica)
3. Full Moon (Ecliptica)
4. Victoria's Secret (Winterheart's Guild)
5. DOn't Say a word (Reckoning Night)
6. My Selene (Reckoning Night)
7. Weballurgy (Silence)
8. San Sebastian (Silence)
zinescene
Member
Helloween:
1. Im Alive
2. A Little Time
3. Twilight of the Gods
4. Future World
5. Halloween
6. Eagles Fly Free
7. I Want Out
8. Mr Torture
ON a personal Note I loved Walls of Jericho, Ride the Sky, Metal invaders, Heavy Metal is the Law but that might be a little "raw" for a new crowd.
Stratovarius:
1. Hunting High & Low
2. Millenium
3. Darkest Hours
4. Destiny
5. Black Diamond
6. Twilight Symphony
7. 4000 Rainy Nights
8/. The Kiss of Judas
1. Im Alive
2. A Little Time
3. Twilight of the Gods
4. Future World
5. Halloween
6. Eagles Fly Free
7. I Want Out
8. Mr Torture
ON a personal Note I loved Walls of Jericho, Ride the Sky, Metal invaders, Heavy Metal is the Law but that might be a little "raw" for a new crowd.
Stratovarius:
1. Hunting High & Low
2. Millenium
3. Darkest Hours
4. Destiny
5. Black Diamond
6. Twilight Symphony
7. 4000 Rainy Nights
8/. The Kiss of Judas
edgeofthorns
24 Hours Ago...
Two hours of Savatage...then ask them if they think they're worthy of attending!
Seriously though, I'd start them out on the building block bands of the genre. Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, (early) Angra, (early) Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Savatage, (early) Edguy, Iced Earth and Symphony X as great examples. If they don't like those bands, then I highly doubt you'll be able to turn them onto newer bands within the genres of prog and power metal. That's simply my opinion.
~Brian~
Helloween - I Want Out, Soul Survivor
Gamma Ray - Heaven or Hell, Somewere Out In Space
Blind Guardian - Mirror Mirror, Time What Is Time
Angra - Angels Cry, Spread Your Fire
Stratovarius - Destiny, Hunting High and Low
Rhapsody - Emerald Sword, Steel Gods of the Last Apocalypse
Savatage - Edge of Thorns, The Price You Pay (yes, I chose that one)
Edguy - The Headless Game, Theater of Salvation
Iced Earth - Burning Times, I Died For You
Symphony X - Pharaoh, The Odyssey
There's you some specifics! If they don't like that, then don't waste your time! I'm kidding, I'm kidding!
~Brian~
Justin G
Member
Try some of these:
Angel Dust: Bleed
Angra: Angels Cry, Rebirth, Spread Your Fire
Ark: Burn the Sun
Blind Guardian: Imaginations From the Other Side, And Then There Was Silence, Into the Storm, Mirror, Mirror, The Wizard (a Uriah Heep cover, but your old-timers may appreciate that)
Brainstorm: Beyond My Destiny, Meet Me in the Dark
Circle II Circle: Watching in Silence
Crimson Glory: Where Dragons Rule, Valhalla
Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons, Pull Me Under, Metropolis Part I, The Glass Prison
Edguy: The Headless Game, King of Fools
Elvenking: Pagan Purity, The Divided Heart
Evergrey: The Masterplan, When the Walls Come Down, Blinded
Fates Warning: Through Different Eyes
Gamma Ray: Heading for Tomorrow, Land of the Free
Helloween: Halloween, Eagle Fly Free, I Want Out, Keeper of the Seven Keys
Iced Earth: Dante’s Inferno, Coming Curse
Jorn: One Day We Will Put Out the Sun, Lonely are the Brave, Starfire
Kamelot: March of Mephisto, The Haunting, Rule the World, Center of the Universe
Labyrinth: Heaven Denied
Leprous: Bilateral, Thorn
Luca Turilli: Kings of the Nordic Twilight
Masterplan: Back for My Life, Enlighten Me, Heroes
Mercenary: Firesoul, Seize the Night
Mob Rules: Black Rain, Astral Hand, Children of the Flames
Myrath: Tales of the Sands
Nevermore: Believe in Nothing, Enemies of Reality
Nightingale: Shadowland Serenade
Nightwish: Bless the Child, Nemo, Ghost Love Score
Opeth: Blackwater Park, Deliverance, The Night and the Silent Water, Benighted
Orphaned Land: Mabool (the Flood), Sapari
Pagan’s Mind: Eyes of Fire
Pain of Salvation: Inside, Used, Waking Every God
Porcupine Tree: The Sound of Muzak, Shesmovedon
Powerwolf: We Drink Your Blood, Night of the Werewolves
Pretty Maids: Pandemonium
Primal Fear: Sign of Fear, Face the Emptiness, Fighting the Darkness
Queensryche: Walk in the Shadows, Empire, I Don’t Believe in Love, Eyes of a Stranger
Royal Hunt: River of Pain
Sabaton: Attero Dominatus, Masters of the World, Panzer Battalion
Savatage: Dead Winter Dead, Edge of Thorns, Gutter Ballet, Hall of the Mountain King, The Hourglass
Shadow Gallery: Mystery, New World Order
Stratovarius: Eagleheart, I Walk to My Own Song, Black Diamond, Hunting High and Low
Symphony X: The Odyssey, Children of a Faceless God
Tad Morose: Anubis, Ethereal Soul
Therion: Seven Secrets of the Sphinx, The Blood of Kingu, Lemuria, Clavicula Nox
Threshold: Phenomenon, Falling Away, Narcissus, The Ravages of Time, Pressure
Thunderstone: Forth Into the Black
Vanden Plas: Rainmaker, Crown of Thorns, Phoenix, Point of Know Return (again a cover to ease the transition)
Vanishing Point: Surreal, Once a Believer, Surrender
Voyager: Seize the Day, Meaning of I, Fire of Times, She Takes Me (Into the Morning Light), Everwaiting, Sober, Cross the Line, Total Existence Failure
Wolf: At the Graveyard, Seize the Night, Evil Star, Don’t Fear the Reaper (another cover)
Angel Dust: Bleed
Angra: Angels Cry, Rebirth, Spread Your Fire
Ark: Burn the Sun
Blind Guardian: Imaginations From the Other Side, And Then There Was Silence, Into the Storm, Mirror, Mirror, The Wizard (a Uriah Heep cover, but your old-timers may appreciate that)
Brainstorm: Beyond My Destiny, Meet Me in the Dark
Circle II Circle: Watching in Silence
Crimson Glory: Where Dragons Rule, Valhalla
Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons, Pull Me Under, Metropolis Part I, The Glass Prison
Edguy: The Headless Game, King of Fools
Elvenking: Pagan Purity, The Divided Heart
Evergrey: The Masterplan, When the Walls Come Down, Blinded
Fates Warning: Through Different Eyes
Gamma Ray: Heading for Tomorrow, Land of the Free
Helloween: Halloween, Eagle Fly Free, I Want Out, Keeper of the Seven Keys
Iced Earth: Dante’s Inferno, Coming Curse
Jorn: One Day We Will Put Out the Sun, Lonely are the Brave, Starfire
Kamelot: March of Mephisto, The Haunting, Rule the World, Center of the Universe
Labyrinth: Heaven Denied
Leprous: Bilateral, Thorn
Luca Turilli: Kings of the Nordic Twilight
Masterplan: Back for My Life, Enlighten Me, Heroes
Mercenary: Firesoul, Seize the Night
Mob Rules: Black Rain, Astral Hand, Children of the Flames
Myrath: Tales of the Sands
Nevermore: Believe in Nothing, Enemies of Reality
Nightingale: Shadowland Serenade
Nightwish: Bless the Child, Nemo, Ghost Love Score
Opeth: Blackwater Park, Deliverance, The Night and the Silent Water, Benighted
Orphaned Land: Mabool (the Flood), Sapari
Pagan’s Mind: Eyes of Fire
Pain of Salvation: Inside, Used, Waking Every God
Porcupine Tree: The Sound of Muzak, Shesmovedon
Powerwolf: We Drink Your Blood, Night of the Werewolves
Pretty Maids: Pandemonium
Primal Fear: Sign of Fear, Face the Emptiness, Fighting the Darkness
Queensryche: Walk in the Shadows, Empire, I Don’t Believe in Love, Eyes of a Stranger
Royal Hunt: River of Pain
Sabaton: Attero Dominatus, Masters of the World, Panzer Battalion
Savatage: Dead Winter Dead, Edge of Thorns, Gutter Ballet, Hall of the Mountain King, The Hourglass
Shadow Gallery: Mystery, New World Order
Stratovarius: Eagleheart, I Walk to My Own Song, Black Diamond, Hunting High and Low
Symphony X: The Odyssey, Children of a Faceless God
Tad Morose: Anubis, Ethereal Soul
Therion: Seven Secrets of the Sphinx, The Blood of Kingu, Lemuria, Clavicula Nox
Threshold: Phenomenon, Falling Away, Narcissus, The Ravages of Time, Pressure
Thunderstone: Forth Into the Black
Vanden Plas: Rainmaker, Crown of Thorns, Phoenix, Point of Know Return (again a cover to ease the transition)
Vanishing Point: Surreal, Once a Believer, Surrender
Voyager: Seize the Day, Meaning of I, Fire of Times, She Takes Me (Into the Morning Light), Everwaiting, Sober, Cross the Line, Total Existence Failure
Wolf: At the Graveyard, Seize the Night, Evil Star, Don’t Fear the Reaper (another cover)
