Progressive Metal That Doesn't Suck?
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Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
If you take half of Screams and Whispers and crudely stitch it together with CoolEdit, you have a pretty sweet speed metal riff collection. But why do that when you can just buy an Agent Steel album instead?
anonymousnick2001
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byrne
Certavi et vici
I don't like Devin Townsend's pseudo surrealism. I find it irritating and superficial.
Mike Patton on the other hand is great. I don't see why it has been brought up in a progressive metal thread, but Tomahawk and FNM have (had) a funky edge that I enjoy, much like the chili peppers.
The Mars Volta I also don't like. It's just plain shit and I don't feel I need to justify that. Also they are not metal, so why they have been brought up, I don't know.
Mike Patton on the other hand is great. I don't see why it has been brought up in a progressive metal thread, but Tomahawk and FNM have (had) a funky edge that I enjoy, much like the chili peppers.
The Mars Volta I also don't like. It's just plain shit and I don't feel I need to justify that. Also they are not metal, so why they have been brought up, I don't know.
Death Aflame
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Jean-Pierre said:
For once I agree with Jean-Pierre.
I would add:
SYMBYOSIS - CRISIS
SUN CAGED - s/t
ILLOGICIST - SUBJECTED
V.V.V.V.V.
Houses Ov Mercury
Jean-Pierre
Son of The Bitch
anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
And so are you.
Teehehheee I mayde a funnie!111!11ROTFLMFAOLOLOL!!1!1!!!!!1!1
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Seriously, I like a lot of Devin Townsend's stuff just for the whole 'beautiful and heavy' mixture.
I also feel quite embarrassed for having forgotten Illogicist.
Teehehheee I mayde a funnie!111!11ROTFLMFAOLOLOL!!1!1!!!!!1!1
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Seriously, I like a lot of Devin Townsend's stuff just for the whole 'beautiful and heavy' mixture.
I also feel quite embarrassed for having forgotten Illogicist.
Alex78
Fretbuzz Virtuoso
if you're only into riffs, that's ok. but you can't deny that these two albums are fucking unique, mixing thrash metal with a lot of awesome melodies and excellent songwritingPyrus said:
anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
leprosy
the perfect drug
Destroyer Of Orden
ArchType
Dream Theater (They take getting used to, but they are fucking genius)
Symphony X
Transatlantic
Rush (prog rock but had to list them)
Liquid Tension Experiment
Opeth
More will come as I think of them
Symphony X
Transatlantic
Rush (prog rock but had to list them)
Liquid Tension Experiment
Opeth
More will come as I think of them
I totally see why phoenix posted the band list that he did. These are bands who are 'progressive' in the literal sense of the word...not relying on any past working formulas to create thier music. 'Prog' has become a genre, much like 'Alternative' did. And yeah, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Threshold, Adagio, Vanden Plas are 'Prog'...but it's harder to call them 'progressive'.
Barking Pumpkin
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Jean-Pierre
Son of The Bitch
why u gotts ta b playa hatin'!?!?!?1
V.V.V.V.V.
Houses Ov Mercury
Nocturnal Silence said:
Let me guess you have ADD and can only listen to music that has 349876 riff changes a second.
I think Dev is a genius....but I admit to some of his stuff being a little over my head. My fave thing he ever did was Vai's 'Sex & Religon'...
Hevy Devy is the man. I think we can all agree that SYL makes some really cool shit, and I find Accelerated Evolution to be a fucking masterpiece. I'm not entirely sure why it gets called "prog," though. I don't know what I'd call it, but it doesn't sound anything like the prog I know.
-ALieN-
Velvet Kevorkian
Accelerated Evolution was a step towards a more i guess "poppier" sound than mostly true prog sound, but it still owns nonetheless. Everything Devy has made is so amazing.. it's really probably the most emotionally heavy music i've heard.
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