Top 10 Progressive Metal releases

[Vilden]

I know that's what I said.

Then why the fuck namedrop loads of band that do not belong in this thread? :d

 

[Jean-Pierre]

I really need some progger to explain to me why they think Operation:Mindcrime is a prog album. I find absolutely no prog elements whatsoever, it's mostly pop metal songs, good ones, but nothing substantially progressive in terms of the contemporary climate. While the lyrical concept was interesting in theory, the delivery brings to mind a bad musical of some sort.

Anyone? I can see definite progressive tendencies on Rage For Order (no one was mixing power metal with dark new wave and influence of eclectic artists such as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush), but I find none of this in Operation:Mindcrime.

Anyway, I've found recently that I don't think progressive metal is so easy to categorize in the sense that others do. I find it redundant to label Devin Townsend's "Ocean Machine" or anything by Pain of Salvation as Metal; to me it's just progressive music, Metal is more of a convoluted genre. So Prog Metal in a sense should be any Metal that happens to harbor progressive tendencies, not just some power metal offshoot that happens to boast a genre calling. Not to mention the fact that Between The Buried and Me exist makes me want to choke on my own vomit.

1. Queensryche - Rage for Order
2. Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
3. Ark - Ark
4. Conception - In Your Multitude
5. Gorguts - Obscura
6. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
7. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernal
8. Dodheimsgard - 666 International
9. Virus - Carheart
10. Tiamat - Wildhoney

Props to Mort for pulling out the Wildhoney card. That album is so fucking good, utterly progressive in simplicity. Fuck dream theater. Ok, I'm done.

 

[King Richard]

Then why the fuck namedrop loads of band that do not belong in this thread? :d

Because they are better.

 

[Anaon]

It's not better but different. This topic is about progressive METAL.

(I also prefer progressive rock )

 

[BloodSword]

All excellent choices, but 2 for me that outshine those mentioned are; Orphaned Land-"Mabool" and Disillusion-"Back to Times of Splendor." All prog/metal bands should aspire to achieving this brilliance. Fuckin' bravo!!!

 

[King Richard]

It's not better but different. This topic is about progressive METAL.

(I also prefer progressive rock )

Actually most non-metal prog bands are better. Better quality musicianship and less gay shit. Most metal bands have that mentality that they have prove something when playing progressive music instead of just letting it flow.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

5. Amorphis - Elegy

Great choice.

Making a list would require some serious thinking, 'cause I listen to quite a lot of prog metal. I'm not ready to do that thinking right now.

Dream Theater - Octavarium, Amorphis - Elegy and Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors are definite, but the rest I don't know about just now.

 

[The Ozzman]

Elegy is considered prog?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Not really.

 

[CF87]

Amorphis ~eclipse,silent waters
Opeth ~my arms, your hearse,still life,blackwater park
Edge of Sanity ~crimson, crimson 2
Dan Swanö ~moontower
Katatonia ~the great cold distance
Tristania ~ashes

Others

To-Mera ~transcendental
Enslaved ~ruun
Tristania ~illumination
Novembers Doom ~the novella reservoir
Green Carnation ~light of day, day of darkness

 

[Einherjar86]

Elegy is considered prog?

I was thinking the same thing. It has its moments, but it just seems like more innovative death metal, not really prog.

A lot of good ones have been taken, I'd like to add just a few:

Evergrey- The Inner Circle
Queensryche- Warning (I think it's cooler than Mindcrime)
Pyramaze (They only have two albums so far; they're both pretty cool)
Shadow Gallery- Room V

Tool are a great band, but I don't lump them in with other metal. They're more modern/alternative metal.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Pyramaze is power metal tbh.

I actually really like some modern prog metal. Sun Caged, Icycore, Communic etc...great stuff. I might make a list later.

 

[The Ozzman]

Some of the albums being named here are nowhere near prog, mainly Katatonia, Enslaved and Amorphis

 

[CF87]

You're wrong.

 

[The Ozzman]

The Great Cold Distance is nowhere near prog metal

 

[rms]

FACK forgot about evergrey and communic. Communic is goooood. Saw them @ PPUSA, talked to lead singer and he gave me a pick, I still got it haha

 

[Einherjar86]

Pyramaze is power metal tbh.

I actually really like some modern prog metal. Sun Caged, Icycore, Communic etc...great stuff. I might make a list later.

TBH or IYO? Because a lot of people consider Pyramaze to be power prog.

 

[Einherjar86]

The Great Cold Distance is nowhere near prog metal

I actually have to admit that certain songs (July comes to mind) have some very progressive interludes and bridge sections. Definitely not every song on the album is progressive, though; but a couple could be considered such.

 

[The Ozzman]

I actually have to admit that certain songs (July comes to mind) have some very progressive interludes and bridge sections. Definitely not every song on the album is progressive, though; but a couple could be considered such.

Well, I'll concede that fact, but TGCD isn't a prog metal album

 

[Einherjar86]

^Yeah, I wouldn't call it one either.