Top 10 Progressive Metal releases

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Yeah, I need to re-evaluate my list as Spiral Architect is probably on it now

EDIT: Yeah, Awake sucks

Yes & No, you suck.

 

[The Ozzman]

Anyone who lists Pain of Salvation more than once is a pedophile kidnapper.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Vintersorg - Till Fjalls
Malpractice - Deviation From The Flow
Symphony X - V: A New Mythology Suite
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete

 

[Savern]

Is Opeth - Orchid considered Prog Metal?

If so that would probably top my list.

I'd probably say Opeth didn't hit prog until MAYH. Even then the proggiest album is probably Ghost Reveries, but I'm guessing thats gonna get a lot of hate here. I'd probably go with Still Life for being pretty much perfect prog metal.

 

[10293847]

The two Gordian Knot albums at #1 and #2. Fuck the rest.

 

[Avigrus]

Alchemist - Organasm
Alchemist - Austral Alien
Alchemist - Spiritech
Nocturnus - Thresholds
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

ah well that's fuckin hard

Pain of Masturbation - Perfect Element Part I (I just like Ashes..)
Death - Human, ITP, Leprosy..
Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
Cathedral - Carnival Bizarre
Yes - Union
Paradise lost - symbol of life
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
Anacrusis - Screams & Mirrors
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atheist - Elements
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Fates Warning - No Exit
Queensryche - Promised Land
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

 

[XSASweet]

Symphony X - The Odyssey
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Cynic - Traced In Air
Becoming The Archetype - Dichotomy
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Pain Of Salvation - Entropia
Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

by the way, I tend to die, I would hardly call leprosy progressive.

 

[DarkBliss]

I would hardly call Pain of Masturbation an actual band. Maybe he's just high or jesting.Or both.

 

[Vitor]

i think many people here doesn't know whats is prog.

 

[Vitor]

1. Atrox - "Terrestrials"
2. Atrox - "Orgasm"
3. Madder Mortem - "Desiderata"
4. Atrox - "Contentum"
5. Voivod - "Nothingface"
6. Mekong Delta - "The Music Of Erich Zann"
7. Sieges Even - "Steps" (it's at least metal-related)
8. Fates Warning - "Awaken The Guardian"
9. Psychotic Waltz - "A Social Grace"
10. Voivod - "Dimension Hatröss"

Going to give this a bump since there are so few topics on progressive metal on this board. Anyways, since I can't bear to cut one of these albums:

1. Queensryche - Promised Land
2. Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic
3. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey
4. Atheist - Elements
5. Dodheimsgard - 666 International
6. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
7. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
8. Gordian Knot - Emergent
9. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
10. Symphony X - V
11. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

Into the Everflow is the best Psychotic Waltz's album IMO.

 

[optionthree]

Into the Everflow is the best Psychotic Waltz's album IMO.

I actually have that one coming in the mail, but I haven't heard it yet. They're definitely one of the most underrated prog metal bands, though.

 

[Vitor]

yeah, few folks know that band here. congratulations, it's a good album. the cover track is fantastic. Disturbing the fucking priest!!!

 

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Any Pain of Salvation (except Scarsick. I enjoy it a lot, but they get away from their progressive sound a lot.) Any Opeth album after Morningris, though I haven't heard My Amrs Your Hearse. You could always look into the quintessential metal band, Dream Theater.

Another band I didn't see mentioned (I skimmed through the thread) is Between the Buried and Me. Their newest album Colors is AMAZING.

 

[Element_man]

Symphony X - The Odyssey
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Cynic - Traced in Air (Liked it better than Focus)
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Watchtower - Controll & Resistance
Pagans Mind - Celestial Entrance
Ansur - Warring Factions
Atheist - Elements

These guys may be a stretch but I really dig them as well:
Tyr - Eric the Red
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

 

[Mort Divine]

Symphony X - The Odyssey
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Cynic - Traced in Air (Liked it better than Focus)
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Watchtower - Controll & Resistance
Pagans Mind - Celestial Entrance
Ansur - Warring Factions
Atheist - Elements

These guys may be a stretch but I really dig them as well:
Tyr - Eric the Red
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

No idea why people like the bolded albums as much as they do. Especially Elements.

 

[The Ozzman]

I agree with you on the Disillusion

 

[Black Friday]

No idea why people like the bolded albums as much as they do. Especially Elements.

I really loved Elements when I first got it, but it's lost its appeal to me. When I first listened to it, one of the big things helping it for me was that every song sounded just like the concept it was based on, but now I can't hear any similarity.

 

[hunglife]

Is Nightfall Overture by Nightingale Prog?..