What's the most most proggy album you ever heard?

[Elysian Blaze]

Candiria? You consider them to be proggy?

 

[Kveldssanger]

Besides those mentioned above

Fleurety - Department of Apocalyptic Affairs

 

[Demonspell]

avant garde shit: The Sigh, Arcturus, Maudlin, albums mentioned above

Classic prog:
King Crimson - Larks Tongues, Red
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Yes - Relayer (definitely their most out there album...)

Modern prog/tech metal:
Spiral Architect/Cynic & related, of course
Zero Hour - Towers Of Avarice
Pain Of Salvation - anything, esp. Perfect Element

 

[City of the Moon]

Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Dali's Dilemma - Momento for Futurism
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Magnatude 9 - Reality in Focus

 

[Belial]

These two come to mind.

Forgotten Silence - Senyaan
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

 

[DigestingGandhi]

I don't know if it's the most "proggy", but man i do LOVE the album 2112 by Rush.

 

[Stinkfist]

Originally posted by Elysian Blaze
Candiria? You consider them to be proggy?

They can put three genres of music into one song. If that's not proggy then what is?

 

[Legion Fan]

Um, hello?----> Rush - Hemispheres

 

[Satori]

Originally posted by Till Fjalls
Sinkadus-Cirkus

This album was one of my first delvings into Prog, and damn, it rules! It's got the oddest, most disjointed melodies I've ever heard, odd time signatures, and just overall proggy mellotronesqueness that blew me away. It's kind of slow, but gets really heavy (as heavy as you can get with Drums, flute, keyboards, clean electric, bass, and cello)!

Wow, sounds fucking whacky! Very cool

 

[Satori]

Originally posted by Legion Fan
Um, hello?----> Rush - Hemispheres

Of course..

and how could I forget Gentle Giant or Cynic, great stuff.

As for everything else, I'm going to check it out

prog freak,

Satori

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Well, depending on what you mean on proggy, i would say any of Theory in Practice's releases... they are the freakin' most technical band i have ever heard... check out the song Dehumanzed, from The armageddon theories to get a taste... cool song, great band...

Progressive is such a broad term... i consider bands like Symphony X progressive metal, you should check out their latest album V, very cool stuff. Fallen and Egypt are classic songs.

Technical metal doesn't seem to fall under the banner of "prog" for some reason, despite the fact that they are in fact the most technical and progressive bands around. Spiral Architect are technical, and yet most people wouldn't introduce them to someone as 'progmetal'.

Progmetal always has the "dream theater" stigma attatched

 

[pac1288]

Well for those that are confused about the term pro-gressive, well its really quite simple:

Pro-gressive- to move ahead/make progress

Re-gressive- to move backwards/to regress

 

[City_of_da_Moon]

Dream Theater's album - Metropolis II , scenes from a memory.
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick.
MAYH

 

[enigma_nocurnus]

EMPEROR!! Prometheus The Discipline Of Fire And Demise.
Wins hands down for me.

It's cool someone said brutal truth, sounds of the animal kingdom. Technically it slots straight into grind, but far out. There aren't many more albums that are more fucked up than that one

 

[Staffan]

Originally posted by Monsterxman



Live album prog. - Flower Kings, "Alive on Planet Earth" double cd... This is a fantastic live album... unbelievable energy and Roine Stolt's guitar solos are so full of emotion. Great for all people who play and love guitar.

...

 

[IanDork107]

To me the album that epitomizes prog, in the traditional sense, as it should be is Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

 

[Liquid Tension]

Love History- Anasazi
Cosmosquad- Squadrophenia
Avant Garden- Maelstrom

 

[DeadBaytar]

Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Theory In Practise - Colonizing The Sun

 

[hornblow555]

Originally posted by Satori
Echolyn - As the world

(Just got Suffocating the Bloom, Cowboy Poems Free, and Mei as well!!)

Otherwise I would have to say anything by King Crimson would be great.

If you're looking for somewhat proggy DM I would recommend Cynic, Death (Symbolic, ITP, and TSOP in particular), Atheist, EOS (not really prog, except for maybe Crimson, but really interesting nonetheless), or Maudlin of the Well.

Otherwise, the earlier suggestions of In the Woods, Spiral Architect, Gentle Giant, and Pain of Salvation are all great (hell just about every bad mentioned in this thread has had its moments!).

 

[Windom Pearl]

Tool - Lateralus
Frederik Thordendal´s Special Defects - Sol Niger Withing