Who do you think are the best prog metal bands today?

[Scourge of Malice]

I think that "prog" isn't a valid genre, anyways, since the bands can sound like anything from Rush to the most brutal death metal.

Definitely, I agree, but I guess I understand what people are talking about when they say "prog metal" or something.

 

[Hatebreeder]

I just hate when people label anything that's not purely into a certain genre as prog. FYE's website does this a lot, and so do people who think they need to justify why they listen to various power metal bands.

 

[Matt]

I understand what people are talking about when they say "prog metal" or something.

agreed.

 

[unknown]

I dunno. I don't like Dream Theater or progressive power metal. So it would most likely be a progressive extreme metal band like Scald, Pavor, Windham Hell, etc. I think that "prog" isn't a valid genre, anyways, since the bands can sound like anything from Rush to the most brutal death metal.

That new Scald cd is still taking a while to set in with me...I'm sure it'll stick one day

 

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Gordian Knot

 

[Seance]

are we talkin traditional prog metal?

"traditional" and "progressive" don't necessarily fit very well together...

however...

enslaved has really been progressive in black metal, but i wouldnt call em prog band

contradictory statement... or at least it SHOULD be... this is where all the confusion comes in

the terms "prog" and "progressive" are SUPPOSED to be the same exact thing, prog just being an abbreviation... but as you can see, your own interpretation being an example, they've sort've taken on their own separate meanings

apparently if you make long songs, use keyboards, and solo a lot, you're a "prog" band... e.g. Dream Theater and Symphony X... both referred to as "prog" metal yet neither band is progressive

I will stick true to picking Enslaved as my answer to this thread... they're progressive, "prog" or not

Sigh, another great progressive metal band
Opeth, of course

 

[Killbot]

Kong.

 

[LivingCadaver]

bleh, I don't really like straight up prog but prog mix with something else like the following bands is good:

Keelhaul
Augury
Edge of Sanity
Enslaved
Spiral Architect
Into Eternity
Arcturus
Alarum
Hammers of Misfortune
Frantic Bleep
Intronaut

regular prog vocals are just too gay for me.

 

[Killbot]

Frantic Bleep

Gah, how did I forget these guys?! Great band

 

[metal_wrath]

Dan Swano's solo album

 

[Astrum]

probably opeth.

 

[unknown]

I'd like to change all of my previous answers to Frantic Bleep

*cough*

 

[Scourge of Malice]

"traditional" and "progressive" don't necessarily fit very well together...

however...


contradictory statement... or at least it SHOULD be... this is where all the confusion comes in

the terms "prog" and "progressive" are SUPPOSED to be the same exact thing, prog just being an abbreviation... but as you can see, your own interpretation being an example, they've sort've taken on their own separate meanings

apparently if you make long songs, use keyboards, and solo a lot, you're a "prog" band... e.g. Dream Theater and Symphony X... both referred to as "prog" metal yet neither band is progressive

I will stick true to picking Enslaved as my answer to this thread... they're progressive, "prog" or not

Sigh, another great progressive metal band
Opeth, of course

Exactly, I totally agree with you. Prog and progressive SHOULD mean the same thing, but the term prog has beccome somewhat of a term for a "genre" of music that sounds somewhat like DT or Symphony X. I guess its an easy way of categorizing that type of music, so I can live with using them as seperate terms.

 

[Carcassian]

Who do you think are the best prog metal bands today?
Is the future of prog a melt between styles like metal, art rock, alternative music?

The ones producing the shortest albums?

 

[no country for old wainds]

The ones producing the shortest albums?

!

 

[Hatebreeder]

Classical music is more progressive than any metal could ever dream of being.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

Tool, I must say, is everything I could possibly want from a progressive band. That said, I also really really like meshuggah. They are simply amazing. Catch 33 is possibly the best progressive album I've ever heard, although I like tool better. I guess I appreciate meshuggah more. I also really like kamelot. I usually hate power metal, but this is an exception of the strongest sort. If pelican is progressive, then they rule too.

 

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

Just to clear things up...

Progressive metal means "sounds like old classic prog rock played in a metal context with more time signature interplay, intricate melody, clean (sometimes harsh) vocals, et al."

"Progressive" + another genre means they're doing something out of the ordinary or different, usually involving more melody/dynamics, focus on non-tradition ideals (for the particular genre), or what have you.

Actual things that are "progressive" now (as in, progressing metal or music) are known as "avant-garde." The great majority of them are experiments in pretense, however.

As for my votes:

Canvas Solaris
Textures
Sun Caged

 

[hibernal_dream]

Classical music is more progressive than any metal could ever dream of being.

hmm... a form of music based on the strictest set of composition rules in existence?

PS thanks VVVV for clearing that up

 

[Mort Divine]

hmm... a form of music based on the strictest set of composition rules in existence?

Not contemporary classical. Alot of that is atonal and very "unrule following"