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SteveG 
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dr wu23
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Posted: January 07 2022 at 11:02 |
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All the usual suspects have been mentioned...my favorite big names would be
Uriah Heep Rush Porcupine Tree Capt Beyond but a few less well known ones I'm fond of.. Armageddon Big Elf Black Bonzo Gravy Train Lucifers Friend Steamhammer (listed as crossover...) |
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David_D
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Posted: January 07 2022 at 05:30 |
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Yes, very much!!
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David_D
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Posted: January 07 2022 at 04:51 |
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That is very interesting, both concerning Prog and Metal history, and maybe even quite relevant for the roots of Prog Metal. Deep Purple has indeed not less than BS to be considered being among Prog pioneers.
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Posted: January 07 2022 at 01:30 |
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Going by PA's definition (btw Rush occupy the top 4 places on PA's heavy prog list!)
1. Rush - Moving Pictures 2. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing 3. The Mars Volta - Amputechture 4. Haken - Affinity 5. Headspace - All That You Fear Is Gone 6. Quatermass - s/t 7. Lone Star - Firing On All Six 8. Fields - s/t 9. Enchant - Tug Of War X. The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom Of Goats - Vaaya and the Sea (btw I've never heard the last album in my list but included it for the great name and to make up to ten!)
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Posted: January 07 2022 at 01:26 |
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My three favourite bands are Rush, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree so something like...
Permanent Waves Moving Pictures In Absentia Gravity Until All The Ghosts Are Gone Hemispheres Deadwing A Farewell To Kings Fear Of A Blank Planet Vemod Alternate list and these are all going by what the site here calls Heavy Prog T2- It'll All Work Out In Boomland Tiles- Presents Of Mind Liquid Scarlet- Liquid Scarlet Landberk- One Man Tells Another Exsimio- Carbono 14 Morte Macabre- Symphonic Holocaust Thule- Ultima Thule
Karnivool- Sound Awake Book Of Hours- Art ToThe Blind Elder- Lore |
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Posted: January 06 2022 at 16:26 |
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^ Early heavy metal was considered a part of prog but is rarely seen that way now. Here's an interesting quote from Philip S. Walker's notes in the Warhorse CD Red Sea ; "...Heavy
Rock as a style grew out of Progressive Rock sometime in the early 1970s. The trend setters were Deep Purple and Black
Sabbath" . Now that's a perspective you don't hear anything about these days. In hindsight it makes sense and adds a dimension to the post-Psychedelic era previously missing. |
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Posted: January 06 2022 at 15:59 |
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Yes, I do consider Paranoid as a Heavy Prog album, and this is what I've written in my review of it:
"Looking from the perspective of 1970, Paranoid must be considered as (Heavy) Prog album, and according to what Ozzy Osbourne once said in a interview, that's how it was meant by the Sabs themselves. The music is not as complex as some other bands' from that year but it's surely very innovative and thus beyond the mainstream Rock - not to speak about Planet Caravan which influenced by Django Reinhardt, one of Tony Iommi's influences, is very jazzy. Heavy Metal as a genre was not established in 1970, even not really forming before Paranoid, so looking from the perspective of that year, the album can't be considered as a part of that genre. So historically speaking, Paranoid can't be seen as something else than (Heavy) Prog. And maybe the most correct thing to do is to consider the whole very early HM as a part of Prog. Ion Lord of Deep Purple had indeed Progressive ambitions as well, and what about Uriah Heep?" Edited by David_D - January 06 2022 at 16:53 |
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Posted: January 05 2022 at 16:32 |
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Lots of love for Captain Beyond's debut!
 They were the very first band I ever saw on the big rock stage, and it was stunning! I'd suggest Amon Duul II's "Wolf City," that used to shake the dorm room walls back in the day!
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Posted: January 05 2022 at 04:23 |
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I agree with not including Scorpions on PA, but I think, Lonesome Crow is a fine Heavy Prog album to mention.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 14:11 |
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This is why I haven’t participated yet. It’s a tricky one, and several people have noted that what is considered heavy prog by them (or others) is not by PA, or vice versa. As an example that I’ve seen crop up often, a band like Porcupine Tree has changed styles numerous times. They are down as heavy prog in PA, and regardless of whether or not they have ever been heavy prog, there’s no way that every PT album is heavy prog. My favourite PT studio album is The Sky Moves Sideways. Is that heavy prog? Some might say yes, but a lot would probably say no. But, for argument’s sake, keeping to what PA considers heavy prog (and remembering that it might be true for some of the discography, but not necessarily all of it), my favourites would probably be from the following: Anekdoten Arabs in Aspic Arcane Battle Circus The Bloody Mallard Breaking Orbit Confusion Field D’Accord Deformica Dialeto El Doom & The Born Electric Enfant Ghost Medicine Ghost Toast Headspace Karmamoi Karnivool The Mars Volta Mother Turtle Onségen Ensemble Osada Vida Pinkroom Porcupine Tree Sky Architect Time Collapse If I counted correctly, that’s 25 artists to choose from. I think it’s probably my favourite 25 from the many that are listed as heavy prog on PA. I could easily list another 25, and probably just as easily another 25 after that, but these are probably the crème de La crème for me. And, yes, I’m aware they are all quite modern. I do like a lot of earlier heavy prog and could easily list 25 from then, and another 25 after that, etc. - but generally, I guess I prefer the more modern heavy prog sound. 🤷🏻♂️ I’ll try and come back with an actual list of albums….. 🤔 |
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 13:33 |
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In fact, I think, there're not so few albums, we both are fond of. I've already seen quite a bit.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 13:13 |
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I've surely seen that! and I'm very fond of both of them.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 13:12 |
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I've reconsidered my list, see my edit.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 12:56 |
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We have a match on two favourite albums: Captain Beyond & Steel Mill.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 12:51 |
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Aallriight, happy to see and hear.
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 11:07 |
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This was easier that I thought it'd be. BAKERY - Rock Mass for Love (1971) CAPTAIN BEYOND - Captain Beyond (1972) DR. Z - Three Parts to My Soul (1971) EASTER ISLAND - Easter Island (1979) FIELDS - Fields (1971) GRAVY TRAIN - (A Ballad of) A Peaceful Man (1971) KEN HENSLEY - Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf (1973) IRISH COFFEE - Irish Coffee (1971) JACKAL - Awake (1973) KAHVAS JUTE - Wide Open (1971) LONE STAR - Lone Star (1976) MAY BLITZ - May Blitz (1970) NORTHWIND - Northwind (1974) ODIN - Odin (1972) PALADIN - Charge! (1972) QUATERMASS - Quatermass (1970) RAW MATERIAL - Time Is... (1971) STEEL MILL - Green-Eyed God (1972) TOMORROW'S GIFT - Tomorrow's Gift (1970) THE UNDERGROUND SET - The Underground Set (1970) VALHALLA - Valhalla (1969) WRITING ON THE WALL - Power of the Picts (1969) YEZDA URFA - Boris (1975) ZARATHUSTRA - Zarathustra (1972)
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Posted: January 04 2022 at 10:17 |
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Here's 10 Good Ones... 1 per band
Permanent Waves - Rush
Lightbulb Sun - PT Tug Of War - Enchant Bridge - Everon Age Of Impact - Explorers Club Impossible Figures - Magellan Presents Of Mind - Tiles I Am Anonymous - Headspace Gravity - Anekdoten One In A Million - Poverty's No Crime (15 years ago, I argued that PNC should be Heavy Prog rather than PM, because they are just as much Rush-like as Enchant or Tiles, but no-one agreed then and I'm sure they won't now either, but I'm still including them) |
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