Prog Bands You've Ignored

 

Now I'm not going to put it down, or claim it doesn't belong here, but metal of any stripe (even with prog flavours added to the mix) is just not for me. Some of the older, less frantically pryrotechnic or "evil" stuff can be a bit of a laugh for a while (I listened to about a half hour of Dee Snider's syndicated "hair metal" radio show House of Hair when "in my cups" a few weeks ago ), but it still soon wears thin for me, and loses my interest or starts to grate on my nerves. Does Van Halen count as metal? I crank them in my car now and then.

 

Some other fairly popular prog acts I've sampled here have done little for me as well, (though I gave them an honest try) such as the Flower Kings (overly derivitive/generic, to me), Mars Volta (to my ears it's noise with horrid vocals) and Magma (too weird -- but not in an interesting way). Despite being initially impressing with The Light, I've never been moved to seek out any more Spock's Beard, either. Transatlantic and Arena seem very popular here too, but I don't recall ever listening to them.

 

Still, there's tons here to like, both old and new to me!  In fact, I don't usually respond to "worst" or "disappointing" type threads or polls, mostly because I can't, with any honesty. I will gladly listen to free samples, but I won't buy an unheard artist on speculation. Hence I tend to know what I'm buying beforehand, and therefore I like pretty much all of the music in my collection. (With the exception of a few gift discs, and the odd dud from bands I'd previously liked. Even in the latter case, though, I can usually find at least some good in it, such as with latter-day Gentle Giant or Genesis.) 

 

 To each his own! One man's Meatloaf is another man's Poison....

 

I suppose the band that most fits the bill of the question is Vandergraf Generator.  But again, not really ignored, just not gotten around to.

 

Those of you ignoring prog metal: it is important to note that there are many who have the label, but have little to do with the metal side of it. Its not all Tool, Dream Theater and Opeth.  Check out the first Gordian Knot.

 

 

Good heavens, no!