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javajeff 
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 Topic: Favorite Prog Metal albums Top 15
Posted: August 01 2015 at 11:25 |
Here is my Favorite Prog Metal albums Top 15 (1 album per group so the list is not dominated by one group) This has become a favorite sub genre for me, so this is tough. Create your list below.
1) Vanden Plas - Christ 0 2) Arch Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance 3) Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry 4) Devin Townsend - Ziltoid 5) Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome 6) Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy 7) Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Part I 8) Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2; Scenes From A Memory 9) Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace 10) Sieges Even - Navigating By the Stars 11) Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls 12) Haken - Visions 13) Riverside - Second Life Syndrome 14) Threshold - March of Progress 15) Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
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LearsFool
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 11:56 |
The Malediction Fields - Fen OM - Negura Bunget Monumension - Enslaved Nothingface - Voivod Obscura - Gorguts Focus - Cynic Elements - Atheist Skullgrid - Behold... The Arctopus Through Silver In Blood - Neurosis Pure - Godflesh Revisionist - Sannhet Leaving Your Body Map - maudlin of the Well Ziltoid The Omniscient - Devin Townshend Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside Crack The Skye - Mastodon
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javajeff
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 13:33 |
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Focus - Cynic
Crack The Skye - Mastodon
These are also favorites of mine, but I cannot have everything on my list. Just choosing albums from favorite groups is hard when I like many of them equally. I just bought Nothingface and Dimension Hatröss at the same time, and I think I like Dimension Hatröss a little better. Both are great though!
I tried to resist just using new releases on my list because I am enjoying them at the moment.
Edited by javajeff - August 01 2015 at 13:34
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zravkapt
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 13:54 |
Voivod - Nothingface Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium Cynic - Focus Atheist - Elements Tool - Lateralus Thought Industry - Songs For Insects Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs & Kon-Fus-ion Cult Of Luna - Vertikal Death - Human Edge Of Sanity - Crimson Gorguts - Obscura Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood Isis - Oceanic Watchtower - Control and Resistance
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Magma America Great Make Again
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:02 |
Some favs In The Woods...-Omnio Green Carnation-Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness Fates warning-Awaken The Guardian Idukti-Idmen Deadsoul Tribe-A Murder Of Crows Redemption-Snowfall On Judgment Day Zero Hour-Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond Riverside-Memories In My Head John Arch-A Twist Of Fate The Shadow Theory-Behid The Black veil Shadow Gallery-Room V Pantommind-Shade Of Fate Dark Suns-Existence Devin Townsend-Terria OSI-s/t
I'm a huge Fates Warning fan and also the related projects
Edited by Mellotron Storm - August 01 2015 at 14:05
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Horizons
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:11 |
I've never been a huge fan of "traditional" prog metal - it's either too much or not enough (read bland). Generally, i'm just picky with it. Kind of like Neo-Prog. I might need to check out some of these.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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javajeff
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Posted: August 01 2015 at 17:55 |
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I also love Fates Warning and everything associated with it. I could have chosen almost any Fates album as a favorite. My music folder has 298 music groups, so I left a bunch out. :)
Anyone new to the genre cannot go wrong with top releases listed on the main page:
http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=19
Edited by javajeff - August 01 2015 at 17:58
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terramystic
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 10:26 |
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I know only a few bands because I lost interest. Here's what I used to listen:
Angra - Holy Land
Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Part 1
Dream Theater - Images And Words
LTE - LTE 2
Vanden Plas - The God Thing
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto Suite
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Cacophony - Go Off!/Speed Metal Symphony
Haggard - Awaking the Centuries
Ron Thal - The Adventures of Bumblefoot
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javajeff
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 15:45 |
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terramystic: What did you move on to?
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micky
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 15:50 |
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hmmm.. this one will be a tough one. I'll really have to give this some thought.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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terramystic
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:39 |
 javajeff wrote:
terramystic: What did you move on to?
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After That I tried a little bit of everything progressive music (besides everything prog also balkan folk, Piazzola, Dave Brubeck, Kronos Quartet ...). Currently staying mostly with symph prog, prog folk and some jazz but I still like some prog metal from time to time.
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micky
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:41 |
very tough.. as Prog Metal is (well next to Neo.. so don't ever expect me to do a list of favorite neo albums haha) my least favorite branch of prog rock. However there are some albums I really do love...and some I really do like.
In fact I came up with 6 I love and can and will listen to at the drop of the hat
1. Swing Diablo Orchestra - Pandora's Pińata
2. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4. Agalloch - The Mantle
5. Mastodon - Leviathan
6. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R.
6 more I really liked in my explorations but don't listen to much these days.....
7. Devin Townsend - Terria
8. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
9. Orphaned Land -
Mabool
10. Isis - Wavering Radiant
11. Pelican - The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
12. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
well... I needed to get to 15 and I wracked my brain and couldn't think of 3 more that had really grabbed me over my time here at PA's... but then I thought again. Avant hasn't been the only branch I really discovered some great albums.
so to finish it.. 3 from the bands/albums polls I really loved and in time surely would have been part of a favorite 15 and will likely join the first 6.
13. Cynic - Traced in Air
14. Thought Industry - Songs for Insects
15. Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: August 03 2015 at 20:36 |
Many will discount a lot of these for not being Prog Metal but to me they sound a damn sight heavier than what passes for PM.
UneXpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire Tool - Laterus Diablo Swing Orchestra - Singalong Songs Of The Damned & Delirious Behold ... The Arctopus - Horrorscension Animals As Leaders - Weightless Ephemeral Sun - Harvest Aorta Iron Maiden - Powerslave Stolen Babies - There Will Be Squabbles Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History Dr Nerve - Skin Zevious - After The Air Raid Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness Many Arms - Suspend Definition Hyrrokkin - Pristine Origin
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Ian
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: August 06 2015 at 09:25 |
Deathspell Omega - "Kenose" Athiest - "Unquestionable Presence" Obscura - "Cosmogenesis" Voivod - "Killing Technology" Madder Mortem - "All Flesh is Grass" Fen - "The Malediction Fields" Ulcerate - "Vermis" The 3rd and the Mortal - "Tears Laid in Earth" Enslaved - "Isa" Marge Litch - "The Ring of Truth" Blut Aus Nord - "The Work Which Transforms God" Anata - "The Conductor's Departure" Portal - "Seepia" The Gathering - "Mandylion" Sigh - "Hail Horror Hail"
Kept it at one album per band.
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