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My top 25 Prog Metal Albums from 2020 |
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nick_h_nz 
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 Topic: My top 25 Prog Metal Albums from 2020Posted: January 17 2021 at 02:54 |
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I was asked elsewhere what my favourite prog metal albums were from last year. I kind of find it amusing that I’m asked my opinion on prog metal as, although I like a lot of it, it’s probably one of my least favourite genres of music to listen to. Because of this, anyone who does like prog metal will see many notable omissions from this list. That’s simply because I haven’t listened to them because I’m not particularly interested, or because I’ve not enjoyed what I’ve heard previously, or because they’re still on my “to listen to” list and likely to longer there awhile just because (as aforementioned) there are other genres of music I’m more inclined to listen to first.
Loosely ranked from 25 to one. The closer to number one the more likely the ranking is to be accurate, and the closer to 25, the more likely the rank is more arbitrary. 1. Lucynine - Amor Venenat 2. Pull Down the Sun - Of Valleys and Mountains 3. Pencarrow - Growth in the Absence of Light 4. Lucid Planet - II 5. Avandra - Skylighting 6. Egregor - Pakachuti 7. Shores of Null - Beyond the Shores (On Death and Dying) 8. Acute Mind - Under the Empty Sky (No Bandcamp) 9. Void of Sleep - Metaphora 10. Ottone Pesante - DoomooD 11. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil 12. Caelestra - Black Widow Nebula 13. Jupiter Hollow - Bereavement 14. The Advent Equation - Remnants of Oblivion (No Bandcamp) 15. Kekal - Quantum Resolution 16. Kilter - Axiom 17. Postvorta - Porrima 18. White Walls - Grandeur 19. Áuryn - Antes de Cerrar los Ojos 20. Autocatalytica - Powerclashing Maximalism 21. Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear 22. Marhold - A Homemade World (No Bandcamp) 23. Sound of Origin - The All Seeing Eye 24. Inno - The Rain Under 25. Nero di Marte - Immoto |
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Cristi
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 03:03 |
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I know few of these but it's nice to see White Walls and Avandra getting some love.
Also Draconian is just gothic-doom. Great album, I agree.
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nick_h_nz
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 03:22 |
Yeah, I’m not convinced about it being prog either, but I have been assured by others it is, and that the band is more progressive than they were. But if they came up as a suggested band for PA, in my current position as part of the prog metal team, they’d get a No from me. It’s only because I copied and pasted from elsewhere that Draconian is in this list, because they were considered prog enough there. If I had made the list for this forum, they’d not be included. |
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 10:26 |
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It's not a genre I spend a lot of time in, but I did like the Pencarrow and Green Carnation albums.
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 10:32 |
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Green Carnation is awesome in general.
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 16:05 |
I can’t argue with that. My favourite albums are Journey to the End of Night and Light of Day, Day of Darkness, so I really like that on Leaves of Yesteryear they refer back to those days. |
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 16:07 |
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In the Woods... (since their history is intertwined with Green Carnation) are also awesome in general. 🖤
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Posted: January 18 2021 at 00:06 |
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...And not a single damn one tickled my fancy above a 6.5/10.
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Posted: January 18 2021 at 00:09 |
I agree, their last album was great.
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Posted: January 18 2021 at 03:05 |
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I love everything about it, from the cover art in....
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Posted: February 09 2021 at 08:39 |
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I'm listening to Marhold's album for the first time. I like it. I don't see them listed here on PA though. Thoughts? Prog metal or heavy prog?
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Posted: February 09 2021 at 08:47 |
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They are probably more heavy prog than prog metal, but they are kind of in a grey area, I guess. I think they could fit fairly easily into either, depending on where you draw the line.
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Posted: February 09 2021 at 09:18 |
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I don't see that they have been suggested so I was thinking of suggesting them.
My favorite prog album of the year is Ayreon's latest, which based on forum posts, I am the only PAer who likes this album. I've only heard 4 or 5 of the albums on your list. On MMA, Hail Spirit Noir was voted their number 1 metal album of 2020.
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Posted: February 09 2021 at 09:26 |
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I still haven’t listened to last year’s Hail Spirit Noir. There are actually a lot of likely glaring omissions from my list, simply because I’ve not yet listened to them. The thing is, I don’t naturally gravitate to prog metal, so most of these albums on my list came to me only because I was reviewing them for The Progressive Aspect. Several of them I didn’t expect to enjoy at all, but ended up loving. Everyone will find different things interesting and/or enjoyable, and that’s good. It would be a boring world if we all felt the same away about everything.
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