Metal albums with incorrect genre labels on PA

Hi.  Could you guys list for me the metal albums that have been mislabeled with an incorrect genre on Prog Archives? When I listen to King Crimson's album "Red", it sounds like metal to me. But the album is in the "eclectic prog" category on PA. Same goes for their album "The Power To Believe". Also, Opeth's album "Damnation" as well as some of their other albums are incorrectly in the "Tech/Extreme Prog Metal" category. Those particular albums, while still being heavy, don't even have any growled vocals. Personally, I'm not into growled vocals, and I try to find great metal that doesn't have much growled vocals. I'm just trying to discover some great heavy albums that are excluded from the all time best progressive metal albums chart. Thanks in advance for your help!  

Edit: IQ's albums "Dark Matter" and "The Seventh House" have a pretty heavy sound despite being labeled "Neo-Prog".

Edited by cold103 - January 02 2023 at 00:55

cold103 wrote: Hi.  Could you guys list for me the metal albums that have been mislabeled with an incorrect genre on Prog Archives? When I listen to King Crimson's album "Red", it sounds like metal to me. But the album is in the "eclectic prog" category on PA. Same goes for their album "The Power To Believe". Also, Opeth's album "Damnation" as well as some of their other albums are incorrectly in the "Tech/Extreme Prog Metal" category. Those particular albums, while still being heavy, don't even have any growled vocals. I'm just trying to discover some great heavy albums that are excluded from the all time best progressive metal albums chart. Thanks in advance!   Edit: IQ's albums "Dark Matter" and "The Seventh House" have a pretty heavy sound despite being labeled "Neo-Prog".

PA places a bands entire discography in one genre - which is why an album like Damnation ends up in the same sub-genre as all of Gorguts' albums. I'd reccomend you go through the customized Progressive Metal chart at RYM 

"Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two" is a good, heavy song.

If you like Red era KC, check out Anekdoten and ni.

cold103 wrote: I'm just trying to discover some great heavy albums that are excluded from the all time best progressive metal albums chart.

Edited by David_D - January 02 2023 at 13:53

rushfan4 wrote: IMO, 21st Century Schizoid Man may be the first prog metal song.

Atavachron wrote: rushfan4 wrote: IMO, 21st Century Schizoid Man may be the first prog metal song.  Only if WarChild may be the first prog metal album.

Or the first Rush album.

Atavachron wrote: cold103 wrote: Hi.  Could you guys list for me the metal albums that have been mislabeled with an incorrect genre on Prog Archives? When I listen to King Crimson's album "Red", it sounds like metal to me. But the album is in the "eclectic prog" category on PA. Same goes for their album "The Power To Believe". Also, Opeth's album "Damnation" as well as some of their other albums are incorrectly in the "Tech/Extreme Prog Metal" category. Those particular albums, while still being heavy, don't even have any growled vocals. Personally, I'm not into growled vocals, and I try to find great metal that doesn't have much growled vocals. I'm just trying to discover some great heavy albums that are excluded from the all time best progressive metal albums chart. Thanks in advance for your help!   Edit: IQ's albums "Dark Matter" and "The Seventh House" have a pretty heavy sound despite being labeled "Neo-Prog". You may be confusing 'Heavy' with 'Metal', two completely different sounds though both guitar-based and both derived from Blues.   Red is heavy, but bears no resemblance to Metal, did not influence metal, and is rarely detected in modern metal/prog metal.   I'll get flack for that but it's mostly true.  People hear the guitar levels on that album and assume it relates to Heavy Metal as a subgenre... nor Power to Believe, though an incredible record, has nothing to do with heavy metal.   Further, IQ is about as far from progmetal as Michael Bublé .

^ i would say bands like Anekdoten are direct descendants of RED but many of the dissonant black and death metal bands were clearly inspired by RED. Think Gorguts, Deathspell Omega etc. RED allowed a free form avant-garde ethos to be adopted in heavy music. Pretty much all metal sites consider RED to be proto-metal, proto prog metal even!