Metal albums with incorrect genre labels on PA

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".

Hercules 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". Does it really matter? It's music. Enjoy it for what it is.

siLLy puPPy wrote: Hercules 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". Does it really matter? It's music. Enjoy it for what it is. Hallelujah!

Maybe I should've phrased what I said a bit differently.  In other words, I'm looking for great heavy albums that are not on the all time best progressive metal albums chart.  I love Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, Riverside, and Symphony X, which are on the chart. Even Tool is not on the chart for some reason, but I love them. The following are also not on the chart but I also love them: Rush, Porcupine Tree, and Pink Floyd.

Edit: A Perfect Circle are not on Prog Archives, but I love them.

Edited by cold103 - January 03 2023 at 15:31

Thanks for the recommendations!  I just listened to Anekdoten's album "Until All the Ghosts Are Gone" since it's their highest rated album. I thought it was decent. Maybe it will grow on me the more I listen to it.  The song "Shooting Star" reminded me a lot of Opeth's song "The Devil's Orchard". While listening to the album, one of my thoughts was "This singer is not as outstanding as Maynard James Keenan, Daniel Gildenlow, or James Labrie"  About it being similar to "Red"- Hmm. I'm not sure how to answer that, haha. Hopefully that doesn't make me sound too dumb.  I just checked Ni's and Body Hound's pages on PA. It appears that very few people have rated their albums. 

Edited by cold103 - January 04 2023 at 01:18

"Nucleus" is an awesome album! I just listened to it! I like it a lot more than the other album of theirs that I listened to! Thanks for the recommendation! 

@Grumpyprogfan: To your question, I hear more similarity to "Red" with this album 

It's cool  My main complaint about it is the screamed vocals. This is pretty much my only complaint about Opeth as well, the growled vocals. I'm not into extreme vocals, but bands that sprinkle tiny bits of it, I try to tolerate, like Riverside for example, the singer screams in tiny bits. I love Riverside's 1st and 2nd albums. 


Edited by cold103 - January 04 2023 at 16:33

Thanks for the recommendations so far, guys! I haven't mentioned the following yet, but I probably should so that you guys have a better understanding of what I like. I like heavy music, but at the same time, I don't like it to be too fast paced, nor chaotic, nor too aggressive. I love Tool's album "Fear Inoculum". It has a rating of 3.70 on PA, but I give that album a 5.  People probably don't like that it's not as aggressive as the music the band made in the 90's. But I like the album more than the music they made in the 90's. The only song on Riverside's album "Anno Domini High Definition" that I like is "Left Out". The rest of the songs on that album go too hard for me. Other Riverside songs I love from other albums are "The Curtain Falls", "Conceiving You", and "I turned you down". I love Tool's song "Disposition/Reflection" from their album "Lateralus". It's probably the softest song on the album. I don't listen to much Opeth because of the harsh vocals, but I do love their album "Damnation". If only they kept the harsh vocals out of their music, I would listen to Opeth more. I love Rush. Obviously they're not an aggressive band. They're kinda the opposite. Rush is, like, the most wholesome hard rock / metal band that I listen to.  And I like that. All of the heavy progressive bands that came after Rush seem to be darker. Pink Floyd is great. They have a heavy sound while at the same time having a slow tempo. They sound heavy and soft at the same time if that makes sense, and I like that. Check those songs/albums out if you guys aren't familiar with them. 


Edited by cold103 - January 05 2023 at 16:33

siLLy puPPy wrote: Uh, isn't that what search engines are for? Type in "bands like Tool" and results gush in. If you're that limited in taste i pity you. You are missing the spectrum of emotions from a wide swath of musical experience. Good luck