New Wave Of Progressive Metal - NWOPM

Dear viewers and ProgArchives members,

Please help me define the rise of a new musical style ...

I think we all agree <Progressive Music> is about adventure / discovering new musical horizons.
Lately there were some album releases who have in common:

- slightly avantgarde-ish
- MANY (hard) metal ingredients
- vocals melodic and / or harsh
- many odd time signature changes

Like around 1979 / 1980 the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was on the rise !
Now around 2009 / 2010 can we define the New Wave Of Progressive Metal ?

Some guiding albums (in alphabetical order):
* Dysrhythmia - Pretest (2003) early definition of NWOPM
* ISIS - Wavering radiant (2009)
* Karnivool - Sound awake (2010)
* Mantric - Descent (2010)
* Orpheus - Philosopher of the sublime (2009)
* Rosetta - Determinism of morality (2010)
* The Dreaming Tree - Progress has no patience (2010)
* Utopia - Ice and knives (2010)

Planning to make two *special edition* radioshows on Progressive X Grooves radio in september 2010.
Please help me define and share your views !
Pieter_V

By Prog Archives sub genere Progressive Metal, b_olariu is right, it peaked around the end of the 90's/start of the 2000's and is now littered by sound a likes. Of the other bands you mentioned, Rosetta and Isis are part of the Post Metal that was started in the mid-to-late 90's by Neurosis and really began to work up a head of steam in the early 2000's, but I think its reached a plateau now as well. Dysrhythmia are a tech metal band, another sub genre thats been around for a while.

For me, Diablo Swing Orchestra is one of the most innovative prog metal bands, but is considered "extreme-prog metal" here. Don't know, but I found few prog metal bands that have really evolve from the original form. O.S.I. maybe, because they focus more in the electronic vibe of things, looping and keyboards layering, but More than that, Prog Metal has not evolve that much...

Somebody please remind me again why you can't describe a band like Isis as progressive metal, simply because they fall under the post metal categorisation?

Thanks Jampa and Sleeper for the new bands ... I will check them out later !

Does anyone know or help me find some answers ? What I am trying to find out:

Are there progressive bands from the the last two years that add something NEW and INNOVATING
to the Progressive (Metal) style ?

Likewise in the 70´s and 80´s there was already Heavy Metal with ¨classic¨ bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc. Than around 1979 / 1980 the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - NWOBHM with ¨new¨ bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Raven etc.

These ¨new¨ bands showed the ¨older¨ bands  ¨new¨ style elements:

* playing faster
* playing louder
* some ¨do-it-yourself¨ on independent labels etc.

Can we see something like that in Progressive Music ?

Thanks for thinking along with me

Thanks, Sleeper, I never believed Isis to belong to a new wave or anything. It's just as an aside note to this thread that post metal is in fact a sub-genre of progressive metal, and when discussing it as though it is independent of that category, it strikes me as very similar to classifying an orange outside of the fruit family.

I'm a newby on this, the most inovative metal sound I ever heard was Psychotic Waltz. For me that is NWOPM

Fieldofsorrow wrote: ^ No, Karnivool aren't that metal, but they are still within the style's boundaries, I think. Wikipedia and I agree anyway.  Thanks, Sleeper, I never believed Isis to belong to a new wave or anything. It's just as an aside note to this thread that post metal is in fact a sub-genre of progressive metal, and when discussing it as though it is independent of that category, it strikes me as very similar to classifying an orange outside of the fruit family.

Edited by sleeper - July 27 2010 at 10:53

Mastodon and Gojira would I say belongs to the New Wave of Progressive metal, Mastodon is also part of the New wave of American metal, with Killswitch Engage, Disturbed, Chimaira, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Lamb of God 

... To be honest, in most sub genres of prog, not just the metal ones, a new band that has something different to offer appears almost every year, though not all of them gain much success. There's no group of bands that have recently turned up suddenly showing a new way of doing things.