Prog Metal!!!

Maudlin of the Well.

Memento Mori, surely?

Iron Maiden

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Awesome man, Get into Sikth if you like it heavy!
Both albums:  The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild and
Death of a Dead Day  are great. The vocals can be too much at times however.

Now that I'm no longer on my work computer I'll give you a proper long list of bands and albums to try from all three prog metal genres here, so this should keep you busy for a few years. Those in bold I find to be exceptional.

The 3rd and the Mortal- Tears Laid in Earth, Painting on Glass
Abydos- Abydos
Akphayzea- Anthology II
Alcest- Ecailles de Lune
Alter of Plagues- White Tomb
Ambeon- Fate of a Dreamer
Anathema- The Silent Enigma, Pentercost III, Eternity (I much preffer this band when they were doom metal before they went prog)
Animals as Leaders- Animals as Leaders
Antimatter- Leaving Eden
Atheist- Unquestionable Prescence
Baroness- Red Album
Between the Buried and Me- Alaska, Colors, The Great Misdirect
Burst- Prey on Lifem, Origio, Lazarus Bird
The Cancer Conspiracy- Omega
Canvas Solaris- Cortical Tectonics, The Atomized Dream
Circle Takes the Squar- As the Roots Undo
Crimson Glory- Transcendance
Cult of Luna- Salvation, Somewhere Along the Highway, Eternal Kingdom
Cynic- Focus, Traced in Air, Carbon-Based Anatomy
Dark Suns- Existence, Grave Human Genuine, Orange
Day Six- Eternal Dignity
Death- Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound of Perserverance
Deathspell Omega- Fas Ite--, Paracletus
Diablo Swing Orchestra- Butchers Ballroom, Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delerious 
Diabolical Masquerade- Deaths Design
Disillusion- Back to Times of Splendor, Gloria
Drawn- A New World?
Dream Theater- Images and Words, Awake, Scenes From a Memory
Drudkh- Blood in Our Wells, Microcosmos
Ebony Lake- On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive
Edge of Sanity- Crimson
Ellipsis- Imperial Tzadik, The Grace Dicapitated
Enslaved- Isa, Ruun, Axioma Ethica Odini
Epica- The Divine Conspiracy, Design Your Universe
The Fall of Efraffa- Owsla
Fen- The Malediction Fields, Epoch
A Forest of Stars- The Corps of Rebirth
The Gathering- Mandylion, Nightime Birds, How to Measure a Planet, If_Ten_Else
Giant Squid- The Icthyologist, Cenotes
Gojira- From Mars to Sirius, The Way of All Flesh
Grauceon- This Grand Show, All We Destroy
Haken- Aquarius, Visions
hAND- Breathing
Helhaim- Kaoskult
Hookah the Fuzz- Hookah the Fuzz
Ihsahn- After
In Lingua Mortua- Sona des Refuses
In the Woods...- HEart of the Ages, Omnio, Strange in Stereo, Liveatthecaledonianhall
Indukti- SUSAR, Idmen
Into Eternity- Oblivion
Intronaut- Void, Prehistoricsm, Valley of Smoke
Isis- Oceanic, Panoptican, Wavering Radiant
Island- Island
Kamelot- The Black Halo
Leprous- Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bilateral
Lesbian- Power Hor
Liquid Tension Experiment- LTE, LTE II
Madder Mortem- All Flesh is Grass, Deadlands, Desiderata
Mastodon- Leviathon, Blood Mountain, Crack the Skye, The Hunter
maudlin of the Well- My Fruit Psychobells... a Seed Combustable, Bath, Leaving Your Body Map, Part the Second
Mutyumu- -Il Y A-
My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans; Songs of Darkness, Words of Light, For Lies I Sire
Neurosis- Through Silver In Blood
No Made Sense- The Epillenic Choragi
Opeth- My Arms, Your Hearse; Still Life, Blackwater Park
Pain of Salvation- Entropia, One Hour by the Concrete Lake, The Perfect Element, Remedy Lane, 12:5, BE
The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
Peccatum- Lost in Reverie
Polkadot Cadaver- Sex Offender
Protest the Hero- Kezia, Fortress, Scurrilous
Psychotic Waltz- ...a Social Grace, Into the Everflow, Bleeding
Ram-Zet- Escape, Intra, Neutralized
Riverside- Second Life Syndrome, Rapid Eye Movement, Anno Domini High Definition
Rolo Tomassi- Cosmology
Sculptured- Embodiment
*Shels- Sea of the Dying Dhow
Shining- V:Halmstad
Sieges Even- Steps, The Art of Navigating by the Stars
Sigh- Hail Horror Hail, Imaginary Sonicscape
Sikth- The Trees are All Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild; Death of A Dead Day
SubRosa- No Help for the Mighty Ones
Suspyre- A Great Divide, When Time Fades
Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy, V, Paradise Lost, Iconoclast
Threshold- Wounded Land, Clone, Hypothetical, Dead Reconing
To-Mera- Transcendental, Dillusions, Earthbound
Tool- Aenima, Lateralus
Tusk- The Resisting Dreamer
UneXpect- In a Flesh Aquarium, Fables of the Sleepless Empire
Vanden Plas- The God Thing, Beyond Daylight, Christ 0
Ved Buens Ende- Written in Waters
Virgin Black- Sombre Romantic, Elegant... and Dying, Requiem Mezzo Forte
Virus- Carheart, The Agent that Shaped the Desert
Watchtower- Energetic Disassembly, Controle and Resistance
Without Face- Astronomican
Wolves in the Throne Room- Two Hunters, Black Cascade, Celestial Lineage
Yakuza- Samsara, Transmutations, Of Seismic Consequence
Zero Hour- Dark Deceiver 

Personal favorites..

Sleeper mentioned so much..I agree with almost all he wrote...let me see what I can add..

Fates Warning - Parallels
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain and The Mantle
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Moonspell - Sin
Therion - Theli, Deggial, Vovin
Pelican - .Australasia and The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Dawn
Neurosis -The Eye of Every Storm
and then some gothic/power metal not all on PA:
Haggard - Awakening The Centuries and Eppur Si Muove
The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake of Sorrow and Perpetual Desolation

just to add to the years of listening...

Check out the top names of the genre first. And then move on to sleeper´s list, if you feel like it.
Some recommendations
Devin Townsend - Terria
Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Ayreon - Into the electric castle.
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Cynic- Traced in air
Opeth - Still Life

Most of these bands have several good albums, but these are the ones I´d start with.
Also not that big a name yet, but Myrath´s latest album Tales of the sand is really great.
Their music seems a little bit simple to me, considering it´s prog, but it´s catchy as hell.
Riverside - Second life syndrome
Death - Symbolic




Edited by I Love Internet - February 10 2012 at 06:02

^I think you meant Ved Buens Ende.