Latin American Prog WC: Agora- Cartoon

It's interesting with both that I know other "prog" bands with the same names much better than these.  I know the US Cartoon in Avant Prog well, and the Australian one a bit, and I know the JRF Agora from Italy.  I have heard some of this Cartoon before a long time ago too, and I think I heard a sample once of this Agora when I was looking for the other Agora which I stopped listening to almost as soon as I heard it.

Listening to the tracks (just skimmed the Agora ones as it seems far removed from my tastes), this is a very easy vote for the Brazilian Cartoon.


Edited by Logan - April 09 2012 at 12:26

It's interesting that from those samples, Agora doesn't even strike me as a progressive band.  It strikes me more as an AOR metal band.  The music sounds like commercial melodic/ symphonic metal to me without any experimentation or originality, and sounds more akin to prog related music to me as it is has some Prog qualities, but those seem superficial to me.  But that just illustrates my ignorance when it comes to Progressive Metal, and of course hearing only two tracks is hardly adequate (and I find it too hard to really listen to the tracks to evaluate fairly -- the structure, blending of genres, experimentation etc.).

Edited by Logan - April 09 2012 at 13:53

cartoon

Was not particulary fond of any of these two. But Cartoon has some strange charm which I get somewhat drawn to.

Last day to vote.