Your top 10 prog metal records?

Originally posted by richardh Originally posted by Hawkwise No never heard of them

Sounds like a death metal band...

If we're going by all three subs then something like this:

1. Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
2. Opeth- Blackwater Park
3. Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
4. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
5. The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
6. Fen- Epoch
7. Burst- Lazarus Bird
8. Virgin Black- Requiem Mezzo Forte
9. In the Woods...- Liveatthecaledonianhall
10. Intronaut- Valley of Smoke

If Its just vanilla prog metal then these:

1. Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
2. Riverside- Anno Domini High Defenition
3. To-Mera- Earthbound
4. Dream Theater- Scenes From a Memory: Metropolis Pt2
5. Dream Theater- Images and Words
6. Vanden Plas- The God Thing
7. To-Mera- Delusions
8. Diablo Swing Orchestra- Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delerious
9. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
10. Epica- The Divine Conspiracy

Position 1 is rock solid, positions 2 to 10 can vary according to my current state of mind ...

1.    Dream Theater - When Dreams and Day Unite

2.    Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey

3.    Edge of Sanity - Crimson

4.    Devin Townsend - Terria

5.    Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime

6.    Shadow Gallery – Carved in stone

7.    Ayreon – Into the electric castle

8.    Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

9.    Devin Townsend – Addicted

10.  Mekong Delta – Wanderer at the edge of time

Originally posted by sleeper Originally posted by dtguitarfan 9. Epica - The Divine Wings of Tragedy I think you mean The Divine Conspiracy, Divine Wings is a Symphony X album.

Yes, I had put a Symphony X album in my list and so I typo-ed when I got to Epica.

It's hard to pick a top ten. I just went with my first instinct but had all kinds of albums I wanted to fit in after.

I'm not what I'd consider a metalhead, neither have yet to have enough exposition to the extreme and progressive metal genre, unfortunately, though I am very much into metal this last year.

I don't like "Edge Of Sanity" that much. Therefore, logically, neither do you!

Dream Theater - Awake

Originally posted by dtguitarfan Originally posted by sleeper Originally posted by dtguitarfan 9. Epica - The Divine Wings of Tragedy I think you mean The Divine Conspiracy, Divine Wings is a Symphony X album. Yes, I had put a Symphony X album in my list and so I typo-ed when I got to Epica. It's hard to pick a top ten. I just went with my first instinct but had all kinds of albums I wanted to fit in after.

Tell me about it, I could have put in a completely different top 10 with almost the same level of quality.

In no particular order:
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Planet X - Moonbabies

A couple albums I love but don't necessarily go with the theme of this thread:
Opeth - Heritage (It's not metal, but one of the best non-metal albums by a prog-metal band)
Derek Sherinian - Oceana (Mostly jazz-fusion, with a couple metal riffs; Derek's albums are usually prog-metal)


Edited by darkshade - May 15 2012 at 14:40

Ten favorites from someone who doesn't really like the genre in question, but was once a teenage metaller. I don't mind my metal to somehow  progress, challenge and stretch the limits of its genre, but prog-metal has very little or no appeal to me.