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    Posted: February 13 2017 at 13:29
I know Dragonforce (prog metal) but are there any prog rock bands with a video game sound with lyrics pertaining to the former?
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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 14:13
I've always found Steve Hackett's electric guitar sound on Nursery Cryme to sound very bleep-bloop nintendo-y.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 15:11
Check out French nutters Pryapisme, especially the first album Rococo Holocaust. No lyrics but some heavy video game influence, along with metal, cheesy Eurodisco and a touch of The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

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Points: 16180 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 18:20
They aren't on this site but there's a band called Minibosses who are influenced by video game music. They may not be what you are looking for since they are all instrumental but they have done some video game covers. They have some stuff on youtube too. Here's their wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minibosses

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Points: 64351 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 19:48
First band that comes to mind is Black Moth Super Rainbow --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1QyDClOX4A

second would be Battles --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8bZIlUEOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaIy6-sNVE

There used to be a great little site that had tons of Chip-prog, but I can't find it anymore ~
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2017 at 01:02
David Arkenstone is one of my favorite prog/new age composers and he apparently wrote the music for War of Warcraft. But I don't know the game.
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Mr. Bungle's debut is filled with video game samples. And really, their music has a very soundtracky quality to it.

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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2017 at 01:16
^ Same goes for Fantomas. They created an entire album with just movie-themes and made them into speedmetal avantgarde weirdness.
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Originally posted by floyd4 floyd4 wrote:

I know Dragonforce (prog metal) ... ?

Nope, DragonForce are Power Metal (and damn proud of that), they are not Prog Metal
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Check out French nutters Pryapisme, especially the first album Rococo Holocaust. No lyrics but some heavy video game influence, along with metal, cheesy Eurodisco and a touch of The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

Good gravy, after a description like that how could I not check that out? Confused Big smile
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2017 at 10:54
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Check out French nutters Pryapisme, especially the first album Rococo Holocaust. No lyrics but some heavy video game influence, along with metal, cheesy Eurodisco and a touch of The Abominable Dr. Phibes.


Good gravy, after a description like that how could I not check that out? Confused Big smile


I hope you aren't disappointed. I think they're pretty great.
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Points: 8571 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2017 at 16:38
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Check out French nutters Pryapisme, especially the first album Rococo Holocaust. No lyrics but some heavy video game influence, along with metal, cheesy Eurodisco and a touch of The Abominable Dr. Phibes.


Good gravy, after a description like that how could I not check that out? Confused Big smile


I hope you aren't disappointed. I think they're pretty great.

New album on front page. I for one was not disappointed. No, have not got the new one, but checked their bandcamp. Crazy stuff.

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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2017 at 16:43
putting that that down on my list of things to check out
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