top 25 prog metal albums
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Topic: top 25 prog metal albums
Posted By: progrules
Subject: top 25 prog metal albums
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 13:35
Last week I did the same thing with Neo prog and I enjoyed it a lot so it's time for my other great love in prog: prog metal. Let's see if we can have some fun again. Here's the kick off:
Before everyone jumps on this list saying: how can you place that one so low ! I can simply say: these are all stunning, I repeat STUNNING albums, almost equal in quality and greatness to me (could also have done 25 no.'s 1 but that looks a bit stupid, so ...). ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 13:40
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#1 Images & Words - Dream Theater #2 Octavarium - Dream Theater The only ones I got  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:17
gosh Henk, that's a really great list you have there....the biggest clappy goes to you for putting Christ.0 so high up the list....
 Ok, here's mine (ish):
1. Pain Of Salvation: Remedy Lane
2. Tool: Lateralus
3. Symphony X: V The Mythology Suite
4. Dream Theater: Scenes From A Memory
5. Pain Of Salvation: The Perfect Element
6. Dream Theater: Awake
7. Arcturus: The Sham Mirrors
8. Pagan's Mind: Celestial Entrance
9. Vanden Plas: Christ.0
10. Therion: Lemuria/ Sirius B
11. Shadow Gallery: Legacy
12. Circus Maximus: Isolate
13. Therion: Theli
14. Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
15. Pagan's Mind: Enigmatic Calling
16. Kamelot: The Black Halo
17. Beyond Twilight: For The Love Of Art
18. Dream Theater: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance
19. Dream Theater: Images & Words
20. Blind Guardian: A Night At The Opera
21. Threshold: Dead Reckoning
22. Arcturus: La Masquerade Infernale
23. Vanden Plas: Beyond Daylight
24. Symphony X: The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
25. Nightwish: Wishmaster
phew....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
progrules wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:21
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It is a great list. I think the only 2 that I don't have and haven't heard are numbers 18 and 25.
There are a lot more on Jared's list that I haven't heard: 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 22.
And although I thought I would have to wait for Mike to post his list so I could copy the link to generate the list, I think that I stumbled upon the correct list.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:34
^^ooops...forgot Mindcrime...damn... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:38
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^ You forgot Ayreon too. -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:45
^^how exactly, could anyone ever 'forget' Ayreon?.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:49
^Something tells me he didnt forget.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 15:07
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Here's the short list
1. Queensryche : Operation Mindcrime
2. Opeth: Watershed
3. Pain of Salvation: The Perfect Element
4. Devin Townsend: Terria
5 Opeth: Ghost Reveries
6. Opeth: Still Life
7. Riverside: Second Life Syndrome
8. Dream Theater: Awake
9. Indukti: SUSAR
10. Green Carnation: Light of Day, Day of Darkness ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 16:24
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1 The Human Equation - Ayreon 2 Scenes From A Memory: Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater 3 Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness - Green Carnation Top 3 for me! -------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: progmetalhead
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 16:39
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Top albums from the start of the 21st century. Sorry bit more than 25!
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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 03:36
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I will include albums of Technical/Extreme/Post/Experimental Metal, because I still am not a fan of the Progressive Metal split.
1. Ayreon - The Human Equation
2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3. Dream Theater - Images & Words
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Opeth - Blackwater Park
6. Therion - Sirius B
7. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
8. Angra - Holy Land
9. Symphony X - The Odyssey
10. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
11. Devin Townsend - Terria
12. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
13. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
14. Threshold - Hypothetical
15. Therion - Lemuria
16. Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
17. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
18. Pain of Salvation - Entropia
19. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
20. Shadow Gallery - V
21. Adagio - Sanctus Ignis
22. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
23. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
24. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
25. Queensryche - Promised Land
Also some great albums by Symphony X, Opeth, O.S.I., Haggard, Ayreon and others are missing here.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 04:01
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not all classed as metal -- Spastic Ink Ink Compatible Tool Lateralus Opeth Ghost Reveries 1980 1980 Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia Behold..the Arctopus Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning Sleep Terror Probing Tranqulity Liquid Tension Experiment LTE 2 Dysrhythmia Barriers and Passages Collapsar s/t SGM Of Natural History Indukti SUSAR Iron Maiden s/t AngelWitch s/t Sabbath Volume IV Voivod Dimension Hatross Metallica And Justice For All CounterWorld Experience Fraktal Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium Opeth Still Life |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 04:52
Talking about a great list my friend. Funny you contribute for the second time (after the neo thing) and somehow I expected that
. Another funny thing is I have the same blanks as Rushfan with those albums. I know Arcturus for instance but I don't have any albums and I have one by Therion and one by Beyond Twilight but not the same as you. As I also said in the neo thread: there's a lot to discover.And about Vandenplas' masterpiece: I almost put it on no.1. There have hardly been better songs than Silence, Wish you were here and of course January Sun. I get ecstatic when I hear these !
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 04:59
One remark about no.18: hardly anyone knows it and I only know it thanks to the streamsong on our site !
Makes me wonder: does anybody listen to those streams ? I believe they are here to check out bands and find new ones. I must admit I don't do it often enough myself, it's also a matter of lack of time I think but it's really rewarding to check out streamsongs. Just try the the one of Marco Sfogli (it's on PA would you believe it ?). I'm almost certain you will love it ! ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 05:02
^ nice! It's surely the correct list, although the "_tagmetal" is a bit redundant (and cause the word "metal" to appear twice in the heading).  And here's a slightly modified chart which only includes one album per artist:  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 05:16
It spent much of Summer 2006 going around and around in the car's CD player... I feel the same as you about the album, and my reason for pointing it out on your list, is because I thought I was just about the only one who felt that way about the impeccable song writing...which raises the hairs on the back of my neck...
anyway, now I find there's at least 3 of us... you, me and Sleeper...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 05:20
Good idea!  And let's not forget about the beginnings:   |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 05:30
I'm gonna say a very harsh thing now: Those who foolishly or deliberately ignore Vandenplas are LOOSERS !! (and are missing out on fantastic prog metal)  ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 10:42
...kind of ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 11:10
------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |