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Poll Question: What's your favorite out of these?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [4.35%]
1 [2.17%]
6 [13.04%]
2 [4.35%]
1 [2.17%]
5 [10.87%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [2.17%]
9 [19.57%]
1 [2.17%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [4.35%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
8 [17.39%]
1 [2.17%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [8.70%]
3 [6.52%]
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Ayreon, just ahead of DT. By a whisker!
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Opeth for me, then come Dream Theater and Leprous
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Having to choose between Pain of Salvation, Opeth, and Haken is impossible, but Pain of Salvation has no votes right now, which must be rectified.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Based on my very limited knowledge Opeth.

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Based on my very limited knowledge Opeth.
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Debut albums battle coming soon Evil Smile
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Dream Theater.
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Well, my fave Prog Metal bands have more or less always been Threshold and Vanden Plas, because they are intensely melodic, interplay light and shade and use virtuosic technicality very sparingly. Yes, Threshold are a Prog Metal band, but in my mind, they are actually Heavy UK-style Neo-Prog, because their song structures seem to come from that school... Vanden Plas? They have the most talented, original and stable group of musicians imaginable... with Andy Kuntz as front man. 'Nuff said in my view.. Cool
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink

what would be the controversy here? Confused

Some forum members just feel that justifying their choices can become too much like hard work... Embarrassed

I haven't asked for a reason for the chosen band. That's optional, but I was hoping voters would post the name of the bands. 

I got one. Maybe Opeth is awesome! EmbarrassedLOL
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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

I'm not a prog metal fan, but voted Death because I used to like their early albums back when I still listened to metal actively. 

This was a very badly justified vote. Thumbs Down

I wouldn't say that. It's logical and i understand. Tongue
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I'm not a prog metal fan, but voted Death because I used to like their early albums back when I still listened to metal actively. 

This was a very badly justified vote. Thumbs Down
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink

what would be the controversy here? Confused

Some forum members just feel that justifying their choices can become too much like hard work... Embarrassed

I haven't asked for a reason for the chosen band. That's optional, but I was hoping voters would post the name of the bands. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink

what would be the controversy here? Confused

Some forum members just feel that justifying their choices can become too much like hard work... Embarrassed
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink

Amen to that! I thought Rick would have jumped down your throat, the very moment you posted Opeth! LOL
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink

what would be the controversy here? Confused
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...

Some people would rather avoid the controversy that surrounds writing a comment! LOLWink
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Death
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Opeth.
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More votes than comments again.
Here I naively thought all the voters would express an opinion. I always do that...
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Theoretically, I wasn't expecting to like Marillion, based on past experience, but happily, I turned out to be totally wrong, so there's a good chance I'd like many of the unknown bands in your poll too. Thumbs Up

In my judgement, Judgement is Anathema's best album out of the three albums I have in a 3-CD box set. 

So funny that you call these bands unknown, when most are some of the most known, successful and beloved in the genre. LOL You could have easily said progressive metal is not your thing and I would have believed you. LOL
They're only unknown bands to me personally - not to almost everyone else here. Tongue

I only know two bands in this poll - Ayreon & Dream Theater - and they're both favourites of mine, so there's a very  good chance that Progressive Metal IS my thing, without even knowing it. Wacko
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