From the Top Prog Metal Albums List of PA, Choose
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Topic: From the Top Prog Metal Albums List of PA, Choose
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Subject: From the Top Prog Metal Albums List of PA, Choose
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 11:48
| From the ProgArchives' Top 100 Progressive Metal (albums) list, these are the first 25 bands that appear in order. Which band among them is your favourite? |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:28
| is it just one vote, or multiple? I cannot pick just one out of these. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:36
| I made it "just one". |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:36
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Opeth ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:37
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Diablo Swing Orchestra for me, not really my genre but I like them a lot. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:39
Though I think Opeth is a progressive metal band, they are in a different category here. |
dougmcauliffe wrote:Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:41
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Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning and Sieges Even (not for their highest rated album) are the only of these bands that sit in my top-25 or so PM bands. But then you excluded ex/post metal and Tech/Extreme, where most of my favorites sit. Pain of Salvation is the most consistently enjoyable from the list. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:45
| Riverside just a little bit over Ayreon and Sieges Even. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 12:59
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Of these DT. Similar thread [URL=]www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=121940&KW=Prog+metal[/URL] |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 13:05
| Nightwish...that is all |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 13:54
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Until few years ago my choice would have been Ayreon, but today it's Riverside ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 14:53
| LTE although they were really fusion not metal. |
Posted By: DarkTower
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 16:10
| DT |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 16:13
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Threshold have edged above Dream Theater in recent years for me. I don't tend to consider Riverside as prog metal (much classier than that!) ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 16:23
I really like most of the bands in the poll .. for me it was a hard choice to make between Fates Warning, Threshold, Shadow Gallery , Savatage, and Symphony X ... I went with Symphony X ... I just play them more these days. Great poll ! special mention to Blind Guardian who I also love but I don't consider fully progressive metal. 
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 16:59
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Great list. Impossible to decide. There are too much great bands I love at the same level.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 17:05
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Normally DT would get my vote, but the last few albums have been boring and uninspired nonsense. They should rename the band PRW......Petrucci Rudess Wonking. Riverside is my new #1 -------------   
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Posted By: projeKct
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 17:26
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An easy one for me: PoS !!! So intense/fun/deep/complex/funky/varied/melodic/...
Honorable mention to Ayreon, though. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 17:46
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Symphony X all day. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 18:32
ok, Threshold gets my vote, the first one, I hope not the only one. I also hope Sieges Even and Fates Warning will get some attention (votes), they deserve it.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 18:57
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Riverside over POS ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: foregonillusions
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 21:11
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If it weren't for the fact that nobody threw a vote to SG, I would've went for Sieges Even. (Steffen's lyrics and song titles, alone, make the albums on which he worked great.) |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: June 16 2020 at 23:35
I voted for Sieges Even too, "A sense of Change" (1991) for me its a masterpiece, and i enjoy a lot "The Art of navigating by the stars" followed closely by Fates Warning and Queensryche. But im a thrasher, Voivod and Watchtower are my favs bands in prog metal
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 01:21
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Why is opeth missing? Wrong genre? ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 03:28
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Tool 
Probably too classy compared to the rest of the list
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 05:01
possibly a slip up.
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 05:01
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I went with the magnificent Ayreon, I love Arjen Lucassen, he is a genius! Also love DT, but I agree their stuff can be hit and miss, particularly since Portnoy left (and earlier, if I'm honest). But they have done some incredible stuff... I have to be honest and say I don't have much from the rest. I've dabbled in a few; Therion are interesting, Threshold I quite like (but don't have any of the earlier stuff), Riverside I have struggled with... Really should try some Symphony X, and probably a few more from this list
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 05:41
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Riverside, just over DT, just over Blind Guardian. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 05:49
I made this list out of the Prog Metal Top 100 list and Opeth is in the Tech/Extreme Prog Metal category here. That is just why. |
Posted By: foregonillusions
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:21
Those two albums are fantastic because they balance complexity, melody, and emotion so well.
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Posted By: arturfd
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:27
| dream theater |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:06
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The only surprise seems like that Queensryche got no votes. My intention is for the people to choose their favourite band among them, not their "favourite prog metal band". So, for instance I might have chosen Kamelot, even though I don't think they are an actual prog metal band. Queensryche is quite a giant, and got no votes. Interesting... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:32
they have few weak albums so this could be the reason. If you had a classic QR album, things would be different. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 16:51
| Aren't Riverside more like prog metal lite though. It seems weird to me that on this website Riverside are listed as prog metal but Haken are heavy prog. I think maybe it should be the other way around. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 16:57
Though I'm a fan, I wouldn't put Rhapsody (of Fire), Therion, and Nightwish on the archives. Blind Guardian's inclusion is also an oddity. If there were criteria like "kickstarting a genre", "being a standout within the genre"; specifically to give details; a band might acquire the title by "pioneering female fronted symphonic metal" (Nightwish), or "utilizing symphonic constituents within the metal genre" (Therion); thus it might have made sense... |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 17:19
| Rhapsody(on fire)are symphonic metal which I consider to be a subgenre of progmetal. Blind Guardian I'm not too sure about. I have one album by them but wasn't too crazy about it. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 17:21
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Symphony X rules.... and bitch slaps those other bands...
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 19:53
Blind Guardian is way better than Rhapsody (on fire). Doesn't get much better than Blind Guardian in Power Metal at least.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 20:19
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I'm surprised Riverside is considered metal here. I've heard heavy prog bands more metal than they are. I picked Diablo Swing Orchestra just because they are so unique but i really love most of these. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 21:04
Not to me but then again I like that big symphonic sound.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 28 2020 at 21:06
You mean like Haken? As for Diablo Swing Orchestra the name sounds familiar but I can't say I've heard their music.
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 00:37
| Haken has become hard to place. Their first three albums exist somewhere between Heavy and Symphonic, with hints of metal. But the metal sound has increased every single album. You can even hear an increase between Aquarius and Visions. Affinity continues the trend with some crossover elements. Vector and Virus are basically prog metal albums. That seems to be where they are now. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 02:16
their 2000s albums are progressive metal.
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Posted By: projeKct
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 05:39
And they've lost me! Too much metal, not enough melodies. I guess that puts me in the "symphonic" category. I must say that Visions (2011), The Mountain (2013) and Affinity (2016) are all excellent in my book.
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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 09:35
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Riverside +1 With Diablo Swing Orchestra close behind. ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 10:44
More like late 90's and early 2000's.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 10:45
I'm sorry. You said Riverside but for some reason I was thinking of Pain of Salvation. I don't really know Riverside that well so I won't make an official comment.
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 15:11
Diablo Swing Orchestra is so avant-garde; not only just because it got 3 votes as a band from the bottom of the list, but also because they grant a wingless demon with wings. (Diablo's Wing Orchestra)
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 15:14
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There is only one on this list that I know and like, and that is Diablo Swing Orchestra. It's my favourite in the Progressive Metal category. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 15:21
| I like them a lot too, but went with my favourite band Symphony X. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 29 2020 at 15:29
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: June 30 2020 at 12:19
Personally, I'm basing it on the three released singles. However, it has been leaked somewhere, and my friend got a hold of the leak. He sent me a link, but out of respect for the musicians, I didn't listen. But my friend did mention it was similar to Vector and that he was underwhelmed.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:35
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DT followed closely by Riverside ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: July 03 2020 at 14:40
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Riverside and Ayreon. |