Top 5 Prog Metal Albums

[Reign in Acai]

ProgMetalFan GTFO!


1. Dream Theater - Awake
2. Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
3. Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
4. Prymary - S/T
5. Dead Soul - January Tribe


*Comprised in 15 secs, list subject to change.

 

[JayKeeley]

1. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Everything is a distant second...but I'd have to think about it from all the 9 prog albums I like.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Leaving Mindcrime out of this because it's overall my #1 album out of everything:

1. Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow
2. Queensryche - Rage For Order
3. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (because neither "APSOG" or "No Exit" can be absolutely called "progressive metal")
4. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
5. Heir Apparent - One Small Voice


tough - tough choice for no. 5 "Energetic Dissasembly" could have taken this place or the s/t album of Saviour Machine.

 

[Reign in Acai]

I'll look in to Shadow Gallery and Heir Apparent. This thread was primarily created to provoke you in to recommending some class Prog.

 

[dorian gray]

How come the rest of Queensryche's catalogue is pure shit?

 

[NAD]

How come "prog metal" isn't progressive?

I'm not trying to be a dick, I've always wondered that.

 

[dorian gray]

It's truly not. Rush come close but that's about it.
Prog is generally a euphemism for CRAP

 

[Krilons Resa]

It was progressive at one time ie the 60s & 70s...and since it was technically proficient, anything technical nowadays is deemed "progressive."

 

[IOfTheStorm]

How come "prog metal" isn't progressive?

But it is! Now how many albums of my golden five have you listened to?

 

[Krilons Resa]

Tool - Lateralus
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

*Hammers of Misfortune - August Engine (if you consider it progmetal)

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

*makes jerking off gesture*

 

[NAD]

But it is! Now how many albums of my golden five have you listened to?

I will totally check out any Psychotic Waltz and Fate's Warning you upload.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

From "Into The Everflow"... not the best songs (these are the title track and "Butterfly" but 10 minute songs are not the best introduction to a band) but representative of the album's acid spirit. Although you are probably a "Bleeding" guy.

Ashes

Freakshow

Checking the lyrics out, will give love points on the way you will listen to the songs, you will bow down to them and make them your bible.

 

[NAD]

I am to be of the downloading.

EDIT: oh thank christ, someone who still uses YooSendShit. I love you, but then again, I always have.

 

[JayKeeley]

ok not including the koran of op mindcrime....

1. Hammers of Misfortune - August Engine
2. Orphaned Land - Mabool
3. Amorphis - Elegy
4. Enslaved - Monumension
5. Symphony X - V

but I would still need some room for Ark's Burn the Sun, Crimson Glory's s/t, Disillusion's Back to Times, Masterplan's s/t.

That's the closest I get to when listening to progressive music.

 

[Krilons Resa]

ok not including the koran of op mindcrime....

1. Hammers of Misfortune - August Engine
2. Orphaned Land - Mabool

FUCK.

 

[NAD]

I didn't think I could include stuff like Enslaved here, I truly think they are a progressive band like.

Right, here's my list, as defined by actual PROGRESSIVE music, off ze top of me head:

1. Tool - Lateralus
2. King Crimson - The Power to Believe
3. Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra
4. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
5. Enslaved - Below the Lights (this could get replaced with Ruun or Isa someday)

PS: Rush are one of the worst 5 bands in history, yet I own two of their albums and consider Geddy Lee an influence on my playing.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

I am to be of the downloading.

EDIT: oh thank christ, someone who still uses YooSendShit. I love you, but then again, I always have.

Love is in the air but what do you think about the songs? I'll upload "Bleeding" material that i am sure you will dig more for various reasons.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Borknagar-Quintessence
Borknagar-The Archaic Course
Borknagar-Epic
Enslaved-Isa
Enslaved-Below The Lights or Ruun

 

[JayKeeley]

Borknagar-Quintessence
Borknagar-The Archaic Course
Borknagar-Epic
Enslaved-Isa
Enslaved-Below The Lights or Ruun

I knew this thread would degenerate as soon as I posted my shit