I need bands like Spiral Architect!!

[spatch]

I have a few suggestions more on the fusion front; but all have a metal side to them
Matalex Wild Indian Summer
Carpathia Project (Just Awesome) Combines Hungarian music with fusion and touches of metal
Counter World Experience If you like 7 for 4 you should love this band; a bit more metal based as well
The first Gordian Knot album
Spaced Out (The bass player is one of the best I heard)
Zeroesque
Fragile Live (Simply blistering guitar work)
On The Virg Serious Young Insects (Awesome)

[noble savage]

Originally Posted by spatch

On The Virg Serious Young Insects (Awesome)

Best fusion album ever! I also run the semi official OTV myspace page, so sign up if you haven't yet! *See signature!*

[progmetaldan]

On The Virg rules. And seeing as that your signature cannot be seen Chris, I shall oblige the good folks with a link: www.myspace.com/otvonthevirg

[solacedagony]

Originally Posted by spatch

Fragile Live (Simply blistering guitar work)

Is Fragile Live the name of the band or is Fragile the name of the band and it's a live album?

[spatch]

Fragile is a Japanese Fusion band and the Cd is a live CD album

http://jazzfusion.com/jfusion/fragilee.htm

Amazon

[-Alex-]

The Fractuded Dimension from US (very eclectic mix of prog rock, prog & tech metal + some classical music) they have a CD, TOWARDS THE MYSTERIUM featuring Ron Jarzombek (among other guests) on one of their tracks. http://www.myspace.com/thefractureddimension


You may also find interesting Drottnar's Welterwerk album from 2006, very interesting technical / experimental / extreme metal.
http://www.myspace.com/drottnarnorway

[Ronan44]

Hey here!

ATM Project and Exivious (tech heavy/jazz instru)
Cubical Sphere (cool death tech)
Animations - Animations (tech heavy/prog/instrumental great)
Ksiz - Sandcrawler (french tech atmo heavy jazz/instrumental, just...great )
Continuo Renacer (like Blotted Science!)
Spaced Out (metal jazz)
OHM (metal jazz)
Leprous - Aeolia (cool prog but not tech)
7 for 4 (tech heavy jazz instrumental)
Scariot (heavy prog with clean voice)
Andromeda - I=II (heavy prog with clean voice)
Control Denied - The fragile art of existence (heavy tech prog/clean voice, chuck schuldiner inside!)
Engine - Superholic (metal prog, Ray Alder inside)
Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter (metal tech prog/ clean voice...excellent!)

[Fusemeister]

Some very cool stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet:

Electrocution 250 (crazy metal fusion)
1980 (very new heavy French instrumental band)
Candiria (death metal meets jazz)
Sieges' Even (the earlier stuff is more technical)
Linear Sphere (when is a new cd comin' out, sheesh!!)
Terminal Function (fantastic new Swedish tech metal/jazz group)

[MAVIII]

Its soo crazy that (I dont think) I've seen anyone mention "Watchtower"
(well sort of in the 1st post . . . nevermind ).

And its VERY cool that I see a lot of Bands mentioned that I like,
I am very glad many know of them all (and some I'll have to find!).
>>> WARNING- Just a Fan, don't work for the Station <<<
I can also recommend to check out my friends at PrOgulus.com.
Its a Prog Rock/Metal Internet Station that has just about every "Sub-
Genre" of Progressive Rock, and I know I just made about 15 more
addicted fans to be
LOTS of "Math Metal" and Tech/Prog Metal! . . .
You can always ask the fine "PrOguli" at the Live Chat-Board on the
site about bands, recommendations and so-on. And also see their
Forums. Its a totally FREE site and very hands on Request controls and
an un-godly amount of Prog. And we have a fair share of Math Metal
fans too! Also, 90% of the CD's at PrOgulus are "Donated' by the
listeners so we are a very close-nit group.

As far as bands that maybe too extreme or just havent made it there
yet, heres some old and new Bands (Tech/Thrash, Math/Death Metal etc.
either melodic or "cookie"/scream vocals):
1. Realm
2. Sabbat(u.k.) -"Mourning has Broken"
3. Forbidden
4. Powermad
5. Obscura
6. Arsis
7. Gorod
8. The Faceless
9. Necrophagist
10. Rosicrusian (hard to find!)
11. Believer (all 3 albums were just remastered!)
12. Loudblast
13. Gardenian
14. Confessor (Slow, Chuggy, Stop on a dime, Odd-metered but man!
the Drummer makes it "Math Metalish" . . . how do they do that?)
15. Darkane
16. Deathrow -"Deception Ignored"
17. Secrecy (VERY hard to find)
18. I.N.C. (Another hard to find)
19. Theory In Practice
20. Fredrik Thordendals Special Defects
21. Alarum
22. Psytroptic
23. Toxic
24. Paradox (Just got re-mastered!)
25. Tournaquet
26. Extol
27. Ihsahn - angL (My God! its awesome! and Lars and Asgeir
Play on it!!!) - And his latest sounds Incredible as well!
(Some of these you can sample at YOUtube!)

And on Progulus:
1. Prototype
2. Meshuggah
3. Cynic
4. Spastic Ink
5. Watchtower
6. Pagans Mind
7. Cea Serin
8. Dreamscape
9. Control Denied
10. Katagory V
11. Cacophony
12. 7 for 4
13. Linear Sphere
14. Blotted Science
15. Animations
16. Gaia
17. Aghora (dont get confused with "Agora")
18. Continuo Renacer
19. Andromeda
20. Circus Maximus
21. Thought Industry (the 1st 2)
22. Depressive Age
23. Canvas Solaris
24. Psychotic Waltz (the full catalogue is on its way)
25. Behold . . . The Arctopus
26. Twisted Into Form
27. Portal
28. Disillusion
29. Wastefall
30. Degree Absolute
31. Darkstar (Psychotic Waltz Guitarists side project)
32. Zero Hour
33. Scariot
34. Cloudscape
35. Spheric Universe Experience
36. Thessera
37. Thought Chamber (Singer of Enchant!)
38. Fates Warning (depends what album, as far as "Tech" goes)
39. The Collins/Wardingham Project
40. Anubis Gate (later albums)
41. Khallis
42. Mythologic
43. Seiges Even
44. OHM (Chris Polands Jazz/Metal Fusion Band)
45. Chris Poland (Ex-Megadeth)
46. King Crimson (The "originators!") - listen to their later albums
47. Gentle Giant (not heavy as in modern bands, but they were pretty
"out there" for the time) -"Progressive Rock"
48. Allan Holdsworth (see also his side-projects)
49. Krysalyd
50. Anacrusis
51. Exivious
52. A((wake))
53. Bulb
54. Tesseract
55. Instant Supression
56. Leprous (Though they are more like the "Opeth" kind of Technical)
57. Cloudkicker
58. Koyaanisqatsy
59. Into Eternity (How could I forget them! and...)
60. Scar Semmetry
61. Animals as Leaders
62. Dynahead
63. Kalisia
64. Menahem
65. Suspyre
66. Panzerballet
67. Atmosfear


Be sure to visit PrOgulus . com, the "Math Metal and Tech Prog" is always coming in that its hard to keep up. Alot of the folks on the Chat Board will steer you in the right direction http://www.progulus.com/rprweb/playing.php

[Greenwater_Pond]

Because I don't have time to read through this entire thread ATM...here's what comes to mind:

Blotted Science
Farmakon
Spastic Ink
Ark
Cynic
Atheist
Psyopus

[-Alex-]

Animals as leaders, US tech-prog instrumental metal http://www.myspace.com/animalsasleaders

Kalisia, french prog-eclectic death metal featuring Paul Masvidal, Arjen Lucassen and Cristophe Godin as guests (among others)... http://www.myspace.com/kalisia

Newbreed, polish tech-prog metal http://www.myspace.com/newbreedmetal

[MAVIII]

Hey,

Just wanted to point out I added NEW Bands to my list above, and PrOgulus has been adding ALOT of Tech/Math Metal/Prog to the Request List!
Come visit!

Recent Note:
By the way, at prOgulus is a Forum Thread called "Math Lab" where all our Tech/Prog/Math Metal
discoveries are shared: http://www.progulus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=451

[-Alex-]

@ MAVIII 10x, Cloudkicker sounds quite nice

Pestilence had an album called "Spheres" released in 1993 where they moved towards a more prog & tech death metal (complex time signatures, guitar synth, fretless bass etc...)

You Tube

You Tube

You Tube

Also, Obscura's new album called "Cosmogenesis" (featuring 2 ex-Necrophagist members + the ex-Pestilence bass player from the Spheres album on 6-string fretless bass) is a quite nice album. They play a prog-tech death with some melodic and fusion touches.

You Tube

[patriarch]

http://www.myspace.com/ENDITOL


enjoy