top 5...(wait, its different)

[The Yngster]

Prog metal bands
1. Symphony X
2. Magnitude 9
3. Threshold
4. Adagio
5. Evergrey

Power Metal/Neo-classical Bands
1. Children of Bodom (neo-classic music with death vocals)
2. Iced Earth
3. Nevermore
4. Winterfell (I hope to hear more from these guys)
5. Kamelot

Death Metal Bands
1. At The Gates
2. Soilwork (pre-NBC)
3. Opeth
4. In Flames (pre-R2R)

Black Metal bands
Don't listen to any

Thrash/industrial/other metal Bands
1. Megadeth
2. Shadow's Fall (don't know what they are, extreme metal maybe?)
3. Lacuna Coil
4. Sinergy

 

[Cat5Messiah]

I don't know... they aren't really classifyable to be put in any category... so i put them somewhere just for the sake of space. For instance, opeth is under death metal, but would also fit (imo) under prog. Nevermore and iced earth i put under power because they are just metal and i see power metal as a blanket for all just metal... it works.

And yeah, tacoma sucks big time... where abouts are you?

I've lived all over the area. Kent, Auburn, Fife, Bonney Lake, SeaTac.......I lived in Bonney Lake the longest. Right now I'm in Moses Lake, going back to college here. It kind of sucks because all the friends I knew when I lived here 10-11 years ago have either moved, died or winded up in jail. Although, I have a shitload of family here. I also have GB FiberOptics so it isn't so bad. I'll only be here for a couple years though. As soon as I'm done with college, I'm fucking out of here.

 

[Dev]

No particular order

Prog:
1)symphony x
2)ephal duath (they got other shit in there, but prog)
3)vanden plas
4)green carnation (light of day... that was totally prog)
5)Evergrey

Power:
1)Hammerfall
2)Sonata Arctica
3)Iced Earth (dunno where else to put them)
4)Nevermore (again, dunno where to put them)
5)Stratovarius

Death:
1)God Dethroned
2)Children of Bodom
3)Amon Amarth
4)Bloodbath
5)Opeth

Black:
1)Dimmu Borgir
2)Vintersorg
3)Borknagar
4)Emperor
5)Old Man's Child

Others:
1)Sentenced
2)Poisonblack
3)H.I.M.
4)Nightwish (where does that go?)
5)Witchery

You Prefer Dimmu Borgir to Emperor ?

 

[Dev]

I just don't see any power metal characteristics in Evergrey.

No power metal vocals, no fantasy lyrics, no power metal tempi, no power metal choruses.

Maybe I'm missing something...

<_<

Let's see , Emperor as your favorite black-metal band ..
What do you miss ?
*Emperor propaganda on*

 

[Chrisz]

Ok, so here are mine.

Prog Metal:

1. Symphony X
2. Dream Theater
3. Planet X
4. Adagio
5. Magnitude 9

Neoclassical/Power Metal:

1. Children of Bodom
2. Angra
3. Ring of fire
4. Racer X
5, Cacophony

Melodic Deat Metal:

1. Arch Enemy
2. Soilwork
3. Death
4. Dissection
5. At the gates

Technical Death Metal:

1. Martyr
2. Theory in practice
3. Cynic
4. Suffocation
5. Cryptopsy

Whatever:

1. Meshuggah
2. Opeth
3. Atheist
4. Nevermore
5. Megadeth

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Prog metal:
1. Pain of Salvation
2. Symphony X
3. Dream Theater
4. Andromeda
5. Death (yes, Death is very much prog)

Power metal:
1. Blind Guardian
2. Angra
3. Children of Bodom (it is power metal minus the vocals, get over it).

Death metal:
1. Immolation
2. Vehemence
3. Suffocation
4. Dying Fetus
5. Morbid Angel

Black Metal:
1. Emperor
2. Immortal
3. Mayhem
4. Kult ov Azazel
5. Absu.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Others include Nevermore, Opeth, Meshuggah,

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

Ok, so here are mine.

Prog Metal:

1. Symphony X
2. Dream Theater
3. Planet X
4. Adagio
5. Magnitude 9

Neoclassical/Power Metal:

1. Children of Bodom
2. Angra
3. Ring of fire
4. Racer X
5, Cacophony

Melodic Deat Metal:

1. Arch Enemy
2. Soilwork
3. Death
4. Dissection
5. At the gates

Technical Death Metal:

1. Martyr
2. Theory in practice
3. Cynic
4. Suffocation
5. Cryptopsy

Whatever:

1. Meshuggah
2. Opeth
3. Atheist
4. Nevermore
5. Megadeth

From the mp3's I've heard, Death is technical Death metal, isn't it? Or am i ignorant

 

[Harp Heaven]

Prog Metal:

1. Shadow Gallery
2. Threshold
3. Symphony X (I think they are, so bite me)
4. Meshuggah
5. Pain of Salvation

Power Metal:
1. Rhapsody
2. Blind Guardian
3. Children of Bodom
4. Sonata Arctica
5. Lost Horizon (great singer)

Death Metal:
1. Cryptopsy
2. Origin
3. Morbid Angel
4. Bloodbath (brilliant guitar-crunch, Äkerfeldt is divine)
5. Opeth

Black Metal:
1. Anaal Nathrakh
2. Emperor
3. Burzum
4. War
5. Mayhem (DMDS is brilliant stuff)

 

[Chrisz]

Well, I think Death would qualify as both. To me, it's melodic Death Metal, not in the Gothenburg sence, though. Of course they're technical (Individual thought patterns and Human), but they were also one of the first Death Metal bands to use that classic hamonies. Death Metal can't get more melodic than on Individual, though it's technical as fuck at the same time. I just put them under melodic, 'cause otherwise I would have had to leave out one of the other great tech bands.

 

[Strychnos]

Black Metal
1. Emperor (hell yeah!)
2. Marduk
3. Dimmu Borgir
4. Samael (really old black metal )
5. (pending)

Progressive Metal
1. Symphony X
2. Pain of Salvation
3. Spiral Architect
4. Sun Caged/Dream Theater
5. Evergrey

Honorable Mention: Fates Warning & Psychotic Waltz

Power Metal
1. Kamelot
2. Angra
3. Iced Earth
4. (pending)
5. (pending)

Death Metal
1. Opeth
2. Nile/Carcass
3. Amon Amarth
4. Bloodbath/Morbid Angel
5. Death

Other
1. Meshuggah
2. Fear Factory

 

[Dev]

I Forgot Samael but I still don't know the pre-Passage era

 

[Serge...]

These lists were pretty fun to come up with, I was surprised by how tough it was though.

Prog Metal
1. Symphony X
2. Dream Theater
3. Pain of Salvation
4. Shadow Gallery
5. Spiral Architect/Sun Caged

Power Metal/Neo-Classical
1. Children of Bodom
2. Iced Earth
3. Nevermore
4. Jason Becker
5. Blind Guardian

Death Metal
1. Opeth
2. Arch Enemy
3. Necrophagist
4. Death
5. Malevolent Creation

Black Metal (These aren't really BM, but I don't like most BM anyway)
1. Vintersorg
2. Finntroll
3. Bal Sagoth

Thrash/Other
1. Exhorder (FUCK YEAH!)
2. Macabre
3. Kreator
4. Slayer
5. Sadus/Testament

 

[Serge...]

Prog Metal (including death/industrial and so on)
1. Symphony X
2. ARK
3. Nevermore
4. Cynic
5. Meshuggah

Other metal
1. Soilwork
2. Evergrey
3. Kamelot
4. Aria
5. Falconer

Non - metal
1. Anekdoten
2. Camel
3. King Crimson
4. Pain of Salvation (i don't think they are metal )
5. Liquid Tension Experiment

No comment on the list, but I see you live in Ukraine. I'm a Russian myself, born in Belarus. Surprising there are Symphony X fans in that area.

 

[crapola]

i'm musically challenged, so the "subtle" differences ellude me. anyway...

prog/power
symphony x
stratovarius
evergrey
iced earth
dream theater
blind guardian
demons & wizards
sonata arctica
trans siberian orchestra

i choose not to listen to black/death, unless i'm in hubby's car, then i have no choice, lol

others
type o negative
testament
metallica
megadeth
queensryche
queen

i know i've forgotten some...

 

[Polyeidus]

Prog Metal:

1)Symphony X/Evergrey
2)Eldritch
3)Zero Hour
4)Pathos
5)Andromeda

Power:

1)Kamelot
2)Labyrinth
3)Rhapsody
4)Blind Guardian
5)Rough Silk

Hardcore?/Heavy?

1)Arch Enemy
2)Biomechanical
3)Soilwork(older)
4)Dark Tranquillity
5)Dimmu Borgir

Tech:

1)King Crimson
2)Spiral Architect
3)Sun Caged
4)Canvas Solaris
5)Cynic
-Aghora(vox are terrible)

Solo/Projects:

-Tony Macalpine
-Yngwie Malmsteen
-Ayreon
-Mullmuzzler
-Vitalij Kuprij
-Joe Satriani
-Steve Vai
-Joe Stump

 

[Zoracxis]

Hey, my name's Zoracxis. (first post in this forum, btw)

I recently found out about Symphony X and heard some of their music and was just blow away. so I picked up "The Odyssey" recently and....OH YEAH!!!

anyway, here's my top 5 from each genre (so far):

Prog. Metal
1. Symphony X
2. Pain of Salvation
3. DT
4. ?
5. ?

Power/Neo-classical Metal
1. Kamelot
2. Labyrinth
3. Nevermore
4. Iced Earth
5. DragonForce

Death Metal
1. Suffocation
2. Cryptopsy
3. The Black Dahlia Murder
4. Vehemence
5. Morbid Angel and many more...

Black Metal
1. Emperor
2. Dissection
3. Immortal
4. ?
5. ?

Thrash/Industrial/Other
1. Slayer
2. Anthrax
3. Testament
4. SYL
5. Soilwork

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Prog:
1.)Dream Theater
2.)LTE
3.)Fates Warning
4.)
5.) (If prog rock was included, then Rush would be on here)

Power/Neoclassical:
1.) Symphony X (5/4 time doesn't make you prog, and although I think I'm the first to put SX here, I still consider them my favorite, and it doesn't make them any less talented)
2.) Rhapsody
3.) Yngwie
4.) Cacophony/Becker
5.) Luca Turilli

Black:
1.) Children of Bodom (Despite the fact that they're power metal with black vocals... gotta love 'em).
2.) Dimmu Borgir
3.) Dark Tranquility
4.)
5.)

Death:
1.) In Flames
2.) Opeth
3.) *shrug*, I don't listen to a lot of death.
4.)
5.)

Non-metal:
1.) Led Zeppelin (Yeah Russel Allen)
2.) Rage Against the Machine
3.) Mudvayne (The prog band of numetal)
4.) Korn (The originator of numetal)
5.) Steve Vai

Kickass thread idea!

 

[OrestesMantra]

Progressive:
1. Symphony X
2. Nightingale
3. Porcupine Tree
4. Pain of Salvation
5. Katatonia(I view them as Progressive Rock with a little doom thrown in, but I think they fit in this catagory than any others.)

Powerim new to this genre so these are just the best I have discovered so far)
1. Nightwish
2. Ayreon
3. Kamelot
4. Nevermore(I havent really heard a whole lot of this band, but ill throw them in anyway*)
5. Blind Guardian(*same)

Death/Melodic Death/Prog Death:
1. Opeth
2. Dan Swano(This will include Edge of Sanity, Odyssey)
3. Dark Tranquility
4. Bloodbath(The only real death metal band I can listen to)
5. Sentenced

Black:
1. Omnium Gatherum
2. Enslaved
3. Tiamat(Ive only heard Wildhoney,an amazing amazing amazing album, but I think it could fall under black since melodic death is all taken up.There are some black elements)
4. Amon Amarth
5. Anathema

Soft/Sleepy music:
1. Porcupine Tree
2. Unicorn
3. Nightingale(I just had to throw this one in somewhere else, I love them!)
4. Dredg
5. Ours


p.s. Children of Bodom is NOT black metal! They are melodic death metal with alot of thrash thrown in.They are in the same vein as Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Soilwork, Sentenced, etc etc.

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

COB arent even melodic death. They're Power metal with black vocals.