Are these essential Progressive Metal albums?

[Scrotum Scissor]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum most certainly is "progressive" in the truest sense of the word. They're a damn-sight more 'progressed' than any of the bands on that list.

QFT again. Which essentially implies that they are not for the OP whatsoever.

They were one of the single most genuinely progressive groups of the 2000s, and sadly a token to the fact that there was limited interest in such virtues in modern rock music.

[Valen]

Hi Rufus

Hope the above lists are helping you out - Johnboy's one in particular is a list that I've used to try out bands like Karnivool, Isis and Neurosis, all of which I've enjoyed.

But if the sheer number of prog-metal bands feels overwhelming, my tip would be to refer to Jeff Wagner's recommended albums in this list:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Jhyn/m...y_jeff_wagner/

His book includes a list of 50 recommended albums, some of which you'll have seen mentioned highly in other threads around here (eg Rush, Queensryche, Dream Theater).

I had about half of the listed albums, and have since gone on to acquire the less familiar ones. It's really broadened my appreciation of what can be progressive and metal beyond the more traditional sounds of DT and the glut of bands that followed in the same style.

The book is well worth a read as well.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I might add Maudlin of the Well & Kayo Dot to that list too. Not metal in the true sense but awfully damn heavy.

And again not something the OP would want in his life. Both fabulously progressive groups, though - as with SGM.

[Rarebird]

I still miss Anomaly

[Duncan Glenday]

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http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Jhyn/m...y_jeff_wagner/

His book includes a list of 50 recommended albums, some of which you'll have seen mentioned highly in other threads around here (eg Rush, Queensryche, Dream Theater).

I had about half of the listed albums, and have since gone on to acquire the less familiar ones. It's really broadened my appreciation of what can be progressive and metal beyond the more traditional sounds of DT and the glut of bands that followed in the same style.

The book is well worth a read as well.

[Rufus]

Hi Rufus

Hope the above lists are helping you out - Johnboy's one in particular is a list that I've used to try out bands like Karnivool, Isis and Neurosis, all of which I've enjoyed.

But if the sheer number of prog-metal bands feels overwhelming, my tip would be to refer to Jeff Wagner's recommended albums in this list:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Jhyn/m...y_jeff_wagner/

His book includes a list of 50 recommended albums, some of which you'll have seen mentioned highly in other threads around here (eg Rush, Queensryche, Dream Theater).

I had about half of the listed albums, and have since gone on to acquire the less familiar ones. It's really broadened my appreciation of what can be progressive and metal beyond the more traditional sounds of DT and the glut of bands that followed in the same style.

The book is well worth a read as well.

Thanks for the link, much appreciated!

[proggosaurus]

I still miss Anomaly

oh yes, I must agree. one of my more difficult acquisitions. place I got it from sent this one twice

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[Rarebird]

oh yes, I must agree. one of my more difficult acquisitions. place I got it from sent this one twice

a2.jpg ...it's this one folks a1.jpg

I partly discovered them. I was probably the first to write about them in a prog magazine. Have both a promotion copy of the album on CDR and a real version. I also have an early tape. The keyboardplayer plays nowadays in a cover-band.

[proggosaurus]

I partly discovered them. I was probably the first to write about them in a prog magazine. Have both a promotion copy of the album on CDR and a real version. I also have an early tape. The keyboard player plays nowadays in a cover-band.

that's cool! if you were inclined to do so, I wouldn't mind reading that. that would be Ivar, right? what about the rest of the band? thanx!

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

I think just before PE2 died, one of the last polls was "best Prog Metal album"

is there any way to retrieve that poll data, or is it lost forever?

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

I really like the Anomaly album...

but something which has not aged well is that gimmiky 'Kick Drum sound triggered by Guitar' thing that starts at 2:35 in that Yout clip

I still miss Anomaly

[Rarebird]

that's cool! if you were inclined to do so, I wouldn't mind reading that. that would be Ivar, right? what about the rest of the band? thanx!

I don't know about the rest of the band. Rory Hanson played in some other band and worked in a musicstore, but that is allready quite some time ago.

I should look for the articles I wrote and translate them.

[Duncan Glenday]

I think just before PE2 died, one of the last polls was "best Prog Metal album"

is there any way to retrieve that poll data, or is it lost forever?

The polls are gone.

[Jerjo]

I've pretty much drifted away from prog metal but for some reason I served up Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray today. That is one damn fine piece of work - timeless prog metal.

[MudShark22]

Its the only Fates I ever reach for these days.

I recall playing it for some friends who preferred more hyper proggy metal and they didn't dig it. Definitely not something just to slap on the turntable...

[darkshine]

I dunno why it gets mentioned so rarely, but fear of a blank planet is a pretty good prog metal album

[Guess Who]

Oddly enough, noone mentioned Threshold who're labelled by many critics as the British answer to Dream Theater.

In my view, their "Hypothetical" is one of the most impressive prog-metal albums for 2000's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkl8dCQ-bts

Regarding Haken - they sound like a derivative clone of Threshold.

[Jerjo]

Its the only Fates I ever reach for these days.

I recall playing it for some friends who preferred more hyper proggy metal and they didn't dig it. Definitely not something just to slap on the turntable...

Some fans are not content unless there's a barrage of staccato riffs with double bass drums. For me, if I hear that cliche I'm on to something else. The interesting thing about Pleasant Shade and for that matter, a lot of Riverside's work, is the spaces between and the little Floyd touches.