Metal Reviews

I have to agree with "none" i have bought many from "into Eternity" style (death) to Symphony X (Power) and I have to say that they all collect dust but add to a nice collection. Prog is just not "listenable" for me. So my list will be short.

None


I will stick with my tra,la,la thank you

Oh I got it alright. I got that is was a bloated, underwritten, and the worst album of the band's career.

That's a pretty good summation of that album. I don't rate any of their work above average, though.. it's neoprog prettily dressed up, like too many bands which pass themselves off as progressive, these days..

I agreed with your choice of Spiral Architect earlier in the thread, though.. now, if only they could make more than one album..

I can see what you mean, I even agree with your sentiment about psuedo-progressivism, but something about Entropia and Remedy Lane really grabs me. They excise a lot of the wank that bands like Dream Theatre specialize in, especially in keyboards, which is something I definitely appreciate. The vocals are probably the main attraction for me, as on Oblivion Ocean for example. I'm just a sucker for the band, what can I say.

And yeah, Spiral Architect are really taking their sweet time, those jerks.

1.Rush
2.Queensryche
3.SymphonyX

Dream Theater (Favorite band ever )
Porcupine Tree (More Prog. Rock, but I don't care.)
Pagan's Mind (I only have Celestial Entrance, but it's awesome)



Are you stupid?

1.Last Horizon
2.Pagan's Mind
3.Symphony X

Depends on what you consider progressive metal. If it's all those ball-less Dream Theater clones with neutered singers, I'll pass!

Apart from the well recognised fathers of the genre like Queensryche or Crimson Glory, I'll name a few that were genuinely progressive but never got the recognition they deserved. Like Watchtower, Slauter Xstroyes or Gargoyle. All great bands of the late 80's era, ingenious and complex music, which sadly fell upon deaf ears. Check them out and you'll forget all about Pain of Starvation

Symphony X
Evergrey
Dream Theater
Angra ( Temple of shadows has a lots of prog elements)
Porcupine Tree (lots of metal elements in the last 2 albums)

Opeth, SikTH, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Isis, Cult Of Luna, Tool, Neurosis,etc,etc,etc. Prog can either be fantastic, brilliant music, or it can be boring, pretentious and irritating. I would have to say that Yes sound like the latter, I hate them so much.

*kills you* aaargh

Yes aren't my favourite prog band, but frankly, they wrote Close to the Edge, Gates of Delirium and Heart of the Sunrise - all amazing epics - and they wrote them at a time where people weren't consciously being prog, but rather writing music that they wanted to hear. Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree are fucking neoprog, they don't even HAVE three songs.

ps: I agree with SikTh but hadn't really been considering them progressive.. more like the best mix of about six styles there has been for a while

did u know that the keyboardist Rick Wakeman once held a Yes concert on ice with a King Arthur theme (with himself as Arthur) and used to have curries delivered to him onstage? Now that's weird! Frank Zappa was like that too, he made a twenty minute song about a mountain with a tree for a girlfriend 8)