Any Prog Fans around?

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Yes Sir!

I love Dream Theater, King's X, Liquid Tension Experiment, Control Denied, Rush, Death, Pink Floyd and much more.

I mostly listen to just Progressive Metal, but some prog rock is cool. The only Prog Death band I like is Death (All albums from Human up to Sound of Perserverence are Prog Death)

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"LTMan" posted:

Ahh yes Liquid Tension Experiment, Theres some great tracks (Kindred Spirits for example), but theres also some tracks that i really don't like that much. I'll have to have a listen to those other bands you mentioned.

Some good songs to check out:

Death: Spirit Crusher, Empty Words, Cosmic Sea
Control Denied: Believe, Consumed, Expect the Unexpected
King's X: Over my Head, Dogman, Summerland

Control Denied is a pretty good band, It is pretty much the band Death, but with a power metal singer, instead of the death metal growls. The riffs are awesome, and the timing is pretty kick ass.

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"LTMan" posted:

I had a listen, and my opinions:

Death: I'm not a fan of the death genre in general, so I didn't expect to enjoy this. Sorry to say, I didn't enjoy it . There were a couple of cool sections but for me, progressive music just doesn't translate to death metal so well.

Control Denied: Better, The singer seems pretty good but again, for me it just doesn't work.

King's X: Great! Really enjoyed listening to those tracks and I'm definitely gonna be adding some Kings X to my prog CD collection very soon!

All in all though, thanks for linking me these videos, while I only truly appreciated 33% of them I 100% appreciate the time you spent looking them up

It's alright that you don't appreciate Death or Control Denied. Although I personally think that Death is the best Progdeath band around. It's just death metal, with progressive metal characteristics like Long songs, Tempo Changes, Odd time signatures, and Technicality etc. But the way they do it, it sounds way better then bands like "Opeth" or "Between the buried and me".

Yeah, King's X is pretty awesome though. I thought you would like them, because most of the prog bands you listed were Progressive Rock, and King's X has a mellow Progressive Metal style, that sounds similar to Progressive Rock.

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Joined: Jun 22 2008

I like the older prog rock bands as well. King Crimson probably is my favorite from the 70s prog era; I see modern progressive rock/metal as pretty dismal, but there are exceptions mainly coming from Sweden and the northern European countries. They're a defunct band, but check out Anglagard's Hybris for lush, long progressive rock done in vintage tradition but with modern production and influences. If that's too old or twee-sounding, try Anekdoten, whose modern rock influences are much more apparent. The track "Gravity" represents their sound well and is posted on Youtube.

For some reason, the hipsters, metalheads, and prog snobs all usually hate on Opeth, but I think their music is truly progressive in every sense of the word today. Once I got used to the death metal vocals, it was easy to see the care, intricacy, and most importantly, the immediacy of their songwriting. Their album "Still Life" still blows any prog metal coming out today out of the water.