Progressive Metal Music

F r i t z wrote:

Cause For Alarm really made crave an IPA for some reason (it's 09:15). Definitely will spin this whole album on the long drive south next week.

Right on, glad you liked it. I think you’re gonna dig the whole album. It’s amazing!

For the ones who like opeth, check out Steven Wilson. Good song to start with would be “the holy drinker” 

Kinda like opeth but… jazzy? 

David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3, Bilo 4, Eco, and Who Bit the Moon. Probably my favorite prog musician of all time, incredible musician and composer, ridiculously emotional for prog metal.

Wilderun - Epigone, and Veil of Imagination

The Ocean - Holocene

and from left field a bit, but Jacob Collier is actually really good if you like the weirdness of prog, but want to listen to more pop-y music, especially Djesse 4.

I also thought King Gizzard's Butterfly 3000 was really good

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hxvAJehTBIIuSu0zynI2E?si=u97EnDe0Ss6iTAzSgLKD-w&pi=u-o2u5f1O3QRSz

Just gonna drop this here

B B wrote:

For the ones who like opeth, check out Steven Wilson. Good song to start with would be “the holy drinker” 

Kinda like opeth but… jazzy? 

Would mention the first 2 hiromi trio albums....like messhugah-jazz-prog

Also the famous Jazz is Christ album.....epic stuff. Ft Dolmayan from SOAD

If you catch the right King Gizzard and the Wizzard Lizard show at Red Rocks it's quite fucken heavy and proggy af.

George M wrote:

Sleepytime are great, I got into them around the time Of Natural History came out, early 2000's, and finally got to see Nils Frykdahl live in 2017 or so, albeit as part of Faun Fables but still a dream come true. 

Kayo Dot, Maudlin of the Well, and Pin-Up Went Down scratch a similar itch for me in the avant-garde space. 

@Ignacio, Symphony X have a new album? Don't see anything about it except a promise that it would come out in 2023. Takes me straight back to high school....

Yes....they release a teaser i think...ive been following Romeos Channel on youtube and he has been pretty active....his last solo album its like a twitght light in olimpus on steroids with tons of down tuning and djent (meshuggah) elements .... we know he very underrated sadly.

I don't know much about progressive metal, but if you're into metal at all you absolutely have to listen to the band Death. They're undoubtedly responsible for some of the best music in the genre. Their early albums are more heavy, with the later one's being more melodic.

Here's some of the best from each album:

•Scream Bloody Gore (1987)

Evil Dead, Zombie Ritual, Scream Bloody Gore, Baptized in Blood

•Leprosy (1988)

Pull The Plug, Leprosy, Left to Die, Open Casket

•Spiritual Healing (1990)

Genetic Reconstruction, Spiritual Healing, Living Monstrosity, Altering the Future, Within the Mind

•Human (1991)

Suicide Machine, Flattening of Emotions, Lack of Compression, Together as One, Secret Face

•Individual Thought Patterns

Trapped in a Corner, The Philosopher, Mentally Blind, Overactive Imagination, Jealousy

•Symolic (1995)

Crystal Mountain, Misanthrope, Perennial Quest, Zero Tolerance, Symolic, Empty Words

•The Sound of Perseverance (1998)

Flesh and the Power it Holds, Bite the Pain, Voice of the Soul, Scavenger of Human Sorrow, A Moment of Clarity, Spirit Crusher

All their other songs are great too

Speaking of Death, Cynic's Focus is a classic of progressive metal! 

Another classic 90s album that falls more on the "avant-garde" side as opposed to prog rock influence is Obscura by Gorguts. It's pretty bizarre but once it clicks it's amazing.

Kindly Bent to Free us by Cynic is great too

Was Gonna Mention...Cynic...

I mean...Death ... Chuck was the father of them all. Opening the gates for Technical-Progressive-Thrash Death for everyone. Cynic always pays respect to the path they opened in the early 1990ties. In the new documentary of Possesed´s career , Jeff Becerra talks when Chuck was going to shows and was hanging out with his local Hero. There was a VERY brief window when Schuldiner and Becerra would have united ways.

Solstafir!! 

Fellow Opethstrians, how about that new album? It took a couple listens for the entire thing to grow on me, but I think it's quite solid, especially when thru-listened as intended.

F r i t z wrote:

Fellow Opethstrians, how about that new album? It took a couple listens for the entire thing to grow on me, but I think it's quite solid, especially when thru-listened as intended.

Remarkable come back from Akerfeldt and companie.

Ignacio Van Oosterwyjk wrote:

Remarkable come back from Akerfeldt and companie.

Track 5 is disgustingly good. 

I'll throw out some more bands & albums 

Klone - Meanwhile or Le Grand Voyage
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality or Unfold the God Man
Ghosts of Glaciers - The Greatest Burden (no vocals!)
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II

New Rivers of Nihil song is pretty neat. Dig the clean vocals during the chorus. Reminds me "Where Owls Know my Name"

What da ya guys think of the new DT album?

Ignacio Van Oosterwyjk wrote:

What da ya guys think of the new DT album?

sounds like if you asked AI to write a dream theater album. there are so many other incredible musicians making thoughful and emotive new music. i couldn't listen to any of the new singles for more than a minute it was legit second-hand embarrassing. everybody will say they're great because they're DT, but it sounds like they had a jam sesh, pressed record, then just cleaned up and released whatever came out. I listened to Petrucci talk on Coffee with Ola Englund and he basically admitted he had a hard time coming up with original songs for Liquid Tension Experiment, he writes something and is like "oops that's a dream theater song."

like i said, there's amazing stuff coming out of the prog metal scene, we don't need more DT if this is all they can write. i'm just sad i missed seeing them live when labrie could hit a note on pitch.

lately i've been obsessed with Sungazer's new album Against the Fall of Night, it's jazz fusion, not prog metal, but holy shit it's amazing

SECOND FOR SUNGAZER 

Yes, jazz, but it’s so good, highly recommend.

great recommendation 

As for DT… never been a fan, but that’s just me, can’t speak much to the album.

B B wrote:

SECOND FOR SUNGAZER 

Yes, jazz, but it’s so good, highly recommend.

great recommendation 

As for DT… never been a fan, but that’s just me, can’t speak much to the album.

there's a lot to hook the average prog head, especially since it features Plini and Joshua De La Victoria. and Shawn Crowder holy shit what a fucking drummer!