Being 37 years old and a huge fan of Prog Metal I can honestly say MetalStorm has been the best internet find I've ever made; I would have never discovered bands like Riverside, Agalloch, Disillusion, Dark Suns, Oceans of Sadness and Enochian Theory without MetalStorm's content and its members! So I ask you all, jot down some must-hear prog-metal and the like.

Try out the DARKOLOGY cd, awesome stuff!!

Ricco will agree but Psychotic Waltz be best what I can suggsest to you

Can't go wrong with Arcturus, Ayreon (and Arjen Lucassen's various side projects), Cynic, Evergrey, Gojira, Green Carnation, In the Woods..., Maudlin of the Well, Sieges Even (more prog-rock than metal I suppose), Symphony X... and as Bad English said, Psychotic Waltz.

And for some heavy/prog metal, you could always check out Crimson Glory, Fates Warning, Lethal, or Savatage. Those are most of the big prog bands I know, or bands who've released at least one significant prog metal album. I don't listen to many bands in the genre, but hopefully these ones satisfy your taste. Good luck with your search!

Written by Troy Killjoy on 01.01.2010 at 16:45

or Savatage.

Only Streets and their more recent albums are slightly progressive. And funnily enough those albums don't have any classics amongst them. The true Savatage classics are still and will always be Sirens and Hall Of The Mountain King and to a lesser extent Gutter Ballet.
After Streets Savatage went quite a bit downhill to be honest,

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.01.2010 at 16:54

Written by Troy Killjoy on 01.01.2010 at 16:45

or Savatage.

Only Streets and their more recent albums are slightly progressive. And funnily enough those albums don't have any classics amongst them. The true Savatage classics are still and will always be Sirens and Hall Of The Mountain King and to a lesser extent Gutter Ballet.
After Streets Savatage went quite a bit downhill to be honest,

I remember listening to their "From the Gutter to the Stage" compilation about a year ago... It didn't really leave a big impact, but most prog I listen to doesn't seem to connect with me (the bands I listed earlier are essentially all of the big prog bands I know aside from Dream Theater, most of which I don't enjoy but figure fans of the genre would)... That being said, I haven't listened to any of Savatage's individual studio albums, but that bit of information about their career certainly doesn't hurt.

I don't like all prog, but I think I've tried quite a lot. e.g. I don't like Dream Theatre or Evergrey
Here are some of my favourites that no one above me has mentioned:
Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin (you probably know this one already)
Threshold - Dead Reckoning (almost hard rockish, but damn good and heavy)
Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance (definitely among my favourites from 2008)
Star One - Space Metal (don:t really like most of the Ayreon stuff, but this one sounds great to me)
Shadow Gallery - Room V (actually the whole disco is pretty amazing.)
Symphony X - Paradise Lost (if you are okay with Power Metal, this band would be v cool)
To-Mera - Delusions (very hard to digest album and atypical prog with female vox, so not for everyone)
Devin Townsend - Addicted / Physicist (As a fan of Strapping Young Lad, I checke them out and wasn:t disappointed)
Persefone - Shin-Ken (prog melodeath really, so I don't know whether you'll like it or not. the japanese theme is quite unique)
Protest The Hero - Fortress (absolutely bonkers and schizophrenic music, but you don:t have time to get bored)
Into Eternity - really nice of a mix of three types of vocal styles.

but i guess these are still pretty mainstream. oh yeah, the lastest freak kitchen and waltari are pretty cool too

I would recommend three bands, three very different sounds: Green Carnation, In Mourning and Darkwater.

Darkwater has a more power metal edge, Green Carnation has a more darker, somber edge, and In Mourning has a more death metal edge. So a lot of varied stuff I enjoy. Depending on what you prefer it might be a good choice. Both In Mourning and Darkwater have only released an album so that's an easy choice and by Green Carnation I would recommend "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" to start with.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.01.2010 at 16:54

Written by Troy Killjoy on 01.01.2010 at 16:45

or Savatage.

Only Streets and their more recent albums are slightly progressive. And funnily enough those albums don't have any classics amongst them. The true Savatage classics are still and will always be Sirens and Hall Of The Mountain King and to a lesser extent Gutter Ballet.
After Streets Savatage went quite a bit downhill to be honest,

I agree, still Dead Winter Dead is a pretty nice album.

Thanks alot peeps...alot to digest!
Check out my album collection and maybe someone will suggest "I see you like (insert band) so you might like (insert band)"
Keep it up!

Well, I see that you don't have any Psychotic Waltz. I think they were recommended to you earlier, so this should be considered a quote of that post followed by my message "Seconded!" (I'd probably use more than one "!", given that this band should really be on top of the "check out" list.) Instead of trying to describe their sound, I'll just leave a couple Youtube links.
First album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jtjuZpI0xs
Start of second album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IppNvtzx4I8&feature=related
Also from second album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESXxWg6rwU&feature=related
Last album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJcRzfurefQ&feature=related

Then, seeing that you gave Coroner's best album "Grin" a 10, I think that you'd like Anacrusis' "Screams and Whispers". Again it's kinda hard to exactly say what they are, so I'll leave it up to you to decide and I'll just take the role of providing audio samples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3RFVFkkpvA
If you found it interesting, then they have all their albums available for download on their website: http://anacrusis.us/media%20files/MP3/Albums/Albums.html

Some great bands suggested already.

Try to find a Canadian band called IN THE NAME - simply amazing prog metal... they only did one album in the 1990's and then disappeared.... check this sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUz_ZP27QAo
also anything you can get from ENCHANT will most likely amaze you

Written by tea[m]ster on 05.01.2010 at 12:22

Thanks alot peeps...alot to digest!
Check out my album collection and maybe someone will suggest "I see you like (insert band) so you might like (insert band)"
Keep it up!

And if you like Darkology, also try to find OUTWORLD, same singer (was also vocalist at second Beyond Twilight cd)

Written by Ag Fox on 03.01.2010 at 00:24

Protest The Hero - Fortress (absolutely bonkers and schizophrenic music, but you don:t have time to get bored)

I think you should have mentioned that it's Metalcore with progressive elements.

Inner Sanctum
http://www.myspace.com/innersanctumuk

Written by BloodTears on 04.01.2010 at 14:11

I would recommend three bands, three very different sounds: Green Carnation, In Mourning and Darkwater.

Darkwater has a more power metal edge, Green Carnation has a more darker, somber edge, and In Mourning has a more death metal edge. So a lot of varied stuff I enjoy. Depending on what you prefer it might be a good choice. Both In Mourning and Darkwater have only released an album so that's an easy choice and by Green Carnation I would recommend "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" to start with.

oh yeah... how could i forget darkwater and in mourning? silly me. I think I'll need to get around to check out Green Carnation soon

Written by Ag Fox on 07.01.2010 at 00:02

Written by BloodTears on 04.01.2010 at 14:11

I would recommend three bands, three very different sounds: Green Carnation, In Mourning and Darkwater.

Darkwater has a more power metal edge, Green Carnation has a more darker, somber edge, and In Mourning has a more death metal edge. So a lot of varied stuff I enjoy. Depending on what you prefer it might be a good choice. Both In Mourning and Darkwater have only released an album so that's an easy choice and by Green Carnation I would recommend "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" to start with.

oh yeah... how could i forget darkwater and in mourning? silly me. I think I'll need to get around to check out Green Carnation soon

You can't remember them all

I highly recommend Green Carnation even their acoustic album "Acoustic Verses" but not a lot of people like them, I admit. Not a lot of people like Riverside either and they are absolutely brilliant. So, don't be put out by that.

I would say To-Mera, some people here find it really boring and uninspired, but i on the other side faint amazing. Their second album is the best to me.

Even though it's more power than progressive, Angra is a really great band. In this case i would recommend avoid Fireworks since is kinda bad, on the one you should listen is hard for me since i find Rebirth, Holy Land and Temple of Shadows equally good.

Thumbs up to Fhuesc for suggesting To-Mera as I find them rather good, though they are hard to get into. But also I forgot about recommending Adagio (first two albums). Underworld (the second album) is totally amazing - a masterpiece of prog metal.

Also Control Denied, a side project of Chuck Schuldiner. One great album of dark complex prog a la Death (duh).

Temple of shadows is the best angra album imo; although it starts out kind of mediocre the latter half of the album is completely insane and showcases some nice variety

shadow gallery - tyranny, although all of their albums before digital ghosts are excellent (withholding judgement on digital ghosts for now)

Seventh Wonder is a pretty underrated prog/heavy band im just getting into recently myself but waiting in the wings has a bunch of great songs

I'll second Adagio. Underworld is a freakin' masterpiece. They kind of had a style change with their last two albums but I still really like all of their CDs.

You should also check out Dark Empire. They had Jens Carlsson (Savage Circus, Persuader) on vocals but he split after their last album. Humanity Dethroned was amazing though.

Written by tea[m]ster on 05.01.2010 at 12:22

Thanks alot peeps...alot to digest!
Check out my album collection and maybe someone will suggest "I see you like (insert band) so you might like (insert band)"
Keep it up!

I actually did do this, but you seem to not be too fond of Pain of Salvation's The Perfect Element... which is what I was going to suggest. I don't really understand why people find the album "average". In fact, I think the album is BRILLIANT, and POS is (maybe WAS, now) one of the few progressive bands that actually deserve the title of, ya know, progressive rock/metal.

I have seen that people have recommended Green Carnation too. Good stuff. Light of Day, Day of Darkness is pure prog magic.

Have you tried Alchemist yet?
Extreme, progressive, crazy, with ambiant, tribal and electronic elements.
Really great stuff, check the Spiritech and Austral Alien albums (their best two by far)

Check out these 2 albums if you haven't already:

"Into The Electric Castle" by Ayreon
"Painting on Glass" by The 3rd And The Mortal


I love them both.

One word: Suspyre

Their 2008 album "When Time Fades" is possibly the best prog metal album Ive heard in the past 5 years. Similar to Symphony X only better, more varied and epic. Much more difficult to get into than Symphony X, but thats never a bad thing. Check them out! SO good

I agree Suspyre is a good band.

Everyone has been great with the suggestions...I'll try yo find some material on these bands via youtube, myspace etc. stay tuned! I listened to Hourglass - surprised no one mentioned them - pretty good prog metal!

Progressive Metal Albums

Ice Age - The Great Divide (1999)
Amaran's Plight - Voice In The Light (2007)
Super String Theory - Principles Of Transformation (2006)
Ark - Burn The Sun (2001)
Conception - Solar Serpent from In Your Multitude (1995)
Matraz - Gritare (2004)
Abydos - Abydos (2004)
Mindflow - Mind Over Body (2006)
Royal Hunt - Paradox (1997)
Pagan's Mind - Through Osiris Eyes from Celestial Entrance (2002)
Crimson Glory - Transcendence (1988)
Therion - Theli (1997)
Nekropsi - Yollar from Mi Kubbesi (1996)
Shaman - Ritual (2002)
Mind Key - Journey Of A Rough Diamond (2004)
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained (2007)
Myrath - Confession from Hope (2007)
Eternity X - The Edge (1997)
Octopus - Coda (2008)

Written by Introspekrieg on 16.01.2010 at 19:32

Eternity X - The Edge (1997)

"The Edge" is a pretty good album. It's Eternity X's best album by far IMO.

Written by Introspekrieg on 16.01.2010 at 19:32

Ark - Burn The Sun (2001)

Great great album, highly recommended

Written by Introspekrieg on 16.01.2010 at 19:32

Therion - Theli (1997)

While I agree it's fantastic, I wouldn't classify it as prog...