Progressive Metal Bands For People Who Hate Prog
Progressive Metal Bands For People Who Hate Prog
Progressive metal has some of the most creative musicians in metal, but the tendency for progressive bands to make extremely long, technical songs with no sense of structure can be turnoff to some people, and often these bands take themselves too seriously, making them unenjoyable for people who like their metal to have some good rock n' roll fun. These bands frequently avoid such prog cliches, they are completely capable of writing a pop song without sacrificing complexity if they choose to, and weave a range of influences in creative and even fun ways.
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Devin Townsend
- Accelerated Evolution
Devin Townsend's first "solo" album with an actual band. He is the master of progressive pop metal.
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Porcupine Tree
- In Absentia
Called "The New Pink Floyd", but they are so much more, seeking to create experimental pop. This album brings metal in.
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Toehider
- What Kind Of Creature Am I?
Another prog rock band, this time more like Queen, silly or serious. This album even has a death metal track.
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Coheed and Cambria
- Volume 4
Post-hardcore/alternative metal known for their concept albums, but they have other progressive elements as well.
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Mastodon
- Once More 'Round The Sun
Known for being the first to blend sludge metal with progressive rock, their recent work is more song oriented.
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Tarby
- Everfree
Progressive Industrial Metal band, like Nine Inch Nails with Pink Floyd solos and Lamb of God riffs in a hard rock format.
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Nevermore
- Dead Heart In A Dead World
Technical power/thrash band unashamed to let to their hard rock influence shine through.
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Baroness
- Yellow & Green
Another progressive sludge metal band, they moved to somewhat more accessible but still somewhat metallic stoner rock.
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Dreadnought
- Body.Blood.Skin.Mind
Melodic thrash metal band from the 90s with introspective lyrics
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Subterranean Masquerade
- Suspended Animation Dreams
Not as pop as some of the others, but at least this album isn't "wanky".
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Riverside
- Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
More prog rock with some metal influence, this one more like a less pretentious Tool.
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Dir En Grey
- Arche
Avant-garde metal band who has flirted with prog since Urobos known for their highly skilled vocals
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Periphery
- Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega
Known for being one of the pioneers of djent, Periphery made Alpha as pop music
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Nice. Gotta have to check those later Dude... Did you hear the wrong Dreadnought? =p I was thinking about the one which is linked when I said it on that other thread. (which is not the melothrash one) I dunno which one the other ones were recommending though. Anyway you should listen to their last album
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Posts: 40071 Quote: Physisicts and Terria were recorded with an actual band and both were released before Accelerated Evolution and at least Terria was supported by a tour as well.
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Resign Due instead of Remedy  Otherwise a good-looking list.
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Posts: 1089 Written by Karlabos on 16.10.2015 at 05:33 Oops. Think I should replace it? Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.10.2015 at 13:08 Good point. It's not that it was recorded by a band which makes Accelerated Evolution special, it's that it's the first album from the The Devin Townsend Band which was created as a dedicated counter to Strapping Young Lad, but it's hard to articulate that in the limited character space. Written by Risto on 16.10.2015 at 16:07 Alright, listing a single was an accident. Remedy is my fav though.
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Posts: 1089 Written by Karlabos on 16.10.2015 at 05:33 Finally listened to that band, they're great, but very proggy, so I wouldn't put them on this list.
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Morbus Chron should be taking into consideration as well. I'm far from being a prog-head, but love this album:
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Posts: 1089 Written by Paz on 07.06.2016 at 22:04 Definitely something else, doesn't really seem quite death metal or progressive metal, almost has an atmospheric black metal feel to it.
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