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Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
1985 Prog Thrash; Watchtower was a pioneer in what great bands were looking for at that time |
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Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
1991 Metal, funk, jazz, hardcore, extreme metal. Mike Patton and company made something totally different a timeless record produced by avant-garde Saxophonist Jon Zorn. |
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Tool - Lateralus
2001 Lateralus is the transformation of the band from a regular good band, to a unique metal form of music. |
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Death - Symbolic
1995 Chuck Schuldiner after Spiritual Healing start a search of new sound with this record Death definitely leave behind the experiments of the previous albums to consolidate as a totally new kind of music. |
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Dream Theater - Awake
1994 Prog Metal masters this is the record that made some changes on what DT have to sound and how the prog music collide with the Heavy Metal, very experimental, great record and Mike Portnoy best Drum work in DT |
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Isis - Oceanic
2002 Impossible to Classify Mixing lots of atmospheres and textures converge into an ocean of sounds, every instrument sounds clean. Aaron Turner’s Oceanic is the best example of Post Metal Art |
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Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
2007 Steven Wilson finest moment with his musical experiment; Porcupine Tree, Dense metal atmospheres define clean sounds into amazing compositions one of the greatest PT or SW records |
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Opeth - Heritage
2011 The first record of a new sound, David Akerfedt reveals a great clean voice Opeth change radically their style for a sound more progressive with twists of Jazz. drenched in instrumental interludes, knotty key and chord changes, shifting time signatures, clean vocals, and a keyboard-heavy instrumentation that includes Mellotrons, Rhodes pianos, and Hammond organs. |
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Cynic - Focus
1993 Focus is a mix of great music with Death Metal writing by Paul Masvidal, Sean Reinert . Cynic recorded Focus. The result was an album combining death metal with other influences, notably jazz. Instead of choosing the brutal and hard-hitting approach to metal like most of their contemporaries, Focus takes an experimental stance to music. |
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Voivod - The Outer Limits
1993 Voivod it’s a kind of Progressive Post Punk, thrash metal, heavy metal avant-garde hard to classify. This record it’s different than any other Voivod record progressive and clean but still Voivod classic amazing guitar work from Denis “Piggy” D'Amour, The album features a cover of "The Nile Song", originally by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and Voivod's longest song "Jack Luminous", tracking in at 17 minutes and 26 seconds |
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Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1998 Chaosphere's sound shows the band toning down some of the thrash style of their previous releases in favor of the technical, polyrhythmic, groove-oriented sound they would continue to explore on subsequent albums. |
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Fates Warning - Disconnected
2000 this record its one step ahead of every record of the band and Jim Matheos extraordinary atmospheric guitars gave an apocalyptic sound to the record. |
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Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
1991 Progressive Thrash metal one of the no more underrated metal records because every list in MS got it. |
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Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
2009 Polish Progressive Metal. Their heavier Record its about liquid modernity, life in a constant hurry, stress and anxiety about the future. A picture of our times in 1920 x 1080 definition, amazing Guitar work from Grudzinski and great composition the album was a hit in Poland. |
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Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
1990 Frank Zappa Alumni Steve Vai was in a inner musical soul exploration of the limits of the mind and religion, great record the most impressive in the solo guitarist era |
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Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
1998 Tony Levin ( King Crimson) meets Dream Theater, Great instrumental work the band open the gate of a new wave of technical music mixed with classic Prog musicians. |
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Coroner - Mental Vortex
1991 Progressive metal, avant-garde, With their increasingly complex style of progressive rock-infused thrash, they have been called "the Rush of thrash metal". Coroner's sound then progressed and the production became more refined, resulting in the more progressive album Mental Vortex. |
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Kyuss - Kyuss
1994 AKA Welcome to Sky Valley . The record its amazing its ten songs contained in three tracks, with an additional, fourth hidden track. On this record Kyuss was move forward compared with their previous records and goes psychedelic a more mature sound. |
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Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
2015 Coma Ecliptic involves a man stuck in a coma, journeying through his past lives. It was added that the man faces a choice to either stay or move on to something better. Each song is its own episode in a fashion similar to "The Twilight Zone" Eclectic Progressive, Death Metal,Ambient, Extreme Metal Every record of this band its amazing. |
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Mastodon - Leviathan
2004 It is Mastodon's first concept album, loosely based on the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The songs "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder", "I Am Ahab" and "Seabeast" were released as singles. Three magazines awarded the album Album of the Year in 2004: Revolver, Kerrang! and Terrorizer. In 2009 and 2015 MetalSucks named Leviathan the best metal album of the new century. |
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Obscura - Omnivium
2011 Death Metal Jazz from Germany The album it’s based On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (1810) |
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Atheist - Jupiter
2010 Jupiter sounds more adventurous and mature ; I never liked so much those metal bossa nova attempts in the past , Jupiter is a progression to a new sound. |
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Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick
2007 Every record of POS has heavy and calm passages, complex vocal harmonies syncopation, and polyrhythms. Thus far, every album released by the band has been a concept album. Scarsick it is very ambitious focusing on contemporary issues including capitalism, materialism, and consumerism, is an allegory for all of mankind; that in him we see the problems of society on an intimate, personal level |
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Gorguts - Obscura
1998 Best avant-garde metal the guitar work it’s totally insane. The album "is considered to be one of the most complex and technical records in the genre, due to its unprecedented dissonance and experimentation brought by the band's late guitarist Steve Hurdle. The album makes use of complex song structures, unorthodox sounds, dissonant guitarwork, unconventional time signatures, and esoteric lyrical themes. |
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Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
2001 After forming in the early 1990s, the band started off by released two albums of death/doom metal music with screamed vocals, Dance of December Souls and Brave Murder Day. Strains and health issues with Jonas Renkse's vocal cords, coupled with a desire to branch out musically and creatively, lead the band to abandon the genre and pursue more melodic metal music with clean vocals, releasing two more albums, Discouraged Ones and Tonight's Decision. |
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Anekdoten - Official Bootleg - Live In Japan
1998 This band hard to classified metal, prog, avant-garde they start a new wave of experimental experience with mellotrons in the 90’s, after this record lots of new bands starting to use those keyboards. |
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Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
1999 progressive metal band formed by Chuck Schuldiner, Death, a totally different project than Death in fact its like a solo work of Schuldiner. |
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Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
2007 The best Prog metal Fusion Blotted Science is an instrumental progressive metal supergroup headed by Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastic Ink), bassist Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) and drummer Hannes Grossmann (ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist). |
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Enslaved - E
2017 Enslaved goes prog mellotrons acoustic passages, for me the last great record of the band. |
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Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
2014 I Classic Black Metal never get into Agalloch, until I heard this record for me the most diverse of this band, acoustic, Heavy and progressive |
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Gordian Knot - Emergent
2003 Gordian Knot Progressive super band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone ( Cynic) At times its shifting lineup included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes, Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink, as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of Malone's former bandmates from Cynic, and John Myung from Dream Theater. |
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Beardfish - Mammoth
2011 Beardfish it’s not just another band from Sweden, Progressive metal that moves in the land classic progressive music with one step in the Frank Zappa style with a touch of classic heavy metal. |
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Sólstafir - Berdreyminn
2017 Black Metal band from Iceland, this record Solstafir move in other direction, more original than their previous works they used Trumpets, flutes, keyboards. |
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Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten
2021 Great Swedish band original sound and sound original in the 2021 it’s not easy. The album’s ambient take on progressive heaviness blends tracks together to the point where the single trifecta of “När De Du Älskar Kommer Tillbaka Från De Döda,” “Kaos 2” and “Toxin” passes by like a continuous song. This also results from Vildhjarta rejecting traditional song structure. The songs move from disjointed rhythmic tapestries to rousing melodies and haunting clean guitar drones with such fluidity that the abject pandemonium morphs into an enveloping tapestry of constantly-evolving aggression. |
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Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
2009 Animals as Leaders, was recorded in early 2008. Instrumental Technical metal, progressive music Tosin Abasi recorded most guitar and bass tracks on the album; a few guitar solos, drums and various synthesized effects |
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Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things
2015 technicality and impressive musicianship album that is “not exactly brutal or fast, but its presence helps give diversity to the music |
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Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2005 Not just another record of Thrash metal in the 2000s. Nevermore on this record expands their own limits and sounds different than any other Thrash band. noted the complex influences as "traces of '80s progressive metal greats such as Queensrÿche, Savatage, and Fates Warning" as well as "monstrous doses of European elements, such as blazingly fast tempos, tautly performed arrangements, and unrelenting blastbeats. |
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Sadus - Elements Of Anger
1997 Steve D’Giorgio plays fretless bass on this record that gave a great atmosphere maybe D’Giorgio best work on bass and Sadus most adventurous record. |
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Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
2013 Technical dissonant death metal from Bologna Italy in the land of Gorguts |
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Persefone - Shin-Ken
2009 Persefone an Andorran progressive death and Black metal mix with passages from meditation to extreme metal |
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Octopus - Into The Void Of Fear
2013 Chilean Prog metal band innovators in their style, the band add musicians from other styles mix with metal music, the record its very complex and dissonant |
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Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
1989 industrial-strength noise over a pop framework" and "harrowing but catchy music, Great sound pretty heavy |
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Napalm Death - Utilitarian
2012 Grindcore from UK The thing you have to consider about Napalm Death is that no two albums sound the same, which is what makes this album unique. stick to the same aggressive tone that fans are used to, Added other technical elements in it to make it stand out. It's still a rock album. |
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Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows)
1990 Progressive Thrash metal from Germany, MD record about philosophy between life and death, there is one long epic song divide in 8 movements on one side on the other side two short songs with an instrumental of 10 mins at the end the same format of the mega prog record Rush Hemispheres, |
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Painkiller - Execution Ground
1994 Jazz and metal fusion Painkiller were John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums. Zorn and Laswell work in the New York avant-garde music scene. Harris was the drummer for the death metal band Napalm Death, which partially inspired the creation of the band. |
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Naked City - Torture Garden
1990 Weird Jazz Metal fusion Mr. Jon Zorn Jazz innovator, The album collects the 42 "hardcore miniatures" recorded by the band. Ten of these short intense improvisations were spread across |
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Confessor - Unraveled
2005 Doom goes Prog…technically complex interpretation of traditional doom style |
