Who here is a prog person and who here is a metal person.

[XB0BX]

I'm too lazy right now to express my self in detail, but you broskis know what's going on.

taste in music, bands, bacon, etc

[FlyingBIZKIT]

wut


I prefer Prog over Metal, I love both though.

[red barchetta]

I'm more prog that metal.  But metal with prog like DT is fantastic

[bss4life15]

Metal

[Nekov]

More Prog than metal for me.

[VioletS16]

My favourite bands all seem to fit into different categories. Like:

Dream Theater
Porcupine Tree
Opeth

would be one. What I'm saying is, most fans of one often listen to the other two. But then some of the bands I like have fans that want nothing to do with each other (Cradle of Filth and Dream Theater = no mesh whatsoever. Except wacky me  )
But I guess I am more of a metal fan. Though I am finicky with what I listen to...odd...

[Miyazaki74]

I'm definitely a hard rock and metal guy. The only prog band I like is Pink Floyd and I'm not sure if they are even prog but other than that I like a few progressive metal bands like DT(who are my favorite band of all time), Porcupine tree, Symphony X, Pain of Salvation, Queensryche, Fates Warning and Opeth.

[Liberation]

I'd say I'm somewhere right in between. On one hand I'm an overzealous fanatic of songs like Vacant, Disappear, Repentance etc. around here, and I love complexity and atmosphere. On the other hand, I often need music which has at least moments of energy and heaviness, and sometimes I feel like something REALLY heavy (e.g. the new Decapitated album is awesome, but it's damn heavy).

However, I may be slightly biased towards metal as that's kinda where I started and that's the side I approached DT from - I started from Octavarium and it was The Root of All Evil, These Walls and Panic Attack which got me fascinated at first.

[Progmetty]

I wonder what other choices you could have thought of for the title of this thread
I started out as a metal person then turned to prog and now I enjoy both equally.

[Ben_Jamin]

I started out metal went prog then went all over the place. Coming to find i don't believe in genres as music is music and what pleases my ears are lots of styles.

[Jaq]

Of the various genres of music I like, metal and prog are pretty close to running even. I generally like a progressive element in everything I listen to, so I guess I lean more prog than metal then. My CD collection and what's on my computer leans a bit heavily more metal, but the bands I go for whole discographies on are prog. There ya go. 

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Love metal, but I'm a proggie.

[lumpy33]

they're both great.  like chocolate and peanut butter.  put them together and they're amazing.

[lithium112]

I generally listen to more metal than prog, but most of the metal I like has some progressive element to it. Hard to choose really. The reason I love DT is because they combine both so well.

[johncal]

50/50. That's what I love about DT.

[E.S.]

It's like choosing one of your children. Can't do that.

[black_biff_stadler]

Metal fella here. The only prog bands I listen to extensively are DT, PT, Symphony X, Spiral Architect, Rush, and Pink Floyd. I casually listen to Pain of Salvation, King Crimson, and Genesis.

Metalwise I listen to Metallica, Megadeth, Death, Cynic (Focus only which is technical death metal so it's really both but the heaviness is so up front that I lump it in with metal when push comes to shove), Opeth (same reasoning as Cynic), Mastodon, Byzantine, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy, and Nevermore.

I'd say I'm about 65 metal/35 prog.

[Mosh]

Prog has been sort of a recent discovery for me. I've always loved Rush and Pink Floyd, but never got deep into Prog until I discovered DT last year. Now I listen to a bunch of bands, and it seems to be a bigger interest to me now and I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 5 years I become more of a prog person. But for now, I'm just generally a metal person.

[Cranky]

Metal.

[toro]

broskis

Woo Woo Woo?

Anyways I'm more into prog.

[7thHanyou]

Favorite bands:

Spock's Beard
Kansas
The Moody Blues
Iron Maiden
Savatage
Dream Theater
Rush

More prog than metal on that list.

That said, I really love Iron Maiden and Savatage--they're a couple of fantastic bands, and they've done wonderful stuff throughout their careers.  It's not just the "prog" albums I love, either--while I'm a big fan of 7th Son/The X Factor/The Final Frontier (Maiden) and Streets/Dead Winter Dead/The Wake of Magellan (Savatage), I also love Powerslave (Maiden) and The Hall of the Mountain King (Savatage).  A good metal song gets me pumped up just as much as the next guy.

That said, I find heavy, power, doom, and prog metal to be the best of the bunch.  If there's anything I like in other subgenres, it's limited a few bands.  Aggression's not all that important to me.

I also find myself at odds with the metal community.  A lot of metalheads seem to despise power and prog metal, which are a couple of my favorite genres.  Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, and Nightwish, for example, write some beautiful songs.  I don't give a damn how aggressive they are--it's good music, and some of the best metal out there.

So I guess I'm more at home with prog music as a whole.

[Wolfpacker96]

It's interesting how some here are calling Dream Theater straight prog and others are calling them metal.  Then, of course others are combining the two, prog-metal.  It just points out how putting music in a certain category is pointless.  Especially with a band like Dream Theater.  Like most younger kids today keep telling me Black Sabbath is goth.  I never even heard that term (at least pertaining to music) until the at least the 80's.  Black Sabbath just made kick ass rock-n-roll.  Why does it need to have a category?  I guess I'm more of a metal head, but I like all sorts of things as long as it's good music.

[BlobVanDam]

Aside from DT, I cannot stand prog one single bit. Definitely more of a metal fan, although for me it's more rock than metal these days.

[nattmorker]

I generally listen to more metal than prog, but most of the metal I like has some progressive element to it. Hard to choose really. The reason I love DT is because they combine both so well.

Exactly this. I'm more metal (death/black/thrash/goth) than prog, but just by a small edge.

[skydivingninja]

Um...I dunno.  I'm kinda all over the place with rock/metal, but I was a prog guy before I was a real metal guy, even though my appreciation for metal like Mastodon, Devin Townsend, and Opeth has skyrocketed, all of my favorite metal seems to have a few progressive elements, so yeah, I guess its prog.

[ResultsMayVary]

Needs more poll, tbqh.

I got into DT via the metal side, but now I appreciate the prog side A LOT more. 

[Super Dude]

It changes with the seasons, really. For the first two years of high school I was full-on metal guy, and then the last two I loved prog. It's been sorta back and forth since entering college, and now I'm shifting towards metal again for some reason.

[ResultsMayVary]

It changes with the seasons, really. For the first two years of high school I was full-on metal guy, and then the last two I loved prog. It's been sorta back and forth since entering college, and now I'm shifting towards metal again for some reason.

I see what you did there.

[7thHanyou]

It's interesting how some here are calling Dream Theater straight prog and others are calling them metal.  Then, of course others are combining the two, prog-metal.  It just points out how putting music in a certain category is pointless.  Especially with a band like Dream Theater.  Like most younger kids today keep telling me Black Sabbath is goth.  I never even heard that term (at least pertaining to music) until the at least the 80's.  Black Sabbath just made kick ass rock-n-roll.  Why does it need to have a category?  I guess I'm more of a metal head, but I like all sorts of things as long as it's good music.

I think Dream Theater is pretty indisputably prog metal.

At their worst, though, I think they've emphasized their metal elements more than their prog elements--see some recent albums.

[serrano]

I was a metalhead in the late '80s but was turned into prog slowy since '92. Now i listen more to DT, porcupine tree, Spock's Beard, Rush, Pink Floyd...

[Ħ]

I guess prog, but I don't like most prog and most metal.

[?]

I'm more of a metal guy but I've gotten into prog thanks to DT

[rumborak]

Prog, for sure. I don't like most pure metal.

rumborak

[jcmistat]

I've always been more of a metal guy but obviously DT got me into prog and they're the perfect blend.

[Zydar]

I've listened to metal a lot longer than prog, but since I discovered prog a few years ago (thanks to DT) I've found that I listen to prog a lot more nowadays. I still enjoy a good metal album now and then, but the prog genre has opened up a new world of music for me. And I mainly listen to prog from the "classic" era of the 70s (Genesis, Floyd, Yes, Rush), and not so much from today.