Author Topic: Your top 5 prog metal albums? (Read 3020 times)

WildRanger · « **on:** May 07, 2021, 09:05:40 AM »

My picks:

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Devin Townsend (Ocean Machine) - Biomech
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

Yours?

ariich · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2021, 09:12:47 AM »

Limiting myself to one per band, in no particular order:

Haken - The Mountain
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Pain of Salvation - Be

HOF · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2021, 09:19:11 AM »

Depends what counts as prog metal I guess. Giving it a wider definition and not repeating artists (or thinking too deeply about it):

1. Dream Theater - Awake
2. Enchant - Break
3. King's X - Faith, Hope, Love
4. Queensryche - Empire
5. OSI - Office of Strategic Influence

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2021, 09:40:06 AM »

Dream Theater - Images & Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Tool - Lateralus

krands85 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 07, 2021, 10:33:38 AM »

Quote from: HOF on May 07, 2021, 09:19:11 AM

Depends what counts as prog metal I guess. Giving it a wider definition and not repeating artists (or thinking too deeply about it):

I've picked mine using these criteria too.

1. Images and Words - Dream Theater
2. Altered State - Tesseract
3. Ghost Reveries - Opeth
4. The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X
5. Uncivilized - Bad Salad

Probably would have had a Haken album in there, but I usually struggle to pick my favourite

cramx3 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 07, 2021, 10:42:14 AM »

I'll limit 1 per band

Dream Theater - Images and Words (my all time favorite album)
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Haken - Visions
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Pagans Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy

some more that are borderline prog metal and if they were considered full on prog metal would likely take place over something above:

Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Epica - The Holographic Principle
Devin Townsend - Addicted!

Stadler · « **Reply #6 on:** May 07, 2021, 10:47:20 AM »

Hmmm....

1. Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater)
2. Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche)/Octavarium (Dream Theater)
3. 10101001 (Ayreon)
4. Hemispheres (Rush)
5. The Final Frontier (Iron Maiden)

kirksnosehair · « **Reply #7 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:18:59 AM »

So many great albums, it's hard to narrow it down to just 5, but I'll try.

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Redemption - The Fullness of Time
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Dream Theater - Train of Thought

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:19:36 AM »

Quote from: kirksnosehair on May 07, 2021, 11:18:59 AM

Dream Theater - Train of Thought

Interesting

LudwigVan · « **Reply #9 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:21:31 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on May 07, 2021, 10:47:20 AM

Hmmm....

1. Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater)
2. Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche)
3. 10101001 (Ayreon)
4. Octavarium (Dream Theater)
5. The Final Frontier (Iron Maiden)

Nice choice. For whatever reason, it seems to get slagged by fans, but it's my favorite reunion-era Maiden album. It rocks in a way that brings me back to 70's classic rock like Deep Purple or Hawkwind or something.

SoundscapeMN · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:22:42 AM »

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
Dream Theater - Awake
Angra - Holy Land
Soundscape - Discovery

kirksnosehair · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:57:53 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on May 07, 2021, 11:19:36 AM

Quote from: kirksnosehair on May 07, 2021, 11:18:59 AM
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Interesting

Surprised myself, even

Destiny Of Chaos · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2021, 12:15:22 PM »

Limiting myself to one album a band.

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Haken - Affinity
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything

Dedalus · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2021, 12:34:25 PM »

Images & Words
Scenes from a Memory
Lateralus
Operation: Mindcrime
BE

Elite · « **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2021, 01:08:28 PM »

Dream Theater - Images & Words
Leprous - Bilateral
Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis
Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
Opeth - Blackwater Park

romdrums · « **Reply #15 on:** May 07, 2021, 01:48:09 PM »

One per band:

Dream Theater - Awake
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Haken - Affinity
Fates Warning - Disconnected
Meshuggah - Chaosphere

gazinwales · « **Reply #16 on:** May 07, 2021, 02:10:54 PM »

Amorphis - Queen Of Time
Fates Warning - APSOG
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Rush - 2112
Angra - Holy Land

TAC · « **Reply #17 on:** May 07, 2021, 04:20:03 PM »

Quote from: LudwigVan on May 07, 2021, 11:21:31 AM

Quote from: Stadler on May 07, 2021, 10:47:20 AM
Hmmm....

1. Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater)
2. Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche)
3. 10101001 (Ayreon)
4. Octavarium (Dream Theater)
5. The Final Frontier (Iron Maiden)

Nice choice. For whatever reason, it seems to get slagged by fans, but it's my favorite reunion-era Maiden album. It rocks in a way that brings me back to 70's classic rock like Deep Purple or Hawkwind or something.

It's my favorite as well. Just listened to it yesterday!

SwedishGoose · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2021, 04:28:02 PM »

Oh this one is hard....

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Ostura - The Room
Opeth - In Cauda Veneum
Soul Enema - Of Clans and Clones and Clownes
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

TM172003 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 07, 2021, 05:08:23 PM »

1. SFAM - DT
2. Images and Words - DT
3. The Mountain - Haken
4. Vector - Haken
5. Ghost Reveries - Opeth

Crow · « **Reply #20 on:** May 07, 2021, 05:24:39 PM »

Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Taylor Swift - 1989
Taylor Swift - Lover
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Revenge319 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 07, 2021, 05:34:01 PM »

1. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3. Haken - The Mountain
4. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
5. Liquid Tension Experiment 2

Dream Team · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2021, 05:55:24 PM »

Quote from: Cyril on May 07, 2021, 05:24:39 PM

Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Taylor Swift - 1989
Taylor Swift - Lover
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Hilarious

wolfking · « **Reply #23 on:** May 07, 2021, 06:07:39 PM »

Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Tool - Aenima
Fates Warning - Parallels
Dream Theater - I&W/Awake

Something like that.

TAC · « **Reply #24 on:** May 07, 2021, 06:57:13 PM »

OK, I'll give this a shot.

Dream Theater-Images And Words
Dream Theater-Scenes From A Memory
Queensryche-Warning
Rush-Hemispheres
Fates Warning-Parallels

wolfking · « **Reply #25 on:** May 07, 2021, 07:12:25 PM »

Quote from: TAC on May 07, 2021, 06:57:13 PM

OK, I'll give this a shot.

Dream Theater-Images And Words
Dream Theater-Scenes From A Memory
Queensryche-Warning
Rush-Hemispheres
Fates Warning-Parallels

Ha, Rush and Tool the odd ones out. Our lists almost interchangeable apart from them. I'd opt for Power Windows though if I went Rush.

TheCountOfNYC · « **Reply #26 on:** May 07, 2021, 07:16:23 PM »

1: Dream Theater-Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
2: Haken-The Mountain
3: Tool-Lateralus
4: Symphony X-V: The New Mythology Suite
5: Coheed and Cambria-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

I limited my list to one album per artist otherwise it would have looked like this...

1: Dream Theater-Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
2: Dream Theater-Octavarium
3: Dream Theater-Images and Words
4: Dream Theater-A Dramatic Turn of Events
5: Dream Theater-Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

ronnibran · « **Reply #27 on:** May 07, 2021, 07:42:05 PM »

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Shadow Gallery - Room V
Redemption - This Mortal Coil
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (this is the only Neal album I consider heavy enough to be in this category, but it's also one of my favorites)
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

darkshade · « **Reply #28 on:** May 07, 2021, 10:48:31 PM »

1. Dream Theater - SDoIT
2. Dream Theater - IaW
3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

LordCost · « **Reply #29 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:23:57 PM »

Leprous - Bilateral
Tool - Lateralus
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Haken - The Mountain
Caligula's Horse - In Contact

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #30 on:** May 07, 2021, 11:53:05 PM »

Coheed and Cambria

bobzor · « **Reply #31 on:** May 08, 2021, 01:19:06 AM »

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Fates Warning - Parallels
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Redemption - Snowfall on Judgement Day
Haken - Affinity

The first 3 have been among my favorite albums since forever. Images and Words has to be the progressive metal album in my book. As for Parallels, it's probably not their most proggy one, being somewhat more commercial than those that came both before and after. But man, has it got the tunes.

SoundscapeMN · « **Reply #32 on:** May 08, 2021, 09:13:24 AM »

Quote from: Dream Team on May 07, 2021, 05:55:24 PM

Quote from: Cyril on May 07, 2021, 05:24:39 PM
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Taylor Swift - 1989
Taylor Swift - Lover
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Hilarious

"I would not have majored in music because when music becomes technical for me I don't like that part of it. I can't read music." -Taylor Swift

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #33 on:** May 08, 2021, 09:41:40 AM »

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Between The Buried & Me - The Great Misdirect
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Opeth - Watershed

Zantera · « **Reply #34 on:** May 08, 2021, 11:38:32 AM »

Probably something like

Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
Opeth - Deliverance
Pain of Salvation - BE
Tool - Lateralus

There's a few others that I probably might have put higher than a few of these but I don't consider them 'prog metal' as such

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Author Topic: Your top 5 prog metal albums? (Read 3020 times)