I'm deeply into prog rock and I want to get into progressive metal but I have trouble finding any "technical" metal or prog metal I like.
Any suggestions for making a transition? I'm looking for something that is much more prog than metal.
I'm deeply into prog rock and I want to get into progressive metal but I have trouble finding any "technical" metal or...
Evan Torres
Gavin Myers
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Hunter Wright
I'm in a similar boat to you op. Opeth is the only metal band I've ever really gotten into though. There's some other good stuff like Atheist and Emperor who're good, but not "one of the greatest things I've ever heard" tier.
Charles Jenkins
why would you want to get into it if you don't like what you hear? listen to what you like; you don't have to like everything
Lincoln Hernandez
Heard this?
Ayden Phillips
Yeah, but I didn't used to like prog, either.
And I was partially inspired to get into prog metal by my friend who likes it and did a sort of "chamber metal" a few days ago for his senior recital in college.
Yeah, I liked Thrak better though. This is sort of what I'm looking for, but maybe a bit more metal.
Camden White
OP. Tell more about your progressive rock tastes. There's a couple of different directions I could take you on this. Some bands will take the prog rock formula and just make it much heavier, some will include it as one of the genres it shifts between, some is just heavy metal with jazz tonality, there's more rhythmic oriented stuff, all the way up to djent. Need more info
Christopher Lee
This
Grayson Perry
Also, what have you tried that didn't register for you (and why, if you know)
Andrew Morgan
Dream Theater's Train of Thought is really good, imo, and not crazy heavy. Just really well put together prog metal. Animals as Leaders also has some really sweet stuff
Aiden Long
Leprous
Zachary Johnson
Leprous is if anything quite anti-technical, although I do love them. My thought was to recommend Haken at first for technicality, but if he hates for example, the power metal style vocals, Ross edges pretty close to that on everything except The Mountain.
Michael Wright
Magma
Arrigo Barnabé
King Crimson (I do not like anything beyond Larks' Tongues chronologically, however)
Gryphon
Tatsuya Yoshida
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Jaxon Taylor
Dr. user... I'm Leprous
Gabriel Young
I haven't tried much outside of a song here and there if my friends send me one. But what really turns me off of a lot of metal is the growled/screeched vocals.
That's part of the reason why my friend's recital was so great--he sings opera and that found its way into his "chamber metal" composition instead of the screeches.
Thomas Green
Nevermore
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Angel Butler
Metal is ok, prog rock is ok
Prog metal is an abomination
Just dont
Christopher Adams
Leprous, Haken, Tesseract,
Ayreon would be a good bet to, it's mainly prog rock, but if you listen to The Human Equation, has a bit more of porg metal in it, + the concept is pretty cool and theatrical.
Michael Anderson
Listen to this album. It's one of the best prog metal albums I've ever listened to
William Rogers
Ok so yeah. Haken's definitely a starting point. You might catch some on their first album, (and one appearance on their last one) but otherwise Ross Jennings is an outstanding vocalist.
Thank You Scientist, while not explicitly metal, might be in the realm of what you're looking for as well. Very technical, and energetic.
I'm a big fan of Leprous, although that definitely dips into the harsh vocals often.
You'd probably enjoy Earthside, they're a mix of instrumental and guest vocals, but it's very orchestrated/cinematic sounding. Saw them live and it was a cool experience, even with pre-recorded vocals playing over the speakers.
After their first album, Cynic largely moves away from harsh vocals and does some really engaging jazz-metal fusion stuff.
Actually Pain of Salvation might be your best bet as an experienced listener of rather dense prog rock, but you've really got to go in with the mentality that it is dense as shit and might not register on your first listen. |
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This is a pretty good bet of a song though
Robert Ramirez
Also Beardfish. It's almost redundant for the thread because their earlier stuff is just progressive rock, but they transition to progressive metal later and I think it's pretty great stuff, especially on Mammoth and The Void
Hunter Reed
Ok, thanks for the help!
Aiden Powell
Images and Words
Easton Young
Coheed and Cambria
Thomas Nguyen
This came out yesterday. Great progressive black metal with folk/jazz influences. Check out track 1, 3 and 5.
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Adam Johnson
>he doesn't like red
Logan Ross
some of porcupine tree's later stuff has metal elements
James Smith
I worded that badly--I like most of KC's stuff after LTIA, but my favorite works are before that
Nicholas Flores
Tool. Seriously.