Progressive Metal

Progressive metal (also known as “prog metal”) is a metal genre which combines heavy metal with progressive rock, resulting in odd time signatures, adventurous timbres and complex compositional structures. Technical proficiency is a large part of categorizing the genre apart from power metal, and plays a generally large part in progressive metal. Progressive metal songs are generally longer than the status quo, often comparable to that of doom metal in length. Edit this Artist photo: Savatage

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Between the Buried and Me Veil of Maya, Animals as Leaders	Pop's Sauget, IL, St Louis, United States 38.602543 -90.175202	6 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
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This or the Apocalypse Mutiny Within	Kobra Klutch at The… Crofton, Maryland, Baltimore, United States 39.09175 -76.62951	Add shout
LITA with Queensryche at City Club Lita Ford, Queensrÿche	City Club Houma, LA, New Orleans, United States 29.597279 -90.722059	1 person attending Add shout
Between the Buried and Me Veil of Maya, Animals as Leaders	The Picador Iowa City IA, United States 41.66008 -91.531194	7 people attending Add shout
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Queensryche with Lita Ford at Cannery Ballroom Queensrÿche, Lita Ford	Cannery Ballroom Nashville TN, United States 36.152773 -86.780452	2 people attending Add shout
Between the Buried and Me Veil of Maya, Animals as Leaders	The Waiting Room Omaha NE, United States 41.285021 -96.008398	6 people attending 1 shout

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Chasezas wrote:
Saturday evening

devin fucking townsend

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dAJaro wrote:
Friday morning

Riverside, the first OSI album, Devil Doll (if you count them to prog metal).

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zerstoren91 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

@Leviathan93: and of course Opeth

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cyberSister wrote:
Wednesday morning

@Leviathan93: Pain of Salvation. They're definitely not DT copycats.

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Alasin wrote:
7 days ago

Cynic

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Alasin wrote:
7 days ago

Protest the Hero

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Leviathan93 wrote:
8 days ago

Could anybody recommend me a band from this genre? I like prog metal, but I'm sick of all those DT copycats. Something unique like Ayreon or Beyond Twilight.

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
last month

Screw Progressive Metal. Progressive Rock is way better. I don't need this...

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
last month

@cosmoretro No!!!!

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Hand-of-God wrote:
last month

Nice to see Symphony X up there.

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cosmoretro wrote:
last month

Just melodic metal with a progressive touch and vocals from death metal.

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WCannibal wrote:
last month

Scar Symmetry are progressive melodeath. That still falls under the prog category.

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sepultura95 wrote:
last month

Avenged Sevenfold recently added wtf??

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mambo4dude wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/music/Oblate+Spheroid/_/Deimos+%28DEMO%29?autostart

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Razor745 wrote:
last month

Progressive DOES NOT mean technical. Progressive Metal can be very technical but the main point of it is that it's more artistic and instead of typical "verse-chorus-verse-chorus" tracks you have long, epic songs with great and meaningful lyrics, fantastic guitar solos etc.

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Razor745 wrote:
last month

There's a good prog band called Opeth, they're a bit obscure around here. [2]

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Andyhusmith wrote:
last month

And the brightest new star is Eclipse Hunter!!!

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carlos_galvan wrote:
last month

scar symmetry is melo-death metal

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Flotz32 wrote:
last month

Progressive Rock is what Tool are. Mastodon are barely prog metal as well (their last album had hints of it, I'll admit). And WTF, Scar Symmetry aren't prog! Not even close!

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Tenozuma wrote:
last month

Oh hell maybe they are. I'm just not really feeling it. Progressive Rock maybe?

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