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: Andromeda

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Jan 8 Friday 8 January 2010
Marc Rizzo	Dingbatz Clifton, NJ, New York, United States 40.857875 -74.147383	1 person attending Add shout
Between the Buried and Me A Plea For Purging, Scale The Summit, The Devin Townsend Project	Rocketown Nashville, TN, Nashville, United States 36.155642 -86.777509	9 people attending 3 shouts
Jan 9 Saturday 9 January 2010
Between the Buried and Me Cynic, Devin Townsend Project, Scale The Summit	Masquerade Atlanta GA, United States 33.77103 -84.364537	47 people attending 15 shouts Buy Tickets
Something Beautiful Power Junkie	Nite Cap Chicago, IL, Chicago, United States 41.952906 -87.752609	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 10 Sunday 10 January 2010
Cynic Between the Buried and Me, Scale The Summit, The Devin Townsend Project	House of Blues New Orleans, LA, New Orleans, United States 29.953043 -90.066188	14 people attending 7 shouts Buy Tickets
Jan 11 Monday 11 January 2010
Between the Buried and Me Cynic, Devin Townsend Project, Scale The Summit	Meridian Houston, TX, Houston TX, United States 29.747408 -95.359027	30 people attending 9 shouts Buy Tickets

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Nonclique343 wrote:
10 hours ago

Nothing progressive about run of the mill "odd" time signatures and wank.

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Days_of_Prayer wrote:
Saturday afternoon

for pretentious fucks

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heinz89 wrote:
Thursday evening

most awesome genre of music.

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Solovarium wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

progressive death metal

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Allor1994 wrote:
Monday evening

OPETH!!!!

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nolyricshere wrote:
12 days ago

Arcturus was good in 1997. The Sham Mirrors pales in comparison to La Masquerade Infernale.

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Lordnecronus wrote:
13 days ago

Actually, relating to my last post - what about "progressive deathcore"? Has anyone tried that?

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Lordnecronus wrote:
13 days ago

@jimmytheone44: Well, your mileage may vary. I wouldn't think of prog metal as "stale and dull", but, hey, everyone's entitled to their own opinions - although prog metal is currently going through a dull spot, I guess because of all those simplified deathcore bands. Also, not a big fan of Ulver... :P Arcturus are good, though.

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jimmytheone44 wrote:
13 days ago

Ironic that a genre that is meant to be 'progressing' beyond conventional music is as stale and dull as ever. Now bands like Ulver and Arcturus, THAT is what I call progressive.

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Lordnecronus wrote:
13 days ago

Although, Third-Pole, it would help your argument if you could spell "you're" right; at least Janv92 can spell. He sucks at grammar, though.

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Lordnecronus wrote:
13 days ago

Janv92; ure a faggot [2]

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Third-Pole wrote:
15 days ago

Janv92; ure a faggot

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Janv92 wrote:
16 days ago

Tool isnt even progressive metal, so they can fuck off. They arent really good anyways.

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Carnassial1 wrote:
17 days ago

Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Progressive metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 2300 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.

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Tylarparker wrote:
18 days ago

Tool, Tool and tool nothing can beat the shit of tool.

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naterade20 wrote:
20 days ago

YES!! Sikth i remember buying the album cause it was ten bucks. but worth way more for the music. Too bad they split

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NitroxIZKluTCh wrote:
20 days ago

SikTh is probly my favorite prog metal band. Anyone else fond of 'em?

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Zwanenberg wrote:
22 days ago

But yeah Tool blows chunks. Mastodon and Opeth are probably the only decent to good bands of those 8.

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Zwanenberg wrote:
22 days ago

"shit like Opeth and Mastodon" hahahahaha

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moneeb wrote:
22 days ago

hey, cool new site featuring album and gig reviews, aswell as spotify playlists. http://www.distantreverb.com/

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