Progressive/Alternative Metal

[Obhraonian]

Try Tool

[youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo]

symphony X

[youtube.com/watch?v=GUn4jXZko5E]

riverside

[youtube.com/watch?v=KZXq7Xa2X2s]

Others good ones are aryeon, evergray, pain of salvation.

edit: don't think I'v embedded the links properly can someone tell what I'v wrong or do it again thanks.

 

[Megalodon]

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Oh man I fucking love mastadon!
I have all their albums (Sorry probably should have mentioned them so you didn't waste your time)
Saw them live last year opening for metallica, would have been good but the sound guys put the bass waaaaay to high.

Not a problem, seen them three times in the last year, bloody briliiant! Hell, my username is taken from Leviathan.

Holy shit three times?
Man that'd be awesome to see. All the live videos I've seen the vocals weren't great, how did you find them?

Can't say i noticed a problem, though i've found the lyrics on the earlier albums pretty hard to understand without a lyric sheet anyway. But Crack the Skye live, in order, is one of the best things ever.

I would say it is, that album is a fucking masterpiece, the drum intro to Quintessence, amazing!
And Ghost of Karelia is just beautiful.

All true, gotta love The Last Baron though. It was great when we played it on a bar's dukebox, pretty sure only me and my mate actually appreciated it.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

snip

Oh man I fucking love mastadon!
I have all their albums (Sorry probably should have mentioned them so you didn't waste your time)
Saw them live last year opening for metallica, would have been good but the sound guys put the bass waaaaay to high.

Not a problem, seen them three times in the last year, bloody briliiant! Hell, my username is taken from Leviathan.

Holy shit three times?
Man that'd be awesome to see. All the live videos I've seen the vocals weren't great, how did you find them?

Can't say i noticed a problem, though i've found the lyrics on the earlier albums pretty hard to understand without a lyric sheet anyway. But Crack the Skye live, in order, is one of the best things ever.

I would say it is, that album is a fucking masterpiece, the drum intro to Quintessence, amazing!
And Ghost of Karelia is just beautiful.

All true, gotta love The Last Baron though. It was great when we played it on a bar's dukebox, pretty sure only me and my mate actually appreciated it.

Hahahaha that's awesome, to bad the bar's over here suck.

 

[Nickolai77]

Tyr also have progressive metal elements, may as well post it since that's what i've been listening to just now.

 

[Nickolai77]

Try Tool


symphony X


riverside


Others good ones are aryeon, evergray, pain of salvation.

edit: don't think I'v embedded the links properly can someone tell what I'v wrong or do it again thanks.

You type "youtube=" and then copy pasta the final part of the link after the equals sign and of course it's all in brackets.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Except for Mastodon prog metal bores me. Weirdly, I love Mastodon.

 

[Horticulture]

Cynic
<youtube=OQivkZJaoq0>


Between the Buried and Me
<youtube=FKQSe3TatPQ>

Protest the Hero
<youtube=dWig9FwqWpk>

Fredrik Thordendal/Meshuggah
<youtube=U5YEqmIIdj8>

 

[Obhraonian]

Try Tool


symphony X


riverside


Others good ones are aryeon, evergray, pain of salvation.

edit: don't think I'v embedded the links properly can someone tell what I'v wrong or do it again thanks.

You type "youtube=" and then copy pasta the final part of the link after the equals sign and of course it's all in brackets.

Ok thanks i'll remember that next time.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Protest the hero:
Gojira: Death: And my favourite English band ever: Sikth

 

[Outright Villainy]

Protest the Hero
<youtube=dWig9FwqWpk>

*Hi-fives*

 

[child of lileth]

I love Opeth, but I haven't really gotten into many bands like them, so I can't think of many recommendations. I'll edit this later if I do.

 

[Yer man o'er yonder]

Try Tool


symphony X


riverside


Others good ones are aryeon, evergray, pain of salvation.

edit: don't think I'v embedded the links properly can someone tell what I'v wrong or do it again thanks.

You only need youtube= [letters after equals sign]
You don't need the full url

quote me and see...

[sub] never mind others told you[/sub]

 

[guyroxorz]

There's a big difference between Progressive Metal bands and Alternative Metal bands, at least these days. Alt Metal nowadays is your Slipknot/Disturbed etc etc (pretty much what the old Nu-Metal bands evolved into) and progressive metal is your Dream Theater and your Opeth.

Anyway check Scar Symmetry, they have a lot in common with Dream Theater but still retain some of the death metal edge (sort of like Opeth).

scar symmetry are awesome I highly recommend them too

 

[Zac Smith]

Between the Buried and Me - Prequel To The Sequel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lb3rE17Sak

 

[Corven]

Devin Townsend's non-SYl stuff is said to be progressive metal, you've got Synchestra, Terria, Accelerated Evolution, Ziltoid The omniscient, Addicted, and Ocean Machine/biomech.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

A lot of good suggestions, I was actually going to recommend Ayreon, Scar Symmetry and Symphony X, but I see people have already done that for me - but I noticed some of my other Prog-Metal favorites have not come up. Time to correct that!

Spoiler: This is Orphaned Land, an Israeli Prog/Folk/Death metal band with a very unique sound.

Spoiler: Beyond Twilight, who write dark sci-fi/horror prog concept albums.

Spoiler: Communic is... all over the place, they write exceptionally long songs that switch somehow never seem as long as they really are thanks to all the stylistic changes they make inside them.

Spoiler: Threshold, tasteful British prog that's a lot like Dream Theater, only with less wankery per capita and more focus on delivering solid tunes.

 

[Zeriah]

Anyway check Scar Symmetry, they have a lot in common with Dream Theater but still retain some of the death metal edge (sort of like Opeth).

Generic Melodeath like scar symmetry doesnt qualife for progressive metal.

Actually Scar Symmetry are anything but generic Melodic Death, in fact they are a huge breath of fresh air in the genre (honestly they might be the future of the very stagnant genre). They are Melodic Death Metal yes, but they bring in huge progressive influences. If you can't hear that by listening to them I don't quite know what to say to you.

For comparison,

Normal Melodic Death:

Scar Symmetry:

But anyway I know they aren't Progressive Metal, they are Melodic Death Metal with large progressive influences. I said they borrowed a lot from Dream Theater while still retaining a Death Metal edge, which is a very good way to describe them. I figured the guy liked Progressive Metal that was still quite brutal and Scar Symmetry was something I thought of, even if they aren't exactly Progressive Metal.

 

[Paul]

Mastodon has already been suggested, but I'll suggest it again. They're probably my favorite progressive artists. However I know of two other artists you might like:

Baroness
Kylesa

There is also Sonic Syndicate, but I'm almost certain they are not progressive. Still - if you want more ideas, search one of your preferred progressive metal groups on Last.FM and see what the recommended similar artists are like!

 

[Revolutionary]

I have never really seen why people like Mastadon, I personally think they suck.

Prog on the other hand is god like in my opinion.

I gotta say I also think they're kinda boring compared to other stuff.

 

[ThePeaceFrog]

There is nothing progressive about progressive metal, it is a moronic title for a genre trying to pretend that it has any form of creatvity involved within it.