Any good Progressive Metal Bands?

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I'm on a quest to add on some really good Progressive Metal Bands. Does anyone have any really good recommendations? I want lots of Progressive Metal Bands on my list!!!!

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The ones I like the most'd be;

  • Symphony X
  • Opeth
  • Agalloch 
  • Moonsorrow
  • TÝR

Enjoy;

Regards.

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Well...there's a lot of awesome progressive metal out there.  Not sure just how "out there" you're looking to listen, but here's a list in no particular order:

I'm probably forgetting about some really important, must-listen-to band...but eh.  This'll keep you busy for a little while.

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Prog is a massive genre. Can you deal with harsh vocals? I can recommend a lot more in that case... Actually, here are some specimens. Let me know which ones you prefer and I can recommend similar bands:

Progressive Death Metal: Martriden - this song is amazing from around the 2:30 mark until the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WZQ-y1_bEg  

Progressive/ Avantgarde Metal: Unexpect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdk8xi1XHM  

Instrumental Progressive *2 bands here...
Russian Circles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzYMVrhTyk  

Animals as Leaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmXGkwNs-k  

Progressive Post-Black: Ihsahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpluTn_bPXI 

Progressive Power Metal: Wuthering Heights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Q02YbpLo8

Progressive Bluegrass: The Goad Rodeo Sessions ( Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile and Stuart Duncan) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw  

Progressive Psychedellic Rock: Astra 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xwJ1-S6Bc  

Let me know which styles you like the best. There are heavier progressive styles as well. 

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I can deal with the harsh vocals, as long it has a melodic beat to it. I'm also looking for a lot of Progressive Power Metal Bands.

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Already heard of all those bands. Thanks though

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Heard of scale the summit or soul cycle? pretty good..

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If you want to hear progressive metal you have to lsiten to dream Theater. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbFnm5fkB_s

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Perirphery, Art by numbers, Beacons, Between the buried and me, Circles, El Scar, Bulb, Dysfunctional, VIA

 

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Keith Marrow, Chimp Spanner, Elitist, Erra, Uneven Structure, Aliases

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I couldn't Disagree with any of these bands

Specially Heljareyga, by far my favourite album for the year.

only thing i could really think of adding to this at this point of time would be

James LaBrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVRo2zIENuE

Circus Maximus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6ROA8hj-4&feature=plcp

Guilt machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqzGwmmLjE

Ayreon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIqRsl8Vm-Q

Theres so much more it take for ever to name everything


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I'm sure you've already heard of Gojira, but check out Intronaut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYGL5qOt70

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Not so much progressive metal than it is progressive rock, but the album Doomsday Afternoon by Phideaux is something you should definately check out.

Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItziJDTjrmo&feature=related

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_progressive_metal_artists

 

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Some of these may not be considered metal, but good progressive music either way:

Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Indukti, Proghma-C, Gru (Stellar is amazing), Animals as Leaders, Bulb, Tool, Office of Strategic influence (OSI), I Mother Earth (Specifically their first album 'Dig', and the last album 'The Quicksilver Meat Dream'), Division by Zero, YouTube 'Empyrean', trippy ass vid, some random dude wrote it so I got no band name for you.... Hope you like some of these

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Alright let me help you out here.

Haken: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q97gsNppY7g

Haken is a fantastic progressive metal band with a unique style. Not all of their songs on the Nocturnal Conspiracy album have lyrics. If the video above sparked your interest, check out Portals.

Pyramaze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw7ZnzCxUDY

I love pyramaze, they are certainly progressive power metal as requested. This is one of my favorites by them.

Stratovarius: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDS1TBAElo

Once again a progressive power metal band. This song blew my mind when I first heard it and it is still one of my all time favorites.

I dont wan't to flood this page with youtube videos, so I will just tell you other bands I recommend as well as a song I think is a good example of their work.

Nevermore: This Godless Endeavor

Guitarwork in this song is flawless.

Tool: 10,000 Days

A highly recommended song by a lot of people.

Kamelot: Ghost Opera

Symphonic progressive metal

Circus Maximus: Mouth of Madness

That entire album is a story, and this song really stuck out to me.

Progressive Metal is the genre I listen to the most. I can't recommend enough good artists, so here's a long picture guide I got off of 4chan a while ago.

http://i.imgur.com/kURfu.jpg

 

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Give Virus a listen, it's composed from members from the KVLT Norwegian progressive metal act "Ved Buens Ende" (and if you haven't heard that well that's a good tip as well!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEEgleT0Wz4

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Circus Maximus

Dream Theater

John Petrucci

Firewind

Masodon

Opeth

Outopsya

TesseracT

Andromeda 

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What happens when four geniuses come together and make music? Tool. This band has changed the way I think and the way I live. They are considered prog but I like to think of them as their own genre. Also, another amazing band is Opeth which I saw was mentioned above.

 

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Just to add on, here's some of the 'new progressive' bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnaClnVnj_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEY1jZK-uBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pskj9sbffg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h0rlWX5lM - This band has another new vocalist now, and a new song with him coming out next month. Can't wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMorAdnCixg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3FMWiTtMgo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbLz5lNcHi0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_44BA6qdCw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRUILnOTc0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t9skT6rsZE