Progressive Metal Discussion Thread

This here's a damn fine slice of prog metal from this year:

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/sweven/the-eternal-resonance

Growled vocal but musically less death metal than early Opeth, with some psych elements in there as well.

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Seeing Riverside shortly. They cancelled their last gig I had tickets to just as I arrived at the venue.

And I do like a big of Haken :-)

Listening again to the new mini-album by shredding Greek prog metal artist Oh.

Prog metal used to be the metal genre I listened most to. I have bloody hundreds of prog metal albums, most I rarely listen to these days. The problem is, it all seemed to get a bit samey (yes I know the accusation may be ironic given I'm the lead for the metalcore subs LOL

). For a progressive kick, I tend to listen more to avant-garde metal these days, or mathcore. That's not to say there's not still great prog metal out there - I guess I just became a bit jaded about hunting it down.

Anyway, back on topic. If you like prog metal, listen to the new album from Oh. You can stream it on Bandcamp.

The artist is called Olivia Hadjiioannou and even listening to a recording of how to pronounce it on her home page, I still can't do it. Just as well she uses a nickname. But this music is superb. The album is instrumental, with vocals used as an additional instrument. Check out her videos - the girl certainly can sing, but elects not to on this album.

A few times of year an album comes along which piques your interest in a scene. Metallia is one of those for me.

Any other recent prog metal releases I've missed that I should be listening to?

Edited by Bosh66 - 05 Aug 2018 at 2:29pm

Kingcrow, Subsignal and Symphony X have all announced new albums this year!

Riverside is working on a new album. It will be called Love, Fear and the Time Machine (a strange name for a Riverside album I dare say). The album is (apparently) due in September.

I'm looking forward to this!

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Twisted Into Form is basically Spiral Architect in a new incarnation while Psychotic Waltz play a rather original type of psychadelic tinged progressive metal. Especially their second album is a masterpiece to my ears.

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^I can recommend both Spiral Architect, Twisted Into Form and Psychotic Waltz then.

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I love so much: Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment and Anglagard. Are very rich instrumentally speaking.

But I noted the tips of you and I will search more about these bands.

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I don�t know Subsignal. Which type of progressive metal do they play?

Subsignal rose from the ashes of Sieges Even; it's a band of Arno Menses (vocals and keys) and Markus Steffen (guitar) of Sieges Even. They sound like later day Sieges even (which is awesome to me, a shame Sieges Even disbanded). They will release their third album.

If you like Sieges Even, give them a chance. Their debut album is great - Beautiful & Monstruous (2009) as is their second album - Touchstones (2011). They will be hard to top or even come on the same level. We'll see what they will come up with soon.