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Originally Posted by Frownland
Replace Crack the Skye with Blood Mountain.
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Done.
Crack the Skye sounds like a boring album anyway.
Leviathan and
Blood Mountain were clearly Mastodon's peak.
But you can't think of any other bands I'm missing? I added Tool largely because of their reputation. I don't particularly like them, but I just feel like I'm obligated to add them. Would drop them in a second if I had a substitute that was more than just some death metal band with awkward jazz fusion moments (****ing Atheist).
And even though I do like Fates Warning, respect their historical significance, know that certain members might take offense at their being removed, and don't want to underrepresent the 80s, I don't know that I can't find something better
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I never understood why Qüeensryche were considered prog metal, I don't hear any prog in there beyond it being a concept album.
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I know very little about judging an album's progginess. I don't have the ear to judge technicality, and wouldn't know whether, say, a death metal album was either progressive or just technical. I saw some guy argue that Death wasn't a technical death metal band because they didn't use inventive "techniques" when playing (I believe he referenced things like odd picking styles), but were instead progressive because they had progressive rock influences. All Greek to me however. I'm of the camp that says that "progressive" should basically be an interchangeable term with "experimental" or "avant garde", otherwise it's just a mindless genre that restricts creativity rather than encouraging it.
It's another thing that bugs me about Opeth. Again, Cynic and Edge of Sanity pretty much already did what Opeth are doing and with more creativity and diversity to boot, so all Opeth have going for them is a tired gimmick that only deviates from its formula by the amount of time they concentrate on death metal vs prog rock. A two-trick pony band as far as I'm concerned who are only progressive in a shallow sense.
Oh yeah, Queensryche. **** if I know it they're prog metal. But they're categorized as such, and it's too late to add them to trad metal. It'd just feel wrong to leave out one of the most acclaimed metal albums of all time when I don't have to. It's why I added
Symbolic. I'm not entirely sure it qualifies as prog metal, but it feels close enough while being too far from death metal to compare it to Cryptopsy or Morbid Angel.