Oh dear god, I forgot all about Burzum.
Truly a terrible band.
Anyway, I retract my neo prog statement, a lot of it bores me but I don't really consider any of the big name bands to be particularly terrible, and as I said before I have to hold some degree of respect for any musicians I consider to be technically gifted. I just don't get why progarchives faps over this stuff so much. A lot of it isn't even what I'd call progressive.
Marillion are a good band, just very very very overrated in prog fan circles. I don't get why so many proggers think Fish is the definitive musical genius of the genre.
Arena are decent. Pendragon are alright. IQ are
mind numbingly boring.
Frost* are proof that at least one super awesome band can come out of this movement though.
Speaking of progarchives. There's this one guy, Epignosis, he makes some pretty terrible stuff but his album has really high ratings on progarchives, and I'm pretty sure it's only because he's a fellow member.
http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=3802
Anyway. If Blender are so determined to hate on prog, they could at the very least add, like I dunno, Saga or something.