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| | Best Prog Metal albums of all time | | 15 |  | Earthside
A Dream In Static
An incredibly diverse album, ranging from long sweeping epics to more digestible ones. There are also a fair share of instrumental tracks which add a lot to the experience. | | 14 |  | Syncatto
A Place to Breathe
The latest entry on the list seamlessly blends heavy guitars with fun flamenco styling in an instrumental prog album. It's so well crafted that it could easily move up the list in the future. | | 13 |  | Devin Townsend
Empath
One of the most unique and fantastic vocalists in modern music. | | 12 |  | Vektor
Terminal Redux
The greatest thrash metal album, and it's not close. It's a mammoth in scope, navigating through mind-bending, quick, and precise segments with the flick of a switch. | | 11 |  | Tool
Lateralus
One of the greatest psychedelic prog albums of all time, the album is able to seamlessly immerse the listener. | | 10 |  | Persefone
Spiritual Migration
The better Dream Theater, it has all the mad guitar shredding you could ever ask for, plus melodic death metal, and technical death metal in some instances? Sign me up. | | 9 |  | Animals As Leaders
Animals as Leaders
Revolutionized guitar playing as we know it. | | 8 |  | TesseracT
Altered State
Masterful blend of ambience and pummeling chugs. | | 7 |  | Ne Obliviscaris
Portal of I
I'm not usually into melodic death metal but this is surely the best one I've ever heard. Every moment on this album is proggy maximalism and I love every second of it. | | 6 |  | The Ocean
Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
An album that discusses epochs of our time, navigating through the Paleozoic era. The concept is so interesting that it's recommended to check out even if you're not a fan of metal. | | 5 |  | The Contortionist
Language
One of the few albums I understand when people gush about proggy synthesizers in the 70s prog rock era. The album takes you on an unforgettable journey. | | 4 |  | Slice the Cake
Odyssey to the West
The album features a mix of theatrical deathcore, technical death metal, and various other genres. Its story is one of the greatest of all time. | | 3 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
Even as the most contrarian sput user, I cannot deny that Opeth's music is incredibly haunting yet captivating in a beautiful way. | | 2 |  | Periphery
Juggernaut: Alpha / Omega
The story is gripping, and the djenty chugs are icing on the cake. The experience is nothing short of a cinematic epic. | | 1 |  | Between the Buried and Me
The Parallax II: Future Sequence
BTBAM is known for their wacky experimental approach to music, but they managed to create something truly remarkable with their album Parallax II. Despite the songs being massive in size, the band has managed to maintain a coherent structure without making it too complicated for the listener. This is what sets the album apart from others in the genre - it's oddly accessible and ingeniously crafted. | |
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04.27.24 | All-timers right here, this is the complete collenction | ThyCrossAwaits
04.27.24 | I’d probably pick different albums from BTBAM and The Ocean, but solid list | frozencarl
04.27.24 | that Slice the Cake album is sickkkkkkk. did it ever come out what happened to Gareth? think he got arrested for something fucked up but they never said what | AsleepInTheBack
04.27.24 | Even as the most contrarian sput user | Ryus
04.27.24 | all the maudlin of the well albums if you consider those
voivod discog
atheist discog
some opeth stuff
yeah thats pretty much it. bad genre | botb
04.27.24 | Lmao @ 12 being the best thrash album, of what, the 4 thrash albums you’ve heard? | Hawks
04.27.24 | BWP is like 6th or 7th best Opeth and 12 isn't even best Vektor let alone thrash as a whole lol. | Hawks
04.27.24 | But yeah prog metal blowz for the most part unless its mixed with other genres and isn't too over the top. | OwMySnauze
04.28.24 | Last Chance To Reason - Level 2 is definitely missing from the list | MeatSalad
04.28.24 | I'm okay with tundra taking the title of most contrarian sput user, get it king | Tundra
04.28.24 | Thrash metal bands outside of the big 4 I felt are not as exciting and feel like a very homogenized genre as a whole. However, Vektor's music was exceptional and blew everything else out of the water. It was the first time I had been blown away by thrash metal since the first time I heard Slayer. | Tundra
04.28.24 | I've tried listening to Last Chance to Reason a couple times.. but similarly to The Contortionist's Intrinsic, I struggle with the song structures as they seem incoherent and very difficult for me to engage with. | Tundra
04.28.24 | Man these bands in the list really redefined what it means to be prog metal. In the 90s to late 2000s, prog metal was cheesy and boring with stuff like Dream Theater, Operation Midcrime, Ayreon, and Haken. Now, it has become something far greater. | Ryus
04.28.24 | i mean none of those are good but idk if this is any better 🤔 | SomeCallMeTim
04.28.24 | oh no no no no noooo baby what is you doing |
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