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Poll Question: Who.s your fav and where do you lean with your style of Metal
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lucas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 4:23pm
Opeth don't do anything to me.
Dream Theater popularized the prog-metal genre and released the essential 'images and words'.
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Definitely Opeth for me; I have tons of respect for Dream Theater for their abilities, although I find their songwriting much less enjoyable.

Favourite style of metal right now would be avant metal with growls, but I have to thank Opeth for making me enjoy growls.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Matt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 5:31pm
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Definitely Opeth for me; I have tons of respect for Dream Theater for their abilities, although I find their songwriting much less enjoyable.

Favourite style of metal right now would be avant metal with growls, but I have to thank Opeth for making me enjoy growls.
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Wow opeth by so much it is untrue... DT don't do it for me. Even though im a prog metal nut and have repeatedly tried Dream theater thinking i must be missing something.... theyv just never clicked for me
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Voted Opeth (fan enough to have had the @ logo tatooed), but I like DT also... I just prefer Opeth !
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Opeth! My favorite band too lol Big smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Nightfly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 May 2010 at 1:32pm
If I ignore their first couple of albums which are fairly average IMO then I'll go for Opeth.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Time Signature Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2010 at 6:47am
I went with DT, although I love Opeth, too.

This doesn't really have anything to do with my favorite style of metal, as such. I just think that DT are more important and have had a bigger impact in prog metal than Opeth has. Also, had there been no DT, there would be no Opeth - �kerfeldt himself has stated that it is because of DT that Opeth sound the way they do. I love both bands and both bands have made songs that rock my world and songs that don't do anything for me. I just like DT a tad more overall.


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Dream Theater
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Block Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Jan 2011 at 4:04pm
This was very hard to choose between, but I had to go with my first metal band, Dream Theater. Since they were both progish in a way, the only seperating factor was that without DT, for me, there would be no Opeth, or metal for that instance.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote martindavey87 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 5:34am
Voted, and then realised this thread is almost a year old, but whatever. Dream Theater all the way.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Andyman1125 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 6:59pm
Oh, this is hard. My two favorite bands of all time..... but I have to go with Dream Theater. One, Dream Theater was the first prog band I ever got into, and from Dream Theater I got into Opeth. They virtually created Prog metal (along with Queensryche and Fates Warning), and they were by far the most successful of the 3. They themselves were a major influence on Opeth, thereby making Dream Theater better, by the width of a hair, in my mind.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Block Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:14pm
I agree, accept for the fact that they created prog metal. I believe that started w/ 7th Son IMO.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Andyman1125 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:35pm
Yea, that got the ball rolling but what we know of as prog metal today essentially started with DT
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More popular prog metal started with DT


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote J-Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:48pm
Ha! Both of you are wrong! Tongue

Here's my chronological evolution of prog metal's key releases... Dream Theater popularized prog metal, but saying they began it is quite a stretch. Here we go...

1985 - Watchtower's Energetic Disassembly



1986 - Queensryche's Rage For Order



1988 - Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son



1988 - Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime



1989 - Fates Warning's Perfect Symmetry



1992 - Dream Theater's Images and Words



Of course, there's more but without these albums, traditional prog metal as we know it wouldn't exist IMO.






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Operation: Mindcrime is the first case of badass prog metal
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Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Ha! Both of you are wrong! Tongue

Here's my chronological evolution of prog metal's key releases... Dream Theater popularized prog metal, but saying they began it is quite a stretch. Here we go...

1985 - Watchtower's Energetic Disassembly



1986 - Queensryche's Rage For Order



1988 - Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son



1988 - Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime



1989 - Fates Warning's Perfect Symmetry



1992 - Dream Theater's Images and Words



Of course, there's more but without these albums, traditional prog metal as we know it wouldn't exist IMO.








I was almost right with 7th Son. LOL


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Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Ha! Both of you are wrong! Tongue

Here's my chronological evolution of prog metal's key releases... Dream Theater popularized prog metal, but saying they began it is quite a stretch. Here we go...

1985 - Watchtower's Energetic Disassembly



1986 - Queensryche's Rage For Order



1988 - Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son



1988 - Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime



1989 - Fates Warning's Perfect Symmetry



1992 - Dream Theater's Images and Words



Of course, there's more but without these albums, traditional prog metal as we know it wouldn't exist IMO.







Watchtower is more jazz thrash metal though.... Wink
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote J-Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 6:28pm
^ One could argue that Watchtower's highly technical approach to thrash metal was the beginning of progressive metal. Of course, it's more subtly progressive than, say, Images and Words, but I've always considered it the first prog metal album (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this).
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