The Ultimate Supergroup?

[HateEternal]

Haha! Glad you checked out the tunes. They are pretty old. We started recording a new disc last(!!!!!) January, its been way held up in the mixing stage. It's hard when you have 4 guys that work/go to school and then add the producer/engineer as a full time worker as well. Some day it will be done... some day... At this point we are really ready to record another one. Our newer stuff is a lot more technical, maybe more proggy even. I like the new stuff a lot more because there are some parts written by our bassist which tend to be a little more melodic.

Anyways, my super group... hah I spent an hour last night looking through my collection and didn't really make much progress.

Right now I'm thinking...
Guitar 1 - Peter Lake from Theory In Practice - I just love the stuff he comes up with. So technical and involving.
Guitar 2 - Mikael Åkerfeldt - I know I gave you a hard time about two different guitar styles but you made a good point. Peter is the master of the fast and heavy and Mikael hits my melodic but also heavy spot.
Vocals - Mikael Åkerfeldt - I just love his versatility, both guttural and clean vocals just make me shiver
Bass - Lars K. Norberg from Spiral Achitect - Dude has a really sweet sound and plays some awesome bass parts.
Drums – I have no clue – I spent a long time listening to a few of my favorite bands last night trying to pick out my favorite drummer. I know lots of technically good drummers, but I can't seem to find the one that has a drumming style that stands out.

Don't try and make me come up with a name... I'm just terrible at that.

My musical tastes are really all over the place. For the most part it just has to be really interesting and not bore me, I have a really short attention span when it comes to music. Opeth is one of the only bands that can write a slow song that grabs my attention. I agree, the swedes have the metal thing down. Most of my collection is Swedish as well, and if not Swedish, European at the least. I do get into some American Death Metal bands, there are a lot of bad ones (Cannibal Corpse) and I tend to stay away from gore. However, bands like Deeds of Flesh and Suffocation kick my ass. They really had some awesome stuff in the late 80's when everyone else was wearing tights.

You should give me some suggestions of good prog bands. My collection is so tired, I haven't gotten anything new in too long.

[CaptainQuark]

Good prog, huh? We could be here all day!

If you like Opeth (classified as Progressive Death Metal on Rockdetector, the second best site on the interweb after MacOSX.com) and play yourself in a Death Metal band then you might find some of, what IMHO is the best prog, a tad pedestrian, but here goes.

My absolute fave band is Pain of Salvation. I've mentioned them in previous posts on this thread. Awesome! And their lyrics aren't all about death, etc, but about things like the nature of God and humanity and humanity's destruction of the planet – mind you loads of prog metal bands are considered to be "angst-ridden".

(I once worked with a journalist who said that he was dying to be able to include the word "angst" in one of his articles, but had never found the right occasion. Personally, I prefer the Swedish word "ångest". It allows far more "angst to be expressed when saying it.)

Another good band is Redemption, but avoid at all costs their first eponymous album, as it is seriously cr@p! Their second, The Fullness of Time is a masterpiece! Again, much about human nature, but with a goodly dose of politics, international relations (well, Iraq, at least) and many references to 9/11.

Throne of Chaos may be more to your liking. Finnish Prog Death, although they are more Death than Prog, whereas I think that Opeth are more Prog than Death.

Shadow Gallery are excellent too. A touch of jazz influence in some of their riffs.

If you need more inspiration, check out Progulus Radio. It uses mp3pro, which isn't supported by iTunes so you'll need to download Audion or similar that supports the mp3pro protocol. You can use iTunes, but it sounds as though it's a 56K stream – i.e. a bit sh1t!

[CaptainQuark]

On the subject of good prog, I'm constantly expanding my horizons and trying to find new artists whose music interests me. And here's a cracker!

http://www.subjectruin.net/music.htm

A guy called JT Bruce (no, I've never heard of him before either) has released an album called Anomalous Material.

Difference between this and any other album release? This is covered by a Creative Commons License, which means that, as long as you credit the artist, don't change the music, etc, you can download it for free!

And believe me, if you like prog, you'll like this!

[hennessymac]

Let me introduce the Prog Rockers

Bass Stanley Clarke
Keys/Vox Kate Bush
Drums Keith Moon
Guitar Jeff Beck
Sax & lead Vox Bowie (70s version)

[CaptainQuark]

Originally Posted by hennessymac

Let me introduce the Prog Rockers

Bass Stanley Clarke
Keys/Vox Kate Bush
Drums Keith Moon
Guitar Jeff Beck
Sax & lead Vox Bowie (70s version)

With ya all the way – until you came to Jeff Beck…



…but there's no such thing as a right or wrong answer on this thread.