Re: Torrent's Semi-Daily Music Recommendation Thread!
Originally posted by Charlo
It's weird that you called most prog metal pretentious and then expressed admiration for the Animals as Leaders album. In my experience, most of the "anti-proggers" have listened to too much Dream Theater (who can come across as pretentious) and not enough of the good stuff (Pagan's Mind, Pyramaze, Adagio, Stride, Symphony X). I totally disagree that prog is pretentious.
Also, I find that Animals as Leaders is way more self-indulgent than most prog metal; lots of random chugging riffs, sporadic acoustic interludes and not much melodic substance. Just my thought. If you like that kinda crazy time-changing stuff, though, you should check out Planet X.
Yeah, I've listened to a ton of DT lmao. I'll check out those bands.
ps customstuff, only good song is Creature. The others are too wonky, imo.
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