Your First Progressive Metal Album?

Heh, I don't really put QR in the prog metal catagory though they had some likeness to it. I'd say DT was the first true Prog metal band.

I remember Rush being labeled metal, back when the label was more generic. Moving Pictures was in the metal section back in the day.

Wurthless wrote:

i'm eagerly waiting for the outcome of this argument.

You're going to be disappointed, I'm just going to bow out. I should never have posted in this thread to begin with, these genre discussions annoy me to the point of wanting to smash my computer monitor.

I don't know if everyone will agree, but I've always regarded Extreme's III Sides to Every Story as a prog album. So that would have been my first prog-metal album.

If not that then it's either Queensryche's Promised Land or Dream Theater's A Change Of Seasons, but I can't remember which one came first as I got them at about the same time.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Heh, I don't really put QR in the prog metal catagory though they had some likeness to it. I'd say Fates Warning was the first true Prog metal band.

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The first was Queensryche "Art of Live". Me and my dad bought it thinking it would be good place to start listening the band that was held in such high regard (if I only knew full story then...). We both were not impressed by it. Then I downloaded "RfO" and "O:M" to give them another chance, and still wasn't blown away. And then I tried "Night on Broken" because the name of the band sounded cool, - nice traditional metal, so the next album of FW I got was "Parallels". After repeated listens I found my favorite band. And only then I finally got into Ryche and the other prog albums I had at that time ("Gutter Ballet", "Programmed', "Crimson Glory" and some others). Sill hate Dream Theater.

I figure that this is all just for fun anyway........

Queensryche - Rage For Order (bought that when it came out.... was actually my first QR album.)

Rush, ELP, King Crimson!

Metalwargod

chewie wrote:

I figure that this is all just for fun anyway........

Pretty much . Prog metal seems to have some prescence in almost everyones' collections (even those who as a rule dispise the genre) and I thought it'd be nice to see where everyone's start was.

I'd have to say Operation:Mindcrime for me. First 'concept' album for me too.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I'd have to say Operation:Mindcrime for me. First 'concept' album for me too.

My first concept album was "The Wall" if memory serves.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I'd have to say Operation:Mindcrime for me. First 'concept' album for me too.

same here. I still remembering listening to Eyes of a Stranger on college radio and running out to buy the cassette.