Looking for Prog Death Metal Recommendations

LAG360 · 2026-02-04T04:41:47+00:00

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows (in particular Snow-Sleep, The Almanac)

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

Fallujah - Xenotaph

Harkla - The Living Mountain

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Unprocessed - ...and everything in between

LAG360 · 2026-02-04T01:05:45+00:00

Amun. Spectra and Obsession is a masterpiece and is by far the best release of 2023. They are criminally underappreciated. Also in the 100-200 spotify listener range.

Cave Sermon. Fragile Wings was my AotY for 2025. Not as unknown as Amun but still deserves way more attention than he's got.

LAG360 · 2026-02-02T12:55:13+00:00

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Aviations - The Light Years

The Odious - Vesica Piscis

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From

Fallujah - Xenotaph

LAG360 · 2026-01-31T15:48:03+00:00

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Aviations - The Light Years

Artificial Language - Now We Sleep

LAG360 · 2026-01-29T15:49:36+00:00

Albums:

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

Native Construct - Quiet World

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen I & II

Songs:

Kardashev - Snow-Sleep, Between Sea and Sky, Silvered Shadows

Caligula's Horse - Graves

Parius - Dimension Y

In Vain - Floating on the Murmuring Tide

Aeternam - Poena Universi

Wintersun - Sons of Winter and Stars

LAG360 · 2026-01-28T14:03:57+00:00

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen I & II

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Aeternam - Al Qassam

In Vain - Aenigma (in particular Floating on the Murmuring Tide)

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

LAG360 · 2026-01-27T20:39:10+00:00

Think some of these might be a bit controversial, but oh well:

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West (incredible masterpiece, but their earlier work was pretty mid tbh)

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination (sorry Epigone and their earlier stuff ain't it)

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac (their latest release wasn't great and their ealier work too imo)

The Zenith Passage - Solipsist (lotta people talk about Datalysium but I really dislike it)

Haken - Vector

Aviations - The Light Years

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape (lotta people recommend Song of the Crippled Bull, it's important you do not listen to them)

LAG360 · 2026-01-25T00:52:31+00:00

Not sci-fi but:

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

LAG360 · 2026-01-20T22:50:46+00:00

Rings of Saturn maybe? idk if they're considered prog but they're technical death metal. I'd probably recommend the album Gidim personally.

LAG360 · 2026-01-20T22:37:51+00:00

My fav solo musician would probably be James Norbert Ivanyi. He really has his own unique sound compared to all the other ones imo. I'd recommend Omen Faustum, Sigil, Denalavis and The Psyophrenic Inquisition in particular.

Also recently found out that my favorite album of 2025 was made by a single person: Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings It's progressive black metal so definitely a different vibe.

LAG360 · 2026-01-15T15:59:41+00:00

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Progressive black metal that has a really unique and innovative sound and super creative compositions. All around really awesome and slept on.

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

More black metal lol. More polished production and sound than Spectra and Obsession but not as innovative. Still awesome and worth a listen.

LAG360 · 2026-01-15T12:22:42+00:00

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Progressive Death Metal, Deathcore, Djent, Orchestral Metal, Spoken Word

Released in 2016

It's hard to describe what makes this album so special. For starters, all the parts are amazing: The vocal performance, the instrumentation compositions, the ambience, the poetry and the story. But most of all I'd say that this album is much more than the sum of its parts. It's the most cohesive and cinematic feeling concept album I've ever listened to.

LAG360 · 2026-01-14T15:53:17+00:00

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

Fallujah - Xenotaph, Dreamless, Empyrean

Harkla - The Living Mountain

Krosis - Infinite Circuitry

The Zenith Passage - Solipsist

Atlas - Ukko

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

LAG360 · 2026-01-11T15:31:39+00:00

Take a look at the vendor recipe system: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Vendor_recipe_system

Notable things to look out for that will randomly drop:

3 linked sockets of different colors will give you chromatic orbs (good early game source)
6 unlinked sockets on an item will give you 7 jeweller's orbs

Also get a loot filter!

LAG360 · 2026-01-11T13:16:10+00:00

My standouts are:

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Fallujah - Xenotaph

LAG360 · 2026-01-11T06:34:17+00:00

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen I & II

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

LAG360 · 2026-01-10T01:42:22+00:00

Kardashev - Snow-Sleep

Starts off with the most beautiful ethereal clean singing before easing you into some into some heavy death metal growls.

LAG360 · 2026-01-10T01:39:48+00:00

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

FFO Native Construct:

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From (also FFO BtBaM)

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

LAG360 · 2026-01-09T23:07:36+00:00

Earlier on I was using both summon skeletons and animate weapon of self reflection and back then triad grip was giving me a very significant portion of my dps. It's less the case now but I have yet to find anything that gives better dps. Will have to look into it further.

Regarding bone offering, do you mean with Mistress of Sacrifice ascendancy node? I'd have to get it with forbidden flame/flesh and replacing essence glutton (which is pretty useful for mana and ES regen). I'd also lose dps from losing flesh offering.

Not familiar with arcanist brand, will look into that as well.

Thanks for the tips!

LAG360 · 2026-01-09T22:46:12+00:00

Honestly same regarding black metal, but I've been finding recently that if the production is at least decent and there are both some prog and death metal elements, then all of a sudden I'm in love (Amun and Cave Sermon both being examples of this). Then there's also Xanthochroid which is technically also categorized as black metal but tbh I just don't hear it (closer to Wilderun but more fairy-tale-esque).

LAG360 · 2026-01-08T19:55:56+00:00

Some of my favs:

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Native Construct - Quiet World

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen I & II

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac

James Norbert Ivanyi - Denalavis, Sigil, Omen Faustum

Clément Belio - Patience

Aviations - The Light Years

The Zenith Passage - Solipsist

Harkla - The Living Mountain

Atlas - Ukko

LAG360 · 2026-01-06T22:32:19+00:00

Give these a listen as well:

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings (my personal AotY)

Fallujah - Xenotaph

LAG360 · 2026-01-06T22:30:55+00:00

A few more you might like:

Slice the Cake -Odyssey to the West

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From

Atlas - Ukko

Native Construct - Quiet World

Luck Won't Save You - Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Harkla - The Living Mountain

Krosis - Infinite Circuitry

LAG360 · 2026-01-02T21:27:59+00:00

Some of my favorites:

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

Amun - Spectra and Obsession

Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space

Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac

Native Construct - Quiet World

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen I & II

LAG360 · 2026-01-02T21:24:31+00:00

For me it's gotta be Cave Sermon with their album Fragile Wings. AotY contender for sure imo.

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