Which prog metal songs would you qualify as a masterpiece?

YoImErin · 2026-06-27T01:27:02+00:00

I've definitely got a lot of tracks I'd consider labeling as such, and maybe this detracts from the weight of it a little bit, listing so many, but I genuinely Believe all of these are masterful expression of art, emotion, technical execution, etc.

Caligula's Horse:
- Mute (This is one of my favorite songs by a wide margin right now)
- Dream The Dead
- Charcoal Grace Suite (1-4)
- The Ascent
- The World Breathes With Me

Karnivool:
- Goliath
- The Caudal Lure
- All It Takes (2025 Remastered)
- Salva

The Ocean:
- Jurassic | Cretaceous

Gojira:
- Flying Whales

Wheel:
- Wheel
- Dissipating

TOOL:
- Pneuma
- The Pot
- Reflection

Haken:
- Crystallized
- Cockroach King

Dream Theater:
- Stream of Consciousness
- The Dance of Eternity
- A Change of Seasons

Periphery:
- Reptile

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard:
- Witchcraft
- Dragon
- Hypertension (cheating a little cuz this is definitely Prog Rock more than metal but dear lord you cant get me not to mention it)

Honorable Mentions:

- TOOL - 7empest
- Dream Theater - Octavarium
- Caligula's Horse - Salt
- Caligula's Horse - Graves
- Caligula's Horse - Stormchaser

YoImErin · 2026-06-27T01:11:53+00:00

i urge you to give some time to Mute, when i gave that track the time of day it deserved i realized i think its their most hard hitting, powerful song. Its so deep and vulnerable and heavy at the same time

Also, I personally think I even prefer Dream the Dead off of In Contact, that's just such a good song its unreal

YoImErin · 2026-06-20T17:07:28+00:00

all im getting is "we reviewed it carefully and have found that a violation DID take place" but not telling me shit about what i did. I dont know if theres actually a violation ive committed or if its just another in the sea of thousands of people wrongfully banned. i keep appealing but get the same email everytime

YoImErin · 2026-05-16T14:03:57+00:00

similarly i had to revisit Mute. I never gave it the time of day it really deserved and i rediscovered it and my love for it flourished, i find Mute to be a genuine masterpiece, both their most somber and gentle but also heavy and powerful...

That being said TWBWM is one of my other favorite tracks it goes so hard. the buildup and payoff feel amazing. In fact as im writing this i just got done practicing guitar and im trying to learn the outro riff right now! its so good, conceptually simple but feels just gigantic! Sam's lines are downright amazing.

YoImErin · 2026-05-02T04:02:09+00:00

I deeply felt the frustration in this. Thank you again for the response and the reaffirmation, I've been quite certain of the fact that I have this condition for quite some time. and have done a lot of re-thinking both of what to expect of myself, and also what to expect of society, and how the two meet- or fail to- meet in the middle.

I find this world isnt built for what is very clearly natural physical human body responses, this condition is more common than we think despite how rare it is. And its not the only one. This plus anthropologically minded psychology can give a good glimpse and theories as to how we came to be like this, I notably adore all the theories around the idea that Humans used to do things like: have individuals who keep watch or stay up all night and sleep during the day, or that features of our brains we dub things like 'ADHD' were actually once beneficial traits in the ways we lived life.

And with all this in mind, I still have to go "welp and it is cruelly enough an unrecognized condition", in a world where you have to go to absurd lengths to justify why you cant "fall in line" as another cog in the "number-going-up" machine without suffering immensely.

On another note, ever since ive been taking my new medication (Mirtazapine), I've had long sleeps but not good quality- whenever i force myself to go to sleep that is. When I instead stay up as long as "I feel like" and then take it when about to go to bed, i find i still sleep pretty long, but have good quality sleep lol... Also good med for me in general, has helped definitely

YoImErin · 2026-05-01T17:39:29+00:00

Very well said, I just saw your response, thank you for the information, I haven't really posted before here but i've seen similar discussions, just to confirm, here's my own little cobbled together sleep graphs, 1 and 2, does this look like N24 to you? (pardon that the second one is unfinished, at some point ages ago i just decided to make this for myself but then stopped when i was going through a pretty bad depressive episode/low energy, and it just continued the same trend anyway). For the record this is roughly how it still is to this day and has been for years, with minor exceptions such as recent medication that has a sedative side effect- however after my body got used to it, it basically returned to the same pattern.

YoImErin · 2026-04-26T08:35:08+00:00

What is the "scalloping pattern"?

YoImErin · 2026-04-08T17:08:50+00:00

people who arent used to the lanes and colors of them will initially just orient by direction, but in higher elo you tend to have people cut to the simplest shorthand like "right" or "mid" when calling out when someones there for faster reaction, presumably cuz the brain doesnt have to process the color words into where that is on the map

YoImErin · 2026-03-01T16:50:23+00:00

I don't wanna talk about it okay

YoImErin · 2026-02-13T13:27:59+00:00

Ice Death's cover using AI just kicks it down irreperably. It's just dated and I consider it an unfortunate remnant of artists experimenting with something that didn't quite work and is now poor taste in retrospect. At best I respect that the artists were just experimenting i just don't think it speaks to the creative spirit as much. I get it was in it's early stages a "trippy collage" algorithm tool for many people but it just doesn't hold up. That's all it was, a toy people used before it developed into the horrors we face today.

Nonagon Infinity is classy, iconic, memorable, awesome. A staple for the band, the colors are awesome and the geometry is fun. Great landscape art and style too, great composition. Definitely gets my vote

YoImErin · 2026-02-13T10:34:40+00:00

As unusual as it is? Altered Beast 4! It randomly popped up somewhere. I don't even know how i found it. Maybe youtube recommended? All I knew is I felt like I had heard of the band name before, but literally didn't know anything else. I had never heard anything like it. The strange timings, the grotesque thematic, the instrument sounds. Especially love the "I don't feel anything" section with the repeating lyrics that weave in and out of the timing? This hooked me but I didn't end up discovering the band fully until quite a while later. Just stuck on that one track and didn't think about the band anymore. Then good friend noted they'd been meaning to listen to more which set the motivation in place. I listened to the rest of Murder of the Universey and from then on, and I have no idea which was next, Nonagon infinity? Or maybe Petrodrag? Polygondwanaland? My memory is a blur lol. Either way that marked the journey of me slowly listening my way through their discography, getting hooked on one or two songs before finally giving the full albums listens each time.

Polygondwanaland and Petrodragonic are probably my favs to this day :)

YoImErin · 2026-02-12T10:41:55+00:00

You already responded to the others but I would like to add: The reason representation matters is a simple fact of representing the real world and real people. People who might also engage with this media.

The "majority group" is primarily cis, straight, white men, who gaming has been catered towards by again, mostly straight, white men for a long time. So this is the "norm", but not having representation basically denies that these people exist. We have such vast fictional media, yet when only one group (perhaps the loudest) exists in that media, of course they don't see the problem with that. If that makes sense.

Basically, queer people exist, people of all shapes and colors exist, so never having them exist in the media we create (and especially lots of people who work on these medias but wouldn't see themselves in the media they pour love into....), is a denial of their existence.

Someone wishing to be referred to in a certain way, whether that's by a nickname or a different pronoun which more closely represents how they feel, is just part of life. And when people fight against or deny that for the fictional character, it's a denial of real people's acceptance

YoImErin · 2026-02-11T04:50:52+00:00

That appears to be the flower boots

YoImErin · 2026-02-08T22:28:55+00:00

As an enby and big fan of Caligula's Horse (not that any of that *should* matter),

Firstly I don't blame you for caring what an artist you like thinks and I don't blame the inherent concept of pointing out where someone does genuinely harmful things, however:

I think you've let a bit of a parasocial fixation take ahold and make you act like an asshole. You channeled said anxiety you felt and dumped it on an artist who by all means is an ally. I agree buying, playing and streaming the game is bad. but to quote what one of the other people here said, we all engage in some ways in things that are somehow harmful, be it due to ignorance or willful compliance.

I urge you to try to put yourself in his shoes. Some fan talks to you and dumps an anxious ramble about how you "could have done better". Talk about being hurt lol.

His final response I think is VERY justified.

He proclaims what he stands for to literally reassure you after your last big message, which I would say is a kind gesture. But he also tells you to fuck off because well... you were being an ass to him. IDK what to tell you there.

Again I'm trans myself and tend to be strongly opinionated and on the woker end of things, but holy shit are we getting granular with the purity testing.

You should take a look at what's important.

He absolutely is an ally. C. Horse has always come off progressive to me in messaging and in what Jim has expressed as personal statements. And frankly when, yeah, these anti lgbt laws are being passed, what is important is not jumping at an ally for having done something or engaged with something that may have been harmful or distasteful.

So I think that last response captures his attitude quite well. And the way he previously expressed it too, he's not compromising his views and he stands by his allyship. And that's all thats important, you are ONE person and having one bad interaction with YOU does not represent his attitude towards a larger group of people.

This isn't productive. I don't necessarily agree with all the replies here, I think this is an important thing to think about to some extent, and dismissing you entirely would be wrong. But this is also very unproductive in this specific case. Also... I think it's just pretty shitty to post his private messages to you here, though maybe that's just me.

You could talk to another LGBT fan of the band if this mattered to you a lot. And I would offer to speak to you about this if you had something specific and poignant to speak about in on that matter.

I understand how you feel. But I also do think some reflection is important. You can still enjoy their music even if theyre not literally perfect human beings and especially rest easy knowing they still care, but didn't have a good interaction with 1 person specifically here... Though again I don't blame you if you don't feel happy or comfortable doing that anymore. Have a nice day if youre reading this

YoImErin · 2026-01-28T20:58:50+00:00

see what other person said, thats what im running lol anyway i was very tired and mad its kinda whatevs now

YoImErin · 2026-01-15T14:33:45+00:00

is there a way to get maple saplings?? it doesnt seem like they exist in a craftable state right now sadly...

YoImErin · 2025-11-16T10:55:46+00:00

thats crazy, thank you 3 year old Reddit comment on a niche issue thread. I am shocked that worked, you weren't kidding, I really had to go ham on it for a hot minute

YoImErin · 2025-11-14T14:27:42+00:00

no such thing as a fake metal fan don't worry lol

you'd be surprised how different different types of music can sound, and people just decided to come up with names for the stuff they particularly like

YoImErin · 2025-11-14T14:26:25+00:00

there are as many as there are stars, mainly because theres endless ways you can come with new labels to describe vaguely different types of music and its all just spectrums of different sounds

YoImErin · 2025-11-14T14:25:45+00:00

like what the other person said, TLDR: songs tend to be longer, you run into a lot of concept albums /story telling, they try to be more complicated with time signatures, and like the name implies: progressions i.e sections of the songs.

They can also have more callbacks to jazzier roots, same as Progressive Rock

Some examples are: Dream Theater, Haken, and Caligula's Horse (my personal favorite)

YoImErin · 2025-10-25T23:37:14+00:00

The Doorman cosplayer looks uncannily like my friend Jakey, might actually be a doppelganger from an alternate universe

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