Christian,

That's easy to answer. Yes, there are a lot of bands, but the greatest and
most sophisticated ones are not in abundance. There are a number of people
on this forum who are well versed in the prog-metal genre, and I'm sure they
will offer you some great suggestions. And I would like to offer you the
name's of bands who I feel are the classiest of the bunch. I don't know all
of them, of course, but I kid you not about the band's I will suggest below.

My favorites are:

Symphony X
Pain of Salvation
Flower Kings (This band is really a fusion band, but I had to
mention them anyway.)
Andromeda
Arena
ARK

If you have a little money to spend, here are my recommendations:

Symphony X - "V"
Pain of Salvation - "The Perfect Element"
Flower Kings - "Unfold the Future"
Andromeda - "Extension Of The Wish"
Arena - "The Visitor"
ARK - "Ark"


Here is a web site you can find TONS of progressive albums.

http://www.lasercd.com/Merchant/lasercd/

Best Regards
-RAM


----- Original Message -----
From: "christianmbauer" <cmbuntouchable@...>
To: <pilgrimworld@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: [pilgrimworld] Hello everybody - please lend me one moment of your
attention


> Hello pilgrimworld members,
>
>
> First let me say, i am currently taking my first steps in the prog
> metal genre, and i don't know many bands yet. To this type of music,
> i gained access through my preference for highly complex contemporary
> jazz music. A friend of mine once introduced me to progressive, namely
> a cd by liquid tension has been shown to me. I wasn't fond of it from
> the first moment on, but after a while, i began to like it and in the
> end, i must have heard this cd (experiment no. 2) at least some 50
> times!
> After buying the other liquid tension experiment cd and some dream
> theater cds, i went to homepage of magna carta to look for some
> further bands. I came across of lemur voice, of which i decided to
> buy the albums (i don't have them yet).
> My problem now is, that there is a vast amount of metal acts around,