R&P: What are your top 5 prog metal albums?

Hellooo Sheepy ;-)

These are my all time favorites so far:

Tool ~ Lateralus

Dream Theater ~ Train Of Thought

Mastodon ~ Crack the Skye

Opeth ~ Heritage

Karnivool ~ Themata

Although I haven't found much of anything new lately either. But Ill give you my five LATEST discoveries that deserve mention

Semantic Saturation ~ Solipsistic (Instrumental Progressive Metal)

Devil's Slingshot ~ Clinophobia (Instrumental Progressive Metal)

Temple ~ On The Steps Of The Temple (Instrumental Progressive Metal)

Lost In Thought ~ Opus Arise

Anthriel ~ The Pathway

BQ: Beautiful Sunny, 55 degrees NO RAIN!!

BQ2: Not really, unfortunately

BQ3: Most definitely Tool

Dream Theater - Images and Words

Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle

Distorted Harmony - Utopia

Votum - Time Must Have a Stop

Kamelot - Epica

BQ: Still colder than I would like

BQ2: Just started getting into King Crimson

BQ3: Wow, I can't pick just one. I'll give you 3: Marillion, Yes, Dream Theater

And awesome pick with Milliontown. I love that album, only reason it's not on here is because I don't really consider it prog metal....it's more neo-prog than anything.

How about 17, now not repeating bands: The Whirlwind - Transatlantic Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse The Sum of No Evil - The Flower Kings Spock’s Beard - Spock’s Beard slumbering in visitors Pt. 1 - Beardfish Milliontown - Frost* Deadwing - Porcupine Tree Revolution road - Rocket Scientists Angular Perceptions - proposal Chamber 10,000 Days - instrument Stati Di Immaginazione - Premiata Forneria Marconi Quantum - Planet X the top Is stunning - Echolyn My River Flows - Izz The backyard - Unitopia Insurgentes - Steven Wilson Rational weight loss program - Rational food plan And more commonly the new Presto Ballet after I hear the full thing.

Hey here is mine:

Opeth - Watershed

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring

System of a down - Hypnotize

Tool - 10,000 Days

BQ: Really cold and about to snow tonight!

BQ2: YES 2013 tour in awesome! If anyone has an chance to go, it is a must see for progressive rock fans.

BQ3: Jethro Tull

Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone - Akercocke

Antichrist - Akercocke

Morningrise - Opeth

Octavarium - Dream Theater

Elements - Atheist

BQ: Pretty good, I think. Just woke up and haven't been outside yet.

BQ2: Anaal Nathrakh's song "Tod Huetet Uebel". The whole 'Passion' album, really.

BQ3: Akercocke

BTBAM's "Colors" isn't on OP's list; null and void.

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Protest the Hero - Kezia

Meshuggah - ObZen

Strapping Young Lad - Alien (I would say City, but City isn't really prog, whereas Alien is)

Betweeen the Buried and Me - the Parallax albums (both the EP and Parallax II)

BQ: Nice. According to WeatherBug, 46 degrees. So kind chilly, but not cold. It's nice.

BQ2: Nah.

BQ3: In no order: Periphery, Meshuggah, Protest the Hero, anything Devin Townsend, Ihsahn, BTBAM, Cynic

Deadwing (Porcupine Tree)

Blackwater Park (Opeth)

Octavarium (Dream Theater

Crack the Skye (Mastodon)

Deliverance (Opeth)

BQ: It's 25 degrees

BQ2: No

BQ3: Opeth

Orchid - Opeth

Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders

Meshuggah - ObZen

Obscura - Omnivium

Vektor - Black Future

BQ: Cold for spring but nice enough

BQ2: Yes. 80's hardcore is my new favorite genre

BQ3: I don't have a favorite band overall

Dream Theater - Image & Words

Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding

Savatage - Gutter Ballet

Spheric Universe Experience - Anima

BQ: Cloudy and wet here and its 2° freezin me bollocks off here lol

BQ2: Yeap these in particular

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKUeZQbMF0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJd0RTOW1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZE89XyPSV0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8CLh32Xa0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HSFeaXd7-s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB7KOIqSxyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmQKhbLywYM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q6skxRLnsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7dyGzG5po

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQAEnaV5ac

BQ3: Prog Rock it would have to be Rush, ELP & Focus and for Prog Metal tie between Symphony X & Dream Theater.