His “solos” OMFG 
Give a monkey a guitar and it would play a better solo
I just saw KK’s priest live and it’s the closest think to an 80’s Halford voice that Tim “Ripper” Owens has. WOW!!
Can’t wait to see them again later this year 
It’s a pity I can’t post my videos here but I’m sure they’re in YouTube
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I like Tool, seen them live 3 times, but geez, their hardcore fans were one of the most uptight and boring asf crowds I’ve ever seen. Probably the same kind of people who talk endlessly about Christopher Nolan films. 
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Not just Tool; any kind of prog seems to bring with it a selection of people who are very up their own arse. Same with Nolan fanboys.
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Lol reading this thread reminds me of this from married with children.
Yep. Was the case with all the rock bands then to dream theater and even now.
The snobbery of prog music fans.
Is that why you can not call them metal?
I met it on here in the Greatest Album thread. I was even accused of being lazy. 
Yes Hendo has gone and I still miss Hendo however one must move and and change! 
There are certain art-forms that one learns to keep to oneself.
I like Nolan films but have had the misfortune of engaging a Nolan groupie. I opined that the film TENET made no sense but the reason it made no sense was quite interesting. I was then subjected to a tirade of tedious detail about the directors vision and artistic idiosyncrasies to which I was forced to respond to with an explanation of entropy from a quantum mechanical viewpoint that I can only describe as an act of mutually assured destruction.
Prog fans are definitely up their own arses. I can add a great number of Jazz aficionados to that. However, the worst are Radiohead obsessives. Again, I like Radiohead. I have all the albums. I do regard Thom Yorke as bit of a whiny git but I like most of their music, even if they went somewhat off the boil latterly. However, I once opined that “King Of Limbs” was so forgettable that my mind instantly erased any memory of having ever listened to it. Good grief, it was torches and pitchforks after that.
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@RedWhippet @anon27364116 @Sithbare I haven’t run into any prog fans with such attitude but that’s probably because I don’t know any prog fans! 
I love it when metal bands stray from the conventions of the genre enough to be called progressive (such as Horrendous, for example, who have another amazing album coming out today) but when it’s music for the sake of… Playing or what, it’s bound to attract certain kinds of personality.
People have to accept that you can’t/don’t have to love every album, let alone every song from a band you consider your favourite. Therein lies my issue with Metallica fans, especially those that I have really close to my heart, which makes me even sadder. Then you have fan bases like that of Opeth who are separated over Opeth’s change of direction and are bound to go to war against each other one day…
Anyway, there’s a discovery that I have to disclose, which is a gothic/metal/shoegaze band called Zetra. I’ve been on their case for a while (I swear I could hear Type O Negative in there, that’s how I discovered them) but it’s an interview with Ville Valo that really encouraged me about their future because he namechecked them as a band he’d been listening to quite a lot - he has a massive following and I hope that it will open a few doors for them. They are still releasing just singles and EPs, which is not my favourite format but it works so well for them. If you haven’t heard them, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Obviously, if you have similar bands to suggest, I’m all ears!
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Prog metal is still metal. Never said it wasn’t.
My point was about prog fans rather than metal fans as a whole. Fans of any other subgenre of metal don’t, in my experience, act the way prog fans typically do. Also prog music isn’t limited to metal; prog rock and jazz exist, and the prog fans I’ve met of those genres of music have the same attitude. That’d be why I said “Not just Tool; any kind of prog”
I used to think like that but subdivisions within genres actually helped me discover dozens and dozens of new bands (Internet search algorithms help a lot in that regard because they are fueled by similarities of bands within one subgenre).
I used to like Dream Theater a lot but not in its current incarnation. They’re not really metal any more. And their music isn’t compelling either. Portnoy’s influence was crucial. You can tell because Portnoy and Petrucci are still magic whatever they do together (Petrucci solo record and anything Liquid Tension Experiment have done).
I’m definitely a prog metal fan but not if you get rid of the metal part.
True. No band is exclusively one thing…they have multiple elements in their music
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It is said if you play a C&W song backwards… Its the only time you get a happy ending :0)
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Just going to run those lyrics of @cynicaloldgit through their paces - with this playing in the background
Get a real feel for it… or not…! :0)
Note @gasband up in the corner taking an interest…!
If you play that backwards, it says Seagulls are your God, eat my droppings to attain immortality.
