Give me some progressive rock/metal masterpiece albums.

[ParadigmBass]

I'm in need of some good music lately and I need some recommendations because I just don't have the time to listen through a lot of albums right now.

I'm into Dream Theater, Opeth, Fates Warning, Camel, Symphony X, Rush, Yes, Kansas, Arena, Between the Buried and Me, Liquid Tension Experiment, Porcupine Tree, and Queensryche for progressive music.

I feel like I've already found all the greats for this genre, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows of anything good that i'm missing.

[Lesfunk]

Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

[KeithPas]

Anything by the Flower Kings or Spock's Beard.

[LaklandBass]

A little out there but check out Proest The Hero. They fit in a bunch of genres.

[honestjohnny]

Tool, Russian Circles

[Murder_Worship]

textures - sillouetts

[tearalong]

have deliciousagony.com playing while you work and wait until something grabs your attention

[JukeBoxHero]

Originally Posted by ParadigmBass

I feel like I've already found all the greats for this genre, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows of anything good that i'm missing.

Oh trust me, those are not all of the greats, there is plenty of great music in the progressive rock genre(including metal, but I'm not strong in the metal area enough to recommend bands).

King Crimson-Red, The Court of the Crimson King
Gentle Giant-Debut, Octopus, Acquiring the Taste
Happy the Man-Debut
Renaissance-Turn of the Cards
Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti, Apostrophe, Joe's Garage(More cliche choices of his work but it's generally all worth checking out from what I heard so far).

Just throwing a couple more out there.

[Sharkman]

King Crimson - Red -> Thrak
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
Echolyn - as the world
Genesis - The Return of the Giant Hogweed (this is a song....)
Bill Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado
Jethro Tull - Aqualung

[Rushpwnsx]

Coheed and Cambria has some good stuff.

[funkalicious101]

Anything by Yes that has less than five songs.

[PJMiDi]

tool, king crimson, isis, red sparrows, rosetta, or cult of luna. any album by any of them

[lowend219]

Mr Bungle has some proggy stuff. its like zappa meets primus meets i don't f-ing know what

and (shameless plug alert, but hey, you wanted prog, and we're prog...)

my band is putting our whole album up for free download for 48 hours starting at midnight tonight. That's midnight our time (Pacific) so just under an hour from now. give it a shot, i'd love to know what you, as a fellow prog head and bassist, think

www.phavian.com

if you get the construction page just check back a little later after midnight...and like i said, you got 2 days to do it.

...Oh and Gentle Giant. they kick ass!

[southernrocker]

Rush's Hemispheres, Farewell to kings, and permament waves are their best prog albums in my opinion. Check them out!

[infamusblkdeath]

*AEnima(my fav album),Lateralus,Undertow,and 10,000 days(even though i never cared for it)-Tool

*The sky moves sideways,stupid dream,lightbulb sun
-Porcupine tree

*In the court of the crimson king,Red-King Crimson

*Remission,Leviathan,Blood Mountain,Crack The Sky-Mastodon

*Rush,Fly by night,Perminate waves,moving pictures-Rush

*Meddle,Darkside of the moon,piper at the gates of dawn?-Pink Floyd

these are just my key suggestions.i recommend downloading every album by every prog band!

[JazzBass Love]

-Kansas Masque (some might try arguing that it isn't full out prog, but it's prog enough with plenty of tasty basslines)
-Genesis from the Peter Gabriel Years (especially Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
-ELP's Brain Salad Surgery
-Brand X Moroccan Roll (ok, technically this is Jazz Fusion). Percy Jones has some absolutely sick bass lines (Malaga Virgen in particular). Also, Phil Collins is a pretty darn good drummer.

[Trapezius]

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind.
It's not out yet, but I heard the promo a few times, and it's really way up there, IMO. One 77 minute (master)piece.

While you wait for that; Anything from Flower Kings.

[rob4001va]

did we forget Todd Rungren? (with Utopia)
my personal favorite is "Ra" (album).
Check out Hiroshima (song).

[eggfan]

U.K. - Especially the eponymous first album with Allan Holdsworth. Definitely a Progressive Rock masterpiece. Also check out the recent reincarnation, UKZ. No complete album yet, but an EP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFlnG3AKOW8

Smokin' electric violin from Eddie Jobson (as usual).

(The Tull suggestions are good, too - my personal .02 would be to recommend "Stormwatch.")

[Cinimod]

The Mars Volta, all of there albums apart from Octahedron (bit wimpy in my opinion). There album The Bedlam in Goliath is there heaviest one so far.