Top 10 Extreme Progressive Metal Songs of the 21st Century
Extreme Progressive Metal bands use harsh (unclean) vocals to create intensity. Harsh vocals are sometimes combined with clean vocals (cleans are provided by the same or another singer).Extreme Progressive Metal songs often have both heavier and softer parts.
Most of the Extreme Progressive Metal bands are Progressive Death Metal bands but some of them prefer to be called Extreme Progressive Metal for different reasons - for example, harsh vocals can be closer to those in black metal than in death metal, or can include some other non-standard genre combinations.
The Top Ten
1 And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris
2 Blackwater Park - Opeth
3 Bleed - Meshuggah
4 Septuagint - Obscura
This is one of the softest songs on this list and probably the softest Obscura song (so far). It doesn't mean it's easy listening though - prog metal is never easy listening, haha.
This song is with fretless bass played by Jeroen Paul Thesseling.
5 Sanctuary: Light & Grief - Persefone
It has different parts and I like the most "Act I: Goddess' Wrath".
Get ready to get proggy - this song is 23:43 minutes long.
6 The Art of Dying - Gojira
It includes an odd time signature - 21/16
7 Bleak - Opeth
8 Devour Me, Colossus, Pt. I (Blackholes) - Ne Obliviscaris
9 Weltseele - Obscura
10 Flying Whales - Gojira
The Contenders
11 Urn (Part I) - And Within the Void We are Breathless - Ne Obliviscaris
12 Seed: Core & Persephone - Act I: A Ray of Hope - Persefone
13 Synaptic Plasticity - Blotted Science
Extreme prog metal instrumental (guitars Ron Jarzombek)
14 Ghost of Perdition - Opeth
15 Swim to the Moon - Between the Buried and Me
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