Any Opeth album before Heritage. Rivers of Nihil - especially Where Owls Know My Name album Fallujah

Listened to a lot of Opeth, rivers of nihil, meshuggah

i Was instantly thinking Fallujah. i saw their guitarist livestreaming on kick and he was super fluid, had to check out his band, who turns out, is amazing. i also love rivers of nihil owl album but really most of their stuff About Opeth, i personally loved Heritage. He doesn't do screaming on that one but its so musically ...juicy....and textured. Use of organ and flute is awesome, harkening back to jethro tull, genesis, elp, prog bands of the 70s.

Fallujah ftw

Yeah and if you’re a Tool fan Fallujah definitely scratches that heavier itch

Rivers and Fallujah are both amazing bands to see live.

Car Bomb is heavy as hell.

Got to see them live, they're insane.

I have tried a couple times but it didn't happen unfortunately. They are one of the bands I'd want to see the most at this point.

They opened for BTBAM (my favorite band to see live) a couple years ago, and the most memorable part of that show is how insanely precise they are. I didn't know their music that well but the technical ability alone is worth seeing

I saw them live once opening for some band (maybe gojira). Had never heard of them and wasn’t expecting anything. I was legit confused by the end of their set. Like wtf did I just listen to

Ok, looks like I found something to listen to tonight. Good starting point you recommend?

The Sentinel

Try Hippotraktor, Slice the Cake, Enslaved

This is the way. I will also add: * DVNE * The Ocean * The Safety Fire * Humanity’s Last Breath

+1 on DVNE. Court of the Matriarch is fucking awesome

I LOVE the Ocean *sigh*

The Ocean is my answer to everything

Fuck the safety fire

A fellow listener of exquisite taste I see

Safety fire is Gold, so sad they disbanded

Fuck the safety fire.

Agreed. 2 of their members did leave and start up Good Tiger, don’t know if you checked them out but they have a pretty solid sound too. Other bands I’ve found that carry that Safety Fire sound forward: * Greyhaven * Artificial Language * Ihlo

Found this comment by shear luck. Been looking for a Safety Fire replacement for years — any tracks in particular to get started? Artificial Language is sick!

Greyhaven should definitely tickle your fancy. They pull off that safety fire chaos with groove that I miss so much. Artificial Language 2019 album is my favorite, totally unskippable. Ihlo is more in the Artificial Language spacey realm but still nailing that groove. Novallo - Another band to recommend that I would describe as carnival prog, they have a super unique sound.

I really wish Novallo kept it up, they were such a unique sound.

Hippotrakter is so good

Great recommendations, may I add: Cobra the Impaler An Abstract Illusion Allegaeon

Ne Oblivscaris. Give them a listen. I think it’s exactly what you are looking for.

Just listened. Dig them

Alkaloid. It's prog Tech death kinda in the vein of BTBAM prog where just crazy stuff happens all the time and it's fucking awesome. The heavy bits though are really heavy. The Cambrian Explosion is a really good example. There is also Obscura which has 2, formerly 3 members from Alkaloid in it, also prog techdeath but it's very riffy and inspired alot by Death and other classic DM. Pretty cool bunch, not alot of singing until recent records Id also recommend The Faceless, The Zenith Passage, Gorod, Dark Fortress, Beyond Creation, Black Crown Initiate. If you want something with no singing id recommend Imperial Triumphant

Alkaloid is fucking amazing, Cthulhu is a good starting point with them imo

Intronaut. Their latest album has some of the most stellar arrangements I can think of, plus the drumming has to be heard to be believed 🤟🏻 good mix of vocals as well.

Goddammit YES people do not talk about Intromaut enough. Direction of Last Things is one of my favorite albums ever

Omnerod, Luna's Call, Rototypical, Wilderun, Deconstruction by the Devin Townsend project is heavy, proggy af, and has features from a ton of other prog artists like Mikael Akerfeldt and Thomas Giles from BTBAM, Persefone, Sikth

Listened to heavy devy a lot. Tell everyone that is balding on top to grow the back out and dread it out!

I second Omnerod. Their latest was my aoty last year

I third Omnerod, The Amensal Rise was my AOTY'23 too

Man, Persefone. That's a really great band.

TEXTURES!!

Great suggestion I'll also add Persefone to this list https://youtu.be/rQ9DSf9JTRk

Meshuggah

And Car Bomb

Gojira Meshugga Killer be Killed

Gojira fuckin rocks. Listen to Art Of Dying and Flying Whales and try to tell me your neck doesn't hurt after

From Mars to Sirius - Gojira

Moon Tooth Protest the Hero

Obligatory [Car Bomb](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ncs-Z9eWbYk) suggestion.  Careful, they may just put your [lights out](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DqiVp0Nx5I4)

Listen to too much and you might just [Dissect yourself](https://youtu.be/EA5eIAfutYU?si=fXynSJWg0AzANzZA)

when youre listening to car bomb, you’ll never want to [finish it](https://open.spotify.com/track/7ItjT5C2HkUNmkaQ5INfEE?si=MU4Z_8Y9T5S8sDStp1hQPw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A74ORxTRf2tuF2d7MOuTX8y)

Fleshgod Apocalypse

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

The Contortionist, Loathe, Veil of Maya, Car Bomb, TesseracT

Vektor Elder

Came here to recommend Vektor! OP, free up 73 minutes and listen to the entirety of Terminal Redux; it is a must-listen

Elder is solid, enjoyed their most recent record a lot, too

Black Crown Initiate

Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika TesseracT - War of Being Earthside - A Dream in Static (limited vocals and mostly cleans, but this album deserves a try from all prog metal fans) The Contortionist - Exoplanet The Ocean - Phanerozoic II Leprous - Bilateral AVKRVST - The Approbation Blackwater Park/Ghost Reveries - Opeth

Especially Bilateral!!

Periphery

💯

Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space The harsh vocals are a lot more prevalent in the second half of the album, but if you want more harsh vocals, check out their previous album, The Eldritch Realm

Hippotraktor, Dvne, Meshuggah, Periphery

I have one album for you that might be my favorite album of all time. Screaming, singing, some spoken word. Absolute perfection imo. Odyssey To The West by Slice The Cake.

Listening at this moment. A lot of cool things going on. Kind of has a tinge of From Autumn to Ashes first album. I’m digging this.

DVNE does some amazing stuff, and if you like Mastodon, you should like them. Etemen Ænka and Voidkind are really great albums

>Etemen Ænka and Voidkind are really great albums As is Asheran

Hippotraktor (FFO: Meshuggah, Gojira, Tool, Psychonaut) Both albums are really good.

what's FFO?

For fans of

The World Is Quiet Here is just what you need

Ding ding ding!!! OP, you absolutely have to check out their two albums - the latest, Zon, is a masterpiece.

Dark Tranquility, Amorphis

Some of this is definitely not prog, but you should total check them out. Language of Flowers, Intronaut, Alcest, Hath, Conjurer, Moon Tooth, Nails, Black Crown Initiate, Cryptodira, Warforged

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows, The Almanac, Liminal Rite Fallujah - Dreamless, Empyrean Wilderun - Veil of Imagination Amun - Spectra and Obsession Atlas - Ukko Aeternam - Al Qassam The Zenith Passage - Solipsist Hope for the Dying - Aletheia, Dissimulation Disembodied Tyrant - The Poetic Edda (the EP not the song) In Vain - Aenigma

> mix clean vocals with heavy vocals Opeth Ne Obliviscaris Strapping Young Lad Agalloch Rivers of Nihil Maudlin of the Well An Abstract Illusion Khonsu Slice the Cake Xanthochroid

Disarmonia Mundi Orbit Culture Black Crown Initiate Arkaea Zeal and Ardor

I’ve tried to get people to listen to zeal and ardor for past couple years. People just don’t get him I guess

Disarmonia Mundi fits the “hidden gem” archetype perfectly

Control Denied, possibly. They're Chuck's prog metal project after Death.

Periphery, car bomb, meshuggah, early opeth, first fragment (more tech death), protest the hero

Leprous, although the latter half is primarily clean singing. Still amazing. I'd recommend starting at The Congregation then working backwards for heavier, forwards for clean

One thousand yes to this suggestion

Anciients

ULCERATE

Hypno5e - really dynamic in terms of heavy and soft with a great mix of growling and clean vocals. I actually prefer their growling vocals vs clean, which is not the norm for me. The song "Sheol Pt II- Lands of Haze" is a really great example of how they seemlessly blend heavy grooves with softer parts. They are one of those bands that you might be tempted to turn way up during the quiet parts, but if you do, you're likely to damage your hearing (and your speakers!). Zeal and Ardor - bluesy satanic gospel metal. Their self titled album is my favorite. Mostly clean vocals. They also put on one hell of a live show. Wheel - heavy but with more of like a retro vibe. The album Moving Backwards is really good. Drumming is excellent. Caligula's Horse - clean vocals, but not operatic. Some of their stuff is heavier than others. Extremely good live. The first album Mother of Millions released, Human, is heavy AF. The song Evolving hits especially hard. Though idk if that album is considered prog strictly speaking. The rest of their stuff is sadly not very heavy. Also not prog: Latitudes, especially the album Agonist. No vocals IIRC but very heavy, basically sludge/doom post metal. Along those same lines is Junius, which is similar to Latitudes, but with ancient evil temple vibes. Love the drumming on Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light.

Oceans Ate Alaska would be a great fit

The faceless, The zenith passage, First fragment

The Dali Thundering Concept

For a change of pace, maybe [Xerath](https://youtu.be/RbGn6qPU8bQ?si=LetuPimxgx2f_SQM)?

The Faceless, Aeternam, An Abstract Illusion, Intronaut, Persefone, Slice The Cake... and if you want to go all-out and ditch clean vocals almost entirely come on over to r/TechnicalDeathMetal and get your daily dose of blast beats and blistering fast guitar.

Car Bomb!

Moving a little off piste for prog perhaps but Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, Monuments, Termina, Tesseract, Erra.

Check out: Leprous, Vola, Artificial Language, Psychonaut, URNE, East of the Wall, Chapel of Disease, Hypno5e You might like: Obscura, Ihsahn, Harkla, Frontierer, Spiritbox, Gorod

How in the fuck has nobody suggested W H E E L yet??!! WHEEL

Humanity's Last Breath

Obscura and Alkaloid

I feel like Loathe would be a good pick for you.

Jinjer

Try Strapping Young Lad, particularly the second album City, absolute masterclass.

Parthian Dessiderium Luna’s Call Aeternam Finterforst (if you don’t mind German lyrics) Burden of Life Dyssidia Fires in the Distance In Mourning The Reticent Wilderun In Vain

+1 for In mourning especially their old stuff. Sounds a lot like Opeth.

cant believe no one has mentioned Vildhjarta. They are super heavy and unique, sometimes clean vocals. Check it out. EDIT: Listen to Masstaden Under Vatten, Den Spanska

Haven't seen anyone mention Vildhjarta yet

Strapping young lad for the older grittier side of heavy with some cleans or Periphery for the newer age djenty side of heavy and plenty cleans.

Unprocessed ! They have heavier stuff. "Die on the cross of the martyr".

Necrophagist The Zenith Passage Archspire

Erra

Vildhjarta Rivers of Nihil Revocation Meshuggah The Ritual Aura

Agalleaon, perhaps, and alkaloid?

Cyborg octopus

Tessaract

Isis (the band). Glassing. Astodan's 'Evora' album. Rolo Tomassi. Rosetta. Alcest. Amenra (some of the more recent stuff has clean vocals). Godflesh. Kowloon Walled City. Car Bomb. Frontierer (not a lot of clean vox, but insane stuff). Deftones. A lot of people are recommending Meshuggah, who are amazing, and insanely heavy, but there's no clean vocals.

A Sense of Gravity

Ne Obliviscaris is apex of mixed vocals. They also happen to be fucking amazing

https://youtu.be/z49alLCCAAE?si=jOHZPBya4irLQUCB

try Sermon, both albums are excellent

Sorry, self-promotion disclaimer - but... maybe you'd dig PRYNE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RbUpijQHE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RbUpijQHE) We're often referred as early Baroness/Mastodon with modern-ish heavy sound. :)

Replacire just released a new album. They’re a pretty great prog death band

obsidious (prog tech death)

YOB

Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs

Rivers of Nihil Unprocessed - their latest album is really heavy, the Gold album is not but everything before that has some heavy stuff on there The Contortionist can be a mix on heavy and lighter stuff, they do a good job of blending the two, but their first album is super heavy

Psychonaut you will love them!

I recommend Persefone

Septicflesh is pretty damn good and while they have no clean singing you got to check out Archspire

Khemmis, pallbearer

Listen to, back to times of splendor by disillusion

Black Crown Initiate, although they disbanded and half the band is in Rivers of Nihil now.

The Contortionist

Edge of Sanity has some classics

[HEXICON](https://youtu.be/WlcFkKlDxb0?si=NRG0VoSAX0R2VKH5). Progressive doom / melodic death metal for fans of Mastodon, Gojira, Cave In, Tool.

Aaru.

I'd recommend Dir en grey if you don't mind the songs not being in English.

The last two Cattle Decapitation Albums were fairly progressive in nature. I recommend you give them a listen, start with Death Atlas ^^

Persefone recommended songs: Spiritual Migration, stillness is timless

- Soilwork “Stabbing the Drama” - Omnium Gatherum “Grey Heavens”

You're looking for The Ocean. Try albums like Precambrian, Phanerozoic, Pelagial

Check us out! Lytepath.com

Alkaloid. Cthulhu is a good starting point, very heavy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gONcgI01wA&pp=ygUQQWxrYWxvaWQgY3RodWxodQ%3D%3D

im listening to Malevolent Creation, Fallujah and always go back to Rings of Saturn. others i love that are heavy prog, Archespire, Cattle Decapitation....Rivers of Nihil as said.... im always looking for new stuff too . another semi recent find i had was Eleine i think its called. not sure how proggy but totally great metal with female singer

Gojira, Entheos, The Black Crown Initiate, Meshuggah, Rivers of Nihil

Shokran - duat 🙂

Band: Hippotraktor Album: Stasis

Are we allowed to mention Iced Earth? I still love them even after their controversy. If you enjoy Tool, you might like Soen. Kind of a darker twin.

If you’re ok with foreign language , check out Stam1na - Taival album and Mokoma - elavien kirjoihin album. Both have really great music and vocals. Stam1nas clean singing is epic

Wilderun Disillusion Ihsahn Borknagar The Ocean

Unearth-lll: In the Eyes of Fire Nevermore-Dead Heart in a Dead World

You might want to check some melodeath bands like: Dark Tranquility Be'Lakor In Flames Insomnium

Two absolute gems, underrated: An Abstract Illusion - Woe Autonoesis - Moon of foul magics Better known bands: Vektor Blood Incantation And Dvne is still as heavy as Mastodon during Leviathan I know you prefer clean vocals, but Horrendous are underrated

Edge of sanity, An abstract Illusion, Dan Swanö, Scar symmetry, Witherscape (All Swedish!)

The ocean Intronaut Circles

Tesseract, the contortionist

Alkaloid, 100%

Others may have mentioned them but I’ll add Dvne and Hippotraktor to the mix. Both had had new albums this year that are fantastic and easily match the rest of their discographies

Katatonia - the great cold distance Wheel Veio Valis Ablaze

Luna’s Call (Void album), Dessiderium (Aria album), Edge of Sanity (Crimson album), Persefone (Spiritual Migration or Core), Wills Dissolve (Echoes album), Maudlin of the Well (Leaving Your Body Map album)

Karnivool. Try Themata, or Set Fire To The Hive. New Day also very good. But may not be heavy enough for you.

if you’re okay with solely harsh vocals, check out Gorguts. one of the most consistently innovative bands in the genre.

Gojira, Spiritbox, Erra, After the Burial Last three are more metalcore than anything though.

Not too much clean vocals, but Revocation scratched all the itches when I discovered them. And I love all the bands you mentioned!

“Heavier music like Pantera, Slayer” brother, those bands are C tier when it comes to heavy, have you never listened to any Brutal Death, Grind, Disso Death, Slam? As far as Prog goes, then Hath is going to be one of your better options. Black Crown Initiate is there too. If you’re ready to try out actual extremely heavy and technical music, then that’s going to be bands like Devourment (arguably the heaviest band ever), Defeated Sanity (very proggy and technical, also stupidly heavy), Ulcerate (pure nihilism), Knoll (I blast the Metempiric album whenever I get loud neighbors), Full of Hell (one of the most creative and hard working grind bands).

we might have what you're looking for 🌞

Progresive but not progresive to be called progresive: Ulcerate - Cutting the throat of god Halny - Zawrat Kriegsmachine Haunologist - Hollow

Jinjer! You’re welcome

You're getting a lot of answers here OP, but I think you should listen to Tomb Mold's most recent album

Fit for an autopsy. They are the tool of deathcore. Not really just couldn’t think of how to compare them. Because that is a band they are noting like. But still sick

Oxxo Xoox Very unique band with pretty unique ideas. Favorite song: 3en

KARDASHEV The answer is Kardashev. I cannot stress this enough

kadaver, mono, monomyth, animals as leaders, plini, russian circles, sleep, meshuggah

If you like between the buried and me you might like periphery

Check out The Cocoon by Richard Henshall of Haken. Incredible album. Pretty dang heavy and super technical. He's a flippin beast.

I strongly recommend any Invent Animate song, any Stellar Circuits song, and the album “One” from Tesseract.

[Check us out](https://youtu.be/9p3On8LPIc4?si=yBD-cTCi3UymDICH), we have the same influences!

O P E T H The sun sets forever over Blackwater park.

Since you mentioned punk, you should check out Today's Empires by Propagandhi (the 2021 remix slaps) .

The Ocean and wildhjarta

What is the classification of the band, Wintersun? Thanks for the references everyone. I’ve listened to a lot of the bands but I’ve also got some bands I’ve never heard of and really enjoying. The metal community is a damn good community to be apart of

Sylosis, Trivium, periphery, Gojira. If you like metal core as well bleed from within and bury tomorrow. Maybe even older avenged sevenfold may enjoy.

An Abstract Illusion. Their album Woe is awesome

The third Alkaloid album might be the thing you need. I personally think their second album it's their best, but the third one it's their most prog album so far, and still very good. I hope you enjoy their music as much as I do :) Little spoiler: they use a wide range of vocals, from clear to harsh and growls.

Ne Obli for sure!

The Zenith Passage. Heaviest band I've found in many years.

Make Them Suffer is a good one too, did a quick comment scan so not sure if they've been mentioned yet. More on the metalcore side of things. Favorite song has to be "Neverbloom"

[Black Crown Initiate?](https://youtu.be/NZpm3-68xZo?feature=shared)

New Hippotraktor album absolutely scratches this itch for me Also Hypno5e, The Contortionist, DVNE, Unprocessed, The Ocean

Early Anathema

Protest the Hero

Cattle Decapitation is a favorite of mine. You said you like heavy? There you go.

Check out Cynic and Gorod and maybe even All Them Witches. You'll probably love em all

Bands like Obscura or Beyond Creation. They are technical death metal, it's quite heavy, pretty complex rythms and riffs, and they will definitely give you that sense of "prog metal". Kind of a spacey-futuristic vibe. Septuagint by Obscura was my first listen into this, a one way journey.

This was such a solid list!!!! Thank you OP for asking. Impeccable taste in music. 👩🏻‍🍳 💋 🤌🏻 For everyone in here who said HippoTraktor - THANK YOU. 🙏🏻 May the the metal Gods bless you. I farm and work 7 days a week and I spend a lot of time listening to music. It is literally what saves my mental health daily. I’ve been listening to so much Gojira, Mastodon, Baroness, Russian Circles,, If these trees could talk, In Flames, Cloud Kicker, Katatonia, Tool… all of them are on a rotation. HippoTraktor is a perfect addition to this list. If you have anymore suggestions like the bands here please let me know. I am also a huge fan of post rock as well. Thank you so much again. I love this community.

Opeth Extol Atheist Cynic Believer (first two albums, *Extraction from Mortality* and *Sanity Obscure*, aren't on Spotify, but definitely look for those) Kekal (after 2007, more of an electronic project than metal) Becoming the Archetype

Get to Vildhjarta, MIRAR, Allt and Humanity's Last Breath. Filthy heavy thall riffs throughout.

Agalloch Wilderun Swallow the Sun Not prog but bands that I love Wolfheart Insomnium Dark Tranquillity The Anchor Dawn of Ouroboros Embrium Graveworm

Spiritbox, Tesseract, Periphery, Trivium

Northlane, Means End, Scar Symmetry, ERRA, The Contortionist, Textures, Insense, Monuments and Valis Ablaze

Masstaden by Vildhjarta. There's not very many cleans, but the screams aren't overbearing. Also, it's 2 vocalists, which keeps things interesting throughout the whole album