More Progressive Metal to Rock Band please!!!

[dabulge]

Wow, this thread is lacking the mention of Fates Warning, just like Rock Band is lacking any DLC from them.

Yeah I didn't mean to leave out Fates Warning...just put down the first bands that came to my head. I'm actually shocked that Fates Warning hasn't had at least one track pack yet, especially off of no exit.

[Numskull]

I generally agree with OP, but also somewhat with second post that there is definitely some great material on RBN to make up for the tiny amount we have in regular DLC. I am a PS3 user, so don't have access to everything, but some of my favorites that I'd highly recommend are songs from the following bands: Children of Nova, Firewind, Ayreon, Solution .45, and others I'm probably forgetting. I am a huge DT fan, so I feel your pain and hunger, but check out some of these lesser known and sometimes international bands... there are some great sounding and fun-to-play songs out there that will help your library feel a little more substantial on the prog side of things.

Whoa, whoa, as a huge progressive metal fan, I can assure that the RBN is severely lacking. You can't just lump all "metal" together. Progressive metal can be really fantastic and it's kind of a rarity in the RBN.

Oddly, I agree with both of these posts. It's probably because I don't really have it in me to split hairs about whether the prog metal label should be applied to bands that kind of straddle that fence, like Children of Nova, Andromeda, and Rishloo.

Roadrunner and Century Media do not seem to be particularly RB-friendly labels. A portion of the blame for Rock Band's prog metal shortage can probably be attributed to that fact. (Not necessarily a huge portion, mind you.) Somebody more foolish than myself might say something like: "Harmonix is probably talking with those labels about licensing some Nightwish songs since they're so popular on the Facebook app, so maybe they'll try and snag some more Opeth while they're at it." But I know better.

[stippe]

Here is also one Prog fan (with many subgenres). So there is a huge gap to fullfill, form '60 prog rock to new prog metal subgenre like Djent. I agree that RBN have some pretty good and qulity prog songs but there is more that definitely deserve to be included, just to name a few; Riverside, Adagio, Textures, Indukti, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Pain of Salvation, Haken, Edge of Sanity, Fair to Midland, Camel, (early) Genesis, Alter Enigma, Leprous, Wolverine, Anglagard, Redemption, Phideaux, Peach, etc. ...and not to forget greats like Pink Floyd and Tool, and some that are not prog but are amazing like Arc of Ascent (doom metal), Be'lakor (melodic death). I think that some of bands I named are relatively unknown so use youtube, some may be surprised
Hope that in future we will see more prog in RBN and some of well known greats in main DLC

[RosaFloydGuy]

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