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Ocarina654

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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:06 pm

Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any Prog Metal songs where the lyrics and/or story of the song/album was based on historical events.

I'm just curious.

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:03 am

Wow thats a hard one.
give me a day to search sweatdrop

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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:25 pm

It's not THAT historical, btu it will be ten years from now. Dream Theater's song, Sacrificed Sons, is based on the 9/11 event. Really good. They have another one about the Vietnam war, but I don't quite remember the song title.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:50 pm

Yeah, Sacrificed Sons is a good one.
I'll have to look into that Vietnam one.

But yeah, this response (or lack of, lol!), though not what I hoped for, isn't really surprising for some reason. History isn't really what Progressive lyrics are about too often.

Thanks for thinking/looking anyway though. 3nodding

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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:18 am

As far as i know there aren't any bands with real historical lyrics.

"Ayreon - The final Experiment" is historical, and tells you about Merlin and Arthur, but it did not happen for real.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:07 am

number_17

As far as i know there aren't any bands with real historical lyrics.

"Ayreon - The final Experiment" is historical, and tells you about Merlin and Arthur, but it did not happen for real.

Well, talking about Ayreon, some of the stuff on Universal Migrator part 1 are historical.. like that shooting marching band thing and all that.

If you consider Blind Guardian progressive, they´ve a lot of historical (or history inspired) lyrics.

What else... Hmm, Symphony X´s "V" is based on the Atlantis-tale (not really historical but might be interesting anyway).

Can´t think of others now, but I´m sure there´s more. I´ll get back to this once I have some time to think. biggrin

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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:03 pm

Not progressive metal, but The Final Cut by Pink Floyd is an entire concept album about warfare (World War II in particular, Roger Water's father died in World War II). It's an excellent album and I highly recommend it.

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:57 pm

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Not progressive metal, but The Final Cut by Pink Floyd is an entire concept album about warfare (World War II in particular, Roger Water's father died in World War II). It's an excellent album and I highly recommend it.

Yeah, that is a pretty good album.

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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:09 pm

I don't know of the new ones, but at least in the old Angra albums, they deal with some historical topics, ie. Caronina IV.

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