Meh, VoM puts any commercial music and all other metal to shame, imo, but you really need to enjoy progressive to like em. I find that composing progressive is really more difficult and has much for musical value, since it pushes the limits of imagination instead of the whole intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-other shit-chorus-outro shit that's going on with commercial music. I really don't mind any other genre of progressive. I can stand them, aothough I find that most genres besides metal lack any typw of power / energy.