You don't necessarily need a 7 or 8 string guitar to write progressive metal. It all depends on your ideas how progressive your music can be. If you look at artists like David Maxim Micic and Protest The Hero, they all use 6 strings.
I have a dean vendetta 1.7 with a bareknukle juggernaut and a dimarzio liquifire. Altogether it costs 40k.
The other guy is Akash Chowdhary.
I play for Daedalus.
Dog ofcourse!! :P
Puhup, Akash, Aftaab and Mohit.
Textures, NH7 Kolkata
Ibanez, because their necks are pretty smooth.
Dj0nt :D
Playing guitar
Patience