About your native progressive rock bands

I Love Internet wrote: Well... I know some of the 70´s stuff from here like Wigwam, Haikara, Tasavallan presidentti and Pekka Pohjola. As well as some newer bands like Kingston Wall. I love all 3 of their albums. Cmx and Nightfishthose two I don´t like that much... or should I say I cannot stand them and that they are part of the reason why for a long time i didn´t think too highly of Finnish music. Anyways... Should anyone here know any newer finnish prog acts I´d like to know.

So Chicago has Chicago (The Band) and Styx, and I love them both.  :)

There are some nice post-rock/math-rock bands down there in Australia.

Here in Australia, we mostly have heavy prog and prog metal bands like Karnivool and The Butterfly Effect. What can I say? Stuff like Mastodon, Dream Theater, Tool, and Opeth is quite popular down under.

Birdman wrote: Being a Canuck, I could marvel at all the big names native to Canada.  But I prefer the more obscure ones like Capharnaum, Mystery, Vecteur K, and the list goes on...

Here in America,you hear soo much about the usual suspects of Prog rock like Styx,Kansas,Starcastle,Frank Zappa.

Iceland has got some prog artist

Eik - a fantastic symphonic prog band specially their second album
Thursaflokkurinn really good prog psych folk band among other influence. i recommend their first two albums.
Mánar or The Moons is a prog psych band released one album i think which pretty good.
Trúbrot is the most famous 70's rock band in Iceland they were the Icelandic Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin.
they can be classified as heavy prog.
Náttúra  or just simply Nature is a good prog psych band.
Caterpillarman which is a new band specializing in 70's prog bands like KC ELP GG and other bands, they add some stoner influence to the mix. pretty good band considering their young age. the are not really inventing anything but i will have my eye on them in the future.
Pelican a great prog psych band really classic
Icecross really classic cult band despite only releasing one album which people pay fortunes for.
in my opinion Eik and Thursaflokkurinn rapes all of those bands brutally in their asses(not literally of course).



 

Looks like no one posted for BELGIUM yet.
Well that's understandable. Belgian radio and press constantly rips prog apart so everybody hates it.

One band in RIO though, UNIVERS ZERO

But at least we have lots of prog reviewers here :-)

Being from The Netherlands and living in Belgium, well, it has all been said by others, about both countries.

I appreciate the time that I lived in The Netherlands and I could see so many prog bands, also native ones, and sometimes I could even walk to concerts from my home (Vangelis with Jon Anderson in Rotterdam) or go by bike (Yes, IQ, Pendragon and Peter Hammill in Utrecht).

In Belgium there is less for me: Spirit of 66 is at the other side of the country for me, the Dutch concerts still being closer for me. Still, I once could follow a prog concert (a Belgian Dream Theater clone) while lying in bed, because they were playing at the town square at the end of my street.

Not too many prog bands/ musicians from north east England but there's Alan White and Eddie Jobson off the top of my head.