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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2010 at 18:34
Discovered this year (well, first listened to):

Karnivool (awesome Australian band)
The Melvins
Converge
Max Richter (I can't get enough of his work!)
Neurosis
Zu
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2010 at 18:37
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Beardfish
Animals as Leaders


oh god! Almost forgot my new favorite band....PANZERBALLET!!!
mmm....breadfish is awesome.  glad you got to discover them! Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:01
Phidaeux!! I hope thats how you spell it. Doomsday is a perect album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2010 at 10:29
Originally posted by Billy Pilgrim Billy Pilgrim wrote:

Phidaeux!! I hope thats how you spell it. Doomsday is a perect album.
 
Close. Phideaux. Yeah, great modern prog!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2010 at 18:24
Clearly the Residents.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2010 at 20:17
I discovered all the popular prog this year. I originally only knew of Tool.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2010 at 22:08
Well, the year's almost over and I'm trying hard not to discover more new stuff so here's what I found so far:
Big Big Train
Garbarek, Anja
Flood
Gorishankar, The
Rhodes, Happy

Just five.  Picking out a biggest will be hard.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2010 at 00:52
I'd have to say The Zombies-"Odessey and Oracle" is a masterpiece that I took far, far too long to get around to listening to. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2010 at 03:34
Gonna have to go with Agalloch, now that the year's coming to an end.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2010 at 12:27
Here are some of the bands/musicians I've discovered this year and whom I consider to be great finds!

BARREN EARTH - extreme metal "supergroup".

Scott Johnson - avant-garde composer, released a new album on Tzadik this year.

Orbs - another "supergroup" that released a heavy-prog album.

Winterhorde - Israeli extreme prog metal outfit

Naima - Spanish jazz/fusion group

FONDERIA - Mentioned them several times in PA already, stellar eclectic Italian band

HYPNOS 69  - great Belgian Psych-rock band

KULJU, DAVE - Great solo output of this American musician, I discovered this year.

UNRUH, STEVE - I knew of him but only this year did I actually order his albums. Great acoustic prog-rock

Thelema Trio - Belgian neo-classical/avant-garde trio

Cleric - Extreme avant-metal act.

ODYSSICE - Dutch instrumental neo/symph prog band

TUVALU - Finnish heavy/x-over outfit

SAMSARA BLUES EXPERIMENT - German Psych-rock

CICCADA - Greek eclectic/folk/symph group

Chinese Beard - Finnish instrumental heavy prog

Neodyme
- Canadian heavy/symph band.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2010 at 21:53
Thought I'd chime in. In no particular order...

Eclat
Nemo
Moon Safari
Anima Mundi
District 97
Dracma
Minimum Vital
Hiromi
Iceberg
The Orphan Project
Little Tragedies
Baraka
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Montefeltro
Aviva
Shadow Circus
BunChakeze

It was a good year.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 05:18
For me it is  Gazpacho and Haggard.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 09:08
That Peter Hammill sings on PG's Digging In the Dirt.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 14:24
Has to be Van Der Graaf Generator!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 19:41
Between the Buried and Me
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2010 at 12:15
I really got into Arcade Fire this year. I'd known of them before, but I didn't really listen to them until this year. 

It's POSSIBLE that I learned of Woven Hand this year but I can't recall. If so, they're a huge discovery.

I really got into Tom Waits this year, but I knew of him before. 

Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters were HUGE discoveries for me. 

Grinderman was a nice find, but I knew of them before, I just never listened to them. 

That's all I can think of. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2010 at 15:29
My best RE-discovery is band Combo FH and their album Veci.Absolutely must have for jazz rock  fussion-RIO-adventurists.I listen to it after almost 30 years and I was stunned how they were ahead of time,incredible compositions and musicians.Why they are not included here on this site is beyond me.AngryDisapprove
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2010 at 16:45
Klaatu and Roy Harper, two immensely dissimilar artists that make me immensely happy.  I'm having difficulty remembering how I lived my life before I had MagentaLane, Hope, and Folkjokeopus.

Also, I just found out that I love Colosseum.  More to follow.  Hopefully.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2010 at 06:30
Biggest Discovery of the life happened this year. Progressive Rock!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2010 at 06:55
Originally posted by DamoXt7942 DamoXt7942 wrote:

I'm so ashamed not to know the album still now...

Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
 
As I wrote the review here, it's very impressed and let me weep like the wave of album.


This was my biggest discovery for last year :)

This time it will be Victor Wooten - The Show of Hands
SMART preachers of our doom
Telling us there is no room.
Not enough for all mankind
And the seas of time are running dry.
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