Discovering more obscure prog rock - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Folks! You did not mistake anything?
This topic is called "More obscure prog rock", but not "The most popular performers".

Yeah, this thread does mostly focus on newer releases, some from the more popular bands, but there is also a lot of obscure prog that isn't talked about in other threads, and BaldJean has posted some pretty obscure stuff from the 70's here also.

Here is an obscure artist that I have been enjoying lately, T from Germany, from his earlier album Voices

Some interesting modern instrumental prog with a violin, from Montreal, Canada - Cydemind

Dr Wu23, do look a couple of pages back, BaldJean has posted a number of old obscure artists from that era.

Enochian Theory: Life ...And All It Entails (UK-2012).
Progressive metal/rock. (17/20)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xeJ5Q8G4aM

Heh.....speaking of interesting bands whatever happende to Phideaux.....I liked that last 3 and it's been quite a few years, 6 ,since that last one.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

dr wu23 wrote:

Heh.....speaking of interesting bands whatever happende to Phideaux.....I liked that last 3 and it's been quite a few years, 6 ,since that last one.

No news for Phideaux, the band.

I only know that Phideaux Xavier sings on one song of the project Damanek.

http://newprogreleases.blogspot.in/search/label/Damanek

OK - looking for recommendations for prog metal of the softer, melodic variety.

I have a love/hate relationship with metal, a lot of it I find repetitive (eg. most 80's metal) or too heavy or too much cookie monster vocals (some is OK). But there is the occasional track that really clicks and becomes a favourite.

But I find searching for suitable metal artists and their back catalogs harder than the more contemporary prog rock bands. Can anyone here post some recommendations?

Here is a sample of prog metal bands/albums that fit this criteria:

Alcest - Shelter

Anathema - Early work (I like their later albums also but I wouldn't call them metal)

Chaos Divide - Colliding Skies

Disperse - Journey through the hidden gardens

Dream Theater - Images and Words

End of Dreams - All I am

Ghost Brigade - IV One with the storm (the track 'Elama on Tulta' is heavy but has a great melody)

Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses

In the Silence - A fair dream gone mad

Katatonia - The great cold distance

Lacrimas Profundere - Hope is here

Leprous - The Congregation

Novembre - Materia

Opeth - Damnation

Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Pt 1

Saturnus - Martyre

Soen - Tellurian

Tesseract - Polaris

Votum - Harvest Moon

Wolverine - Machina Viva

Here is an example from Shade Empire, a mix of softer & heavier melodic prog metal

Any recommendations for bands that are like these ones? Thanks!

Not a huge fan, nothing really grabs me from their catalog, prefer Arcane (also from Brisbane) although they disbanded recently. Karnivool is another Aussie metal band that I like and have seen them a few times.

"Here is an example from Shade Empire, a mix of softer & heavier melodic prog metal"

It doesn’t sound prog in the slightest, symphonic black yes, not prog. Check how the band is classified on those sites:

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shade_Empire/3230

https://www.discogs.com/artist/797725-Shade-Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_Empire