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Eloy comes to mind right off the bat if you're looking for floyd.
If you haven't already, check out this little known band called "Mother Engine". They do instrumental works that, IMHO, seamlessly combine the harder-edged dream theater sound with the guitar work of someone very obviously influenced by Gilmour. Weltraumwolf is a great track to start with if you're interested.
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Heavy Moon has definitive pre-Animals Floydian inspiration
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2019 at 00:00
Dave Kerzner 's project In Continuum . The album Acceleration theory that was released earlier in the year should be checked out. His 2 solo albums also owe a lot to Floyd.
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Probably been mentioned....AIRBAG
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sp8ctre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2019 at 18:58
I don't really want to go through 7 pages so I'll just recommend Pineapple Thief and Porcupine Tree
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Airbag is just amazing. They take a strong PF style, improvise, and create a slightly harder edge soundscape that stands alone. Bjorn Riis plays heavily in the Gilmour style but has a sadness or loneliness to his playing that while similar is inherently different. If you like PF, you should appreciate Airbag.

Another PF type band is Raven Sad. Pretty unique Italian band that has strong PF influences.

Abarax - crying of the whales is virtually PF without being as unique.

Cosmos - I think is a French band. PF rip-off but still palatable

Ekos - Mexican PF style band. Very very ‘animals era’ sounding

Metamorphosis- more of a porcupine tree band but strong PF influences

Bands like (the fabulous) Anathema, frequency drift, nosound etc sound like variations of PF but not consistently

Early Porcupine Tree was PF. Really, they were virtually all PF. Great stuff though. Especially since SW came out
With that abomination of that song permanation or whatever it was off his last album.

RPWL used to sound very PF. Their later stuff has drifted away. They still sound great however.
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For the psychedelic/Barrett side, the Italian Jennifer Gentle aren't bad.

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If you go to All music.com and look at the list of bands thst are inspired by Floyd, it is longer than a toilet-paper. To mention a few is just a promille. But a good start is the Krautrock scene and Gong if you want avant garde/experimental/psych floydn Alan Parson Project is a good band to seek if one want Dark Side influenced bands
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote franp Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2019 at 05:39
Found out "Fine Soft Day" today on Bandcamp that has very noticable Pink Floyd influences, both Waters and Gilmour.
https://finesoftday.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-here
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2019 at 21:31
Eloy, Porcupine Tree(early), Nektar, Can, Krautrock in general, 70's Tangerine Dream, 70's Alan Parson's Project, Camel, RPWL. That should get a newbie started. That plus all the other recommendations.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Shrubbery Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2019 at 12:30
Stay Calm - Bjorn Riis of Airbag

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