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    Posted: April 21 2022 at 00:05
I've been interested lately in listening to really dark and gritty progressive rock music, songs that really take you somewhere. I've no idea the best way to describe it so help there would be appreciated too, but here's a couple of songs that are along the lines I was thinking of:

Marillion: The Bitter Suite
Pink Floyd: One Slip
IQ: Through My Fingers

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I'd say this one qualifies and is guaranteed to take you somewhere
I could think of hundreds more but as your examples are 2/3rds Neo Prog, I'll wait with Univers Zero and Igor Wakhévitch
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Devil Doll, Agalloch, Gargamel, Discipline (with Matthew Parmenter), ...
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after second thought








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Echolyn - "All This Time We're Given". The entire album this song comes from, "I Heard You Listening", is dark.



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Since Saperlipopette! has already mentioned "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers", I'll mention a dark symphonic album that I've been playing quite a lot lately: Arachnoid - Arachnoid.
 
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Daaaaaark??Wink
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Daaaaaark??Wink




That's exactly what I was thinking, how dark do you want to go? Because this is dark.





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Helium Horse Fly - Helium Horse Fly - Adrift
 
 
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Try this on for size if you've got an hour to spare Smile
Take me down, to the underground
Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life

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I would be interested if the OP would respond and let us know if any of these suggestions are what they had in mind. Most of these responses are far from the example songs given in the OP.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

I would be interested if the OP would respond and let us know if any of these suggestions are what they had in mind. Most of these responses are far from the example songs given in the OP.

You want it darker?
We kill the flame.

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Based on his original choices. atmospheric symph prog,  I would recommend the recent IQ albums.....Road Of Bones and Resistance. (I personally prefer Dark Matter and Frequency regarding IQ ) but Road of Bones sounds perfect for his needs.
I do think Discipline  with Parmenter falls into that area as does some VDGG.



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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

I would be interested if the OP would respond and let us know if any of these suggestions are what they had in mind. Most of these responses are far from the example songs given in the OP.

I agree.....sounds like he's looking for more atmospheric symphonic prog with an edge but not as dark as some of the things posted.
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Listened to Lard Free's first recently, and it put me in a down mood.
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Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses is very dark. And bloody excellent
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VDGG : Plague of lighthouse keeper/ Arrow/Lost/Scorched Earth/ The necromancer/ Pioneer aver C....
Peter Hammill : In the black room/ A Louse is not a home/ No more submariner /Gog/Tapeworm/ Faculty X...
GArgamel : both CDs
Discipline : Unfolded like staircase CD
Atoll : le photographe exorciste
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When I think of dark prog, I immediately do think of many things that have been listed that I love, the Igor Wakhevitch, Current-93, Univers Zero, Shun-Niggurath, Arachnoid (and for those that like that, try Shylock and the lighter Carpe Diem), as well as music by Comus and others.

I didn't remember the songs in the OP, but checked them out. They seem quite jaunty to my dark disposition -- can be rather sad.

One I thought of, but it is mabe a little more sad than dark and yet also not as jaunty as music in the OP, but I think could appeal to those tastes is Porcupine Tree's "Heartattack in a Lay By" (but not right...).



Maybe as grumpy progfan put it, symphonic prog (or I think melodic prog) with an edge (and maybe some angst) would be a good description. I would think various Steven Wilson could kind of fit the bill....

Discipline was mentioned, and that seems a good one fro your goals. Maybe music from Galahad's Empires Never Last:



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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

I would be interested if the OP would respond and let us know if any of these suggestions are what they had in mind. Most of these responses are far from the example songs given in the OP.


I agree.....sounds like he's looking for more atmospheric symphonic prog with an edge but not as dark as some of the things posted.
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Yep. It would help if responders read the OP and not just the topic title.
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I did, I saw people had made loads of great suggestions so decided to have a little fun with it, I'm sure Trane was the same.
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