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Hello. For some time now, I've been listening to a lot of avant-rock and metal, and I've realized that I've neglected traditional progressive rock. Could you recommend me some lesser-known bands from the '70s from the symphonic, eclectic, heavy, and RPI progressive scenes?

Edited by ThyroidGlands - 15 hours 42 minutes ago at 14:06
Non mi svegliate ve ne prego
ma lasciate che io dorma questo sonno,
c'è ancora tempo per il giorno
quando gli occhi si imbevono di pianto,
i miei occhi... di pianto.
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I own it but haven't heard it yet and that is the self titled album from England. 

Also:

Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories
Comus - First Utterance
Lift - Caverns of Your Brain
Biglietto Per Linferno - Same (one album for a very long time)
Semiramis - Dedicato D'AFrazz (ditto from above)
Cherry Five - Same (although they did morph into Goblin)
Epidauraus- Earthly Paradise (great obscure German band who had one later album but this one is a classic)

There's really a lot but for some reason I'm drawing a blank on most. Others on here will give you much more than I can. 

I'm just wondering they should be one shot bands though? There are tons of great lesser known bands who did more than just one album.



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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories
Comus - First Utterance
Lift - Caverns of Your Brain
Biglietto Per Linferno - Same (one album for a very long time)
Semiramis - Dedicato D'AFrazz (ditto from above)
Cherry Five - Same (although they did morph into Goblin)
Epidauraus- Earthly Paradise (great obscure German band who had one later album but this one is a classic)

Those are obscure classics. Biglietto per L'Inferno, Dedicato a Frazz, and Cherry Five are incredible albums. I can't say the same about the Cathedral one. Quite boring. Comus and Epidaurus are two I still need to check out, and I've never heard of Lift. Noted. Thank u

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm just wondering they should be one shot bands though? There are tons of great lesser known bands who did more than just one album.

No, not really. I don't know why I wrote that. Also, 'little-known 70's prog bands' is almost synonymous with 'one-shot bands.'

P.S.: I also had the misfortune of listening to Garden Shed by England... Very boring


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Well, I disagree with most obscure bands being one shot bands. You could actually say most prog bands are obscure and many are not one shot bands. I'm really not sure where you got that idea from. For example Greenslade and Fruupp are both pretty obscure and both put out four albums. 
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Originally posted by ThyroidGlands ThyroidGlands wrote:

symphonic, eclectic, heavy
Try the Serbian trio Opus's 1975 album. Guitarless stuff propelled by a Hammond organ with powerful vocals.


 

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UK 70s prog under the radar....

Quatermass-Quatermass
Strange Days-9 Parts To The Wind

from Germany

Ceddo-Ceddo
Giger Lenz Marron-Beyond
Giger Lenz Marron-Where The Hammer Hangs
Contact-Contact
Contact Trio-New Marks
Contact Trio-Double Face
Contact Trio-Musik
Dzyan-Dzyan
Dzyan-Time Machine
Dzyan-Electric Silence
Manfred Schoof Quintet-Light Lines

from the Netherlands

Solution-Divergence
Alquin-Marks

from Italy

Latte e Miele-Papillon
Il Baricentro-Sconcerto
Dedalus-Dedalus
Triade-La Storia di Sabazio
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Happy the Man
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Originally posted by ThyroidGlands ThyroidGlands wrote:

symphonic, eclectic, heavy
Sfinx was a standout Romanian band. Their 1978 album Zalmoxe, whose concept draws on ancient Dacian mythology, thoroughly reveals their prog-rock prowess with stellar keyboards and a unique vibe.


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Some of Vangelis side projects perhaps
Socrates Drank The Coniam - Phos
Irene Papas - Odes
Aphrodite's Child - 666

plus his early pre synthesiser albums
The Dragon
Hypothesis 
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Originally posted by ThyroidGlands ThyroidGlands wrote:

symphonic, eclectic, heavy
In the year 1978, the Bosnian group Indexi dropped their second album, Modra rijeka, which is still, outside the region where it was released, an obscure, yet beautifully symphonic, heavy, melancholic, tuneful, enigmatic, and passionate concept album based on poems by renowned Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar.


 


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