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After a long hiatus, Kansas had an absolutely stellar comeback in 2000 with Somewhere to Elsewhere. That album rivals the best from their classic era. Sadly, as an album, it was a one off as while the band remained active thereafter, it was just as as touring band rehashing old setlists.

OP here, thank you everyone, this is a great thread!! Please keep 'em coming!

Another one came to me = Captain Beyond. After three very good LPs, they disappeared.

CB did resurface in 2001 (I was helping the band in their comeback), but they couldn't find any traction for funding, and key members stayed away.

CB is still trying, with founding drummer Bobby Caldwell holding down the fort. I think he's having a tough ride with it, as the musicians are not nearly up to the quality of the founders, Rhino Reinhardt and Lee Dorman.

RIP Rhino and Lee!

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Don't know why I needed to think about as Kayak are the screamingly obvious one. Must have been a gap of about 16 years between Merlin in 1983 and their comeback in the late 90's. Their first 4 albums are tremendous then they went a bit AORish for a while before the Merlin album. That seemed to re-establish them properly as a prog band before they just split up . I don't know the full story but after that Ton Scherpenzeel joined Camel for the Stationery Traveller album but he didn't stay very long. The drummer Pim Koopman actually penned several entries for the Eurovision Song Contest would you believe? (unless this is a joke on Wiki!) .He had a wonderful deep rich voice that was well used on the narration for the extended re-recorded version of Merlin ( re-named Merlin Bard of The Unseen). Sadly he died of a heart attack in 2009 (RIP). The band have continued and released the excellent 'Seventeen' only last year. They played there first ever gig in the UK this year but annoyingly I couldn't make it but hopefully I will get another opportunity in the future.

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That's it! I couldn't imagine Banco without great Francesco Di Giacomo, but 2019 album looks like their best studio work since "Canto di primavera" (1979).

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Bubblemath had a good debut in 2001 then nothing until '17 with the excellent Edit Peptide & great ProgDay performance.

Far Corner had two good albums in 2004 & 2007 then a long gap to the superb Risk in '18.

Comus had a superb debut in First Utterance in '71 then a not so special follow up in '74 then nothing until '12!! With a really quite good appropriately named Out Of The Coma.

Dirk Mont Campbell of Egg, Gilgamesh & National Health released his debut solo album in '96, the follow up wasn't until '09.

Anglagard released two great album in 92 & 94 then nothing until the great Viljans Oga in '12

Happy Family release two albums in '95 & '97 then the quite excellent return with Minimal Gods in '14 with a great RIO performance

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Yeah, Magma is the most authentic comeback. The new Banco is really good. The last Comus album was decent as well. Gong is hit and miss but def good quality prog. VDGG's latest aren't quite as good as the classics but still very good albums. I wish bands like Yes, Pink Floyd and PFM would just give it up already.

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Magma. And stronger than ever, too.

BaldFriede wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator, Gong and Amon Düül 2 all came back several times.

Thanks! I'm specifically thinking of a band that completely disappeared off the face of the earth for a long period of time, Gong and AD2 seemed to always be kicking around in the background (at least as long as Daevid Allen was around for Gong!).

Brand X is having an especially energetic second coming, I highly recommend them. Goodsall on guitar and Percy Jones on bass make this a strong comeback for sure.

Other prog bands that have attempted to come back include Starcastle (meh, they never really got their mojo back), Dixie Dregs (I saw them in concert in the 1990s, they were excellent with ex-Mahavishnu violinist Jerry Goodman in the band), and the Strawbs (who have done concerts as acoustic and electric versions).

Uriah Heep has come back with a surprisingly strong sound! I passed on a chance to see them at a local bar & after seeing some video, regret not having went to see them. Andy Powell's version of Wishbone Ash is also convincingly strong.

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