The Hemispheres Of Heavy Prog

All Together a GREAT JOB!! BRAVO!! haha

Atavachron wrote: some great new additions to HP today! Oko  -  Rough but tasteful Yugoslavian heavyprog , vintage stuff from 1976 http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3902 Kingfisher Sky  -  Highly talented Nederlanders Ivar de Graaf and Judith Rijnveld doing a blend of heavy/Celtic, melodic and beautifully recorded (I'll be adding the album later today) http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3903

The Black Sabbath debut is a must as well as Paranoid - very early elements of prog are certain.

Just a suggestion my friend Mike:

-I think Led Zeppelin IV is quite Heavy Prog, or at least Prog Hard Rock, hehe. Stairway to Heaven and When The Levee Breaks are very proggy. As well as No Quarter and Song Remains the Same from Houses of the Holy. While Achilles Last Stand is very Proggy, dunno if the whole album would suit.

-You could also add Burn from Deep Purple. It has the entry of the moog and quite the return to roots to MK 2, even though you have the slight Soul-Funk influence. This is not a completely MUST add though.

-Heep's debut? It has almost every element of Salisbury, just without the Symphonic Epic.

-And well the already said Black Sabbath. Debut, Paranoid, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath(almost every track) and Sabotage(The Writ and Meglomania) are musts for any Heavy Progger.

Just a suggestion.

^I agree

But Master of Reality is really Heavy more-so to Metal than Prog. Their debut and Paranoid have a lot of Progression on their songs. And Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are truly Prog albums at cause of the inclusion of keys and less straight-forward hard rock songs.

I posted this post in Suggest New Bands and Artists because this is a good Ex-YU Hevy Prog band!:

Great review and easy to read and comprehend. Keep these coming. Do an article perhaps of the new progressive metal acts of 2000 onwards.

other less known HP greats --

Australis  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3371

Freedom's Children  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3212

Zarathustra  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=783

Bless you for including the Fall of Troy! An underrated gem of a band (at least here on the Archives). Of course, practically all of the "scene" kids know about them.

Great work on the blog Mike and for education those not in the know about this amazing
genre

"Emo, a new form of punk, has even made its way into the genre as well as alternative".
According to most documentaries I've seen and books I've read, punk had it's true
beginnings in about 1974 (punk proper and not proto-punk bands like the Stooges, New
York Dolls et al that existed as early as the 60s).
Now , that would mean punk is about 34 years old at this point.
Emo first reared its head, as early as 1984. 24 YEARS AGO.
I wouldn't call a 24 year old genre a new form of Punk, not by a long shot, especially
since newer genres of punk were still being developed in the early '90s.

I make a suggestion that for greater accuracy in your blog, you change the line from
"Emo, a new form of punk, has even made its way into the genre as well as alternative" to perhaps "Post Hardcore, a form of punk has even made its way into the genre as well as alternative" and this shall improve the accuracy in relation to the '00 bands, in particular TMV and The Fall Of Troy.

Indeed, it is Post Hardcore and not emo in which TMV had their roots in, which of
course is because Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala were previously in the
Post Hardcore outfit At The Drive In.
And of course The Fall Of Troy is very much Post Hardcore influenced too.

Going back more on heavy prog, I really dig The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy and
Porcupine Tree (the top 3 for me out of the bands listed in the first post) and it was
great to see someone giving The Fall of Troy some recognition, a special thanks for
that Mike