The Hemispheres Of Heavy Prog

Heavy Prog lover here!!!!!!!! I just think this genre encompasses everything about prog music, it has it all. There are so many bands here that need more attention.......I will certainly check some I have not heard before.

Great blog - needs a part 2....i would like to see Masters Apprentices on the blog too - great heavy prog band from Australia! Also some of the pix have disappeared and could be updated. I know how hard that is with my own blogs but worth updating. 

since when has a prog band been about single songs? It's about the album mang. Besides, it's like I said - they're a good combination of modern rock and classic prog which doesn't mean that I'm right or that you have to agree with me, simply my own opinion - even though I think your argument is invalid because you have not heard enough of the band's music.

how much is somewhat? Are we talking one album or the whole discography?

DT-PT wrote: Am I the only one who thinks Coheed and Cambria isn't even prog-related?

Do you even listen to them? Explain thee-self

lagorno wrote: Though it was helpful for learning some of the old school guys (who were awesome btw), i have to give it a C minus for failing to mention king crimson in the 70's section(1969-).  As well as calling the 80's vacant of progressive rock livelihood, while f**king dream theater began (1985).  Also the 00's were downplayed as "not nearly as fruitful for the heavy prog genre".  The scene pretty much exploded in 00's , theres thousands of little brand new heavy prog nuggets popping up all over the place with new recording software capabilities (GPro, mac). PS coheed&ca is prog. ie 21:13

I fully disagree with King Crimson being "heavy prog" - if you actually read through my blog you would have seen my definition of heavy prog as "a mix of contemporary rock music and traditional prog" which King Crimson never was. They have always been exactly as they're categorized on the website - "Eclectic". For them to be "heavy" in the period you describe then In The Wake of Poseidon would have had to fall closer to Cream than anything else. Which it does not.

As for the '00 comment... are any of those bands actually worth my time to listen to?

almost forgot about this great blog of Mike's, here's some noteworthy additions over the past year or so- -

ExCubus    Quebecois heavy organ rock, killer stuff
Nevärlläjf    Outstanding Swedish heavy proggers  
Headspace    Good UK band
Valhalla     Rare and very decent early U.S. heavyprog
Walrus     Fun heavy blues/jazz from Britain circa 1970
Sky Architect    Quality young heavy symph group from the Netherlands







Edited by Atavachron - June 22 2010 at 17:48

Though it was helpful for learning some of the old school guys (who were awesome btw), i have to give it a C minus for failing to mention king crimson in the 70's section(1969-).  As well as calling the 80's vacant of progressive rock livelihood, while f**king dream theater began (1985).  Also the 00's were downplayed as "not nearly as fruitful for the heavy prog genre".  The scene pretty much exploded in 00's , theres thousands of little brand new heavy prog nuggets popping up all over the place with new recording software capabilities (GPro, mac).

King By-Tor wrote: I would say that Coheed's needs to come up with one very truly progressive record to get them out of Related. It was a big enough arguement just to get them onto the archives in the first place.

this


as for Cream, I would say they were one of the most important bands ever - absolutely seminal - and certainly started something, but the vast bulk of their material wasn't any more 'progressive' than most of the other great pioneers of that era, as the Stones, Hendrix, or the Dead.  Could all those artists qualify as progressive?  Sure, but we have to decide whether the artists of the creative explosion of the 1960s are by definition progressive rock.  There is a good argument to be made for that, but iis it really what we want?

Cream has been suggested and denied, they're strait up blues, despite influencing many artists that would later come.


I would say that Coheed's needs to come up with one very truly progressive record to get them out of Related. It was a big enough arguement just to get them onto the archives in the first place.