Scandinavian Prog Appreciation Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Here is my contribution to the thread ...

The Scandinavian prog dream team ( based on my personal taste):

Psychedelic hippy freaks(the beginning of them all): Algarnas Tradgard.

70s : Kaipa,Ragnarok.

The Holy mellotron trio : Anglagard,Landberk,Anekdoten.

Sweet mellincolie : White Willow,Paatos,Kvazar,Wobbler.

Nordic Metal Masters : PoS,Green Carnation,Opeth,Therion,Winds.

Postrock's little big : Sigur Ros.

Ars longa , vita brevis

Not yet mentioned:

Robin Taylor/Taylor's Universe (Denmark's best kept secret

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Taylor's Universe (1994) ****½

Pork (1996) ****

Experimental Health (1998) ****½

Heart Disc (1999) ****½

Katzen Kapell (Sweden)

Katzen Kapell (1994) ****½

Alla Hatar Min Man (1998) ****

Mats/Morgan (Sweden)

Thank You for Flying with Us (2005) ****

What is more, I can give my view as a Finn here. Bands like Magyar Posse, Uzva, Tabula Rasa are more popular than ever. At the same time we are getting bands like Von Hertzen Brothers which is one of the most sold bands this year, and great neo-prog.

Alongside with all this we have the oldschool bands Wigwam And Tasavallan Presidentti going strong. Wigwam is still composing, still going around the country playing awsome gigs. (seen them twice in one year). As I have seen Tasavallan Presidentti, who are actually about to finish their to-be awesome record Tasavallan Presidentti -six. And at that starting a gig round, coming to my city as well, an dI'm so going to see them.

I think this is because the whole prog rock scene is coming back to life in finland at least, more and more bands do prog, and so the old ones are popular again. Jukka Tolonen goes around the Scandinavia doing high class gigs too.

And with bands like Flower Kings and Kaipa of what I listen a t the moment, the passion to prog rock and it's popularity here in the north is very respectable. Not to mention the Kalevala progressive rock epic from a few years ago.

Don't forget too a swedish young band call Moon Safari.

They play a prog of 70's style. Tomas Bodin work on their first cd "A doorway to summer".

An interesting thing about swedish prog is that it, except for maybe Opeth and Evergrey never gets any attention by anyone, the only ones that listen to this music in sweden are those funny-dressed old men that hang around libraries and communist students in their twenties. and then of course there is me

Du Skojar om att jag Skojar men jag skojar inte alls

Yep, I have to agree, us Brits have lost the crown abit even though we still have a firm grip in other areas espcially in the psychdelic/space rock and the more indie avant-garde area. The US and Scananvia have mostly come on with avengence.

I love some of the stuff comming out of scandanavia:

Opeth,

Circus Maximus,

Meshugah,

Pagan's MInd,

POS,

Flower Kings,

Evergrey,

The band from outta space (great space rock band, very hawkwind, great debut album title 'Im only in it for the space rock' what a title!

)

Not Strictly prog but still rock:

Hammerfall,

Children of Bodom,

Fintroll

Dream Evil

So yeah, Scandanvia is most certainly the place which is teh most 'happening' prog-wise, many good and future legendary bands ariseing.

Therion aren't scadanavian they are german.

Edited by Space Dimentia - October 12 2006 at 14:05

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