Modern/New Prog

If you like your music to be a little bit strange, then I highly recommend, from 2019:

Edited by I prophesy disaster - July 10 2020 at 19:50

My favourite 21st century prog album is the 2009 release (as a free download), Maudlin Of The Well - Part The Second:
 

 
Maudlin Of The Well - Part The Second
 
 
For me, the highlight track is the final track, "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)":
 

 
 

Edited by I prophesy disaster - July 10 2020 at 20:53

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Discipline's debut was '88 and echolyn in '91. Hardly modern. That Discipline "debut" wasn't first released until five years ago or so. Either way 93 isn't modern either.

Thank You Scientist is for me, one of the better modern prog bands. The brass and string arrangements keep it interesting.

Awesoreno wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Discipline's debut was '88 and echolyn in '91. Hardly modern. That Discipline "debut" wasn't first released until five years ago or so. Either way 93 isn't modern either. Though that's PLENTY modern for some people on this site hehehe. "I don't like all these new bands, like Dream Theater."

The new Pure Reason Revolution is absolutely brilliant. Any takers?

FatherChristmas wrote: I've been wondering recently whether there has been a new wave of prog bands I've somehow missed out, ad furthermore, whether any modern prog bands have actually broke the charts. According to Wikipedia, there's a genre called "new prog", can anyone give me any information on this?

FatherChristmas wrote: FatherChristmas wrote: I've been wondering recently whether there has been a new wave of prog bands I've somehow missed out, ad furthermore, whether any modern prog bands have actually broke the charts. According to Wikipedia, there's a genre called "new prog", can anyone give me any information on this?  I've come to the conclusion that "new prog" (or indeed "nu prog" Steve G ) is more of a wave of bands than a subgenre... it still seems very under promoted at PA. I'd only really heard of the newer bands Spock's Beard, the Mars Volta, Steven Wilson and Dream Theater before making this topic, and I'm not that ignorant. (Well, I don't know... I hadn't heard of Caravan until recently) .

It's called NuProg, New Prog, Post Prog, Alterna-Prog and Alternative Prog or Alt. Prog. I actually brought this up as a label to consider back in 2008 (and I wasn't the first), as well as Neo-Folk (not as its own category but as a section of Prog Folk). I was keen on adding subcategories if we could at one time, though I always preferred multi-genre album tagging, but our site architecture does not support it and such changes would mean rebuilding the site and pulling all this into into a new one would be a massive challenge.

My conclusion about New Prog being, along with others, that it wouldn't be very useful (at least not as its own category). We find various NuProg bands across various categories here. If we had multi genre tagging, then it could be a useful label for database classification. Indeed, I agree with you that it's more of a wave of band than a subgenre. I researched it a lot back then after I came across the term, and here is a link that I found useful, but is now very out of date.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/WiiAreRabbid/new_prog__progressive_rock_with_a_modern_twist/

I'll quote from that:

WiiAreRabbid wrote: New Prog is not to be confused with 80s Neo-Prog, which is strongly influenced by Symphonic Rock. New Prog is a relatively new sub-genre of Progressive Rock, which combines elements of traditional Progressive Rock with more recent styles of music such as Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore, and Post-Rock. This list includes New Prog bands, a few modern Art Rock bands with similar influences, as well as a few bordline bands that may be enjoyed by fans of New Prog. This list does not include new bands that play purely 70s Progressive Rock, it also does not include bands that are purely Progressive Metal....

We've had a few discussions on this over the years (mostly before 2010). What I said in one as response was:

"NuProg bands can be found in various categories here. I had brought up this topic before (for a Nu Prog/ Post Prog category), and am of the feeling that while NuProg would a useful tag for artists in PA, and a useful term for describing acts, it's rather too diverse to be warranted for placing Nu Prog bands in a single category. So better as a descriptor than as a functional and useful category. I did feel that it could be helpful with placement. Aside from the concern that Nu Prog bands are so diverse that it doesn't warrant its own category, there were also concerns that it would open the doors to bands that should not be considered truly Prog (at least by PA standards). The other concern expressed had to to do with PA's taking a back-seat to others "Prog definitions," as I understood it."

There is also Nu Jazz, Nu Metal and there should be a Nu Neu.


Edited by Logan - July 11 2020 at 09:39

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I like the music but the vocals are too irritating for me.