Is there still groundbreaking prog these days?

It borrows from Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin and electronica in general. It's original, but not original enough to come even close to outweighing everything done since 1983.

Ghandi 2 wrote: Cheesecakemouse wrote: One word - KIDA This album is more innovative than all the prog put together since 1983 Do you mean Kid A by Radiohead? If so, I have to vehemently disagree. If not, what are you talking about?

KansasRushDream wrote: To a small extent, yes, but in the big picture, no. As mentioned earlier in this thread, I think that the only room for true innovation left today is in genre fusing. Progressive Smooth Metal Swing Techno anyone?

Witchwoodhermit wrote: I think rock music has been basically repeating itself over and again for the past twenty years or more. Not that there are not any good bands out there, just nothing particulary groundbreaking.

Pfft you're just closeminded I've recorded 2 albums with 2 different bands that are original, unique and something that has never really been done before. And that's just me some random bum with no musical talent, there are plenty of groundbreaking bands out there you just aren't too likely to hear them, early TMV to me was fairly new and exciting stuff.

I'll add my few cents.

I'm sure that many would argue with me on some or all of the following bands, but I believe all of these bands are examples of true innovators in modern music. Note that these days a lot of the innovation is a matter of fusing disparate genres, which may be less groundbreaking than creating wholly original music, but is still innovative in my opinion:

Tool - created an innovative blend of metal and prog that is really not like anything that came before, in prog-metal or music in general
Opeth - fused extreme metal and soft, melodic, proggy music in a way that was never done before
The Mars Volta - often, they sound like both a punk band and a prog band, two genres previously thought to be polar opposites
Ayreon - with The Human Equation, innovated music by providing the first true rock opera masterpiece (note that I don't consider albums like Tommy and Quadrophenia to be true "rock operas", due to the lack of multiple singers and operatic vocals, both of which are present in Ayreon)
Radiohead - created innovative music (nothing before OK Computer and Kid A really sounded like those albums), and influenced an entire generation of musicians, as shown in the similarities between many modern bands and Radiohead

There is a hell of a lot of groundbreaking music around these days. You just have to search it out a but more 'cos it ain't that popular.

Some of these abdns include:
Pelican!!!!! (saw them recently and they were AMAZING!)
65daysofstatic
Russian Circles
Do Make Say Think
A Silver Mt. Zion
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Hella
Lightning Bolt
I will leave it there for now but IMO the music these days is much more interesting than the golden oldies, E.g. Floyd, Yes etc.

I like the good part of the bands mentioned here, but really, are they as groundbreaking as the ones who started prog?

cool! I never heard of most of these bands. I'll be sure to check them out. because of  contemporary prog I basically just Meshuggah. Spock's Beard (in the Morse-era quite derivative of the old symphonic/art prog) ans TFK (who i like a lot at the moment). that's why I asked. other than these it's mostly 70's prog KC, Yes, Genesis, GG, VDGG, Magma, FZ etc and a wide variety of other (unrelated) styles. Seems to me that progressive music isn't quite dying after all (thank god!!! and praise the lawd, hallelujah!! LOL)


Edited by unclemeat69 - April 20 2007 at 16:56

Yes. 65daysofstatic, Hella, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kayo Dot, Alamaailman Vasarat, and Taal come to mind, and I have no doubt there are many others.