The Owl Service (feat. ex member(s) of Mellow Candle.)

"The Owl Service formed through a mutual love of British films and television of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and (of course) the sound of the English folk revival. No retro obsessives, The Owl Service simply believe that music production peaked around 1969 and they merely seek to perfectly encapsulate the influence of the greatest albums and artists of the time. Beautiful music, simply arranged, exquisitely executed and captured on tape with authentic warmth - prepare to be enchanted by The Owl Service."

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theowlservice

ECCENTRIC ORBIT - Attack of the Martians
http://www.eoband.com/
Eclectic, keyboards dominated instrumental prog.

BURST - Lazarus Bird
Awesome extreme prog metal (ok, not that extreme, but for some people it is).

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE - Fields / Church Of Broken Glass
Another great release from these metal band which seems to veer more into heavy-prog and keyboards-drenched territories.

Yep ! Fantastic album. Quite different than the last one and also different than Entering the Spectra. You'll be surprised !

panic ensemble - leaded by Roy Yarkoni from Ahvak (an Israeli avant rock group).

Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1

avestin wrote: BURST - Lazarus Bird Awesome extreme prog metal (ok, not that extreme, but for some people it is).

Thanks for the great recommendations as usual Assaf

Burst is pretty darn good.

Btw, are you still listening to Sculptured's latest? Just curious if it's still one of your favs of this year. I've been listening to it alot lately. (Beautious )

heard recently three highly recommended albums from new fantastic bands (i am not sure they are listed in PA)

slaver wrote: This topic has been brought up before but with the result of a negative response and a whole lot of confusion to me. I love prog music but I am very sceptical about some of the additions to this site. At risk of being lynched I will state that I cannot understand where "the Beatles" fit a prog site (may as well put the BG's here as well. The "Rolling Stones"? Metallica??. I would suggest that Stratovarius be listened to properly by the powers that be because I cannot understand why many are here but they aren't. Is their music pop, is it base metal? No!! It is in fact very much more progressive than at least a quarter of the Artists featured on the Site. Sure they have a couple of catchy tracks (don't the beatles?). Most of their music fits into what Progarchives is all about. You have bands here that, by their own admission, are influenced by Stratovarius but they themselves are not here. Must be a political thing.   Sure Tolki's a moron but that doesn't mean that the music isn't good or progressive in nature. In fact the music is very good. Listen to one of the two "Elements" albums or to any of their albums barring the first three.   Come on guys!!

That's all very good (and been discussed in other places in this forum) but how is related to the topic of this thread ? If you want bands added, there are other threads in other sections of this forum.
Let's keep this thread "clean" for recommendations of bands that you would like to have other people exposed to.

Edited by Anirml - December 05 2008 at 19:02

after a polish band their album is endless lunatic, not on progarchives as of yet