Your biggest discovery of the year!

So far in 2009 it's only Kiss that's new for me 

new Umphreys McGee album is a most serious progressive opus!

verslibre wrote: Which album turned you on to his stuff...was it The Desert Music?

Clenn wrote: Right at the start of 2009: Miles Davis and Nina Simone . I am pretty sure I will not make a bigger discovery this year, or ever again haha.

Biggest discovery in 2008??

anoah wrote: Wow. Well, I only got into prog three years ago; although I did like Genesis and Yes, I didn't know I liked prog. (I'm only 14.) So: My biggest find of the year has to be: KEVIN GILBERT And his bands Giraffe and Toy Matinee, which are good, but his solo stuff is superior. It took me a while to track down his The Shaming of the True, which I finally found for 54 dollars (I'm just a kid, and I don't have that much money to toss around). Anyway, it was rereleased for $16 two weeks later. Other great finds include: CRACK THE SKY (s/t, Animal Notes, Safety in Numbers) - Really good hard rock/art rock that never really got attention. PHISH (Junta, Lawn Boy) - Not exactly prog, but proggish. Either way, it sounds great, especially Lawn Boy. URIAH HEEP (all their early stuff) - Yes, prog-geniuses, but I'd never heard them. THE MARS VOLTA (everything) - They really rock! WEEN (The Mollusk, Chocolate and Cheese, The Pod) - Wacky and wonderful! TOOL (everything) - I heard "The Pot" on the radio and got the wrong impression. Lateralus is a masterpiece! DIXIE DREGS (Free Fall) - I saw the record in a shop for a few dollars and it spoke to me. OSI (s/t) - An unlikely choice for me, but their s/t album was really impressive, especially with the bonus tracks. ESPERANTO (Last Tango) - A Beatles-covering Belgian prog band is always something to be wary of. MAN MAN (Rabbit Hats, Six Demon Bag) - Great, absolutely insane band. Not prog, but equally experimental. IDIOT FLESH (Nothing Show) - Another unlikely choice, but it was captivating, (and it barely qualifies as music).

These are the bands I discovered this year.

- Protest the Hero (Is there a style which that vocalist can't sing!?)
- Mezarkabul (Turkish heavy metal band with eastern folk influences)
- Amon Duul 2 (It took me a while, but I'm hooked now!)
- My Dying Bride (Kings of Doom, finally I understand why so many people like it)
- Sinch (A nu-metal act that did not seem to make it, because of the experimental musical sidesteps)
- Napalm Death (They prove that grindcore can actually contain intelligence and political value)
- Origin (They prove that grindcore can be technically proficiant)
- Kutschurft (They prove that grindcore is just plain silly, nasty and funny )

Lot's of heavier music for me this year, but I guess that has to do with the fact that my year wasn't as good as it should have been. ah well, it's a good thing that heavy music exists then, right?

Swan Song wrote: My discovery this year was quality prog-metal: it started in late 2007 and continued in 2008. Opeth, Parallaxe, Blotted Science, Subterranean Masquerade, Negura Bunget, Cynic are the stand-outs.

Oh, I forgot to highlight probably my greatest discovery of 2008: NATSUMEN

Best discovery so far for me this year has to be Karmakanic.  I recently got Who's The Boss In The Factory, on the strength of some great reviews on here.  And that is a seriously top album.  The 19-minute epic, Send A Message From The Heart is amazing, and so immediate.  I absolutely adored it from the first listen.

Roj M30 wrote: Best discovery so far for me this year has to be Karmakanic.  I recently got Who's The Boss In The Factory, on the strength of some great reviews on here.  And that is a seriously top album.  The 19-minute epic, Send A Message From The Heart is amazing, and so immediate.  I absolutely adored it from the first listen.