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Joined: November 11 2005
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Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:38
Very good recommendations above but I will have to second in particular
Enchant and Tiles for heavy prog (metal-ish)
I hope you are not missing Conception from your list (explore the whole catalogue) Also I have not seen any mention of Crimson Glory and Heir Apparent - legendary bands
Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
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Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:43
aapatsos wrote:
Very good recommendations above but I will have to second in particular
Enchant and Tiles for heavy prog (metal-ish)
I hope you are not missing Conception from your list (explore the whole catalogue) Also I have not seen any mention of Crimson Glory and Heir Apparent - legendary bands
Not keen on Enchant but don't consider them metal anyway. Tiles I quite like.
Joined: February 06 2004
Location: France
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Posted: September 04 2010 at 18:30
Posted on MMA :
Hey prog metal fans, anyone heard the russian band Mechanical Poet.
On the fabulous french website guts of darkness their music is
described as a cross between 'Harry Potter' and Pain Of Salvation, which
is quite fair as they have a strong symphonic side on one hand and the
vocalist switches easily from "quiet' to "harsh" and the "metal" music
(as opposed to the symphonic one) bears some similarities with PoS on
the other hand. I quite enjoy their album 'woodland prattlers' (I
listened to it twice during my jogging)
Not sure their other albums are on par with this one.
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
Joined: August 07 2008
Location: Philadelphia,PA
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Posted: September 05 2010 at 14:36
Try out Empty Tremor. Their music has a heavy Dream Theater flavor, but they're still extremely powerful and emotional; and best of all, I don't consider them to be a clone band.
Joined: August 18 2008
Location: Anna Calvi
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Posted: September 07 2010 at 17:13
Nathaniel607 wrote:
harmonium.ro wrote:
One of my favourite PM bands, very little known:
I literally cannot get this album - I CANNOT find it anywhere! I love the tracks you showed... can you find it anywhere lol?
I'm glad you liked them. These tracks were from their demo, which if I'm not wrong was never released. It just circulated over the internet (I don't know if legally or not). They have an official album out but the purchase links don't work as the band site is down, I just saw this
Joined: July 27 2010
Location: Brisbane
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Posted: September 07 2010 at 19:04
I've had a couple of recent discoveries of bands I now love:
Disillusion - Gloria. Someone also mentioned their first, Back to Times of Spendour (has much more death growls), but I absolutely love Gloria. Has an industrial undertone and some of the vocals are a bit Rammstein, but it has some varied genre influences and is a great album.
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome. A 5 piece from Norway that also combine various influences to create a fantastic album IMO. Their tempo changes blend so well it's almost Opeth-like.
Oh yeah, there's a band called Porcupine Tree that are pretty good
Joined: June 18 2009
Location: Mexico
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Posted: September 07 2010 at 22:54
I still have to buy the albums, but for what I've heard on YouTube, Alcest is very good too, specially "Eclaille de Lune", which is the album I've heard. This is a french "group" consisting of only one person doing all instruments, however it sounded very good. I just read a review about a band call "Artcell" from Bangladesh, I only heard one song on Youtube, but it was interesting.
Joined: September 05 2010
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 09:38
Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter..you can hear obvious DT influence but you can hear alot of meshuggah influence as well..they dont have any power metal influence like symphony x. Lots of piano and acoustic stuff to blend with the metal. Also Pagans Mind is a very good band
Edited by ProgEpics - September 08 2010 at 09:40
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