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Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:27

One of my favourite PM bands, very little known:

^ this one that doesn't embed is my favourite Angry

Edited by harmonium.ro - September 07 2010 at 17:14

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:35

The Quiet One wrote:

Tool?

OK.....my list is lacking somewhat.

Tool

Savatge

I know 'em

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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

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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.

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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.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 18:39

Im guessing someone mentioned
Psychotic Waltz by now

If not, I highly recommend them!

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Posted: September 05 2010 at 14:26

^ absolutely essential band for me

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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.

Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime

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Posted: September 06 2010 at 16:21

what about messhugah?, isis?

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Posted: September 06 2010 at 17:33

Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor

(if you can tolerate death growls)

Exxasens - Beyond the Universe

(this is instrumental, more on post-rock side)

Isis - Wavering Radiant

(this is post-metal, and the most "weird" among these)

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Posted: September 07 2010 at 09:21

Coming from a guy that grew up on Metal.

Uriah Heep(Founding Father of the Progressive Metal genre)

I recommend the Magician's Birthday and Demons and Wizards Albums.

Especially the title track on the Magician's Birthday Album.

Then

The Masterpiece:Hall of the Mountain King Album by Savatage

Litmus

That's right bringing back the Lemmy era of Hawkwind!

Their Aurora album is Mind Blowing,it'll mess your world up.

Wayyy more Edgier,Heavier and above all more Spacier than the Lemmy era Hawkwind could ever dream.

Then

Recently last but not least.

Blood Ceremony:

New up and comers in Prog rock.

With that wicked and also hot babe Alia O'Brien on lead vocals and flute

Playing Metal in the tradition of Black Sabbath

http://www.myspace.com/bloodceremony

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Posted: September 07 2010 at 17:03

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?

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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 Ouch

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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

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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.

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Posted: September 08 2010 at 04:42

WyattEarp wrote:

Coming from a guy that grew up on Metal.

Uriah Heep(Founding Father of the Progressive Metal genre)

I recommend the Magician's Birthday and Demons and Wizards Albums.

Especially the title track on the Magician's Birthday Album.

You have got to be kidding me.

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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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Posted: September 08 2010 at 10:59

@ Snow Dog What do you mean you got to be kidding me?

Since you've been on Progarchives for 5 years you must know good quality music.

Well

Listening to Heavy Metal bands,i love Uriah Heep(not the 1st),their one of the bands that influenced my love for Prog-Art Rock.

And

They beautifully combine Prog and Heavy Metal,even though their under the Heavy Prog section.

They on their earlier stuff,they did a excellent job of combining Prog and Metal.

Now

If your open mind enough to appreciate Heavy Metal outside the box,you could see my point.

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Posted: September 08 2010 at 12:03

Italian's VIII Strada are well worth checking out.

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4688

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Posted: September 10 2010 at 06:36

WyattEarp wrote:

@ Snow Dog What do you mean you got to be kidding me?

Since you've been on Progarchives for 5 years you must know good quality music.

Well

Listening to Heavy Metal bands,i love Uriah Heep(not the 1st),their one of the bands that influenced my love for Prog-Art Rock.

And

They beautifully combine Prog and Heavy Metal,even though their under the Heavy Prog section.

They on their earlier stuff,they did a excellent job of combining Prog and Metal.

Now

If your open mind enough to appreciate Heavy Metal outside the box,you could see my point.

I think what he's getting at is that they arent metal.

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