Obscure bands that should be known!

Jean Louis

I not sure if you would consider them obscure, but I really like the British band TesseracT. Great Prog Metal with Ambient influences. They just released their first full length last year called One. Fans of Periphery and Meshuggah might like them.





Edited by Fox On The Rocks - April 05 2012 at 15:23

KILLBOT ZERO because holy hell awesomeness. They have 4 albums out and only 1 is listed on the archives

Pure Reason Revolution

If based on the ratings and the reviews, I wonder if Laurie Anderson couldn't be "elected" (I'm going to check how many ratings she had).

Moving Gelatine Plates, 65daysofstatic and Ancestors come to mind. 

Dynahead

I''d mention some of these band and mostly artist names (hope you don't mind) -- in no particular order:

Igor Wakhevitch is not that well known at PA.  His early albums have more than ten ratings, but I think these later ones highly enjoyable too, and worthy of attention:

3.93 | 6 ratings Les Fous D'or
1974

3.57 | 5 ratings Let's Start
1979

Geinoh Yamashirogumi -- okay I see that Osorezan now has ten ratings, but that's the only album by the group with more than four.  Most of the albums aren't really Prog though, so whatever...

Non Credo -- great ""ävant"albums:

4.92 | 3 ratings Reluctant Hosts 1988

4.82 | 8 ratings Happy Wretched Family 1995

4.67 | 6 ratings Impropera 2006

My favourite Tipographica album with few ratings.

4.81 | 9 ratings Floating Opera
1997
Mashaiko Satoh and the Soundbreakers - great album, I think.

4.40 | 8 ratings Amalgamation (Kokotsu No Showa Genroku)
1971

Another great one from Japan:

4.02 | 4 ratings Yamataifu
1972


Bjorn J:son Lindh is one of my favourite discoveries of the last few years (thanks google!) and I think Fran Storstad... a remarkably good Eclectic album.

2.50 | 2 ratings Ramadan 1971

4.82 | 3 ratings Från Storstad Till Grodspad 1971

3.00 | 3 ratings Cous Cous 1972

2.50 | 2 ratings Sissel 1973

Yochk'o Seffer.  The first three albums under his name are all really good.  Surprised that Delire only has three ratings.  The rest of his many albums are almost co pletely unknown, including by myself, according to the ratings

4.67 | 3 ratings Neffesh Music: Délire 1976

4.20 | 5 ratings Neffesh Music: Ima 1976

4.33 | 9 ratings Neffesh Music :Ghilgoul 1978

I think this a lovely album by Ralf Nowy, and I also think it underrated (no offence Rivertree who is the only one to review it):

2.32 | 6 ratings Lucifer's Dream
1973

Conrad Schnitzler: His most rated album has nine ratings.  I don't have much by him, but love these:

4.56 | 4 ratings Zug
1973

4.65 | 8 ratings Ballet Statique
1978

A pretty recent addition to Prog Folk which I did suggest to PA for Prog Related a couple of years to Prog Related quite some time after Perry leopold's Christian Lucifer was recommended to me by a PA member and there was some discussion of it in a thread, but I am glad it's in Prog Folk (still haven't heard the first album):

0.00 | 0 ratings Experiment in Metaphysics
1970 0.00 | 0 ratings Christian Lucifer
1973

Codona isn't well known, but then sadly the whole Indo prog/ Raga Rock category gets neglected -- so much excellent music there that I find that a  real shame.

4.46 | 8 ratings Codona 3
1983

This is a very good album:

4.05 | 9 ratings Regina Astris
1977
Another excllent album from the  Indo Prog/ raga rock category:

P, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

4.36 | 6 ratings Imaginations Of Light 1971

Art Zoyd is hardly obscure in RIO circles, but these excellent 90s releases have only 9 ratings apiece:

3.97 | 9 ratings Faust
1995 3.89 | 9 ratings Häxan
1997

In JRF, Eddie Henderson and Julian prister made two of my all-time favourite albums in PA:

I really like all three of these Henderson albums, but Realiazation is one of my absolute favourites in JRF (a great Mwandishi work)

4.74 | 6 ratings Realization 1973

4.00 | 6 ratings Inside Out 1974

3.07 | 5 ratings Sunburst 1975

I love both of these Prister albums, but I love, love, love Love, Love:

4.05 | 9 ratings Love, Love
1973 3.05 | 2 ratings Polarization
1977

Taj-Mahal Travellers may be my favourite band included in the Psych category, along with Fifty Foot Hose whose remarkable cauldron only has 13 ratings, and this is a very fine album:

3.96 | 9 ratings July 15, 1972
1972

Some faves of mine in Crossover:

The Advancementmade one, I think, great album. 

3.14 | 3 ratings The Advancement
1969

I love these David Axelrod albums (including the imo underrated Earth Rot):

4.68 | 7 ratings Song of Innocence 1968

3.50 | 4 ratings Songs of Experience 1969

2.50 | 2 ratings Earth Rot 1970

Sorry if I went a bit overboard with this post.  I'll stop there, and sorry that so many are artist rather than band names names, but in my collection I have many more albums that are artists rather than band names.  One could argue how important some of these are to Prog, or how Prog they are, but I just really enjoy all of these and wish they were better known.  Perhaps you wanted to focus on modern names considering your examples, and I could think of a lot of modern RIO/Avant ones that I think deserve more attention. I don't listen to Porcupine Tree, Opeth, or Dream Theater (not my cups of tea).

Windhawk wrote: Alex Masi

Wow, judging by that, an album included in the Prog Metal category that I actually might really like (which is rare from my experience, which is admittedly rather too limited).

  This will take a lot of time to explore!