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Posted: November 24 2015 at 13:06
Have you heard Minora? It reminds me a bit of that Aussie prog sound, though they are from Sweden. The singer sounds a lot like Daniel Tompkins.
They're on the same label as Port Noir. After listening to Port Noir (and loving it), I went to their label's website to see what else might be good on there. Unfortunately, Minora was the only thing that stuck out to me. It took me a while to sift through that artist list, too. The things we do to find new music...
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Posted: November 18 2015 at 18:22
I'm with you on Floating Me. I was excited when I heard it consisted of Cog and Karnivool members, but then I heard the vocals. I don't know exactly what the singer changed from Cog to Floating Me, but it does not work at all.
Breaking Orbit is pretty good. They just don't have a cohesive enough sound to really sound great. Again, I think it's the vocals that ruin it for me.
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Posted: November 18 2015 at 15:37
Of all the Aussie bands I found when digging through Google Play, Melodyssey is the best of the lot so far. Distance and Regret has some great grooves on it. I just recently discovered The Two Windows, their last one before they split. Apparently, the drummer left to join Dead Letter Circus.
I believe The Two Windows was produced by Forrester Savell, and everything that guy touches seems to turn to gold. Dude's a genius, and he works with some of the best artists coming from that part of the world. I discovered a lot of good stuff by browsing the list of albums he's worked on.
Floating Me was an absolute disappointment. The vocals killed it for me. Admittedly, the expectations were a bit high, considering it featured members of Cog and Karnivool. Oh, well.
Still waiting for full-length releases from Setting Fire to Stacey and City Of Souls, but the singles are good.
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Posted: November 13 2015 at 16:32
Here are a couple more for you if you like the Aussie prog sound:
Sleep Parade (Melbourne)
Closure in Moscow (Melbourne)
Although already mentioned in this thread, here is a track from the now defunct Melodyseey (Brisbane)
Perhaps the best Aussie prog album in recent times, I really recommend listening to the latest album from Arcane (Brisbane). Watch these guys in the future.
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Posted: November 12 2015 at 13:49
Okay, then.
Note that I am not recommending these bands, but that they were found as cross-references in my Google Play search for Karnivool. I'll leave some notes on what I found about each:
Floating Me - featuring members of Karnivool and Cog. I listened to a hot minute of it, and it sounded a lot like Karnivool. Not sure about the singer, though.
Melodyssey - groove oriented hard rock, maybe a bit of nu-metal influence (LD50-era Mudvayne, maybe?)
The Butterfly Effect - sounded a lot like Dead Letter Circus to me, who I'm not huge on.
Sydonia - more hard rock, like Seether.
Breaking Orbit - I think I saw someone on this site recommend this band before. These guys have that style that seems to embody the "aussie prog" sound coined by bands like Karnivool.
Jericco - didn't listen to much of it, but what I heard was good. Driving, mid-tempo hard rock.
Vestascension - This was an unusual find, considering that all the other bands it was recommending were from Australia, and this band is from Baltimore. Baltimore is about a 30 minute drive for me, so these guys really flew under the radar. Moody, atmospheric prog rock. Their album is free on bandcamp.
Setting Fire to Stacey - New Zealand band, similar to I Am Giant, 10 years, or Evans Blue (with the old singer).
City Of Souls - Same as setting fire to Stacey. New Zealand band, influenced by 10 Years. Brooding hard rock.
So it seems that Google sees Karnivool as more of a rock band than a progressive band. The last two were recommendations from I Am Giant's twitter feed, so I knew what I was getting into with them.
What I usually do is make a list like this, and queue them up in Spotify while I'm at work. If something grabs my attention, I'll look into it further. Hopefully, someone will be able to pull something from this list. As of now, I'm not even sure that I'm going to be able to. Time will tell, I guess.
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Posted: November 12 2015 at 11:09
Agent Fresco and Port Noir were definitely some of the best recommendations I pulled from this thread. Those two have accompanied Tesseract, Earthside, and Ne Obliviscaris in my playlists this week.
I've been digging through google play music and amazon, cross referencing bands like Karnivool and Caligula's Horse. I've found a few things that I've put on the future screen list, but nothing I'm at the point of recommending yet.
.At least for me, the past two months have been great for music so far. It started with that new Riverside record, and just kept getting better.
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Posted: November 12 2015 at 10:19
Wow guys thank you for bringing up Agent Fresco! the new album Destrier has blown me away! it took a while but hell yeah! their songwriting is a lot more epic then their sound is "cheesy" so it totally makes up for the overall very sweet and poppy sound. man! really fine recommendation, thanks :)
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Posted: October 23 2015 at 22:16
People often talk about a specifically Australian style of alt-metal/heavy prog, the mainstays of which are said to be Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, The Butterfly Effect and Cog. I haven't heard much of them aside from Karnivool, but it's probably worth your time.
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Posted: October 21 2015 at 20:09
I just got my copy a few hours ago and listened through a few times now. You can really hear how much they've matured as band in between just one album. Their playing is tighter and the sound overall is just more varied. It will take a little while to really digest the whole album, but so far its surpassed my expectations.
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Posted: October 21 2015 at 11:43
I'm listening to the new Caligula's Horse record now. I love the range these guys have - such chunky, kick drum heavy riffs, then seamlessly transitioning to lighter acoustic material. Good stuff.
It's been a good week for discovering music - Port Noir from this thread, Zentraedi and Transience from another thread on this site.
I decided to give the new Nad Sylvan album a shot on Monday, and man, it is good. It's like what Genesis could've sounded like if the 80s didn't happen. Now I'm going to have to check out some of his other work.
tbonson04 - Exit Ten's first album "Remember the Day" is pretty awesome. Some crazy heavy riffs on there, contrasted by those clean vocals. It's a little raw, but so many good ideas on that album. "Technically Alive" is my favorite track from that record. I love gallop/thrash tempo stuff.
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:32
I have to admit that I prefer Bloom to the Rivers End album but i don't know why. Perhaps Bloom is deeeper somehow, musically richer. It is still growing for me, especially "Daughter of the Mountain" an the incredibly catchy "hit" Turntail.....
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:26
Most definitely about Bloom being a wonderful album. It hasn't been released here in America, but soon I'll get my vinyl copy and all will be well. I was skeptical about the change in mood of their style, from gloomy to uplifting, but they somehow pulled it off extremely well.
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:21
Point Noir is also very good, very interesting.....at the moment I am playing Agent Fresco, a new find for me, very Leprous-like, but there is a lack of a "metal" edge that Leprous has. Album of the week for me is Bloom from Caligula's Horse - what a wonderful album....
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:16
glad you like some of the suggestions! nice to see how productive such a little brainstorm of a few people can be :)
haklepola wrote:
Great calls here! I would also suggest the obvious, HAKEN! And almost every band that played at the Euroblast 11 a couple of says ago. The amount of talent at this small festival was just outstanding....
have been there :D it was incredibly awesome! I'll suggest Rishloo to them to invite for next year, this band would fit perfectly and they neeeed to come to europe!
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:08
Have you seen the music video for Port Noir's "Neon"? Such ridiculousness!! Creepy 70's disco dancer on the dance floor alone? f*** yes they'll make a video about it!
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Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:07
Great calls here! I would also suggest the obvious, HAKEN! And almost every band that played at the Euroblast 11 a couple of says ago. The amount of talent at this small festival was just outstanding....
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