Styx

salmacis wrote: Yes, their second album isn't too bad- it's the proggiest, and ultimately the best, of their early albums.

It's close between their second, and "Serpent..." for proggiest Styx album.  I think Serpent is their second best album behind Grand Illusion, because it doesn't have any real weak points, and includes great rockers (Witch Wolf, 22 years, Jonas Psalter), ballads (Winner Take All, As Bad as This), and the rest is Styx version of prog (Grove of Eglantine, Young Man, title track, Krakatoa/Hallelujah Chorus).  Probably their most ambitious album....a big reason why the early records take so much heat is because they try to go in many different directions, often disturbing the flow of the album as a whole, but they are still very enjoyable if you just listen to the music and not for limitations.