Favorite bands that made a comeback?

After a long hiatus, Kansas had an absolutely stellar comeback in 2000 with Somewhere to Elsewhere. That album rivals the best from their classic era. Sadly, as an album, it was a one off as while the band remained active thereafter, it was just as as touring band rehashing old setlists.

Gnidrolog also had a comback

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Bubblemath had a good debut in 2001 then nothing until '17 with the excellent Edit Peptide & great ProgDay performance. Far Corner had two good albums in 2004 & 2007 then a long gap to the superb Risk in '18. Comus had a superb debut in First Utterance in '71 then a not so special follow up in '74 then nothing until '12!! With a really quite good appropriately named Out Of The Coma. Dirk Mont Campbell of Egg, Gilgamesh & National Health released his debut solo album in '96, the follow up wasn't until '09. Anglagard released two great album in 92 & 94 then nothing until the great Viljans Oga in '12 Happy Family release two albums in '95 & '97 then the quite excellent return with Minimal Gods in '14 with a great RIO performance

Edited by Logan - May 24 2019 at 19:05

Logan wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Comus had a superb debut in First Utterance in '71 then a not so special follow up in '74 then nothing until '12!! With a really quite good appropriately named Out Of The Coma. Regarding Comus, while I like Out of the Coma, I actually prefer To Keep From Crying (I seem to be a bit of an oddball for one who, at least mostly, really enjoys that album, especially when taken as part of the Song to Comus: The Complete Collection Compilation album).  Perhaps had I got that album not as part of the compilation, I might never have gown to enjoy it as much. As for Out of the Coma: Had "The Malgaard Suite" been remade (and perhaps kept the original as a bonus track), I think it could have been a much better album.  I do like "The Return" considerably even though I would rather another woodwind to the sax.  I find the rest hokey and too over-the-top often, and the album rather too "Comus-by-numbers".  I feel like it's aimed too much at just pleasing/ paying lip service to the First Utterance fans rather than a really inspired, creative album that shows growth.   It rather comes across as a tribute act of itself to me.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - May 27 2019 at 06:12

Probably just me misreading your post and jumping to an unbelievable conclusion for shock value, I apologize unreservedly.

^ It's a pagan-themed experience, which some find off putting. I mention because I have noted that you like Neal Morse, and I'm confident that Neal Morse would hate it. I don't know enough about you to know what you would think. Mikael Akerfeldt loves it.

^^ No worries, I could have spelled things out more clearly. I wrote a few posts that day that were rather more incomprehensible than usual (and that's saying something), but then having gone on a little trip, I lacked the chance to edit any trip-ups and better express my thoughts.

Anyway, while To Keep From Crying is not that special, I really do enjoy it a lot on its own merits, and would recommend it certain people who find First Utterance disturbing, appalling, and/or the product of a Beelzebubian bottom. I also like Magma's Merci more than most, although like with To Keep From Crying, it's two tracks in particular that elevate it for me. I do enjoy Out of the Coma, and think it could have been great, but that would have required a greater budget in making the album (I still think it's a good comeback and I am glad that they made it, and I came across as a little harsher than I intended towards it).

For another album not yet mentioned in this thread that I can see, which I find rather surprising, Gryphon's ReInvention is quite a fine album. Off topic, but one of my most anticipated never released albums: Henry Cow with The Simpsons' "Don't Have a Cow, Henry".

Gryphons return is indeed quite good if a little too twee in places.

I see no-one has mentioned RPI band Celeste's very recent comeback album? It's pretty good.

oh I found another one!  Canadian band FM put out some poor albums in the 1980s and pretty much disappeared as a recording band until the almost excellent "Transformation" a few years ago

Not prog but my most anticipated comeback album after 37 years in hibernation (obviously without the late, great Stuart Adamson) was from punk/post-punk band Skids with Burning Cities in 2018. I wasn't disappointed.