[ramus]

Progarchives is a nice site to listen to samples.For more information on "prog rock" check http://www.gepr.net/ .This is the ultimate prog source on net, IMO.
Defining prog rock as the rock that progresses, is a little bit funny.

 

[tjohnusa]

I am almost 50 and have seen many "progressive" bands in concert. One band not mentioned is Be Bop Deluxe....some great guitar. I also love Gentle Giant...Playing The Fool is IMHO the best live recording done in that time, also if you can like Aquiring The Taste you will get the rest of the catalog. And finally you can't go wrong with a big beaner and anything from Pink Floyd....ah those were the days...

 

[vai-777]

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Originally Posted by lmilhan /img/forum/go_quote.gif Good, now that I have a feel for what you enjoy, I am ashamed to realize I forgot to mention these guys: Beyond Twilight. Try their albums in the following order: Section X For The Love Of Art And The Making Those albums will bring tears of joy - money back guarantee. Here are some more suggestions. Based on what you have said thus far in this thread, and the types of music you have a propensity toward, you will probably enjoy every single CD in the following list. Since it is a fairly large list, I put a star (*) next to the absolute "must-haves". This should keep you busy for a while: * Abydos - Abydos Aina - Days Of Rising Doom * Altaria - Divinity Andromeda - Pick a CD * Angra - Aurora Consurgens, Holy Land Aquria - Luxaeterna Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One - Space Metal Ark - Burn The Sun * Artension - New Discovery or Future World Axenstar - The Final Requiem Aztec Jade - Concrete Eden * Balance Of Power - Perfect Balance or Heathen Machine Conception - Flow Concerto Moon - Rain Forest Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion DC Cooper - DC Cooper * Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree * Dragonland - Astronomy * Dreamtale - Beyond Reality or Ocean's Heart Elegy - Principles Of Pain Evil Masquerade - Third Act Gaia Epicus - Satrap * Galloglass - Heavenseeker * Heavenly - Virus House Of Lords - World Upside Down * John Arch - A Twist Of Fate * Kamelot - Black Halo Labyrinth - Freeman Last Tribe - Witch Dance * Liquid Tension Experiment - Both CDs * Lost Horizon - Awakening The World * Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse Moonlight Agony - Echoes Of A Nightmare Nightscape - Symphony Of The Night Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife Opus Atlantica - Opus Atlantica * Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic Calling * Pain Of Salvation - All of it but 'Be' * Platitude - Nine Pyramaze - Legend Of The Bone Carver * Redemption - The Fullness Of Time * Richard Andersson - The Ultimate Andersson Collection * Royal Hunt - Paper Blood Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor * Shadow Gallery - Room V Shaman - Ritual Silent Force - Worlds Apart * Sonata Arctica - Silence Starbreaker - Starbreaker * Stratovarius - Visions * Symphony X - Start with V - The New Mythology Suite, then go with Odyssey, then get the rest of them. * Threshold - Subsurface * Time Requiem - The Inner Circle Of Reality * Timeless Miracle - Into The Enchanted Chamber TNT - Knight Of The New Thunder Vanishing Point - Embrace The Silence Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciosness * Winds - The Imaginary Direction Of Time Man I wish I had a list such as this back when I was getting into these types of music... Good luck.

What no
1. WATCHTOWER - Control and Resistance

2. Lane / Hellborg / Sipe -Time is the Enemy ( really FUSION but ... ) fastest guitar player that ever lived

3. Anything by PLANET X / DEREK SHERINIAN

 

[daveDerek]

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Originally Posted by warMen /img/forum/go_quote.gif What are your favorite prog rock bands? Mine are Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Neal Morse, Transatlantic, Spock's Beard, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, and Camel. Anyone have any recommendations as far as this genre goes in addition to the bands I listed? I'm also a big progressive metal listener. Bands like Circus Maximus (they rule), Opeth, Dream Theater, Shadow Gallery, Amorphis, Ayreon, and sometimes stuff like Canvas Solaris. Anyone have any similar tastes or even recommendations? There's just so much stuff in the progressive rock and metal genres. There's always these side projects. I can't even count how many side projects Mike Portnoy has done. I just love long, indulgent passages and the song structures that take you on a journey.

most of the bands that you mention lean towards neo prog. i'd recommend starting with the classics eg. (actually some beatles as it can be argued that their experimentation opened the doors to the movement) king crimson, yes, genesis, jethro tull, pink floyd, emerson lake and palmer, and the fantastic and utterly original gentle giant (see my post in the gg appreciation thread (hey, ck out the thread) here: http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showp...3&postcount=61 for some more info about the band and their albums as well as a few other choice picks). also check out phil collins terrific side band, brand x - they kick *ss!! for really adventurous stuff try the very dark universe zero and their spin off band, present - bartok meets rock would be the best succinct description of their music. then there are the great italian bands - pfm, banco, le orme, and deus ex machina. of course let's not forget the dixie dregs, mahavishnu orchestra, uk. i could go on and on, but i'll leave that for another post - gotta go watch the everest show!

 

[Relayer71]

My list of must have albums:

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway/Genesis
Selling England By The Pound/Genesis
In A Glass House/Gentle Giant
Free Hand/Gentle Giant
Permanent Waves/RUSH
Moving Pictures/RUSH
2112/RUSH
Relayer/Yes
Starless And Bible Black/King Crimson
Brain Salad Surgery/ELP

 

[rincewind]

Ayreon - Universal Migrator, Parts 1 and 2, as well as The Human Equation!

Arjen ROCKS OUT.

 

[Patu]

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Originally Posted by rincewind /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ayreon - Universal Migrator, Parts 1 and 2, as well as The Human Equation! Arjen ROCKS OUT.

Ayreon is the best!

I would recommend Universal Migrator, Into the Electric Castle and The Final Experiment. I think that Human Equation is easily their worst album.

 

[monoethylene]

Without reading the thread but Sole Remedy is awesome..

 

[Tilpo]

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Originally Posted by rincewind/img/forum/go_quote.gif Ayreon - Universal Migrator, Parts 1 and 2, as well as The Human Equation! Arjen ROCKS OUT.

Ayreon is the best!

I would recommend Universal Migrator, Into the Electric Castle and The Final Experiment. I think that Human Equation is easily their worst album.

I can't say I like Ayreon that much. But I have met Arjen once... in the supermarket.
I think he is awesome that I live in the same town as him.

But even more awesome in my opinion, is the fact that I met Ton Scherpenzeel of Kayak. He is a friend of my father, and they used to live in the same street for some time. My dad loved to see him practice his synthesizer when he was a kid.

 

[volted]

Youtube'd Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
 
That was an interesting hour:
 
a) Maybe not for getting high to
b) Buying it
 

 

[willyvlyminck]

The latest release of Sonar - Blacklight is for people who like King Crimson and alltogether adventurous musics far beyond the mainstream

 

[god-bluff]

It's that time of year. Time to dust off my copy of THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM
 

 
 
It will be played day and night (only a slight exaggeration) for the next 25 days. Its more on the folk rather than prog end of there output but it is Tull all the same. All the inventiveness, musicianship and quirky eccentricity that makes classic British Progressive Rock so great.

 

[willyvlyminck]

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Originally Posted by warMen /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Anyone have some more obscure prog metal recommendations?

Yes. Stylistic variations are a given since your OP mentioned everything from prog rock to tech/death metal. Sorry about the mini-wall of text -


Abydos, Adagio, After Forever, Agalloch, Aghora, Alarum, Alchemist, Andromeda, Arcturus, Ark, Atheist, Atrox, Beyond Twilight, Blind Guardian, Bubblemath, California Guitar Trio, Conception, Cynic, Devin Townsend, Dreamscape, Dysrhythmia, Elegy, Enslaved, Estradasphere, Evergrey, Explorer's Club, Farmakon, Frameshift, Frantic Bleep, Freak Kitchen, Green Carnation, Gordian Knot, IQ, Isis, Jon Finn Group, Katatonia, Koenjihyakkei, Kong, Liquid Tension Experiment, Madder Mortem, Magnitude Nine, Mar de Grises, Marillion, maudlin of the Well, Naamah, Novembre, Orphaned Land, Ozric Tentacles, Pagan's Mind, Pantommind, Planet X, Portal, Ram-Zet, Redemption, Sleeping People (awesome), Spastic Ink, Spiral Architect, Subterranean Masquerade, Textures, The Flower Kings, The Tangent, Tiamat, Time of Orchids, Ulver, Upsilon Acrux, Vanden Plas, Voivod...


I didn't include much of the more extreme left-field type stuff that I own, since I'm not sure exactly what your tolerances are.


edit: As for OSI - The ST is good. Skip their second.

I like and own recordings of Upsilon Acrux, Ulver, Time of Orchids,Koenjihyakkei,Gordon Knot. Primus would fit nicely in your list

 

[swspiers]

+1000 in this thread being resurrected!
 
It would be cool to keep it going!

 

[YtseJamer]

My Prog-Rock/Metal album of the year


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