Progressive Metal/Rock Thread Genre • Page 8

at last, it's vildhjarta time

 

This album came out today. So far the album does a great job of channeling Ghost Reveries era Opeth without sounding derivative. Maybe leans a touch cleaner overall than that album. Really like it so far.

 

This is dope. Love the soaring chorus, really feel the Opeth undertones here and there. Thanks for the discover!

I've gotten into quite a few prog-ish bands in the past few months so expect some spamming posts soon lol.

 

LFG

 

Also I’m revisiting Kaddisfly considering their latest album turns 10 and what a band. Wish they’d be more known in prog circles. In another world, they’d be at Coheed levels at least.

 

What's the story on this band? This rules, but looks like they haven't released anything in a while.

 

They broke up in 2017, scrapping the second part of the double album they were working on at the time. They announced their reunion in 2023 and have new stuff in the pipeline!

I have a preference with their earlier material with their previous singer (on the albums Silhouettes and Drawing Circles), but everything they've done is worth a listen if you're into Meshuggah-ish prog/groove metal.

 

i guess this is the most appropriate thread for this: been addicted to yes's run from yes album through relayer recently, one of the finest stretches i can think of for any band

 

One of those bands I never checked out but need to, like Rush and Pink Floyd. I feel out of the loop lol

 

nows a good time to do the binge since jon anderson (formal vocalist) just came out with a dope solo album last year and is touring the classic yes material rn. feel very lucky that i just now got into them lol

 

word has it a new karnviool song drops friday lfg

 

Hopefully the album is finally coming, wild that they’ve been playing new stuff live for 10 years

 

takes me back to seeing them in one of the worst venues you could imagine in like 2013 and getting Sky Machine before we even knew what it was called, transcendental concert moment. hopefully they've still got it

 

New EP from Arch Echo, first in a series of 3 to be released over the next 9-ish months:

 

wow yup they still got it

 

That new Karnivool song has me buzzing! Perfect mix of melody and aggression.

 

For those who remember Exotic Animal Petting Zoo (who mixed mathcore, prog metal, and A Lot Like Birds like sass/post-hardcore...), they reformed under another moniker which just put out their debut album. They ditched the heaviness for something closer to art rock and prog rock.

Exotic Animal Petting Zoo would have dreamy, spacey moments here and there and they're even more apparent now. Reminds me of Anathema and Falling Up's later material at times.

 

Loved Exotic Animal Petting Zoo and the new one sounds right up my alley, gonna add it to the list. thanks!

 

Forgot to add a couple studio live videos

 

I was gonna post this actually but wasn't sure if anyone knew/remembered EAPZ, and I'm also not particularly into this new album anyway.

God I miss EAPZ so very much.

 

I'm on a prog kick, on the hunt for classic bands that have been blind spots all along, Genesis being my current big one at the moment, as well as newer and lesser known ones. Especially with female vocalists for the latter, as I realized I couldn't really think of many. Surely, I must be missing out.

In the meantime, I revisited these albums from my teens. Had "Clouds Are Gathering" stuck in my head lately yet couldn't recall the name of the band! Had to look up my Lastfm scrobbles from 2011 to find them again.

Another band I had a hard time remembering as the only thing I was left with in my memory was their artworks

Got a dozen unheard bands on my log so I may spam this thread throughout the week lol

 

Some other bands in that vein to check out would be Peter Gabriel’s solo work, Alan Parsons Project, ELO, Supertramp, and Styx.

 

Fair to Midland were so good

@Crisp X you might like The Gathering, not all their stuff is proggy but it's all great and they've got one of the best female vocalists in the game

 

Thanks to both of you!

Yeees Anneke is the goat, even though I still like some of their material with Silje a lot. They're the first band I checked out in that realm but it's been a while since I went through their discography. Not even sure I revisited their newest album.

I actually started diving into Peter's solo work! I'm adding the other names to my log.

There's so much to go through in prog in general. I'm planning on diving into Dream Theater's work as I had a blast watching Mike's Drumeo stint earlier this year and they're one of my uncle's faves with Jethro Tull and Magma (he's a big prog head, but almost exclusively old school prog). I have some preconceptions regarding their sound but I'm keeping an open mind.