Which Prog bands should I listen to?

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#1 nintendoman562
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I'm looking to get more Prog, which artists should I listen to? Recommend an album as well :D.

Prog bands already in my collection:

Coheed and Cambria

Dream Theater

Pink Floyd

Porcupine Tree

Rush

Symphony X

and Tool.

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#2 Pirate700
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Since when has Rush and Led Zep been prog?

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Amplifier

The Antlers

Beardfish

Blackfield

Closure in Moscow

The Dear Hunter

The Decemberists

Frost*

Green Carnation

Henry Fool

John Wesley

Kayo Dot

King Crimson

Maudlin OF The Well

Mike Oldfield

The Mountain Goats

Nightingale

No-Man

Oceansize

Phideaux

The Pineapple Thief

Riverside

Steven Wilson

Super Furry Animals

Some of these bands aren't exactly prog, per se, but might be up your alley.

Since when has Rush and Led Zep been prog?

Pirate700

Zep = No prog.

Rush = Definately prog imo. No other way to define them.

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Since when has Rush and Led Zep been prog?

Pirate700
Rush is Prog, Led Zeppelin isn't.
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Since when has Rush and Led Zep been prog?

Pirate700

I just checked, I was wrong about Led Zep but Rush is Prog.

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#6 cyberdarkkid
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Amplifier

The Antlers

Beardfish

Blackfield

Closure in Moscow

The Dear Hunter

The Decemberists

Frost*

Green Carnation

Henry Fool

John Wesley

Kayo Dot

King Crimson

Maudlin OF The Well

Mike Oldfield

The Mountain Goats

Nightingale

No-Man

Oceansize

Phideaux

The Pineapple Thief

Riverside

Steven Wilson

Super Furry Animals

Some of these bands aren't exactly prog, per se, but might be up your alley.

StripTheSoul
Wow you pretty much nailed it there.
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#7 cyberdarkkid
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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Since when has Rush and Led Zep been prog?

nintendoman562

I just checked, I was wrong about Led Zep but Rush is Prog.

Yea here's another confirmation of it

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=1206

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Back to Times of Splendor by Disillusion.

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Iced Earth I love them
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#10 cyberdarkkid
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Wait hold on Prog rock or are you also taking Prog Metal suggestions?

Edit- seems like it

Here are a few:

Opeth

Gordian Knot

Exivious

Indricothere

Blotted Science

Devin Townsend

And I'm not sure if you've checked out John Petrucci's solo album although it'a already been recommended by OblivionFan

Try Steve Vai'sReal Illusions: Reflections and Sex & Religion since they have something on the prog side. You can try Passion & Warfare but that one isn't really Prog, still great album to throw in there :P.

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Dream Theater (of course) Porcupine Tree Beardfish Pain of Salvation Rush Genesis Spock's Beard King Crimson Kansas OSI Riverside The Dear Hunter Transatlantic Opeth Marillion Muse Jethro Tull Redemption Bigelf Scale The Summit John Petrucci Mastodon Fates Warning Gentle Giant Frost* Yes Pink Floyd Symphony X
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Just some albums for my suggestions.

Amplifier - Amplifier

The Antlers - Hospice

Beardfish - Destined Solatiaire

Blackfield - Blackfield II

Closure in Moscow - First Temple

The Dear Hunter - Acts I, II and III (three albums, all are great)

The Decemberists - Picaresque and Her Majesty

Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (one song, an hour long, awesome)

Henry Fool - Henry Fool

John Wesley - Shiver and The Emperor Falls

Kayo Dot - Choirs of The Eye

King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King

Maudlin OF The Well - Bath and Leaving Your Body Map

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee and Heretic Pride

Nightingale - The Breathing Shadow and The Closing Chronicles

No-Man - Flowermouth and Returning Jesus

Oceansize - Effloresce and Frames

Phideaux - Number 7

The Pineapple Thief - Abducting the Unicorn and 137

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Super Furry Animals - Radioactive and Dark Days/Light Years

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Cloudkicker

Animals as leaders

Direwolf

Behold... The Arctopus

Indukti

Kalisia

Inner Quest

Liquid Tension Experiment

Tesseract

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#15 kittyloaf69
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Well some of those aren't prog rock, but I'll just suggest some good bands based on those. A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.
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the fall of troy, yes

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Power of Omens

Garden Wall

Watchtower

Ice Age (the great divide)

The Flower Kings

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#18 Grodus5
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If you don't listen to Operation Mindcrime era Queensyche, you don't listen to prog. Enough said, really.

Edit: Add in Savatage (Dead Winter Dead, STREETS, and Wake of Magellan are very good), Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Beethoven's Last Night and Night Castle) and if you are feeling exotic, Luca Turilli, which is prog/symphonic/opera metal, but still very good.

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#19 ArmoredCore55
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I would recommend Enslaved, King Crimson, and Fates Warning.
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#20 NoQuarterGiven
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I would recommend:

  • YES - Close to the Edge
  • Gentle Giant - Three Friends or Octopus
  • Triumvirat - Spartacus
  • Emerson Lake and Palmer - tarkus - finding album versions of songs from this album is difficult on youtube
  • King Crimson - Red
  • The ******* Champs - IV - these guys are sort of a light metal instrumental group with some prog elements to the music.

I linked some of the best songs from these albums.

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Closed because a spam/advertise post bumped a months old thread.