I don’t care if it’s modern or old.
King Crimson - The band that pretty much started progressive rock and still the best - In The Court Of The Crimson King, Larks Tongues In Aspic and Red are essential listens.
Genesis - a band of two eras, both pretty good. The Peter Gabriel era has some of the best songs in the prog cannon with Selling England By The Pound, Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway being essential listens. The Phil Collins era merged the catchiness of pop music with the complicated compositions of prog with essential listenings being A Trick Of The Tail, Wind And Wuthering, Abacab and the self titled. If you like live stuff than Genesis Live and Seconds Out are great listens.
Yes - Maybe the most beloved prog band due to writing catchy songs without compromising their progness - The Yes Album, Close To The Edge and Fragile are essential listens.
Gentle Giant - One of the strangest of the prog bands with unique vocal harmonies and compositions inspired by medieval music. Octopus and Free Hand are essential listens.
Emerson, Lake And Palmer - a band synonymous with arena prog, they were easily the biggest prog band during the genre’s peak in the 70s. Essential listens are Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures At An Exhibition and the first album, which is self titled.
Rush is always a good choice. Subdivisions is a personal favorite.
listen to a farewell to kings and hemispheres back to back, they’re my fave Rush albums, just for the transition between albums
listen to a farewell to kings seven times in a row and then spend a year and ~6 weeks only listening to music that came out before that time in '77/'78 then listen to hemispheres to recreate what people had to deal with back then
Love subdivisions, why is this so far down the list!?
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I’ve recently been getting on to Haken and I’ve been really enjoying them. Their album the mountain in particular has been on repeat for me.
Edit: also give Goblin look they’re an Italian group that’s been around in a few incarnations since the 70s.
You had me at the word Goblin
Goblin that did the original Dawn of the Dead soundtrack? Because hell yeah
I also really liked their album “Affinity” which has this unusual mix of progressive metal and 80s anime-intro-songs. Great album!
I’m surprised no one has said Mars Volta. Most people love Deloused in the Comatorium but I’m partial to Bedlam in Goliath.
The Mars Volta is fantastic. My favourite album from them is probably Frances The Mute.
I was scrolling down waiting to see the Mars Volta. My all time favorite band. Deloused is still my favorite, mostly because of nostalgia. However, I’ve really been enjoying their newest self titled album they released last year. The acoustic album they released with it is good too.
Blacklight shine is such a bop. https://youtu.be/-5-OHfJA1O8?si=sXeRUqsXDL18Z0Sz
I loved the new album, I know it was divisive but I just can’t get enough of Omar and Cedric. Cerulea got me emotional thinking about how I might’ve never heard a new Mars Volta song ever again.
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the only prog I know is like, dream theater? Is Opeth prog rock
I think both are prog metal? Opeth was more metal in their earlier albums but I will agree they have gone softer recently. Dream Theatre as well, prog metal. Don’t see any difference tho, I’d say anyone who enjoys prog rock will enjoy prog metal even more, I highly recommend Blackwater Park for Opeth, Metropolis (Part 2), Images and Words, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (all 3 by Dream Theatre). I find it really interesting how most of prog albums are concept albums, so its really enjoying to listen to them from the start.
Blackwater Park has been an album I have gone back to at least once a year since it came out. November comes around and my brain says “hey, go listen to Dirge for November.”
I tried to stick to just prog rock, but there’s a bit of jazz fusion in there, too. I could do more for prog metal as well as for more funky stuff (Jacob Collier, Snarky Puppy, maybe some Moon Hooch).
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Storm corrosion is a work of pure perfection
It really is. So unique and haunting.
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Is storm corrosion’s self-titled album worth burning some ratio to hear in surround sound?
I don’t know exactly what that means, but I’d say the production is worth listening to on better speakers if that’s something you’re into.
On quite a few popular torrent sites, the currency of the pirate economy is ratio of data uploaded to data downloaded, which approximately tracks how much of what you take you’re giving back
Surround sound copies of albums are always heavier in data than their stereo counterparts, so it burns more ratio to download them.
Ah, neat. Wasn’t familiar with that phrase. I also didn’t know there was a surround sound copy of the album.
I just listen to it on Spotify on the train while i disassociate from reality.
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maybe some the decemberists?
the decemberists is firmly pegged as ‘folk’ in my mind. Genre is fuck
nah you’re thinking chumbawumba
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Porcupine tree, genesis, yes, rush, opeth, steven wilson, dream theater (start with panic attack), king crimson, pink floyd, tool, frank zappa, Hocus Pocus by focus, The Ocean, Loathe, the pineapple thief, a perfect circle, and my absolute favourites are
Storm corrosion, chroma key. Both of these are calming, haunting, ethereal masterpieces that can be listened on loop forever.
I’m definitely bleeding out of the genre at this point but they all at least have a prog vibe.
Also I don’t know if this even counts as prog or what it even counts as but Cardiacs has some good songs.
The Dear Hunter, they’re my favorite band of all time. Theatrical/symphonic prog with an incredible vocalist.
The Bitter Suite IV and V: The Congregation and the Sermon in the Silt
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I love Alan Parsons Project’s I, Robot (1977) and Turn of a Friendly Card (1980) - another album that has not been mentioned is Rush’s Moving Pictures (1981). Kansas’ self-titled debut album (1974) is also pretty good, and it has John Brown on the cover.
https://nospun.bandcamp.com/album/opus
like early haken x late 90s dream theater, but also kinda different in afunky/souly way I can’t quite put my ear on
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Gonna second the calls for Haken. Pareidoilia or Veil would be great tracks to start with.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation was a great release this year as well.
I’ll also recommend The Ocean, who have a fun naming convention for their albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMrwSwl8is
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Hey OP, are you just looking for regular ole prog like tool, or broadly experimental, mathy, etc?
Not OP, but I’m more into the latter if you want to link it
Definitely! Fair warning, some might be more avant-garde, extreme, noisy, etc. I’ll mark those ones with a *
Botch - to our friends in the great white north *
Two Gallants - Age of Assassins
Drive Like Jehu - here come the rome plows
Swans - album * I linked an album here because their music is really meant to be listened this way. Same goes for a few bands I’ve linked here but it’s especially pertinent for them.
Giraffes? Giraffes! - when the catholic girls go camping, the nicotine vampires rule supreme
Let me know how you like them! I’d be happy to come back and link more later
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