If I love Camel ...

Guldbamsen wrote: Dellinger wrote: The obvious ones, that you are likely to know already, would be Pink Floyd and Genesis. A little less known, Renaissance, Harmonium, Anthony Phillips' "The Geese and the Ghost" (the only one I know from him, but there may be other fitting albums from him as well). And about newer bands, Big Big Train (specially the English Electric ones, I guess). And I know just about nothing from Canterbury, but I guess if someone could point you in the right direction that one could be right for you too. Does this effectively mean that you've been here on PA for so many years without ever listening to 9 Feet Underground? I know your tastes lie with the more melodic natured acts and that most other Canterbury bands tend to lose their marbles for a bit with added jazz and avant touches, but Caravan is about as friendly and melodic as prog rock gets. Just a recommendation on my behalf

Oh there are so many things and bands I still have to check out... discovering prog seems to be the show that never ends. I still have to get some more albums from Jethro Tull, Renaissance, Camel themselves, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, King Crimson, Banco, etc (I mean, I do have enough from them to say I know them very well, but there are still important albums I haven't got). And then, I need to get to know SBB and Ange too. There's still some more RPI and Neo I could get to know. And I should get a bit into some other genres, like folk (starting with Strawbs), Psychedelic (starting with Hawkwind), Kraut (starting with... well, something), and yeah, Canterbury too (starting with Caravan, I guess). And yeah, for me melody should be what makes me love a song the most, but I do love some jazzy and crazy stuff in the mix... just as long as they don't go overboard. YS's Introduzione/Primo Incontro are just sublime.

Michael Akerfeldt loves Camel, in particular, Andy Latimer. Then, you should love OPETH (then again, he says he loves ABBA !). I dunno, Extreme Metallists ha ha.

If you love Camel, I think you might like this delicate and very beautifully melodic band from Bahrain.

I've loved Camel since the tail-end of the 90's (I loved select Metal, but not Extreme..). Now, I have come around to Extreme Metal (though I do find the 'growling' vocals a bit naive, but how else could you sing to this extraordinary music??) .   
My favourite song by Camel is Supertwister. I love all the albums from the anazing debut to Single Factor. I've heard Rajaz and it's pretty decent for sure.
Dunno where I'm going with this rant, but, if you can tolerate double-bass drum 'blast beats' and growling, you should find much excitement with OPETH's Morningrise album. There is that 'something special' about it.

Thandrus wrote: If you love Camel, I think you might like this delicate and very beautifully melodic band from Bahrain.

Certainly Asia Minor and Anyones Daughter, as already mentioned (particularly 'Piktor's Verwandlungen', their mostly instrumental concept lp based on the Herman Hesse story; sort of their 'Snow Goose').
Also Hoelderlin, the German symphonic band- the live double 'Traumstadt' is excellent as is their S/T 1st lp and 'Clowns and Clouds'

Tom Ozric wrote: I've loved Camel since the tail-end of the 90's (I loved select Metal, but not Extreme..). Now, I have come around to Extreme Metal (though I do find the 'growling' vocals a bit naive, but how else could you sing to this extraordinary music??) .    My favourite song by Camel is Supertwister. I love all the albums from the anazing debut to Single Factor. I've heard Rajaz and it's pretty decent for sure. Dunno where I'm going with this rant, but, if you can tolerate double-bass drum 'blast beats' and growling, you should find much excitement with OPETH's Morningrise album. There is that 'something special' about it.

I do dislike Growiling, but have somewhat come around it a bit. There are some songs that are so great that I have come to accept that they include growling in order to enjoy the whole song. One of the very first that led me to accept them is "The Drapery Falls" (live version) from Opeth (and yet the only one of their growling songs that I do enjoy). Since then I have come back to some other songs that I used to like a lot but dismissed because of the growling, such as "Cry to the Moon" from Epica, and "Forever" from Macbeth. And there's only one artist, I think, whose growling and extreme singing I do enjoy, and that's Devin Townsend... somehow, when he does it (or at least in some of my favourite songs) it makes sense, and I would not rather hear the songs without those vocals (like on "Planet Smasher", or his contribution on Ayreon's song "Loser").

Boojieboy wrote: Since the focus is on Camel, and the mid-70's period, I'd recommend more stuff from mid-late 70's. Nektar, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Ant. Phillips, Curved Air, Earth & Fire (2nd, 3rd albums), PFM, Renaissance, Strawbs, Bo Hansson (Magician's Hat).

kenethlevine wrote: Many many prog groups are clearly influenced by Camel This group has been called the German Camel

Let me add the solo albums by Colin Bass. I love An Outcast From The Islands. In his live album with Josef Skrzek the two play also variou Camel covers like Fingertips and West Berlin. Also the japanese Bellaphon can be considered a Camel clone, just more keyboard oriented