New prog in 2022

     Hmm. I just bought the new Marillion and The Flower Kings releases. Though I’m not a huge fan of either band I’m enjoying both releases. The last Flower Kings release I bought was Unfold The Future I was so unenthused. The new release By Royal Decree is not bad at all. I have to listen more before really commenting. I do like the instrumentation. A wide use of analog keys, excellent guitar playing, tasteful saxophone and impressive drum work is on display. They kind of sound like a symphonic Frank Zappa with Jon Anderson writing lyrics if you can imagine this.
     The Marillion is a pleasant surprise too.   The last release I bought by them was Clutching At Straws. I never liked this band. My three Marillion releases went missing years ago and I never replaced them. An Hour Before It’s Dark took me by surprise. This is my first release with Steve Hogarth singing. His vocal work is excellent. The instrumentation is also excellent when they don’t stray to much into pop territory.   
      Normally I stay away from these two bands as I find The Flower Kings repetitive and boring and Marillion to poppy. I’m glad I decided to take a chance with both of them. I haven’t found to many 2022 releases to really be excited about so far, yet there are several on my radar.   

There's a new Elds Mark album right around the corner:

Weserbergland-Sacrae Symphoniae is all I got.

^ Yes, their album is in my list. I came to the band, as I suspect many did, with their second album which Bruce Soord plugged on FB. I guess this was realistically their make or break moment, and even with a (relatively) big name in prog behind them, they never did become the next big thing. It’s a shame, because all three of their albums are very good.

Looking forward to the upcoming King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The long track off it is on their bandcamp page and sounds really cool. Waiting for a cd release though.
I would like to see something new from Die Wilde Jagd as well (although they’re not yet featured here on PA). They did a special live thang called Atem a little while ago but it’s only available as an LP or download.

Plenty of other releases mentioned in here that sound like something I should dip my toes in

siLLy puPPy wrote: New Persefone out today. They're starting to sound more like Leprous on some tracks and even have Einar Solberg singing on the opening track. This band has never really done it for me although they aren't bad either. This new video is pretty cool though.

nick_h_nz wrote: I’m still working my way through 2021, so I haven’t listened to that much 2022 music yet, but of the releases I’ve heard/purchased, these are my favourites so far: In PA Daymoon - Erosion Ghost Toast - Shade Without Colour Laughing Stock - Zero, Acts 3 & 4 Mental Fracture - Disaccord Nordic Giants - Symbiosis Ottone Pesante - …and the Black Bells Rang Pencarrow - Live at San Fran Playgrounded - The death of Death Riverwood - Shadows and Flames Roz Vitalis - 20 Years Alive and Well Sky Cries Mary - Wandering in the Vastness Time’s Forgotten - Shelter Not in PA a-tota-so - Lights Out Nana Barslev - Lysbærer Boris - W The D/A Method - Sanctuary Elizabeth de Vegt, Airini Beautrais and the Flow Collective - Flow EYRTH - The Verge Kalandra - Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands Lack the Low - God-Carrier MMWB - The Harvest sandbender - Hiding Moon Shadow Universe - Subtle Realms, Subtle Worlds

nick_h_nz wrote: nick_h_nz wrote: I’m still working my way through 2021, so I haven’t listened to that much 2022 music yet, but of the releases I’ve heard/purchased, these are my favourites so far: In PA Daymoon - Erosion Ghost Toast - Shade Without Colour Laughing Stock - Zero, Acts 3 & 4 Mental Fracture - Disaccord Nordic Giants - Symbiosis Ottone Pesante - …and the Black Bells Rang Pencarrow - Live at San Fran Playgrounded - The death of Death Riverwood - Shadows and Flames Roz Vitalis - 20 Years Alive and Well Sky Cries Mary - Wandering in the Vastness Time’s Forgotten - Shelter Not in PA a-tota-so - Lights Out Nana Barslev - Lysbærer Boris - W The D/A Method - Sanctuary Elizabeth de Vegt, Airini Beautrais and the Flow Collective - Flow EYRTH - The Verge Kalandra - Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands Lack the Low - God-Carrier MMWB - The Harvest sandbender - Hiding Moon Shadow Universe - Subtle Realms, Subtle Worlds I’ve listened to a few more albums since the above post, but I think of those only two (so far) I would feel comfortable adding to my list of favourites (so far): In PA: Fromuz - The Asymmetric Rules Not in PA: OU - One Top five in PA Daymoon Fromuz Ghost Toast Laughing Stock Mental Fracture Top five not in PA a-tota-so Boris The D/A Method OU Shadow Universe

richardh wrote: I like the recent Animals as Leaders album. Tech metal is a bit of niche thing but they do it really well and manage to retain a strong melodic element to their music. Away from the world of prog its good to have Placebo back. Very under-rated Irish band imo.

Certainly a focus on new material has not been my M.O. (of the past few years, at least), but a few definitely come to mind (though most of these I had to be refreshed on).