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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 03:07
First of all, by the old bigs, imo the champions are King Crimson (btw my fav one of British prog vets).
I'd like to recommend these contemporary prog bands La Piramide di SanqueGoldbug, Psicomagia & Gravitsapa.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 03:43
Slint's Spiderland hasn't been recommended yet? It takes King Crimson's mid-1970s heavy power trio line-up and adapts it to a vaguely gothy post-punk/1980s indie rock paradigm. Russian Circles' sound is a more metallic take on that style I described, their heaviest album being Empros.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:28
I had no idea this genre even existed, all good here as long as it doesn't glorify clown serial killers among others etc. I mean it, this would be unacceptable sick.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:33
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

I had no idea this genre even existed, (...)
It's not a genre, it is one of the styles.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:36
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

I had no idea this genre even existed, (...)
It's not a genre, it is one of the styles.
 Sventonio :) you peaked my interest now, pls post some links with music examples? xxxxx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:37
But Dark Prog? What is that? Prog by itself is not even a music genre!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:40
Also forgot to mention Virus, who might be exactly the kind of band the thread is requesting so I'm surprised nobody brought them up. Their main inspirations seem to be again King Crimson and Slint but as filtered through some of the more Captain Beefheart-inspired post-punk groups (e. g. The Fall, Gang of Four, Pére Ubu) and the more abstract corners of modern black metal. (Fleurety and their ilk)

They're not really metal nor post-punk, though, the end result is more some kind of "creepy haunted museum rock".






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:41
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

But Dark Prog? What is that? Prog by itself is not even a music genre!
It's a dark atmosphere, primarily.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:42
God I hate punk, they might have been against whatever but they could not play a tune to save their lives urggghjhhhhh.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:44
Virus can, though, what with most of the band members coming from a metal background instead.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:45
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

I had no idea this genre even existed, (...)
It's not a genre, it is one of the styles.
 Sventonio :) you peaked my interest now, pls post some links with music examples? xxxxx
Well, I already posted some links. Just click at the bands' names in my first post at this thread.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:45
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

But Dark Prog? What is that? Prog by itself is not even a music genre!
It's a dark atmosphere, primarily.
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Nah dark atmosphere does not mean dark prog to me, that name sounds evil even without intend. xxxxx
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 04:55
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

But Dark Prog? What is that? Prog by itself is not even a music genre!
It's a dark atmosphere, primarily.
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Nah dark atmosphere does not mean dark prog to me, that name sounds evil even without intend. xxxxx
 
Evil? lol
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:01
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

But Dark Prog? What is that? Prog by itself is not even a music genre!
It's a dark atmosphere, primarily.
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Nah dark atmosphere does not mean dark prog to me, that name sounds evil even without intend. xxxxx
 
Evil? lol
Yep yes the word dark to me is not a happy positive Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:16
Sometimes I wonder if this my downfall in life........Sabbath, Shub, Magma, VDGG/Hammill, Ange, Heldon.......
........any Zeuhl in general, strange things and bizarre heaviness.......
.....believe me, I suffer.......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:34
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if this my downfall in life........Sabbath, Shub, Magma, VDGG/Hammill, Ange, Heldon.......
........any Zeuhl in general, strange things and bizarre heaviness.......
.....believe me, I suffer.......
ha! ok that's dark prog? Big smile to be honest it's a silly name that means nothing to me Wink heavy prog yes that kind of means something but what do I know anyway I am a nincompoopy Hug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:38
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if this my downfall in life........Sabbath, Shub, Magma, VDGG/Hammill, Ange, Heldon.......
........any Zeuhl in general, strange things and bizarre heaviness.......
.....believe me, I suffer.......

ha! ok that's dark prog? Big smile to be honest it's a silly name that means nothing to me Wink heavy prog yes that kind of means something but what do I know anyway I am a nincompoopy Hug
Stop it already .....
You know............ ........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:43
It's pretty simple, some prog has a light happy atmosphere, others have dark, it's not a sub genre, its just a list of bands who are darker than the norm.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2014 at 05:48
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

It's pretty simple, some prog has a light happy atmosphere, others have dark, it's not a sub genre, its just a list of bands who are darker than the norm.
Exactly.
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