Favorite Unknown Prog Metal Bands
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Topic: Favorite Unknown Prog Metal Bands
Posted By: PhuncleSam
Subject: Favorite Unknown Prog Metal Bands
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 18:44
| Everyone has their favorite prog metal bands that little to nobody they know is largely aware of. I'll get things started by sharing Vangough as a favorite of mine. |
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 18:59
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Clandestine. The only prog metal band I listen to, and I want them to get more recognition. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:11
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I don't know if they are unknown but I never heard someone talk about them here. Counter World Experience (they are listed here in Tech/extreme progmetal but it's still Progmetal hehe) they really worth attention EDIT: Octopus are pretty amazing too !!
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:13
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They're ALL relatively unknown, unless their name is Rush or Dream Theater, really. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:26
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Ancestors for sure. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4888" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4888 One of my favorite metal bands for sure. From their new album.. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: 10mb
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:31
| Favorite is Indukti, hands down. Also should mention Dianoya. I did listen to the Clandestine tracks and I like, so thanks for the intro! |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:35
| Ancestors are cool, i have only one album. They are regarded as stoner rock too. |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:49
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Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 19:54
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Dream Theater. Very unknown. I think they deserve more recognition. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:01
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Communic:
If we're inculding Exp/Post Metal and tech/Extreme then...
Monumentum:
Frantic Bleep:
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:07
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Dark Suns. Some of the most diverse and forward-thinking progressive metal out there! Second o last album: Last album: -------------   
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 24 2012 at 21:01
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Sleep for Jerusalem. Okay, it's stoner doom metal. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 05:10
Haha, well, I'd agree that they deserve more! They should've won that Grammy that those God-awful Foo FIghters won, for one thing!  ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Junges wrote:Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 06:25
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Madder Mortem Drawn Yakuza No Made Sense Rolo Tomassi Circle Takes the Square Canvas Solaris Hookah the Fuzz ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:37
| Darkwater, their debut is incredible! |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:46
Foo Fighters aren't bad. Unlike DT, they have a singer. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:53
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Two Italian bands spring to mind: ZU and Ephel Duath. Progressive like a pair of meat-hook sandals. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:54
Soooooooo repetetive. The only thing the drummer in FF does is "dum-pa-dum-pa-dum-pa-dum-pa" for five whole minutes while the guitarist just plays standard chords all like "wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha"...just kill me. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:58
Then don't listen to it.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:04
I never do it by choice...but they play their stupid songs at my gym every day and sometimes I forget my headphones and have to endure the torture of repetitive pop... *gag* "music". ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:04
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I think Foo Fighters are great. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:06
Foo Fighters are pop as well now these days are they? I guess everything is pop at the end of the day. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:13
I consider anyone who only knows four chords to be pop. Actually Foo Fighters are not the worst thing they play on the gym's radio station. There are some things that make it a struggle not to jab my car keys into my ear drums. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:16
Only knows four chords.....you are not serious? Anyway any Foo Fighters album is better than the DT bore fest. And I'mnot much of a Fighters fan. just hate seeing a band disregarded so much. especially by a DT fan. Very shakey ground.
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:25
Everything I've heard by them was laughably simplistic. Also, have you seen the videos where they make fun of other bands? So disrespectful, and who are they to do so anyways? Like they're so amazing. I hate them for that. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:30
Simple music is not laughable. Music is not necessarily about complication. I have seen a few videos but none that you mention. can you show them to me? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Mutez
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:33
| Dreamscape. Progressive Powerfest UK 2007 introduced me to them. Their similar to Dream Theatre, but in my opinion they are better. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:35
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 14:37
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^Can we share that popcorn? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:05
I've got one Dreamscape album (5th Season) and while it is decent, I'd much rather listen to most of Dream Theaters catalogue, but that's me. I have heard a couple of tracks off of Dreamscapes new album, however, and it sounds pretty darned good, but I can't find it on cd, only in digital download  Most prog-metal fans by now have heard of groups like Myrath, Redemption, Dominici, Vanden Plas, Darkwater, Pagan's Mind, Seventh Wonder, Circus Maximus, etc. so I'm not sure how 'unknown' they are. There's a decent, local (to me) proggy-metal band called Silent Lapse that I enjoy their album 'Birthright', and it can be downloaded or bought for free from their website. And speaking of Circus Maximus that I mentioned above.....Don't go to their website!!! I got a nasty virus called Smart Fortress 2012 from visiting it just Monday (23 Apr 12). I was hoping the website would tell me when their new album was due out, and instead had to take my PC into a tech shoppe to get rid of the virus
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:39
Here's one: No, simplicity in itself is not a bad thing. Take Beethoven's fifth symphony - EVERYONE knows that "BA BA BA BUM!" from the beginning. But he doesn't just stop there, he elaborates on that theme and tells a little story. Well, imagine he didn't elaborate. He just went "BA BA BA BUM! *pause* BA BA BA BUM! *pause* BA BA BA BUM!" etc. That would be stupid, wouldn't it? Well, that's basically what Pop music does. Never tries to do anything interesting, just introduces an idea...then repeats it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER...until you want to jab something deep into your eardrums. If music were like food, then people who listen only to Pop music are living on a steady diet of sugary candy. Nah, there's nothing wrong with candy...in moderation. But it should be a small part of your diet, and in today's culture 99% of people live on nothing BUT musical candy. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:44
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 17:48
I don't think you got that virus from their website buddy, I'm on their street team and have been on the site many times...no viruses here. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: April 25 2012 at 21:59
Well, as soon as their page finished loading, I got all kinds of virus alerts from my anti-virus program. Coincidence? I'm no computer expert, but I didn't get any alerts until I visited the site, making me think it was from their site *shrug* I sure hope it wasn't, as I'm a big fan. But why wouldn't it have shown up until then if I had gotten it from somewhere else?
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Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 10:29
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Love Dreamscape! I have all their albums except their latest, 'Everlight'... not sure if it's actually been or being released on CD, can only find downloads of it, and I'm a CD collector. There's so many awesome Prog bands that are generally 'unknown' to the public. See if anyone knows any of these bad boys: (not all of them may be strictly Prog, but they're all that European Prog/Power Metal type). Andromeda (they do get some mentions on here, but I f**king love this band so much, sadly, they own have about 2500 fans on Facebook) Atmosfear Coudscape Communic Empty Tremor Icycore Mind Key Mind Odyssey And probably my favourite 'unknown' band: Wingdom. |
Posted By: ElephantTalk
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 13:10
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Not sure if they're considered Unknown, but I wouldn't place them among the prog metal mainstream... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 13:27
Any band with Hellhammer is not going to be completely unknown, but I gues they're "seldom noticed" - good band though  ------------- What? |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 13:34
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Check out Ne Obliviscaris's new album, just dropped about a week ago. Far better than anything Opeth have done in years. Also, it disgusts me that so few people have ever heard of Mare. They only had one EP released but it is by far one of the most unique and incredible masterpieces of dark, avant-garde metal. -------------  
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 13:46
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Danish band Düreforsög are definitely overlooked - and especially their first outing wields a brutal metal kind of music. Highly recommended and very jumpy. Kind of like Primus go death metal: ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: gerdtheater
Date Posted: May 29 2012 at 00:28
An unknown Prog Metal band might be Dreamscape, Seventh Wonder, Shadow Gallery, Royal Hunt, and maybe Threshold. But they're all awesome  ------------- Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. Neil Peart |
Posted By: Redneck
Date Posted: June 25 2012 at 14:06
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East of the wall |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 10:49
| Fragile Vastness |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 11:33
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Parallaxe. -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 11:44
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If you're talking about traditional progressive metal I think one of the best little known,newer bands in that genre have to be Penny's Twisted Flavour. -------------  |
Posted By: Mr. Mustard
Date Posted: June 27 2012 at 00:52
| Tetrafusion, although they only have two albums, is really good. They're a combination of prog and Tech metal. |
Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: June 27 2012 at 07:48
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Posted By: Codera the Great
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 02:24
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Has anyone ever heard of Seventh Wonder? if not, here is one of my favorites from them... |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 04:23
I enjoy the Foo's as well. Not sure if this has been mentioned here, probably has, but they played a song live with Chris Squire. He was at the hotel they were playing at and they invited him up, they played a Foo's song and Chris and Taylor Hawkins (the drummer) played like 10 or 20 seconds of Roundabout. I'm not sure if this is 100% accurate but I read somewhere (can't remember exactly where) that after that Chris and Taylor became friends, they played some stuff together at a few music festivals, and Taylor almost joined Squackett. Also, these guys aren't on the site though I just suggested them, The Water's Deep Here are great.
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 06:37
They're basically my favorite band. DT is my favorite, but the only reason SW isn't is because they don't have more albums. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 06:47
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great thread, great topic, shame I have not come across this before so many favourite "unknown" bands to choose from, let's see... must be Soul Cages from Germany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjk_3xBgARg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjk_3xBgARg I think people who enjoy e.g. Sieges Even will adore this band |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 07:08
Heaven´s Cry ( http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1739" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1739 ) comes to mind (and they´ve just reformed to record a third album : http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3897" rel="nofollow - http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3897 ).
...just my kind of progressive metal with either no or very limited use of synths. Guitar and vocal driven hell yeah.
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: July 01 2012 at 16:49
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Not completely unknown but they definitely deserve more recognition, especially for this first album.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 02 2012 at 11:32
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^ not quite unknown indeed, they seem to be gaining a lot of fans these days interesting mix of Arabic influences with prog metal |
Posted By: Codera the Great
Date Posted: July 02 2012 at 22:09
They sound awesome, I should check out their stuff.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 13 2017 at 10:51
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Subdignal Crises Poverty's No Crime Distorted Harmony Vangough Ark Mind's Eye Anubis Gate Skyharbor Earthside Hemina Third Ion Kingcrow Disperse Psyco Drama and many others :)) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 13 2017 at 14:25
Only to the non prog/prog metal crowd. Otherwise you can add Opeth, Haken, Symphony X, Pain of Salvation, Between the Buried and Me and maybe a few others.
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: September 15 2017 at 02:59
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- Threshold - Vanden Plas - Subsignal - Shadow Gallery - Ark - Elegy (great dutch band)
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Posted By: Trollheart
Date Posted: October 11 2017 at 07:04
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They only ever had one album, but holy Hell! ------------- Trollheart: as Irish as losing a 3-0 lead in a must-win fixture! |