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    Posted: February 10 2012 at 23:33
There's also Liquid Tension Experiment, which you'll probably enjoy if you're a fan of Dream Theater. One album that I forgot to mention is Marching Into Oblivion by Darkstar. It has a lot spoken word samples from various sci-fi movies, but they are used to add to the mood, which is pretty dark. A very unique album.
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Willowglass - Book of Hours
Camel - The Snow Goose
Lots of Mike Oldfield
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Ephemeral Sun - Harvest Aorta
Lebowski - Cinematic
Univers Zero - Heatwave and Uzed
Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust

Those are my favorites, but there are others in my collection.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Tubular Bells, The Continuing Story of Counterpoints (and a lot more minimalist albums), Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame, Passion, etc.
 
There's too many incredible instrumental albums I like for me to do a list.
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that is pureStar

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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

"Electric Silence" by Dzyan

Nice pick, great album.
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"Electric Silence" by Dzyan


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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

BAINBRIDGE, Dave...

DiMEOLA, Al...
PHILLIPS, Anthony...
TAAL

You get my "and I second that motion" for the four mentioned above...
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Trey Gunn - Live Encounter, The Joy of Molybedenum
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Between Nothingness and Eternity, Apocalypse
Return to Forver - Romantic Warrior
Jean Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Ocean
Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron, Sand
Bruford - One of a Kind, Feels Good to Me
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot, Emergent
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:

Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile
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I am checking it out now.Smile


Cool! Let us know what you think! Smile


Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:

I may be forgetting some great stuff, but here's 10 instrumental albums that I keep reaching for:

Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Trey Gunn - The Joy of Molybdenum
Those three will always be in my top 10 instrumental albums, excellent stuffClap


Gotta love that Chapman Stick and Warr Guitar sound. Big smile


By the way, I just discovered this amazing band from Hungary - Special Providence:


Great, great stuff!
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Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:

I may be forgetting some great stuff, but here's 10 instrumental albums that I keep reaching for:

Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Trey Gunn - The Joy of Molybdenum


Those three will always be in my top 10 instrumental albums, excellent stuffClap
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Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:



Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile
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I am checking it out now.Smile
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I would recommend Lebowski's Cinematique as a good recent instrumental album.
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I may be forgetting some great stuff, but here's 10 instrumental albums that I keep reaching for:

Exivious - Exivious
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control
Jim Matheos - Away With Words
On the Virg - Serious Young Insects
Planet X - MoonBabies
Planet X - Quantum
Steve Stevens - Flamenco.A.Go.Go (just a little bit of vocals)
Trey Gunn - The Joy of Molybdenum

Also, you might want to check out my own band's album! Big smile
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Points: 12868 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2012 at 18:03
Perhaps the fact that those lyrics are in swedish and you don't understand one bit of them (I'm guessing here) helps quiet a bit to ignore them???
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I tend to ignore all those vocals on that album so I forget haha.
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Originally posted by Smurph Smurph wrote:

Both Anglagard albums are probably my favorite instrumental albums.
 

Also, the new 19A.D.D. album, Gaia, is really really solid.


But Hybris isn't an instrumental album. Granted it has a great amount of instrumental passages and not so long vocal passages, but still, only the first song is purely instrumental.
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^B&P did absolutely nothing for me. The songs didn't have the character of their early material and just seemed to be dissonant for the sake of dissonance. I lost interest enough that I never even listened to PM.

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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Prog metal:
Dysrhythmia - Pretest

I think Barriers And Passages and Psychic Maps are way better than Pretest.

Way better. 
New album!
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