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obligatory for James and Bj-1:

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3 prog (metalish...) obscure bands

Psychotic Waltz - Dark, technical and weird metal
Saviour Machine - Gothic-influenced medieval, Christian-lyric based metal
Ulver - Started off as black metal, progressed as electro-metal (soundtrack like) with references to obscure themes, strange vocals, noises etc.

Personally, these are three of my favourite bands and I would recommnd to anyone who likes weird tunes
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Points: 65776 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2008 at 23:51
Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:


Climax -   Bolivian heavy prog band almost unknown outside that country


Still only two stars?


sure, my appreciation of the album is expressed in the review, whereas the two stars reflect my objective judgment that it would best suit collectors/fans only
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Demon/Bullet:Both with guitar hero John Du Cann,dangerous heavy prog!
The Heads:heavy psych/stoner from UKClap 
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Public Foot The Roman. 
 
Back in the early 70s i was impressed by the name.  I could never find an album or a gig to go to so i didn't get to hear them.  
 
35 years later i still have absolutely no idea what they sounded like and i'm still impressed by the name.
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Hey... Another good album (and band)... In Psychedelic Heavy Prog is this:
 
 
JUNIOR'S EYES: 'BATTERSEA POWER STATION'
 
featuring: Rick Wakeman
 
This is the backing band of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'!


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What about AnglagardQuestion
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Anglagard is not remotely obscure.
 
Excellent band btw, after Genesis, my all time favorite.
 
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Lesse...Obscure to me (going through my music library):

Brainticket (krautrock)
Carol of Harvest (folk-symph)
Kemialliset Ystavat (psychedelic, experimental)
Leviathan (art rock/heavy prog)
Triana (folk-symph)
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Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

One great obscure band is Amarok. Quentadharken is a fantastic album.
 
 
I totally agree with you, Amarok (Spain) are a fabolous band in studio and on stage, that album Quentadharken is fabolous!

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 very obscure stuff:

COS      Viva Boma and The Post- Aolian Train Robbery

DOGGEREL BANK   Silver Faces and Mr. Skillikorn Dances

BYZANTIUM  Byzantium

Good luck finding either of the vinyls (no CD's that I know of)  by Doggerel Bank.  The other two are available
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Originally posted by banjocat banjocat wrote:

 

Good luck finding either of the vinyls (no CD's that I know of)  by Doggerel Bank.  The other two are available
Doggerel Bank , in part I believe, became the Barrow Poets, who had a bit of notiriety for the Peasant Pluckers Song. Fortunate to have the Silver Faces album - the odd track being played on my radio show every other year!! Part of Charisma Records thing to issue poets with music in the early 70's, the Sir John Benjemen/Jim Parker albums being the more obvious examples.
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Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

One great obscure band is Amarok. Quentadharken is a fantastic album.
 
 
I totally agree with you, Amarok (Spain) are a fabolous band in studio and on stage, that album Quentadharken is fabolous!


Don't forget Mujer Luna and Sol De Medianoche, which ended up as my favorite album in 2007.

(uhm...I guess that if three people already know about Amarok, that doesn't make the band obscure anymore? LOL)

Now, Idelfonso Aguilar's Erosion...that's obscure! Approve
(even if memo knows what I'm talking about, right? Wink)

P.S.: I saw Ulver mentioned in the second post of this page. I hardly consider them obscure.


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5 day week straw people,The Damnation of........Adam Blessing,Waterloo
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Covenant-Nature's devine reflection. Obscure and weird
Paragone-Paragone. Soothing instrumental music. Really special.
MK II-Burning daylight. Instrumental neo from the mid-nineties
Sandstone-Looking for myself. Nice prog metal from Poland (great prog country btw)
Novox-Novox. Interesting neo/crossover from my native country
Xen-84000 dharma doors. Heavy crossover, actually almost Enchant so not really obscure
Marco Sfogli-There's Hope. Great Italian metal guitarist. Album is from the running year !
 
All good/very good albums that should be checked out more.
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Know about Bohren&der club of gore? It´s a non-prog band I mentioned in a thread
called "sleep music" (I think).
They´re not, however, a boring band, its music is beautiful, very dark, with chord arrangements.
I´ve been researching in my collection and don´t remember any other.Keep tryin´. 
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Aquarium are my favorite band ever. And I'm one of about 5 people on this site who's heard of them.
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Aktuala (Italian)
 
Smell of Incense (Norwegian)
 
Sedmina (Yugoslavian)
 
All Prog Folk (although Smell of Incense would be at-home in Psych as well)
 
 
 
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Don't forget SUPAY from Perů, IMO more Prog (Not necesarilly better) than Los Jaivas.
 
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Fromuz - Great instrumental eclectic group from Uzbekistan. I can't help but continue to mention this band. They have a pretty small fan base at the moment, but hey, instrumental music from Uzbekistan isn't exactly a wide market. Give these boys a listen. Their PA page has two quality songs of theirs streamable.
Mogul Thrash - An early John Wetton project. Really neat, especially if King Crimson's Red is something that really trips your triggers.
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