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    Posted: October 21 2019 at 07:29
Hi dear members.
I'm very much into keyboards and Hammond organ trios especially.
Is there a kind of band, like metal keyboard trio (without guitar), but playing heavy instrumental (or mostly instrumental) music ?

Derek Sherinian and some of his solo projects comes to mind, he's excellent Hammond player and using a lot of distorsion, but he's more into synth shredding (guitaristic style). I'm not fan of guitar shredding, neither it's keyboard emulaton.
Parallel Mind is also good, some tracks are like the heavier ELP version

Also, lack of guitar is not mandatory (but keyboard as lead instrument wanted)
this is something i'm looking for (Hammond part contributed by Derek Sherinian)





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Two groups come to mind: Van der Graaf Generator and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Two groups come to mind: Van der Graaf Generator and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
 
Oh wait, you asked for prog metal. But what would make it metal if it were keyboard-based?
 
 
 
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Some tracks of VdGG are quite "metal", with lots of distorsion 
Particularly Godbluff album 

p.s. by "metal" I  mean heavy metal style rhythm section, or drumming (blast bit, double bass)
actually, Carl Palmer from ELP was one of the blast bit inventors , featured on the track The Barbarian 








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Originally posted by awaken_yesfan awaken_yesfan wrote:

Some tracks of VdGG are quite "metal", with lots of distorsion 
 
It's been said that Hugh Banton modified his organs to make them sound more demonic.
 
 
 
 
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^Awesome album. Everything by those guys is.
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Not sure about metal but you can try ELP, Ars Nova and Niacin.
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Try the Japanese band Gerard. They do a stonking version Rick Wakeman's Catherine Parr on the Keyboards Triangle tribute album . Also their album Live In Marseille is well worth checking out.
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I'm not sure if these will be heavy enough for you:


(There are some guitars, but the keyboards are great, too. Check out all of Lalle Larsson's Weaveworld.)

(First track esp.)

Maybe check out Wardance by Colloseum II.


Edit- Also maybe check out this for some heavy electronic that sounds very proggy:


Edited by Kaivoks - October 22 2019 at 17:50
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Try the Japanese band Gerard. They do a stonking version Rick Wakeman's Catherine Parr on the Keyboards Triangle tribute album . Also their album Live In Marseille is well worth checking out.
 

Copy that. And Live in Marseille is easier and cheaper to come by, too. A real wrecker!
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Perihelion Ship, one of my favourites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eticUinh4KY
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Don Airy's solo album Light In The Sky also great. A mix of Deep Purple/Rainbow heritage and ELP-influenced themes , some tracks are heavy, some are spacey or atmospheric 
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