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Lots of love for Captain Beyond's debut!  Clap  They were the very first band I ever saw on the big rock stage, and it was stunning! 

I'd suggest Amon Duul II's "Wolf City," that used to shake the dorm room walls back in the day! 
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Fields - Fields CD (album) cover

Yang - A Complex Nature CD (album) cover

Automatic Fine Tuning A.F.T. album cover

High Tide - Sea Shanties CD (album) cover

Badger - One Live Badger CD (album) cover

Quatermass - Quatermass CD (album) cover

Rush - Permanent Waves CD (album) cover
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Yes, I do consider Paranoid as a Heavy Prog album, and this is what I've written in my review of it:

"Looking from the perspective of 1970, Paranoid must be considered as (Heavy) Prog album, and according to what Ozzy Osbourne once said in a interview, that's how it was meant by the Sabs themselves. The music is not as complex as some other bands' from that year but it's surely very innovative and thus beyond the mainstream Rock - not to speak about Planet Caravan which influenced by Django Reinhardt, one of Tony Iommi's influences, is very jazzy. Heavy Metal as a genre was not established in 1970, even not really forming before Paranoid, so looking from the perspective of that year, the album can't be considered as a part of that genre. So historically speaking, Paranoid can't be seen as something else than (Heavy) Prog. And maybe the most correct thing to do is to consider the whole very early HM as a part of Prog. Ion Lord of Deep Purple had indeed Progressive ambitions as well, and what about Uriah Heep?"


Edited by David_D - January 06 2022 at 16:53
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^ Early heavy metal was considered a part of prog but is rarely seen that way now.   Here's an interesting quote from Philip S. Walker's notes in the Warhorse CD Red Sea ;

"...Heavy Rock as a style grew out of Progressive Rock sometime in the early 1970s. The trend setters were Deep Purple and Black Sabbath" .

Now that's a perspective you don't hear anything about these days.   In hindsight it makes sense and adds a dimension to the post-Psychedelic era previously missing.
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My three favourite bands are Rush, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree so something like...

Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
In Absentia
Gravity
Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
Hemispheres
Deadwing
A Farewell To Kings
Fear Of A Blank Planet
Vemod

Alternate list and these are all going by what the site here calls Heavy Prog

T2- It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Tiles- Presents Of Mind
Liquid Scarlet- Liquid Scarlet
Landberk- One Man Tells Another
Exsimio- Carbono 14
Morte Macabre- Symphonic Holocaust
Thule- Ultima Thule
Karnivool- Sound Awake
Book Of Hours- Art ToThe Blind
Elder- Lore
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Going by PA's definition (btw Rush occupy the top 4 places on PA's heavy prog list!)

1. Rush - Moving Pictures
2. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
4. Haken - Affinity
5. Headspace - All That You Fear Is Gone
6. Quatermass - s/t
7. Lone Star - Firing On All Six
8. Fields - s/t
9. Enchant - Tug Of War
X. The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom Of Goats - Vaaya and the Sea 

(btw I've never heard the last album in my list but included it for the great name and to make up to ten!)
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ Early heavy metal was considered a part of prog but is rarely seen that way now.   Here's an interesting quote from Philip S. Walker's notes in the Warhorse CD Red Sea ;

"...Heavy Rock as a style grew out of Progressive Rock sometime in the early 1970s. The trend setters were Deep Purple and Black Sabbath" .

Now that's a perspective you don't hear anything about these days.   In hindsight it makes sense and adds a dimension to the post-Psychedelic era previously missing.

That is very interesting, both concerning Prog and Metal history, and maybe even quite relevant for the roots of Prog Metal.
Deep Purple has indeed not less than BS to be considered being among Prog pioneers.


Edited by David_D - January 08 2022 at 16:09
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

That is very interesting, both concerning Prog and Metal history, and maybe even quite relevant for the roots of Prog Metal.
Rush is also relevant for the roots of prog metal.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

That is very interesting, both concerning Prog and Metal history, and maybe even quite relevant for the roots of Prog Metal.
Rush is also relevant for the roots of prog metal.

Yes, very much!!
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All the usual suspects have been mentioned...my favorite big names would be
Uriah Heep
Rush
Porcupine Tree
Capt Beyond
but a few less well known ones I'm fond of..
Armageddon
Big Elf
Black Bonzo
Gravy Train
Lucifers Friend
Steamhammer (listed as crossover...)
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

All the usual suspects have been mentioned...my favorite big names would be
Uriah Heep
Rush
Porcupine Tree
Capt Beyond
but a few less well known ones I'm fond of..
Armageddon
Big Elf
Black Bonzo
Gravy Train
Lucifers Friend
Steamhammer (listed as crossover...)


Good list of lesser knowns, doc. Whatever happened to Big Elf?
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