Prog V3.0 Discussion Thread

the only bands like that I really have time for are Glass Hammer and The Tangent. GH is the first "Christian prog" group I've ever heard of, which is actually kind of neat since they take a lot of influence from church music and the like. They definitely try to make their music sound as "big" as possible which is neat. The Tangent have a lot of the same issues as the FKs (Roine Stolt was a member for a while) but I think Tillison is a much more interesting songwriter. plus his lyrics are way better.

― frogbs

wait you've heard of glass hammer but not, like, kansas?

was gonna say yes but it turns out I was thinking of Camel

I do have one Kansas album though.

I need to get Frost's third album someday. I thought they might have more so I'm slightly relieved.

you should, it rules. the opening track has a pretty unique reference point - "Synchronicity I" by the Police. really wish there were more bands like that out there.

Have just discovered Major Parkinson. Based on their latest album, wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMPkt_ZFss

^^^Ten-minute song called Baseball that can fairly be described as early Cardiacs and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum fighting over who gets to cosplay Muse

i don't know that i've ever heard muse but i do like it!

grohl grows up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=e05H80-k0mY

https://www.loudersound.com/news/voivod-the-wake-is-one-of-the-most-intricate-albums-weve-ever-done

“It’s definitely one of the most intricate albums we’ve done. The songs are pretty long, very complicated and have lots of prog rock moments and a bit of psychedelia. Of course the punk/thrash metal signature is still there."

y'all the new bubu record is the bomb, and i don't even really _like_ the first bubu record

https://bubuprog.bandcamp.com/album/bubu

I had a fear the EP Bubu released was ghoing to be some kind of anomaly, really pleased they have a new one out. I do like their first album too though!

It took me years to get into Voivod and still haven't heard anything they've done after '97 but this new one sounds cool

folks,

folks,

it's nearly Thumpermonkey time

https://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/album/make-me-young-etc

dauntingly kickass opening track previewing

look, it has a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4GKEoaq6ig

nice. friday neo-canterburyexpialodocious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKOjOqbHpY4

i was wondering to myself when the new guerilla toss record was coming out. turns out it's today! i liked "gt ultra" but i think they've hit a new high on this one.

another Glass Hammer album coming soon, this time focusing on a time traveler who started a prog band in the 80's and tried to go back to the golden age of prog, a de-facto sequel to their 2000 record Chronomotree. gotta say that concept is quite fitting for a band like this.

the time traveler himself appears to have materialized

http://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/22697-Glass-Hammer-Chronomonaut-Tapes-Tom-is-back-or-at-least-he-was

good call on that bubu album. i had no clue. new guerilla toss slays. magic is easy indeed. the edge of the ice cube . . .

new Vennart album worth a mention here too

Seen a poster for a band called Free Salamander Exhibit. Was intrigued by the "rock in opposition" tag.

Sounds quite funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4mftLYgHo
Some of the other tracks have metal in them.

I think they're a band made up of former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum members - a band worth checking out if you haven't

yeah, free salamander exhibit is nils' new(ish) "metal" band. i saw them on a triple bill earlier this year with faun fables and cheer-accident. they're pretty good, of course a fine live show, really into the druid thing, but i don't know, they don't grab me the way sgm did. lately i'm definitely more into faun fables.

this is dope (note: not the vintage british band)

https://thedruidofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-seven-scrolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzLU7UvkrE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZm2QIIo-JE

bob drake has a new one !!!

https://bobdrake.bandcamp.com/album/lisola-dei-lupi

Anyone a fan of Beardfish? Overlooked these dudes the first three or four times but I'm listening to Destined Solitaire right now and it's pretty much everything I want out of a 'retro' prog record. Their lead singer is charismatic and actually quite funny which is quite rare in this genre. Great voice too.

Let's shout out Sterbus on this thread too - https://sterbus.bandcamp.com/ new record is rather lovely guitarry Prog Pop

:)

i'm waiting for the Thumpermonkey to come out properly so I can advertise its title track to all ILX's progheads - some of the best prog of this century so far

I'm currently in the process of selling off a mega CD collection for someone on Ebay, large amounts of which is contemporary prog. It's been an eye-opener! Here's the prog-related acts I've encountered to date I'd never even heard of, there are massive worlds of this stuff filled with people like Billy Sherwood and Christian Bruin who release uncountable numbers of records:

Believe – Brasse – Blind Owl – Cliffhanger – Canamii – Casino – Cosmograf - Comedy Of Errors - Combination Head – Chris - Alex Carpani – Cairo – Collage - Different Trains – Discus – Edith - Egdon Heath – Fonya - Fatal Fusion - Final Conflict - Fission Trip - For Absent Friends – Galleon – Jeremy - A.C.T. - Ad Infinitum - Adventure - Alpha III - Ancient Vision – Aragon – Ayreon – Circa – Conception – Cyan - Cryptic Vision - Crystal Maze - Different Light - Echo Park - Dr Coenobite – Karfagen – Maestoso - Steve Adams - Lands End – Legend - Shadow Merchant – Phaesis – Overdrive – Abraxas – Arion – Atlantis - Chimpan A - Jack Foster III – Harvest - The Winter Tree - Nice Beaver – Eurhybia – Fields - Sean Filkins - Flamborough Head – Glacier – Jupiter - K2 – Morild – Tunefish – Wyzards - Leap Day - Solar Project - Tempus Fugit - This Oceanic Feeling – Synesthesia - Sky Architect - Perona Non Grata - Persephone's Dream – Darling – Silhouette – Satellite - Unbroken Spirit - Tea For The Wicked - Nad Sylvan – Shakary – Tantalus - Moria Falls - Josh & Co Limited – Sahara - Ergo Sum - Dave Bainbridge - Cloud Atlas – Cavalli / Cocchi / Lanzetti / Roversi – Darius - Tea In The Sahara - Fabio Liberatori - Alfonso Vidales – Octopehra - Violeta De Outone - Seasons Of Time - Light Damage - Fossil Evolution - Hasse Froberg - Red Sand – Eyesburg - Fish On Friday - Rikard Sjöblom - Tiger Moth Tales - The D Project

i like violeta de outono

most of the rest of it i've heard of isn't my cup of tea

frogbs, care to recommend a destined solitaire jam?

title track is pretty good. here's a live version - its great if you can get past the fact that they look and sound like Jack Black fronting a prog band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-KYaBQGRY

A good quarter of Tenacious D is kind of prog tbf

THE ASTEROID HAS LANDED

https://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/album/make-me-young-etc

The title-track is one of the most breathtaking prog compositions of the century so far in my extremely cool opinion

Oh I said that already. That must mean it's super-true

is the title-track as good as "woadscrivened"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4goBiAGYyQ

thanks frogbs for that beardfish. super-dope. could care less what "good" musicians look like tbqh!

Woadscrivened was a stunner but this is even more ambitious imo

xp well most of their albums have at least one "Tenacious D gone prog" track so I was pretty amused to see the singer did actually resemble him

thank you for recommending this because otherwise there is no way in hell i would listen to bands with names like "beardfish" or "thumpermonkey"

Can I tell u about the Flower Kings

no

I don't know much about them but I am digging these guys a great deal at the moment -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEzWPMflmdw

this is so good

https://www.orgaan.ch/storkk/

there's a new anglagard side project out, "all traps on earth". this one has more of a zeuhl flavor. but what i love about it is that that they're _still_ copping riffs from schicke fuhrs frohling in 2018. i don't hold it against them at all, there's obviously way more to anglagard than "pictures" imitation, but it made me laugh so hard.

Kinda scratchy, angry stuff, hard to pin down really, but dead good - https://themmooserush.bandcamp.com/

Deluge Grander - Oceanarium

Very nice, very well sustained for a near 80 minute album. One of those rare albums that has pauses between tracks but feels very much like one large composition. Sleeve notes say that the ideas are used in the previous album and forthcoming album (guessed release date was 2018).

The way the fifth track repeats the main part of track four is gorgeous.

it's probably the densest prog album I've ever heard - I can't really wrap my head around it. there are a LOT of callbacks to Heliotians (the 2014 album).

Oi, you two had best get on this as well https://lostcrowns.bandcamp.com

lol within the first 30 seconds I could pretty much guess who was in that band

Some more gritty stuff - https://slunq.bandcamp.com/

these look incredibly cool but lol @ those prices

https://www.hionerecords.com/product/wood-box-set-birds-and-buildings-bantam-to-behemoth/

https://www.hionerecords.com/product/wood-box-set-deluge-grander-august-in-the-urals/

I did wind up getting one of those limited edition Heliotains LPs with hand-painted cover art and lyrics - it's a really cool item, a lot of people who've come over to my house have asked me about it