Prog Rock

[Pentagrimes]

"The Lamb" is my favourite Genesis. and one of my favourite albums ever.

More recently can I just urge everyone in this thread to check out Kairon;IRSE because they're incredible. The "Ruination" album on Svart from a couple years ago is pretty much a perfect record. Elements of old 70s prog but incorporates bits of shoegaze and drone in places. This song in particular is fantastic

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

Time of Orchids were great too - like Shudder to Think channeling King Crimson. This is one of the more straight forward songs and some of their earlier stuff veers close to Mr Bungle but the stuff on Tzadik is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1prD-pNVgME
Singer has a solo project called Stern now which has elements of this but is less prog and gloomier/weirder overall

Am I allowed talk about the Cardiacs now? or Art Zoyd and Univers Zero??

Oh, been digging into Van Der Graaf Generator recently based on this. Amazing song, and equally amazing piece of footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPDvjUYFy4

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Forgot to recommend  "Anekdoten - Until All the Ghost Are Gone" from 2015 .... christ I love that album.

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More recently can I just urge everyone in this thread to check out Kairon;IRSE because they're incredible. The "Ruination" album on Svart from a couple years ago is pretty much a perfect record. Elements of old 70s prog but incorporates bits of shoegaze and drone in places. This song in particular is fantastic

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

Thanks for that ... liking what I've heard. I'll give the whole album a spin.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Has anyone mentioned Rush?

[Don Gately]

More prog metal than rock but The Vicious Head Society 's album Abject Tomorrow is worth a listen. Especially the title track. Band hails from Ennis of all places. It's on Spotify.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

More recently can I just urge everyone in this thread to check out Kairon;IRSE because they're incredible. The "Ruination" album on Svart from a couple years ago is pretty much a perfect record. Elements of old 70s prog but incorporates bits of shoegaze and drone in places. This song in particular is fantastic

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

I'd completely forgotten about this! I think it was you sharing it before that alerted me to it in the first place. Good call anyway, beautiful album!

[Ducky]

Has anyone mentioned Rush?

Rash are much better.

[Ducky]

More prog metal than rock but The Vicious Head Society 's album Abject Tomorrow is worth a listen. Especially the title track. Band hails from Ennis of all places. It's on Spotify.

This dude used to be a regular over on Eurogamer, sound guy. Didn't he get Kevin Talley to record the drums?

Smoking bit of playing.

[Pedrito]

Oh, been digging into Van Der Graaf Generator recently based on this. Amazing song, and equally amazing piece of footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPDvjUYFy4

Wow, what a find. That album is mental, Doom Prog or Dark/Black Prog in many ways. A great listen but I can only do it every now and again.

[101_North]

I love prog and over the years have found some stunning stuff on the site below - still visit it regularly. The charts are especially good for finding new stuff.

http://www.progarchives.com/

I know Van der Graaf Generator have been mentioned but check out - Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage.

Genesis and King Crimson are essential but a few others worth checking are:

Gong - Radio Gnome trilogy
Camel - Mirage
Focus - Focus III  / Hamburger Concerto

[astfgyl]

I admit I'm not exactly a connoisseur of Genesis' material, but the one album of theirs I really do love is A Trick of the Tail. I tried the Peter Gabriel albums a few times and i just didn't love them for one reason or another. Have it on here now, it's really great. I must try a few of the old Prog albums. I've always been a bit afraid of them because that whole medieval aesthetic sort of fucks me up.

Listened to a couple of Rush albums and I really enjoyed Hemispheres, but I don't really buzz off the vocals. Liked the 2 Yes albums I listened to and also liked the one King Crimson album. I also like Porcupine Tree and some Steve Wilson stuff, which is obviously very derivative of the 70's stuff that I am generally afraid of.

So which one album do ye reckon would draw me in, if you had to pick only one?

[Pedrito]

What kind of metal do you normally listen to? Or music in general?

[Ducky]

Oh, been digging into Van Der Graaf Generator recently based on this. Amazing song, and equally amazing piece of footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPDvjUYFy4

Wow, what a find. That album is mental, Doom Prog or Dark/Black Prog in many ways. A great listen but I can only do it every now and again.

Had a feeling it was gonna be this vid... What an experience.

The last few minutes of White Hammer (from "The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other) sounds like the apocalypse - which is all the more impressive when you consider this record is a few months shy of its 50th anniversary (kicks off at 6:26)

https://youtu.be/t-6QXVFcczw

[Pentagrimes]

Funnily enough White Hammer was what got me interested in them

[Ducky]

Same as that, knew a few of their tracks but they hadn't clicked, heard White Hammer and it blew my head off. Really got into them after that.