Try Elephant9. If you like them you could go old school and try John McLaughlan and the Mahivishnu Orchestra.
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Any specific albums or songs you recommend?
Atlantis / Elephant9 + Reine Fiske
- This is a really nice collaboration that has jazz and atonal influences with some complex timings.
The Inner Mounting Flame / Mahavishnu Orchestra
- First album and a classic. You will immediately hear the similarity and the huge influence the band had on prog and jazz fusion in general.
Thank you very much!
I don't listen to too much of the more classic prog stuff, but here are some more modern ones that you might be into:
- Porcupine Tree (Gavin Harrison was the drummer in King Crimson)
- The Pineapple Thief (Another Gavin Harrison band)
- Haken (Recommend starting with The Mountain - my favourite)
- Leprous (Older stuff has more distorted/screamed vocals, newer stuff is a lot cleaner)
- Thank You Scientist
Progarchives is your friend. They've basically catalogued and rated the entirety of prog so if you need more stuff to listen to the highest rated albums there.
Here's some stuff you might like though: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Can, Frank Zappa, Return To Forever
‘Godspeed! You black emperor’, ‘King Glizzard and the lizard wizard’, and ‘Black County, New Road’ might be fun. Potentially ‘Black MIDI’ if you like more experimental.
To lean onto doom you can still go Black Sabbath or Paul Chain's stuff.
On rock prog : Zappa, Magma, Jethro Tull, Ange and early Genesis. Maybe some Prince?
Some records of Devin Townsend are really prog but it's more metal. There is a lot of prog in extrem metal as well...
Maybe you can find something here:
First obvious stop for me is (one of my favourite bands) Porcupine Tree. Easy one really as one the three current drummers for KC is Gavin Harrison, as he's in PT as well ;-)
Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen spring to mind as well.
Have a listen to Morow.com. Lots of interesting things there, old and new ;-)
here are the songs in Apple's 'Prog Rock Essentials' playlist, I find their curated playlists to be pretty decent as a starting point to discover new artists/songs
https://music.apple.com/in/playlist/prog-rock-essentials/pl.573d5d1c54c34bee884fe83de0dfa548
I believe you can view the list of songs without an account, if not then let me know and I'll screenshot them
thank you everyone for the suggestions!
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