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Wonderful list - and a heck of a job compiling all this for us! Can't wait to spend some time to go through it all and check out those albums I haven't heard yet. Listening to this is like watching a porno and getting the money shot in the first two minutes. This might be the funniest shit I've ever...

AllMediaReviews wrote:new track "Paradox" is released on Friday 11/9, but it's already streaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xktc6qtfLdY

That was pretty bad ... couldn’t even make it more than half way through that song

Cool thread. I checked out multiple releases and added the Kidd Robin disc and both Ebony Ark albums to my collection. I will add the following suggestions to the mix: All That I Bleed - Dying to Remember Catharsis - Pathways to Wholeness Caveat - Red Complex 7 – Process GracePoint - Science of Dis...

Here are 2 bands/albums that no one has mentioned. 1) Trival Act: Mindscape An awesome album that came out in 1997 (I believe). They were from Norway. This band was on the technical side of Prog, but very melodic as well. A Dream Theater meets Fates Warning as they had no keyboards in their sound. ...

Depressive Age Anyone remember them? For me this was one of the most “genre-pushing” bands of their time (early 90s). While only putting out 4 albums in a 5 year span this band managed to do a complete shift from technical thrash (think Coroner, Deathrow) outfit through a dark/gothic tinged prog met...

So what the OP is hoping to see is not necessarily every possible obscurity, but the GEMS of the past, and in some sort of easy couple or a few at a time, rather than the ambitious monster list? My first offering: Italy - Mind Key - Journey Of A Rough Diamond 2004 http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/...

I have so many of these in my back pocket that I'm curious to see reactions to. Let's go with... Dreams of Sanity - The Game Started out as light 90s femme gothic metal on Lacrimosa's Hall of Sermon label. But The Game is straight-up melodic prog metal with their strong female lead singer (Sandra S...

Fun thread. I did love me some Time Machine back in the day. This thread reminded me of a side project from one or two of the TM guys (don't recall the specifics, I just know there was a TM connection): Khali - s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqYh7kHfOIM I didn't care for the singer quite as mu...

On the flip side of all of this, there's one band and album that most people disliked but which somehow managed to hook me: Behind the Curtain - Till Birth Do Us Part . Really weird vocal that kept prompting me to reach for the stop button... right before something beautiful stayed my hand. Woefull...

LASERCD wrote:I have to admit I’m a little bummed out. When I saw the title of the thread and that Claus started it I assumed it was all about me.

Nah, that would assume that you had been forgotten ... as much as I try you still creep up in my mind like a bad dream

Power Of Omens - Eyes Of The Oracle https://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/0/0/8/4008.jpg?0207 POWER OF OMENS - Eyes of the Oracle I loved this disc when it came out - I think I rated it 9.5 / 10 in Metalized Magazine back in the day. Good times spent with this disc over the years. The technical l...

What an incredible thread.. I kinda came on board at the tail end of the classic era of prog in 2000 and had a lot of catching up to do That's fortunate for you. You managed to dodge the real stinkers that slipped in there, like Altura and Arkhe. :P LOL Now that was a funny (and somewhat true) stat...

Madsword - The Global Village https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51m-oVf-I5L._SL500_SX355_.jpg MADSWORD - The Global Village To many Perpetual Motion Board followers this album holds a special place in their heart - can't argue with that. The MADSWORD guys used to frequent this forum ...

Oh how I still love this album by Greyhaven https://youtu.be/21ABU8Rz0Hk One of the best disks ever released for prog in the 1998-2001 period http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/136/cover_45192328122009.jpg GREYHAVEN - Greyhaven It’s one of those discs I really wanted to...

From Long Island My good friends Inner Strength,anyone remember their disk? I have the demos from the follow up and they were heading in a nice blend of more modern grove with the technical style..then egos destroyed the band https://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/2/8/2/32828.jpg?0103 INNER STRENG...

Digital Ruin - Listen I just went back and listened to that disc. That was a disc that I really loved back then. However, listening to it now didn't really go over that well - in fact it sounds "old". We've obviously come a long way in terms of production since then :) I also feel that there's too ...

My hometown boys from Chicago! Radakka More along the lines of melodic metal than prog, but certainly with the influences of Queensryche and the like. Killer guitar work from Michael Posch (currently writing and playing with Pamela Moore) and incredible vocals from Jon Dobbs. They released two albu...

Digital Ruin - Listen http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/755/cover_314462472011_r.jpg DIGITAL RUIN - Listen I just went back and listened to that disc. That was a disc that I really loved back then. However, listening to it now didn't really go over that well - in fact ...

so yeah .. sure .. we can just go ahead and list everything right away .. lol I didn't list everything... Nothing below my rating of 4 out of 5. I also made an effort to focus only on obscure / forgotten... Took a long time to make this list... You listed everything that you felt were "forgotten he...

OK, I'll follow OP's original vision here. :) Avidost - demo The best metal band never signed? Female vocals drew comparisons to Madder Mortem, but the music reminds me more of an off-kilter, occasionally atonal Nevermore, mixed with a vaguely doomy/blackish/Norwegian sensibility. Lots of crunch & ...

so yeah .. sure .. we can just go ahead and list everything right away .. lol

I was thinking more about listing one album in each post and putting in links to listen to it, so people easily could respond to that one, but hey

The SANVOISEN post from last week really got me thinking about all those amazing prog metal bands that were the basis for all our discussions here - those bands without whom most of us wouldn't care so deeply for the genre. Those bands that showed us a window to more than just Dream Theater/Queensry...