I feel like ive mostly been listening to the more popular bands, what are some of your favourite lesser known progmetal bands?
Depends on how progressive you want to go, as when you are bordering on noise, ambient and other fringe genres, there are lots of bands with little fame.
I have a single album from “Lento” that is pretty cool. Post-rock, powt hardcore, post metal kinds stuff.
Nero Di Marte is on the more extreme side, but flirts with prog.
Oranssi Pazuzu is prog and black metal together. Weird stuff, but good.
And a long time favourite: Circle. Lots of different kinds of albums, most pretty great. Awesome if you can catch them live.
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There’s this noiserock/prog group called Fushitsusha. The songs are long, winding and sometimes grinding romps. They have some traditional Japanese elements mixed in as well.
If you don’t know about Mono, go have a listen. Especiall Hymn to the Immortal Wind. Stuff brings tears to my eyes.
I hate to say it, but I feel like I’m kind of mainstream as far as prog metal goes; I really don’t know if I’d consider anything in my list lesser known. I think my issue is that I have no idea how to find new music anymore (short of EveryNoiseAtOnce, which I just remembered existed).
The first album that came to mind, which is definitely not metal, is 100% Yes by Melt Yourself Down. I believe the genre description I read was “Afrolatin inspired post-bop punk-jazz”, so of course I had to check it out.
Yeah i was mostly getting my progmetal bands from what was popular on reddit, ill check out that EveryNoiseAtOnce band later
Thank you so much for mentioning Every Noise At Once, I just fell into this rabbit hole!
You’re very welcome!
Familiar with King’s X?
No. im checking them out right now, they sound alright, but im generally more into metal than rock. Still… pretty solid sound, and i dont mind people posting more prog rock stuff here too, anything prog i think would be welcome around here.
A prog rock band i know of thats not super popular is Beardfish
Right on! I’ll have to check them out, thanks!
Not lesser known particularly, but definitely (imo) don’t get the recognition they deserve: Wilderun
Ihlo are wonderful
Not sure how popular this is but The World Is Quiet Here got a whole lot of eartime from me with their last album Zon.
Some other random gems. Épiphanies exceptional album L’Aube,
and the BaK music guys from Melbourne!
I’ve also been frothing over Ne Obliviscaris - exul
I feel like I only listen to lesser known bands so I’m not sure what the scale is here. Crystal Castles? I’m in love with a ghost? Igorrr?
Edit: whoops this isn’t the generic music community
Uhh hard to say, what i meant is on the original progmetal subreddit most of what was posted was the same 20 popular bands. Anything outside that id consider lesser known.
