TheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:Japes wrote:TheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:If you want to here something new and at the same time with a classic feel of the prog of the 70's I humbly recommend The Flower Kings. They rock hardly too!
If you get any album from them, from the first to the last, just like GH, you'll find very good stuff that really hooks up. You can check on youtube some of their music. Their last album "The Sum of No Evil" has very good epics. Roine Stolt guitar and lyrics are good too [they tend to make even more sense than Neal Morse's lyrics on SB albuns before Snow, and his convertion]. Of course they share themes about christianity and transcendental aproaching, but you can check it out with no fear.
In the sound you'll find awesome guitar work, as well lots of keyboard freakness. If you listened to Transatlantic, is just easier to imagine TFK is Transatlantic without Neal Morse....or I'm just exagerating.
Anyway, this is my suggestion.
Godspeed!
Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'm on Progarchives right now, listening to their samples, and from the first few seconds of "Big Puzzle" I already have a good feeling about it. I'm gonna check them out some more, but I think you may have just given me another favorite artist! =D
God bless!
-Japes
And this is only their last track from the first album. They have 3 double albums, and one of the biggest epics of all time [at least for now, we can expect everything from Babb&Schendel...] called Garden of Dreams from the Flower Power album. Don't forget to check out the youtube videos!
Godspeed!
I sure will, oh, and my brother just gave me Spock's Beard's newest album, and I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but I really enjoyed the first track.
Oh, and if it helps with future suggestions, for the most part I think I've narrowed my tastes down to an ELP/Glass Hammer/organ sound, a Dream Theater/Symphony X/(some Neal Morse and Spock's Beard)/metal sound, a Spock's Beard/pop sound (probably what I enjoy the least out of my favorites "sounds," though I still love listening to it, it's just relative to all the others' epicness) and a Kansas/Neal Morse/Glass Hammer/(sometimes Symphony X and Dream Theater)/orchestral sound. So I would say that those are probably my four favorite types of prog, and thus music in general, if this helps with suggestions at all.
Anywho, if I buy a Flower Kings album soon, it will probably be Stardust We Are, though I don't know yet (I don't like spending money on a whim). I'll continue looking into it.
=) God Bless
EDIT:
In addition, I find that I haven't enjoyed much of the 70s prog (excluding SOME Yes, and just about ALL Kansas and ELP), if that helps show my taste a bit. I'm still having a really hard time nailing down quite what I like and don't like... Oh, one more thing, good vocal harmonies and good synthesizers pwn face!
(Sorry this is getting really long, but thanks ahead of time to anyone who gives input, and to TheMarsh-WiggleQuester for your help!)