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Bastardous Bassist:
Agreed. I like all of the groups I listed, but they're all a little too prog for someone just getting into the genre.
nescience:
Someone who wants to get into prog FIRST to get a handle on the genre before expanding into the many flavours of prog-metal might benefit from a start at the more melodic, early prog groups like King Crimson or Caravan (one of my personal favorites).
One good place to start as a sampler is Decca's Legend of a Mind anthology. This is a great intro to the stuff that eventually would be called prog and includes choice cuts from Giles, Giles & Fripp (essentially embryotic King Crimson), the German sensations the Rattles, early Moody Blues, and others. The compilation also prepares you for the ridiculousness that is prog song naming convention, throwing great names like "The Song of McGuillicudie/The Pusillanimous" and "C'lu Thlu."
Of course, you could blow this all off and go with ELO's Brain Salad Surgery.
Misereatur:
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--- Quote from: Misereatur ---Spastic Ink.
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!!!!? He's trying to get into prog, not already into prog and looking to move deeper. I mean, he's recently gotten into Evergrey. You may as well suggest Planet X, Gordian Knot, Cab (technically jazz fusion, but lots of ties to prog), etc.
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Spastic Ink are just good, I started listening to them before I knew POS and Evergrey or even any prog' metal. It's not essential to know alot of prog metal in order to listen to SI.
Oh, and on the subject of Gordian Knot, Aghora would be a good idea.
Sean Malone played bass on their first (and only) album.
More of a fusion metal then prog' but its still amazing stuff, plus, fucking Sean Malone.
Bastardous Bassist:
The difference between fusion and prog is practically semantics these days. When it started out, there was a much larger difference. Now you have members of prog bands forming fusion bands, and subbing in (i.e. Tony McAlpine with Cab and Planet X, then getting Virgil Donati to fill in for Chambers when he had to tour with Santana).
Storm Rider:
By the way, I forgot to fix this.
--- Quote from: Kai ---And of course, in terms of prog, you can't go wrong with the classics: Rush, Genesis before Steve Hackett left, King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and to a lessor extent, Jethro Tull and Uriah Heep.
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