The TEN BEST Contemporary Prog Bands!
In this video I want to detail the ten most important contemporary prog bands, from the 1990s onwards. Which are the best? Let’s discuss.
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@stevedraper8849
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Agree, this is a solid list of contemporary Prog. I like that you suggest an album to check out. There is heaps of great music out there that is “new” to many ears, and this list is spot on.
@scottgillham2000
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
My top 10 – alphabetical
Big Big Train
Cirrus Bay
Flower Kings
Glass Hammer
Magenta
Mr Sirius
Satellite
Tangent
Transatlantic
The Watch
@andynaz5631
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Spocks Beard, Enchant, Porcupine Tree, Echolyn, Flying Colors, Tiles, IQ, Flower Kings, Transatlantic (when together), Glass Hammer, Dream Theater, etc…
@BobSmith-o9p
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Spock's Beard
@JERGAL-dh8se
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Prog is dead didn’t you know and all the bands you mentioned are rather bad (Riverside) plagiarisers (Wobbler) or average… the only contemporary good prog band you mentioned is Porcupine Tree, and you forgot Presto Ballet which released a very good first album« Peace among the ruins ». The following ones are not so brilliant. The problem with all those bands is that they mingle elements from old prog bands but but never manage to have their own sound, they are rather tribute bands for me but that’s only my opinion.
@ScottAMedina
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Spot on. This list is along my lines of favorites too, though I’d have to have 25 spots to really get them all represented. Prog on.
@stevenfunderburg1623
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
No Opeth so I reject this list and hate it with the laser focused hate of 10,000 haters all hating simultaneously 😠🤬😠
@martijnvaassen
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Ciccada
K'mono
The Mars Volta
Oceansize
Elephant9
Tool
Elder
Perilymph
Needlepoint
Weite
@stephenhaunch3468
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Marillion, IQ and Opeth are the A list for me. Gazpacho, Big big train, Riverside, Steven Wilson come close, then there is Cosmograf, Airbag, Wobbler and Bruce Soord.
@tomgeorge9748
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
The Mars Volta.
@panurge987
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Beardfish is my favorite contemporary prog band.
@grassrootsflshp
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Dream Theater, Tool, Porcupine Tree, and Opeth are the only Prog bands I passionately follow. Yes, they're more on the "metal" side too. Gotta check some in your list, thanks.
@glendoucet5726
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
I would add two bands, Mostly Autumn from the UK and Mystery from Canada….both are awesome bands….
@dilltdog1158
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Dream Theatre begat Liquid Tension Experiment, I wonder what Chris Welch would make of them?
The two Davids, Gregory and Longdon era BBT is the pinnacle of their career, with English Electric Pts I & II their very best.
I saw the latest incarnation of BBT at Cropredy this yeaŕ and as competent as they were I doubt I'll see them again or buy their records.
My time for them went once we lost DL.
@fermindiez9772
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Thanks for this list. A few I know and love, others I should explore deeper, and even a couple I’ve never heard of Many happy hours of listening ahead of me. 😊
@guillaumechabason3165
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Knower
@martinbishop2966
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
The Trembling Bells are pretty decent, sort of folk prog with the beautiful vocals Lavinia Blackwell and she plays keys as well! 🙂
@SJHUE
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Arena are my number 1 Prog band from the 1990`s onwards and I would recommend most of their albums. Like yourself I am also a fan of The Flower Kings `Stardust We Are`.
@garymackenzie8588
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
No Frost*, no Pain Of Salvation? Hhmmm … 🤔
@eduardocalvo9631
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
We got Steven Wilson, Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt, Nick D'Virgilio, Mariuzs Duda, Lars Fredrik Frøislie and Ross Jennings, all torchbearers. IMHO Barry, you could've pulled a Pete Pardo and do a tie at no. 10, if not for anything else, to include Mikael Åkerfeldt.
@PeterGriffinz
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
You missed out Gazpacho from Norway!
@neillbarrett4959
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Flower kings should be on that list
@robertsharp449
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
A really well balanced list which includes most of the top bands of the 21st Century. I might have included Moon Safari and Opeth and moved Riverside up.
@Andrey_Yurkoff
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Not enough love for The Dear Hunter. Great band with Acts IV and V being one the best modern prog.
@kristerkarlsson9520
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Thanx for this list. However, I would have put Symphony X on there, too.
@stefanogobbo6556
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Check Cinema Styge from Italy. A new prog band with an incredible debut album recalling 70’s at its best!
@johnkellykelly2434
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Good stuff but my god NO Anathema and No Mars Volta that’s a shocker
@tonylane8873
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
"Thom Yorke's detuned mewing" is the funniest and yet most accurate description of his vocalizing I've ever heard! I tittered. Also, you missed Dream Theater's biggest failing, the nearly unlistenable squealing of the 'singer'. Truly, they would be a great band with a different singer.
Thanks, an excellent list, touching on many of my fave bands. Wobbler are new to me so I will check them out.
@BeandipCartography-i3z
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Check out Liquid Sound Company/Herd of Instinct.
@dhammacharidhammavijaya398
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Can’t believe that Inception Scream didn’t make the cut
@johngennace4045
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Fates Warning is conspicuously absent. PSOG and Disconnected are prog masterpieces.
@johnbellamy3406
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
If they were still together I would say that Beardfish should be near the top of this list somewhere. Another contemporary prog band that is certainly a contender is Ritual. They've just released their 5th studio album this year. Check them out.
@grayjohn6332
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
English teachers album is quite progy
Kyros are my favourite new contemporary prog band.
@pattardn
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Good list, although I'd include Magenta somewhere near the very top alongside P Tree, Haken and BBT. Also, Opeth and that Strapping Young Lad guy himself, Devin Townsend in his various different heavy prog guises. Oh, that's five already! Then there's Moon Safari, Mr. K Torabi's updated version of Gong (I think this is a concession that counts), Wobbler, Radiohead and, obviosly, the mighty, resurrected Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
@stuartraybould2574
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Leprous should be on this list.
@kylejoiner9682
October 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
Personally I believe RPWL deserved a spot on this list or at least an honorable mention. The album World Through my Eyes is the artistic equivalent of taking a stroll through the Louvre.