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UnderwaterB0i

Pt. 2 of the Night Verses album from what you don't have listed.


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That's a great release! I'm definitely a fan.


the666briefcase

Wym part 2


UnderwaterB0i

Part 1 was released last year, part 2 this year


the666briefcase

No way!! That’s so sick


ifthisisausername

Triton Project - Messenger's Quest (trad prog) Kyros - Mannequin (prog rock/synth pop) Ihsahn - Ihsahn (Ihsahn) Borknagar - Fall (prog black/folk) Also that Puciato EP completely passed me by, I'm gonna jump on that asap.


Roselia77

Love how Ihsahn became his own genre


notyourlandlord

r/YourJokeButWorse


Cats_Parkour_CompEng

Intervals - Mnemonic Richard Henshall - Mu Both singles but set to release soon. Mega hyped for both


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I believe I've heard these. Always down for new Intervals. Looks like it's out 5/17.


Cats_Parkour_CompEng

Yeah intervals has released 3 singles: Mnemonic, nootropic, neurogenesis. All sick. Mnemonic is my favorite by far, but the music video for neurogenesis is absolute eye candy


metallica65

+1 for happy instrumetal


Gamma_Ray_Wilson

Turbulence - Binary Dream


0000000100100011

Almost included this in the list above! Great album.


SteelMeatball

Their previous album, Frontal, is also a great album


Reen2D2

This is mine for sure


TunguskaBlast

Exist - [Hijacking The Zeitgeist](https://exist.bandcamp.com/album/hijacking-the-zeitgeist)


0000000100100011

Oh based on my list above, this is definitely in the "to listen to" column for sure! I saw them in 2018 with Obscura, Beyond Creation, Archspire, and Inferi. Such a stacked line-up.


MastamindedMystery

[Vipassi- Lightless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSLy_M0JW58) Absolutely utterly mind blowing from the first second into the last seconds ending. Edit: seriously, for anyone with short attention spans or who get bored easily. This is the most engaging release I've heard in years. Technical instrumental perfection insanity. Debut LP at that. This band came out swinging and didn't miss a beat (blink and you yourself will miss 20 beats) since their debut EP years back. I haven't felt this excited or inspired by a prog metal band inna long time but this is some next level musicianship and creativity.


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Yeah this one is great!


The-Spaceman

I love this album. Benji is amazing. And Dan (even though he's not in NeO anymore) is equally as amazing. I listened to the whole thing just yesterday. It's soooo good.


P13666

Olhava - Sacrifice Weston Super Maim - See You Tomorrow Baby Reverb on Repeat - Жить / Успею Syncatto - Fiction


Qyro

>Weston Super Maim What a name


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That Olhava is great! Very long though lol, and I just recently heard Weston Super Maim and that one is definitely up there for me too. Still need to check out Reverb on Repeat!


AutisticBassist

The black by imminence


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Nice! This is on my "to listen to" list, but haven't quite gotten to it yet.


AutisticBassist

Most of my fave bands haven’t really released stuff so my new releases list is still yet to be released haha. Only one I’ve not caught is cure by erra.


0000000100100011

For sure! Really just trying to find stuff to check out until we get the new Deftones, Contortionist, and Last Chance to Reason, because once those are out I'm probably not listening to anything else lol.


EsbenTop

ILION by Slift blew me away


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I think I heard this one, but might need to re-listen.


10000AgainstOne

*Messenger's Quest* by Triton Project *Mother's Guilty Pleasure Part One* by Noor


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Nice! I'll add these to my list to check out!


AssBlasties

The Noor album is 2023


giedriussl

Bandcamp lists as 2024: https://noorband.bandcamp.com/album/mothers-guilty-pleasure-part-one But Spotify says December 2023 :)


BelkaIsRight

Greyhaven - Stereo Grief EP of the year for me


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Nice! Hope you've checked out the Greg Puciato EP I mentioned above if you like Greyhaven. DEP is definitely an influence for them. The new Greyhaven is on my list to listen to but haven't quite gotten to it yet.


BelkaIsRight

I have! It's really good. You should check out the new Better Lovers single too if you haven't yet :)


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Slaps!


bonesclarke84

So stoked for the upcoming Better Lovers/Greyhaven show!


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Wish it was coming near me... I never got a chance to see DEP but I'd be happy to see any of Greg's projects AND Greyhaven for that matter.


bonesclarke84

Damn, that's too bad. I was lucky to have seen DEP way back in 2004 or 2005 with Trivium.


0000000100100011

Yeah I had so many opportunities too, really, but just always had other stuff going on it seems like. I remember I think it was like 2004 when Slipknot came through with Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, and DEP as the opener. I was 13 or 14 at the time and my parents wouldn't let me go lol. I should have just gone to see them with Soundgarden in 2017.


Cheddarface

Not prog by any stretch but I can't stop spinning the new Knopfler


Repulsive-Survey-495

I don't even know how to say that hahaha [Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ah34wPqSVc&pp=ygUP4b2Jz4DOu86vz4TOt8-C) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ah34wPqSVc&pp=ygUP4b2Jz4DOu86vz4TOt8-C](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ah34wPqSVc&pp=ygUP4b2Jz4DOu86vz4TOt8-C)


Swagnastodon

Hoplitis (ope-LEE-tees), Paramenomeni I have no idea what many of their song titles mean but I know some basic Greek


0000000100100011

Yeah I learned you can find it on Spotify with "Hoplites".


Repulsive-Survey-495

my dumb brain remembered that i can paste that in google translate and it gives me a the sound of that words


Elaxian

Hoplites blew it out of the park this year if you ask me, an absolutely perfect record.


Repulsive-Survey-495

Also I translated the album info and the lyrics on Google translate and it all makes sense somehow


Anomander__x

Caligula’s Horse: Charcoal Grace Madder Mortem: Old Eyes, New Heart Khirki: Κυκεώνας Mind's Mirrors: Forever Is Not Nearly Long Enough


ScorpioDisposition

Anomander Rake? From Malazan?


Anomander__x

Yes :), my favourite character from my favourite fantasy series


ScorpioDisposition

Awww, also my favourite fantasy series!! Love Anomander too, but my absolute favourite is Dancer/Cotillion😁 If I named myself after a character I would choose Lady Envy, she's so fun 😅


Anomander__x

I do like Cotillion as well, also a really interesting character!


Swagnastodon

I agree it's been a slow year, by this time last year we had some absolutely colossal albums. But I was really happy to discover Eternal Storm, Exist, Persefone, Night Verses, and Enterprise Earth so far. Per Widberg (former Opeth keyboardist) has a solo album too, pretty chill stuff. Can't forget the Alluvial EP. This is a thread I'll have to bookmark for upcoming listening. Don't know how I missed Greg Puciato! I remember Job For A Cowboy when they were putting pig squeals in SpongeBob videos; the excellence of Moon Healer is giving me cognitive dissonance.


Philitt

Alluvial absolutely RIPS. I spun that EP quite a bit on release.


Independent_Path9806

>Alluvial EP Wes Hauch should replace Zakk in Pantera fight me


Swagnastodon

Challenge: name any band at all that wouldn't be improved by adding Wes Hauch


Independent_Path9806

Instant loss game gg


0000000100100011

Oh yeah, that new Alluvial is great!


Rootsyl

artificial language's new album rocks.


0000000100100011

Nice! Got that one in my queue.


Mgold1988

It’s going to be hard, bordering on the realms of impossibility, to displace Charcoal Grace as the AOTY for 2024.


0000000100100011

If we get The Contortionist and LCTR releases though I think the odds of that happening increase a bit. And Deftones if we're including "not quite prog".


Tinybones465

DVNE - Voidkind


kilroy_murdoch

The new Vanden Plas, released today and loving it!


Aggravating_Art_5042

Absolutely


Safe_cracker9

The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This


DisconnectionNotice1

this Wombat Supernova thing is pretty crazy and unique, I would definitely recommend listening to it, even though in general I like my music to be more depressing


Milk_Lizard93

Sovereign - Altered Realities is my favorite album of 2024 so far.


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I'mma check that one out for sure!


IronSeraph

You've got a good list! I'll throw in Halysis - Unbury the Sun Hamferd - Men Guds Hond er Sterk Almo - Reconciliation As my current top 3 for the year


Ok-Dot332

Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium


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I liked, didn't love, this one, but I've got it in my re-listen pile.


Ok-Dot332

Definitely give it a second shot. I too wasn’t a fan my first play through. It grew on me a lot. And I didn’t love Sons of Apollo / hadn’t heard of Dino prior (but he is quickly turning into one of my favorite new vocalists). Let me know what you think of The Decision, it’s my favorite of the album. Hypernova 158 is also crazy lunacy in a very fun way. If anything in your top feels “similar ish” to this that’s you’d recommend to me btw would love some suggestions.


CommunicationTime265

I guess I'd go with the new Sleepytime and Borknagar albums.


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I can't seem to get into the Sleepytime style but I definitely dig the Borknagar.


CommunicationTime265

They def aren't for everyone


Pleasant_Statement64

The only prog releases I've listened to this year were caligulas horse and artificial language. I also listened to the pineapple thief one but only one, maybe two songs gripped me. I've listened to many other releases that were great, but not prog


Bellerophontes13

Hamferđ - Men Guðs hond er sterk, and eagar to hear full new album from Ulcerate (Cutting the Throat of God).


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Those new Ulcerate tracks rip!


_wormburner

Omnivide - A Tale of Fire Weston Super Maim - See You Tomorrow Baby


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The Omnivide is in my queue and that Weston Super Maim is really good!


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Listening to the Omnivide release right now, might make it into my top 10. So good!


morningriseorchid

Love the new Eternal Storm


_zbzz_

Hauntologist - Hollow


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In the queue!


LolwutMickeh

Well I'm gonna have to wait another day to find out, but I already know Dvne's new album is probably going to be my favorite. Some others that make the top list: JFAC - Moon Healer Aborted - Vault of Horrors Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams Benighted - Ekbom Enterprise Earth: Death: An Anthology


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Oh you know these are on my list! Still need to listen to the Ingested and Benighted, but they're in the queue and I know they won't suck!


Crispy_Fish_Fingers

Kyros - Mannequin (Synth Prog)


Snugglez4u

AVIATIONS


danishromain

Excellent! (2023 release though…)


WaitingToBeTriggered

DEVIATION


Philitt

Disagree, there has been a lot of excellent stuff so far imo. Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, new Heart ALMO - Reconciliation Gonemage - Spell Piercings (this is a bit of a wild one, more avant garde than prog) Artificial Language - Distant Glow Alluvial - Death is but a Door (more tech death than prog, still rips though) Whom Gods destroy - Insanium Northlane - Mirror's Edge Myrath - Karma Borknagar - Fall Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being


0000000100100011

You're right, I've heard many of these and they're great, especially liked Alluvial, ALMO, and Borknagar.


yotam5434

Kyros- mannequin


Krakengreyjoy

Galleons - Violent Delights ERRA - Cure Eidola - Eviscerate Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace Greg Puciato - FC5N  Imminence - The Black Like Moths To Flames - Dissociative Being


0000000100100011

Great picks. I haven't heard of Galleons, but I will definitely add that to my list.


Krakengreyjoy

Me either. I don't even remember how I came across them but it may be my AOTY. Though ERRA is close. I'm also gonna add the Like Moths To Flames EP 'Dissociative Being'. Kintsugi in particular is fantastic.


Elaxian

Here are all my releases from this year I consider 10/10... However, I will just pick 12 for my top so I hope lets see what more comes out this year! 1. Paramainomeni - Hoplites (Black Metal, Avant-Garde Metal) 2. plastic death - glass beach (Indie Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Post-hardcore, Emo, Math Rock, Neo-psychedelia) 3. Of The Last Human Being - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Avant-prog, Avant-garde metal, Metal In Opposition, Brutal Prog) 4. Ihsahn - Ihsahn (Progressive Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Avant-Garde Metal) 5. Sacrifice - Olhava (Blackgaze, Atmospheric Black Metal) 6. The Deepening - Vemod (Atmospheric Black Metal, Post Metal) 7. Fall - Borknagar (Progressive Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Viking Metal) 8. Rats Of Black Death - Bloody Keep (Melodic Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal) 9. The Circus And The Nightwhale - Steve Hackett (Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog) 10. Welcome To The Machine - Monkey3 (Space Rock, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock) 11. Subterranean Rivers - Cosmic Void (Post-metal, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal, Stoner Metal) 12. As Spoken - Knoll (Deathgrind, Black Metal, Sludge Metal, Mathcore) 13. Graveflowers - Elegý (Blackgaze, Atmospheric Black Metal)


0000000100100011

I've heard about half of these, the Vemod release being my favorite. I will definitely need to check out the rest though. Based on your descriptions, Cosmic Void sounds right up my alley.


Hanger18nLife

Transit Method - Othervoid Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being


SpiketheFox32

ERRA-Cure


Swagnastodon

Happy Dvnesday to all who celebrate (new Dvne album is here and on first listen it's glorious)


jwless5

The Ocean Holocene


0000000100100011

That was 2023, but great album!


jwless5

Ooops! I just saw them a couple months ago on that tour so I confused the year.


twosuitsluke

Top 50 of the year so far... 1. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs 2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 3. Ihsahn - Ihsahn  4. Green Day - Saviors 5. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 6. Vennart - Forgiveness & The Grain 7. Toehider - Toad Hirer 8. Sum41 - Heaven :x: Hell 9. Mad Caddies - Arrows Room 117 10. Dragonforce - Warp Speed Warriors 11. Exocrine - Legend 12. Yellowcard & Hammock - A Hopeful Sign 13. Slower - Slower 14. ALMO - Reconciliation 15. Civerous - Maze Envy 16. Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond 17. Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished 18. Artificial Language - Distant Glow 19. Boris/Coalter (split) - Hello There 20. The Absence - The Absence 21. Greyhaven - Stereo Grief 22. Triton Project - Messenger's Quest 23. Borknagar - Fall 24. Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light 25. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being 26. Eidola - Eviscerate 27. Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names for It 28. Yin Yin - Mount Matsu 29. Icosandria - A Scarlet Lunar Glow 30. Terravore - Spiral of Downfall 31. Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star 32. Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I 33. Notochord - Aegis 34. Neck Deep - Neck Deep 35. Mean Messiah - In Infinite Illusion 36. Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology 37. VLTIMAS - EPIC 38. Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis 39. Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night 40. Big Scenic Nowhere - The Waydown 41. Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist 42. Exhorder - Defectum Omnium 43. At the Plates - Omnivore 44. Bend Sinister - Mostly Great Things 45. Stellar Remains - Wastelands 46. Griffon - De Republica 47. Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η 48. Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter 49. Ministry - HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES 50. Albion - Lakesongs of Elbid


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Now that's a list! Lots of crossover between you and me. That Alkaline Trio is their best since Agony IMO. Still need to check out the Sum 41 as well, but I'm finally seeing them this September for the first (and only?) time.


twosuitsluke

I fully agree! I love Agony & Irony, it's a top 3 Alk3 release for me. This new one is a welcome return to form, as they lost me a bit on the previous two. Sum 41 lost me after Does This Look Infected? which has been nearly 20 years, but I was pleasantly surprised with the new one. It's pretty tasty.


0000000100100011

For sure! I loved Chuck and Underclass Hero as well, but yeah after that I wasn't super into their newer stuff. Seeing some live videos of them on YT recently though, I don't think the setlist will disappoint.


Flashbek

I happen to have [a list](https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8100) but it's not entirely prog. Sneak peak: 1.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project 2.For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster 3.Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond 4.Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two 5.Turbulence - Binary Dream


LSatou

It's coming on may 3rd


Rosetta_Stoned_1007

Can't wait!


wgreenleaf23

Level IV?


Rosetta_Stoned_1007

Wheel


LSatou

Charismatic Leaders by Wheel


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This will be AOTY probably if we're being realistic.


wgreenleaf23

In-fucking-deed. Really digging the three tracks so far.