Best references for modern prog and metal

[RichardT]

I’m working on a prog / metal album, which is a genre I haven’t released anything in so far.

Does anybody have any go-to references for these genres? Preferably something that is not limited beyond to above -10 LUFS!

Many thanks!

Rich

[MarkOne]

The obvious go to references would be Dream Theater and maybe Opeth, less obvious, but pretty well recorded are Haken, Symphony X, Devlin Townsend Project, quite a bit of Porcupine Tree.

For less “metallic” prog, check out Transatlantic, The Flower Kings, Frost* (no, the asterisk isn’t referring to anything, it’s part of the name). Lonely Robot, Arena, Magenta, The last two It Bites albums.

[RichardT]

Thanks very much, MarkOne!

[tea for two]

According to https://tubular.net/instruments/
For 2017 : Return to Ommadawn
Mike had Yamaha HS80M alongside HS50M.

Ooops I read this thread as reference monitors dooooh lol.

+1 for Devin Townsend and Porcupine Tree.
Also Post Rock instrumentals on utube eg.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T7SK_oFV8V4

[Spells]

If you want new stuff - the two best are Tesseract and Sleep Token ...

https://youtu.be/uU5vVT_Cp7c

[Martin Walker]

I certainly give a +1 to Sleep Token and Frost* (especially since its founder Jem Godfrey has been a regular SOS contributor over many years).

I'd also personally add Jinjer, as their combination of nu-metal and jazz-like drumming is stunning - here's their 'Vortex':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiaOSGZTwtY