It's time you know..........VESPERO
Vespero is a Russian band that has released (approx.) at least 13 albums in the last 10 years and every one of them is awesome...! They are by far my favorite current band! A few of their early albums have some singing, but for the most part they are instrumental driven prog, with an Eastern-European/Russian slant... And they are great musicians, that come up with some very fresh stuff...
But you don't have to take my word for it, I assume most of you here also use progarchives.com. And if you do, like me you look at album ratings, have a look at Vespero's album ratings:
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.a...41#discography
8 of their 13 releases are over 4.00 and one tops out at 4.68!
2 of their releases are just under 4.00, sitting there at 3.98!
The other 3 releases are between 3.64 and 3.86!
That means over their entire 13 release catalog they average 4.13!
I challenge any of you to find any other prog band on progarchives with a comparable number of releases that have that high of scores!
I know there are plenty of fans here already, but for those of you who have been putting off exploring their catalog, I urge you to do it now (or soon). Everyone should own a least one of their releases, problem is, with the ratings so high and my obvious bias, I can't really tell you which one to start with!
(PS: And Syn-phonic has most of their releases..)