Andrew s wells

I was just wondering if anyone can make some reccomendations for some heavy metal or Prog bands along the lines of the following.
Stratovarius, Symphony X, Sonata arcitca, Tourniquet, Dream theater, testament, queesnsryche, annihilator, yngwie malmsteen, satriani, steve vai and tony macalpine. there are others, but this should cover many of the styles.
You may even end up naming some others that I have since I didn't list them all, but hopefully I'll end up discovering some new ones as well.

Doesn't have to be exactly this style, but several of these bands/artists, since many are not on the radio, I found by luck, so I want to know if there are some other "undsicovered" talents I could add.
thanks in advance. Rock on.

ElevSkyMovie

Porcupine Tree
In Absentia

Matt Butler

Try a Sacramento local band that I really dig.

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Chris Stainton

Try the band Threshold. Also check out Arena.

TheLongshot

How about Pain Of Salvation? Probably one of the most progressive metal bands out there.

Along the lines of the bands you've listed, you probably should check out Adagio, which is along neo-classical lines.

For more progressive metal, you should have Vanden Plas and Superior in your collection.

As for Power Metal, you definitly should have some Edguy. Kinda Helloween meets Iron Madien.

That should keep you going for a while...

Jason

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Tom McDonald

Nightwish comes to mind as well as Ozric Tenacles.

Tommc

AricB

try Geoff Tates-solo album, from queensryche it's pretty good, but more mellow than queensryche

also, porcupine tree-in absentia is really good, if you have surround sound capabiltiy, pick up the dvd-audio version, sounds awesome in surround

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JonZ

Death

Symbolic
Indiviual Thought Patterns
Sound Of Perseverance

Amazing technical ability.

Chris*C

If you like Satriani and Via, then you need to check out
BUCKETHEAD!....check out "Cuckoo Clocks of Hell" , he's got about 40 CD's!

Paul_Medenwaldt

Frameshift

Their first album had the vocal talent of James LaBrie and their next album will have Sabastian Bach as lead vocals.

Paul

MikeFR

Maybe, The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium.

Jamie Goff

Marillion: Misplaced Childhood-more prog than metal but a phenominal concept album.

Opeth-Damnation which is a softer version of Opeth (no cookie monster vocals). If you want to go to heavy stuff first the I would recomend Blackwater Park(cookie monster vocals mixed with standard singing.

Devin Townsend: Terria

If you like instramental music both Liquid Tension Experiment albums kick ass. They are members of Dream Theater and Tony Levin.

The bands recomended above by the other members on this forum are all top notch.