You speak the true-true! But that range though, keeping up is a fool’s errand.

I’ll always feel “closest” to Colors as it came into my life at the right time. Sonically though… either Parallax I or The Silent Circus… ugh but The Great Misdirect slaps so hard.

That’s been my experience too. It never works quite how I want it to, but the three-artist system is nice in that it makes it easy to play around with your inputs systematically.

That’s fun, I don’t think we’ve had flea markets here since I was a kid.

IIRC, there’s some sort of algorithm working under the hood that procedurally generates genres/categories. I could be wrong though, it’s been a really long time since I read into it.

That level of specificity is exactly what I’m looking for!

Awesome! I hope people find it useful.

Never heard of music map, I`ll check that out!

Ooo thanks for reminding me about Metal Archives… are they still a bit elitist? I seem to recall them being opposed to anything vaguely metalcore.

I vividly remember the days when Youtube’s algorithm would knock it out of the park with its suggestions. Nothing to date has ever been as good as theirs was.

I’m considering switching back to Spotify for just that reason. I jumped over to Tidal a few years back as they pay artists more, but their recommendation algorithms are garbage in comparison.

If this gets traction, maybe we could sticky it?

I hate to say it, but I feel like I’m kind of mainstream as far as prog metal goes; I really don’t know if I’d consider anything in my list lesser known. I think my issue is that I have no idea how to find new music anymore (short of EveryNoiseAtOnce, which I just remembered existed).

The first album that came to mind, which is definitely not metal, is 100% Yes by Melt Yourself Down. I believe the genre description I read was “Afrolatin inspired post-bop punk-jazz”, so of course I had to check it out.