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- Saga
- Canadian quasi-progressive rock band, going for 20+ years
- Samael
- Samla Mammas Manna
- Sandoz
- Ambientish dance artist with several albums out, info here is mostly the albums with RealAudio soundfiles.
- Sapphire
- Swiss band with progressive elements - quite good.
- Saturnia
- Lee Saunders
- UK (ambient/electrontic?) artist, once headed a band called The Void, now a "solo" artist.
- Saxon
- SBB (Józef Skrzek)
- SBB were a Polish progressive trio of the 70s, though apparently active again in the 90s. "They released several albums with great progressive music. The best comparison would be Mahavishnu Orchestra merged with Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd." [quote from and thanks to reader Krzysztof S. for the tip.]
- Scar Culture
- Scenes
- German progressive metal band in the vein of Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc.
- Klaus Schulze
- kdm@ngi.de
- If one can point to an influence in electronic music that is bigger then Tangerine Dream, one would have to point to Klaus Schulze. From his influential Timewind to the spectacular Dome Event albums, he has created electronic masterpieces, one after another. This page gives quite a bit of information on Klaus Schulze.
- Scythe
- Season Of Mourning
- Secret Sphere
- Selwyn Schneider
- Selwyn Schneider, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was a founding member of Rabbit, the South African rock group that also featured Trevor Rabin (once a member of Yes)
- Senses
- New Jersey based progressive rock duo; their sound has vague hints of Rush with strong neo-prog overtones (I thought of the UK band Epilogue). This page at the IUMA site is a bit outdated
- Sentenced
- Sepultura
- John Serrie
- jonn@mindspring.com
- John Serrie is one of the earliest and best known space / planetarium music artists in the genre. You often find his floating music played in planetariums and IMAX theaters; and those in the military may find the other side of him, the film scoring side, in military training videos. He has a brief bio and a full discography, including an "interactive" album cover tour for Ixlandia and Midsummer Century - the stunning artwork by Michael Whelan.
- Seventh One
- Shades Of Dawn
- Shadow Gallery
- info@shadowgallery.com
- Another in a long line of higher profile progressive metal bands to spring up in the wake of Dream Theater.
- Shadowland
- verglas@verglas.com
- Just one of numerous Clive Nolan projects, in the same vein as Arena and Pendragon, but then again quite different.
- Shadows Fall
- She's China
- Shide
- Mark Shreeve
- From Sonic Images, Mark's parent label. Some information about this powerful synthesizer artist, promoting his latest album Nocturne.
- Shub Niggurath
- "Improvisation is the basis of Shub-Nigguraths's music.[...]," though I can't come up with a brief "soundbite," as they discount the often made Magma comparison; lumped often with the Zuehl school.
- Jane Siberry
- I don't know too much about her; supposedly in the same vein as Enya.
- Sick Of It All
- Sinai Beach
- Since The Flood
- Richard Sinclair
- Sinister
- Sinkadus
- Sinner
- Six Feet Under
- Skinlab
- Skylab 2000
- db@skylab2000.com
- This trance/acid band based out of LA has a couple of other side projects as well.
- Sleepy People
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Steve Smith - Mike Zilber Quartet
- Jeffrey Ryan Smoots
- Solo guitarist and also with the band Inner Resonance
- Soft Machine
- "The most critically acclaimed band of the Canterbury school, Soft Machine was the starting point for the careers of such
luminaries as Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean, Karl Jenkins, John Marshall, Allan
Holdsworth, John Etheridge and many others..." [from CALYX site which once hosted a Soft Machine site]
- Soilwork
- Solar Project
- Solution Science Systems
- Somnus
- Somnambulist
- "... a perfect merging between the legacy of early progressive rock and what this genre can still offer, in terms of innovation, within the next few years..." [Marcelo Silveyra, The Paranormal Humidor]
- Sonata Arctica
- They play a "fine neo-classically influenced speed metal with a twist...if you're totally into [the] Stratovarius style, but want a bit of a twist to it, you need to check out Sonata Arctica." [LarryD]
- Sonic Pulsar
- Sonus Umbra
- Take a dash of Marillion (guitars - occasionally), Alan Parsons Project (Andrea Aullet's smooth, breathy Eric Woolfson-like vocals), and Iluvatar (arrangements) and you'll have a bit of what you can expect from this band.
- Soul Cages
- Soulless
- Spaced Out
- Heavy instrumental prog quartet from Canada whose sound owes to King Crimson...
- Spastic Ink
- Sphere3
- Laurie Spiegel
- A little review of a very well known composer. Biography et al.
- Spock's Beard
- American progressive rock band with a range of influences including Gentle Giant [and currently among my favourite bands. -ed.]
- Squonk Opera
- They say of themselves: "SQUONK OPERA is a collaboration of interdisciplinary artists who have won acclaim and awards, nationally and internationally, in the fields of music, visual art, theater, and filmmaking. SQUONK OPERA works in a call and response between the musical, visual, dramatic and movement-based arts." [from the site]
- Starcastle
- Recently reformed USA progressive rock band, often compared to Yes in style.
- Status Quo
- Michael Stearns
- Michael Stearns is one of the best space musicians ever to appear on the scene. His music is considered great space, deep, ambient music. This site contains discographies and biography info.
- Stemm
- Stendhal
- Experimental noise band out of Philadelphia
- Dave Stewart
- Along with Barbara Gaskin, creating music that they describe as "pop music for grown-ups."
- Steel Prophet
- Larry D succintly puts it: "Iron Maiden on speed."
- Still Remains
- Carl Stone
- Stonesour
- Stormwitch
- Stormy Six
A bio page on the Italianprog.com site, rather than an official site for this band.
- Strangers on a Train
- One of the hundreds of projects by Clive Nolan...well, a dozen at least. This one feature(s/d) Nolan, plus Tracy Hitchings (Quasar, Landmarq) and Karl Groom (Shadowland, etc.).
- Strapping Young Lad
- "Strapping Young Lad is like a trip to the dentist, the feeling you get as the drill comes closer and closer and you cringe.... The music is brutal, angry, vivid, and unrelenting. Best described as 'industrial-metal,' though sometimes termed 'cyber-metal,' this highly acclaimed project is unsettling and heavy, and arguably the future of metal." [from the SYL site]
- Stratovarius
- Street Talk
- Stuck Mojo
- Subway To Sally
- Subzero
- Subzero
- Suffocation
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Sunblaze
- Suntower
- Superior
- Superjoint Ritual
- Sur Pacifico
- Sur Pacifico are an "acoustic" group from Chile whose line up features two Ovation Guitars tuned in "New Standard Tuning," an electric guitar, and a classical violoncello and recently added tabla.
- Sworn Enemy
- Sylvan
- Symphony X
- Complex, well arranged prog metal.
- Symphorce
- Synergy Official Page
- Synergy's (Larry Fast) music was some of the most defining and influential electronic music of the 1970s. His music, all done on analog synthesizers, is energetic electronic music that shaped things to come.
- Synthology
- This progressive duo hail from Montreal, Canada
- Synthomania
- bnsdias@sonic.net
- "A one man synth project from what I can surmise. And quite impressive [...] The music is instrumental space/fusion/prog/new age. Mostly keyboard generated sounds with the addition of some excellent guitar playing! Very nice." [Dirk Evans, ProgRealAudio]
- Syracus
- Systems Theory
- I think they best say it themselves: "Progressive world music with tons of technology-derived spaciness and heavy rock derived attitude. Ambient without sending you to valium noddy-land. Proggy without slavishly imitating yesterday's symphonic giants. Full of Celtic, Latin and other ethnic and cultural touches, reflecting a diverse heritage and admiration for many different types of music." [site]
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