certainly merit further investigation - try Dead Wing or Fear of a Blank Planet for starters.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Gone...but forgotten? Well, yes unfortunately. Prog with pop sensibility and humour.

Oceansize are a progressive rock band who don't pay much attention to long solos. Sort of post-modern prog don't you know! They occasional verge on the ambient/post-rock side of things.

Here's a heavier song:

...and here's a nice ambient one. Not sure what the dead bird has to do with anything:

PS There's also The Marz Volta

You'll prob be aware of IQ but if you've not heard them since the early 80's Marquee prog crop then I'm sure you'd love their last 3 releases - Seventh House / Dark Matter / Frequency - also due this summer , the 25th anniversary ( ! ) 4 disc box of their classic The Wake.

Porcupine Tree have been through distinct phases - one man band electronica (a bit like The Orb meets Hawkwind?) on the early stuff, The very Pink Floyd "The Sky Moves Sideways", the more song oriented stuff like "Stupid Dream" (a more melodic Radiohead - yeah I said it!) and the newer stuff which is more metal. All worth a listen imho.

Hardly "new" but I have a great deal of affection for Transatlantic - made up of members of Dream Theater, Marillion, Spock's Beard and Flower Kings they don't really sound like any of them - more like The Beatles with a bit of Genesis and Yes thrown in (last album wasn't great though. Stick with the first two)

Spock's Beard did at least one great album - "Snow" (which could uncharitably be subtitled "Tommy Lies Down On Broadway")

Similarly not really new at all - the new It Bites album is pretty good.

Most of the new prog bands I hear these days are clearly just slightly weird metal, like Bigelf, Opeth etc. Dream Theater seem to have parted ways with any sense of melody in the past few years and seem to think "progressive" means just getting harder and harsher but their older stuff like "Awake" and "Scenes From A Memory" are great.

Mark Radcliffe played a track by Blitzen Trapper last night that sounded like The Fleet Foxes playing a medley of Queen and ELO - now that's what I call prog!

Magenta are worth a listen for some neo-prog which blends in a few old school prog influences - good female vocalist too, in Christine Booth

If you liked Karnataktkakaktaktkaka (sp?) check out Panic Room which is a spin off project - got a couple of albums out. I liked their debut, Visionary Position.
Here's Apocalypstick for some middle-eastern flavoured prog

Veering a little more towards the heavy territory there's Threshold. Been around for quite a while but a good mix of prog with heavier and metal leanings. Some grat Gilmouresque solos and they never lose sight of the need for good tunes though (unlike DT and their likes who prefer a whole load of mega speed modal arpeggios)

Then there's the various bands that orbit around Pendragon (not so much my cuppa char but worth a quick listen). Shadowlands etc...

Finally for some Celtic influenced proggy stuff try Iona... Love this band. New album should be out some time this year... And yes, that is Bad Shepherd Troy Donockley and yes that is Nick Beggs from Kajagoogoo!!

This guy can do anything.

German band started as a Pink Floyd tribute then started to record their own stuff.

I really like the Norwegian band Gazpacho

I like The Reasoning. Mainly because the bloke who co-wrote Mr. Fish's Field of Crows elbun is now in the band.

http://www.youtube.com/TheReasoning#p/a/u/0/C8Szz9MtUe8

I really like the Norwegian band Gazpacho also I second Porcupine tree especially Fear of a Blank Planet

Would recommend Scottish Neo-Proggers Pallas. Been around a long time but still gigging and recording with a new one due out in October/November time with a new vocalist.

Plenty of their stuff on youtube but album wise have a look at The Cross and The Crucible.

I also love Porcupine Tree and would back up earlier comments about them with Stupid Dream being a favourite of mine.

That's my credit card taking a pounding for the next month or two. Much obliged prog brothers.

Too many releases to chose from and too many personnel changes unfortunately. A couple of recent releases on Spotify.