pretty long list, so I thought I'd better divide them into groups...
1.) the big ones:
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Symphony X (don't think they're too big, I'd say Evergrey are bigger since they're more mainstream and less prog
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Vanden Plas (new album should be out soon)
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Shadow Gallery (same)
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Redemption (just released their new album and it's killer!)
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Pain of Salvation (new album should be out as well till oct. 2010)
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Riverside & Indukti (they'd make a nice friday with Mariusz Duda performing some Indukti songs and then headlining with Riverside)
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Katatonia (Opeth is obviously too big now
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Ark (heard they're back together writing a new album)
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Conception reunion (Khan & Tore Ostby = awesome)
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Kamelot (well, at least Khan
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Deadsoul Tribe (heard rumours they disbanded, so maybe it's time for:
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Psychotic Waltz reunion (now how awesome would that be
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Mind's Eye
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Nightingale
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Communic
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Beyond Twilight (not sure if they do live shows at all)
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Dominici
2.)the not so big ones:
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Thought Chamber (most excellent technical prog metal feat. guitarist Michael Harris, bass player and drummer from Haji's Kitchen, Outworld-keyboarder and Ted Leonard from Enchant on vocals!)
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Leprous (excellent mixture of extreme metal and 70s prog but not sounding like Opeth
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Forgotten Suns (excellent band from portugal)
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Fragile Vastness (excellent greek band)
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Pantommind (most excellent bulgarian band, bring them along next year, Antonio!!
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Twinspirits (Daniele Liveranis new band, about to release their second album The Forbidden City)
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Parallaxe (french instrumental band playing a most excellent LTE sound)
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Thessera (missed them in 2008)
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TesseracT (promising newcomer from the UK, check out their song Concealing Fate pt. 1!)
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Appearance of Nothing (promising swiss newcomers)
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Floodline (a myspace discovery)
3.) some excellent german bands:
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AtmOsfear (just released their second album 'Zenith' on ProgRock records)
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Dreamscape (hopefully back soon with the promised 'Everlight' album)
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SubSignal (with ex-Sieges Even and current Dreamscape members, debut album 'Beautiful & Monstrous' out now)
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Tomorrow's Eve
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Poverty's no Crime
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Ivanhoe
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Transmission
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Dark Suns (maybe with Kristoffer Gildenlöw?!)
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Disillusion
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Panzerballett (just listen to their rendition of the Simpsons theme - with blastbeats, how crazy is that
4.) the dutch connection
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Sun Caged (would love to see them again next year)
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Day Six (new album out soon)
and finally
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Strange Land great band playing a mix of Fates Warning, Rush and King's X!
check them out:
Strange Land
thanks for the attention and sorry for the long list...
