Modern Day Babylon - Travelers

Artist: Modern Day Babylon
Track: Travelers
Album: Travelers (2013)

Modern Day Babylon is a three-piece progressive metal project from Teplice, Czech Republic. The band has released 2 albums to date, The Manipulation Theory (2011) and Travelers (2013). On the road the band has played alongside the likes of Periphery, Textures, Monuments and Chimp Spanner.

Stay in touch on Facebook, and get their music over on Bandcamp. There's also some tasty t-shirts available in their merch store.

Follow @mdbband on Twitter if you want.

CHON - Fluffy

Artist: CHON
Track: Fluffy
Album: Newborn Sun (2014)

A lazy post today - I featured CHON only a few weeks back, but they did this Audiotree session recently and it's awesome.Watch the entire session here.

CHON is an instrumental progressive rock band with jazz elements from Oceanside, California. The band have recently supported Animals as Leaders on tour with Navene K and After the Burial. CHON have released 2 EPs to date, Newborn Sun (2013) and Woohoo! (2014) which are available over on Bandcamp for $5, and all their music before then can be downloaded for free in this handy .zip file here.

Follow @chonofficial on Twitter for latest updates

Intervals - Epiphany

Artist: Intervals
Track: Epiphany
Album: In Time (2012)

Intervals are a progressive metal band hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band was purely instrumental until late 2013. Intervals is managed by Outerloop Management and have toured throughout Canada and the United States with bands such as Protest The Hero, Between The Buried and Me and The Contortionist. Intervals have released two EPs (both Name Your Price on Bandcamp click the links), The Space Between (2011) and In Time (2012).

**The band's first album with bassist Mike Semesky on vocals is entitled A Voice Within (2014). For fans of Cloudkicker, Scale the Summit, Animals as Leaders. Highly recommended here, not my typical but been hooked on these guys since the new one came out.

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Between the Buried and Me - Medicine Wheel

Artist: Between the Buried and Me
Track: Medicine Wheel
Album: Alaska (2005)

Between the Buried and Me is an American progressive metal band from North Carolina. Here's an instrumental track from their 2005 release "Alaska".

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Animals As Leaders - CAFO

Artist: Animals As Leaders
Track: CAFO
Album: Animals As Leaders (2009)

Animals as Leaders is an American instrumental progressive metal band formed by guitarist Tosin Abasi in 2007. It currently features guitarist Javier Reyes and drummer Matt Garstka. Prosthetic Records released the band's self-titled debut album in April 2009. Abasi and Reyes are also members of the supergroup T.R.A.M, alongside former The Mars Volta wind instrumentalist Adrián Terrazas-González and Suicidal Tendencies drummer Eric Moore.

The group released their latest album, Weightless, on November 8, 2011 in the US, November 4th in Europe, and November 7 in the UK. Catch them on Facebook.

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Dream Youth - Give Us A New Place To Land

Artist: Dream Youth
Track: Give Us A New Place To Land
Album: While(Growing)HoldStill();​ (2010)

Dream Youth is a 3-piece instrumental band from Viana do Castelo, Portugal. They cite their biggest influences as Dream Theater and Sonic Youth, hence the name Dream Youth.

To date Dream Youth have release one studio album While(Growing)HoldStill(); and this is available to download on Bandcamp for any price you like, along with a nice cover of Interpol's Lights.