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For me it was Adrian Belew and king Krimson for those old progressive players. They played ahead of their time. I think I see influences in bands like Black sabbath for tones and a lot of others aver time that took on the distortions and soloing and progressive melodies.

These last few weeks I've been discovering some really cool Japanese electronic artists, thanks to YouTube suggestions lol Susumu Yokota and Haruomi Hosono are a couple that I've been really enjoying

There are some great JRock and KRock groups I really liked. CHeck out Moon He June and Nightmare for a couple good ones. There are some others I enjoyed and collected some albums from I can get you if you like but they are more like metal bands of sorts. Also look into The singer that did the Kingdom Hearts games she is awesome too.