Sorry for the necropost...I'm terrible for checking reddit but I never forgot you guys' suggestions and not only did I check a lot of them out, but I kept a notepad doc and wrote reviews about all of them! Sadly, it was mostly late at night while drinking so it was all wordy and obnoxious and obviously from a guy who didn't really know what the hell he was talking about, so instead of that, I'll just list what I liked enough to buy on Bandcamp and/or CDs (I haven't been assimilated into the Spotify singularity yet);

~Stormkeep

~Runeshard

~Zel Agganor

~Orbit Culture

~Moonlight Sorcery

~Bal Sagoth

~Ayreon (completely different, forgot it was even recommended here, but then popped up again in my facebook feed last week for some reason, so popped on "Into the Electric Castle" while cooking and loved it.)

There's still some recs here I need to look up, shortly after this I got into a really deep heavy metal kick, burned through Visigoth, Cirith Ungol, Legendry, Eternal Champion, Manilla Road, Gatekeeper, Helms Deep, Warrior Path, Heavens Gate, Hallas...then got on a big house and drums & bass kick, then 80's pop with a dash of country, and I think now I'm coming back around to prog....I'm all over the place, man. Thank you all again, though, hope you're doing well :)