Something similar to Arena

[Peter]

*Ahem*   That would be pat his head

nono, now that I think of it, 'pad' would do it, like with cotton wool or so..... this is getting out of hand....

[The Voyager]

  In my view, new Credo's "Rhetoric" CD is very similar to Arena.

[marcello]

Arena are far too unique

[Herben]

Hello Arena fans,
I was wondering, are there any other bands that sound like Arena?

It's funny to read this the music criticals always saw Arena as a Marillionclone, if You really know Marillion then You know that they are very different from Arena, maybe the first Marillion Album Script for a Jesters Tear has a little bit Arena in it (at least it had the same drummer, Mick Pointer). For the rest I don't know, maybe listen to Shadowland also written by Clive Nolan, but they also have a very own musicstyle, and then there is Pendragon but I don't know this group too well, wasn't very interested in them.