Angine de Poitrine

Quebec progressive rock band Angine de Poitrine cites Gentle Giant as a "major influence":

My ultimate lifelong favourite is Gentle Giant, a prog rock band from the '70s. They were real weirdos, progressive music geeks. They opened for Black Sabbath, and the public booed them because it was so strange. The audience wasn't ready; they wanted heavy metal riffs, and Gentle Giants showed up with their violins, trumpets and medieval clothes (laughs).