Prog rock is death

i don't get the conclusion... it's the musicians that make the music.. the fact that they produce inspired music has nothing to do with the level of distortion on their amplifiers....

Originally posted by birdwithteeth11 OMG METAL IS TAKING OVER ROCK NO MOAR GOOD ROCK WILL EVR EXIST AGAIN METAL IS TEH SUX0RZ I AM SO ELITIST LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

^ There might be a few others. I'm not one of them.

I think people like albums with interesting ideas. I'm assuming, against my intuition, that the recent Karmakanic album is one. Or people just upvote familiar stuff.

Or prog fans just like lots of notes, which is a very horrific insult.

Although I've never been a fan of prog metal, those lovers of the other genres who might voice concern at what they see as 'metal infestation' will perhaps be better served to distil their fears in the discovery and addition of more non-metal bands to the site ?

Originally posted by MovingPictures07 I laugh at anyone who thinks Part the Second by motW is metal.

Seconded. 

I laugh in the face of people who are not flexible enough to admit that the sound of music changes over time. It happens in prog as well as non prog. It just happens faster and more often in prog than other music genres. The fact that metal is becomming more prevalent in prog should be no different to the advent of the synth in early 1970's prog.

Heh, I'm not a massive fan of the new Isis to be honest, WAY prefer Oceanic over Wavering Radiant.

On a more on topic related note, these kind of threads are just getting ridiculous, really.
Metal is "taking over", metal is "taking over prog and damaging it", "all metal has the same rhythms and phrases, accompaniments are very much the same".

You know, I could say the same thing about pretty much any genre of music that I've never bothered to look into in a great detail.
I can go and sl*g off Symph prog as always have the same cheesy synth accompaniments, I can accuse jazz fusion of being endless, mindless w**kage with random scales and modes just being thrown in for the sake of it or that all avant garde sounds like total noise because it's just a  bunch of guys recording the sounds of themselves taking a dump in a cardboard box with onions at the bottom.

But fortunately, I don't exactly have to resort to that kinda stuff, because my head is in fact, not stuck up my ass and I don't have to feel the need to constantly judge what I don't understand, but rather seek to understand what I'm interested in and leave it for other people to enjoy what they like instead of shoving it down their throats that they taste in music sucks or that what they listen to is "DAMAGING PORG ROCK OMGWTFBBQ".

I always tend to figure, the more time we spend trying to understand the differences between one another, and why we like different things, rather than being overly self obsessed (which seems to be a rather unfortunate inherent trait in too many humans on this planet), we'd probably spend far less time arguing over stupid crap.
I may be a metal fan, but I sure as hell know what a boring place this would be if everyone liked everything I liked and nothing else.

There are some great topics posted on PA, no doubt, but if truth be told, this is not one of them.
It's not a well thought topic at all on the part of the OP and judging by some of the responses so far, only seems to serve as a base for elitists who don't like metal to just come in and bash the genre at will for the sake of an ego boost.

Originally posted by progkidjoel Originally posted by The Whistler Originally posted by MovingPictures07 I laugh at anyone who thinks Part the Second by motW is metal. Seconded.  Thirded

A very good post indeed mr. Mizinski 

Metal has always been a part of prog, just not all prog, which anyway is not the case even today.  Songs like Return of the Giant Hogweed, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Red or Il Balletto Di Bronzo's Ys album, all these have definite metal elements.  Metal just got too extreme for a lot of people in the 80s, that's all.  By the way, I don't like a lot of prog metal, especially its more melodic side, but that's not because I consider metal too noisy or some such thing.