Progressive Metal vs Progressive Rock

I think that's more the case on the black metal side of things, the atmosphere-over-riffing style being strongly informed by ambient electronic music with mid-era Burzum as the missing link. Maybe also Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, which goes in a similar direction and not surprisingly Vikernes receives a songwriting credit for several of the tracks.

Regarding Electric Wizard and similar groups, not only does their image and visual aesthetic come across as more "hippie" than "biker" but their songwriting style is as much "Hawkwind in slow motion with bigger amplifiers" as derived from Black Sabbath.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - September 21 2014 at 07:03

A while ago I came across a lengthy review on RateYourMusic of a prog metal record that the reviewer in question was not just dissatisfied with, but also used as an example for a review-as-thesisto explain why so many artists get that angle of combining the two styles wrong. A shame I can't find it right now.

Edited by Toaster Mantis - September 21 2014 at 11:54

Rush have been admitted unto the Metal-Archives, though, and that site is infamous for being extremely uptight about including groups in ambiguous genres.

Interestingly, it is categorically explained in the FAQ of metal archives that they would not include bands who are already commonly classified in a different genre (i.e. non-metal).  So it is acknowledged, as an example, that KC had elements of metal but since they are already referred to as prog rock, it would be counterproductive to include them on a metal website.  In other words, they saw progressive metal as a metal sub genre rather than a prog rock sub genre.  One of their mods had even commented to me that he didn't understand how PA would deal with including prog metal in their database. 

addictedtoprog wrote: rogerthat wrote: Interestingly, it is categorically explained in the FAQ of metal archives that they would not include bands who are already commonly classified in a different genre (i.e. non-metal).  So it is acknowledged, as an example, that KC had elements of metal but since they are already referred to as prog rock, it would be counterproductive to include them on a metal website.  In other words, they saw progressive metal as a metal sub genre rather than a prog rock sub genre.  One of their mods had even commented to me that he didn't understand how PA would deal with including prog metal in their database.

Alrighty then.

Rihanna wrote: Which genre do you enjoy the best?  For me Progressive Metal, i like band like Opeth, Dream Theater and Tool alot, they create awesome music, i still like Progressive rock mostly Porcupine Tree, Blue Oyster Cult, Supertramp and Pink Floyd alot, but for Progressive Metal are better and better aggression!

When I think of progressive rock I don’t really think of Blue Oyster Cult, Supertramp or Pink Floyd.  More like:

 

Yes

Genesis

Gentle Giant

King Crimson

ELP

PFM

Van der Graaf Generator

National Health

 

Although I do enjoy progressive metal my preferences are:

Progressive rock

Fusion Jazz

Zuel / Avant prog

Progressive Metal