Why is prog rock so incredible, but prog metal is terrible?
Why is prog rock so incredible, but prog metal is terrible?
Matthew Sullivan
James White
Meshuggah is awesome
Nolan Martinez
Because metal is prog rock with Down syndrome
Easton Cooper
Meshuggah doesn't count
Matthew Richardson
cope
Anthony Phillips
Other way around
Logan Howard
Because metal is terrible in general!
Brayden Martin
mechuggah is awesome, but not prog
Chase Foster
fuck off back to the kpop general
Lucas Harris
Nah it's mostly great, prog metal is just bad
Death metal especially I'd consider to be better than prog rock
Luis Wilson
there's some good prog metal, but most of the time it isn't interesting and just wankery.
Juan Robinson
bad prog is really really bad
metal is by default bad
do the math
Grayson King
>Genesis
>Styx
>Pink Floyd
>Rush
Prog rock is pretty gay too, user.
Kevin Roberts
Avant prog > kraut rock > death metal > black metal > traditional heavy metal > prog rock
Jason Howard
Shit talk pink floyd again and I'll fucking club you
Connor Collins
Joshua Evans
Death, Ihsahn, Gojira, Cynic, Ne Obliviscaris, Leprous and Thy Catafalque are all great bands. Tech death and thrash bands are prog from a songwriting perspective but prog is almost a derogatory term among death/thrash fans so bands actively avoid the label. Even traditional heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and Helloween have some great proggy songs. I do admit that the genre has some of the hottest garbage out there but so does prog rock.
Anthony Watson
"Prog" is a pretty vague descriptor for music. Most usually it just means "odd time signatures and long songs without typical structure" which is a very easy thing to abuse and fuck up if you're not actually tasteful about it.
I actually like some prog metal but no prog rock because it generally doesn't have the punchy mean guitar edge that I like in rock music, but the "prog metal" I do like is not very progressive in my mind....just sounds like regular heavy metal but with slightly more adventurous musically.
Leo Gray
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Gabriel Walker
avant prog > kraut > prog > black metal > death metal >>>>>>>> metal
Faggot
James Ramirez
Punk is better than both prog and metal.
Caleb Thompson
Cringe
Worse than both
Bentley Cooper
>black metal > death metal
no bigger give-away of a low iq tourist/pleb
John White
Because prog bands were "prog" in the seventies. Let's subvert the rock musical form by introducing some classical elements, let's make symphonic ballads, let's create sonic assault, whatever, great. That's progressive when we are in the early 70s.
"Prog" metal just copies that style 30 years later. Among prog metal aficionados on /r/progmetal the criteria for something being "prog" is
1) songs more than 5 minutes long
2) polyrythms, tempo changes, weird time signatures
A retard posts Iron Maiden Seventh Son there.
But this is not prog, another retard replies.
How's that?? It's 9 minutes long!
Yeah, but what about time signatures?? Ah? Ah?
Hudson Brown
Try Rush
Nolan Cox
Opeth is pretty much proof of the opposite. Their Metal records are Masterpieces yet their rock stuff is just meh even though it's basically as good as prog rock gets.
Kevin Edwards
I'd say that Prog > Punk > Metal, but obviously only at their most sincere.
Pretentious Metal > Pretentious Punk > Pretentious Prog, as judged by their mock-ability.
Ryan Bailey
Gojira is fucking great
Jaxon Thompson
Damnation was great though
And they had lots of great soft tracks like To Bid You Farewell or Harvest
Gabriel Russell
Damnation was great, I guess they had just one great prog rock record in them, and only when it was a diversion from metal.
Connor Ramirez
What do you mean