Metallica and Iron Maiden in ProgRelated?

I kinda like the idea of Maiden and Priest being added to the site under a prog related category. Maiden and Priest both have admitted to being heavily influenced by Uriah Heep. And on Priest's earlier stuff, especially Sad Wings of Destiny, there's kind of a concept going on and also stuff like the track "Prelude" which led into Tyrant which was exactly the kind of thing prog bands were doing. Aside from that they had a big harmony guitar sound similar to Queen, which are apparently considered prog. "Two Minutes To Midnight" is like a metal orchestra and Maiden's first two albums remind me of Deep Purple and Uriah Heep a lot. But on the other hand, although i do like all the bands mentioned so far, I don't know if i would consider any of them to be honest prog except maybe Heep. But anyway I could live with it. Don't know about Metallica though.

Why does you only concider seventh son of a seventh son to be progressive? Is it suddenly more progressive because it is a concept album?

Anyways i would have no problem naming atleast 50 maiden songs wich could fit the term progressive.

Infact if you take forexample the excellent In absentia release from porcupine tree...is it prog..NO...is it prog related...yes but it is still listen under prog...so there are really alot of artists on this page wich can be concidered prog although their arrangements are alot simpler than maidens...and the ones naming red hot chili peppers and megadeth ...they are out of their minds...anyway BRAVE NEW WORLD is the best and perhaps most progressive maiden album and i dont think any of the other artist mentioned can top that in the terms of progressiveness

everyone is progrelated okkay

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Having said that, the song might be called Proto-Prog, but not the entire album Powerslave - the better part of it is good "true" Power Metal.

Well, it contains long and complex songs nevertheless.
As well as Piece of Mind and Somewhere in time, other two that I would insert in the list of prog would-be.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: on Ride the Lightning they started to experiment with interludes, sophisticated solos and strange harmonies. Master of Puppets is THE Proto-ProgMetal album.

I agree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first album I've bought with my first pay!

GREAT!

This is a joke, right? Please tell met it is

NO Metallica and Iron Maiden never were and probably never be prog realted! Stop this nonsence! Iron Maiden is the founder of NWOBHM, thats New Wave Of British HEAVY METAL! Heavy metal not prog metal, not prog realted heavy metal, not even wery-close-but-not-exactly-prog-related-heavy-metal

Pure heavy metal- you know heavy metal- hard rock but faster and heavier! Nothing to do with prog.

The same with Metallica.

I think real prog died in the end of the 70's with last valuable albums from prog-bands of early 70's,
(Songs from the wood, Breathless,Quite zone-Pleasure dome); I generally don't trust in 80's prog (with some exception) and of corse metal is metal for my idea of prog.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: maidenrulez wrote: Why does you only concider seventh son of a seventh son to be progressive? Is it suddenly more progressive because it is a concept album? Anyways i would have no problem naming atleast 50 maiden songs wich could fit the term progressive. Infact if you take forexample the excellent In absentia release from porcupine tree...is it prog..NO...is it prog related...yes but it is still listen under prog...so there are really alot of artists on this page wich can be concidered prog although their arrangements are alot simpler than maidens...and the ones naming red hot chili peppers and megadeth ...they are out of their minds...anyway BRAVE NEW WORLD is the best and perhaps most progressive maiden album and i dont think any of the other artist mentioned can top that in the terms of progressiveness  Porcupine Tree - In Absentia is 100% prog.

i have to admit the first time i heard porcupine tree i thought they where some kind of intelligent pop band with songs like sound of muzak,even less and shes moving on, trains, collapse the light into earth,hearattack in a layby and blackest eyes is not the least proggy...and certainly porcupine tree concentrate on making these simple songs

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magog wrote: Andrea Cortese wrote:               The first album I've bought with my first pay! GREAT! Hi Andrea, the story about your first pay is really touching... hope you now spend your next pays with real prog albums!!!!

C'mon Magog, it was 1993!

BTW I've always loved them!

 I believe they are prog related the mighty maiden more so over 'tallica. You see Steve Harris (the bassist in case there's anyone who don't know) was a prog freak and loved Jethro Tull so when he started Maiden back in 75 or summin that naturally came out with in the music thus shifting the whole idea of prog-rock whilst you must remeber at the time you also had punk which supposidly "killed prog" (which it didn't prog just wasn't mainstram anymore so went underground.. but thats for another day) so thus it went underground and found new forms, one of these was Maiden and from this Maiden changed how rock and metal should be written, in that music is like a big, blank canvas waiting for a masterpiece to be formed on it. This in turn influencing many others such as 'tallica who cmae to view a similar view espcially during Masters of puppets, with the album itself having many proggy influences in there. So there they are both important and both are prog related, you could even say that Maiden created Prog-metal.

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