Announcing the Prog-Metal split

Nice job guys!

Here, here for the "not in any way you must be crazy this isn't prog" sub-genre.

TheProgtologist wrote: Nightfly wrote: Excellent, a good move guys. I appreciate your efforts in making a great site even better! There's certainly enough diversity in Prog Metal to warrant such changes.   Would this move allow for the introduction of bands who may have been on the fringes of the scope of Prog Archives. Metallica for example whilst primarily a Thrash Metal band, at least in their early days have had quite a few epics over their albums. Master of Puppets being an obvious example.   Sorry but no.Our addition standards do not change one bit because of this,and we didn't create these sub-genres to allow bands on the fringe to be included in the archives.   Also...M@x gave a very definite and implicit NO for the possible addition of Metallica so that means case closed and let's move on,they won't ever be here.

andu wrote: Congratulations to the team, great work! I have recently found some prog-metal to my tastes, and the new system will help me in making follow-ups.  Thanks!

I add my congrats. And a big hand for the idea to include or rather describe "mini" sub-genres for each of the three to help better define them. I don't suppose that other existing genres might receive this treatment. The new Art Rock divisions could maybe use that sort of sub-division for clarifications.

Proletariat wrote: rileydog22 wrote: Proletariat wrote: Ok, love it now here are some bands that you might want to look into their placement (not trying to be a jurk just want to see evrything in its correct place)   Ved Buens Ende Wintersun Gojira   These should probably be moved to Tech/Extreme Here we go..... sorry, they are just some of my favourite bands and so naturally they stook out as being in the wrong genre, really I dont give a f***** what genre this site puts bands in, I just wanted to help a little bit. Even read their bios, they stick out like a sore thumb

I'll give you a clip across the ears if you change things now, the genres suit very well.

Got your point mate.

Noted.

I'm all for the split.  It may be confusing at first, but in the long run, it will improve our understanding of the music and the differences between the genres.

^ Of course if one were to make a top 20 list of the best, most popular and influential bands of prog metal that list would contain both Dream Theater and Opeth. But does that mean they have to be in the same genre? If you look at the great Prog Rock bands you'll also find that they're scattered across many genres.

A round of applause for the prog metal team, I think this move was a long time coming, there was simply too much variation between bands in the prog metal genre I mean between Dream Theater, Isis and Atheist there aren't many similarities besides the fact they play a heavy form of progressive music.

I also think that the new genres cover the vast majority of prog metal bands in the best way possible, I'm particularly pleased with the extreme/tech subgenre, wow and it seems the vast majority of my prog metal reviews fall in that genre, I don't even have any for experimental/post metal.


Edited by FruMp - October 23 2007 at 05:21