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    Posted: May 08 2012 at 15:26
Now that Storm Corrosion (the collaboration between Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson) has officially been released, under what genre should it be placed here?. It is obviously prog, but I can't figure out which subgenre would be most fitting.
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Just based on that one track, an Art Rock sub.  That's all I know, but Eclectic or Crossover based on that.

By the way, I'm not really an Opeth fan nor big on Porcupine Tree, but I love that.


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Crossover prog.
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Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

Crossover prog.


I couldn't disagree more.
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Points: 37425 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2012 at 16:04
Why?

Eclectic was my first impression, but I think Crossover could work based on that one track.  To me that definitely sounds like Art Rock category suitable material, and there are a lot of similarities between Eclectic and Crossover (both categories often being very eclectic) often (both categories split from Art Rock).  I think it has poppy qualities.
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I don't see any poppy qualities, especially listening to the album as a whole. Unless long-form ambient/folk soundscapes are poppy?
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Experimental? ... Nah, because after Experimental it says metal. Ahhh I am really not sure.
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Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

I don't see any poppy qualities, especially listening to the album as a whole. Unless long-form ambient/folk soundscapes are poppy?


It's hard for anyone making some form of rock and folk related music to completely divorce itself from pop and popular music. 

I was thinking of some rather avant-poppish vocals, and some GGish vocal harmonies (hey I think GG made a form of pop music), as well as something else about it that came across to me as rather mainstream in a cinematic composer way.  But Eclectic was my first choice and remains so, and Crossover more of an alternative based on that one track.  I just wouldn't see it outside of the Art Rock subs based on that one track.  How would you feel about Eclectic having heard the whole album?

Eclectic is what I would think based on that track.  Great track, I think.
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I believe folk was decided upon.
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Folk? really...... hmmm
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I don't think that there's that much of folk in Storm Corrosion stuff. Well, folk is widely presented here, but this is not a dominant genre. I'd say there's more ambient than folk.

Both Wilson and Åkerfeldt wanted to create a completely new sound which would be rather impossible to categotize. So they did it. It's very hard to define genre category here.

Still I'd stick with crossover prog or eclectic prog. Storm Corrosion's music is a mix of prog, folk and ambient, so you can ecxlude all the other categories except those two. Except for prog folk maybe, but it's not a folk album at all, as I've said before.
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Eclectic prog, for the very reason that we're having a hard time agreeing on where it fis.
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Neo-wyrd.
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Wow, this is the first time I heard something related to Steven Wilson that I can actually likeShocked
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Points: 17973 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2012 at 09:55
Originally posted by Kotro Kotro wrote:

Neo-wyrd.
 
+1
 
Listened to the album in full yesterday.....It will be background music for me. I doubt it would ever be serious sit down listening session for me
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Ambient Crap
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Points: 17973 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2012 at 10:28
Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Ambient Crap
 
+1......I like that better than Neo-wyrd.....Both should be added to the database
 
 


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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Ambient Crap
 
+1......I like that better than Neo-wyrd.....Both should be added to the database
 
 


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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2012 at 10:51
Eclectic. Maybe Psych.
 
Better not put it in folk. Because it ain't even vaguely folk.
 
 
 
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