Are you prog only? Or do you like prog metal?

Why avoid people's age, that is, their cultural context, as a valid factor in their preferences and inclinations. Without that, a 54 yr old player in a new-style band loses its significance, rather than gaining some sort of objective stance.

88melter, the older guy who has seem a lot of the life in music.

I like and perform classic prog. Prog metal, or some other heavier sub-genre, is the music of another generation . I am glad that it exists, that another generation of musicians and listeners keep progressive rock moving forward, but I am part of that original movement. I am not sure the audience for prog metal would believe me, or take me seriously if I was doing stuff made by and for 20-somethings. I am 54.

88melter

see www.prog-music.info for my group PROG

I don't listen to much prog metal or classic prog. Do I win a prize?

I find that very often prog-metal follows a few certain formulas. Normal Prog doesn't  follow formulas.
I have yet to hear some prog-metal with a section where they play very quiet (and maybe add a little jazz? please!) like for example King Crimson's "21'th century schizoid man". Also the recording of much modern music is to perfect/sharp. To much metal in modern music (not all are bad, some are exeIent ). love tons of 80's Trash metal, NWOBHM and Tech/Extreme Metal.  Jazz, Metal, Classical, Rock, and electronica (you can mix all of these genres exept Rock and Metal, right?). I also find most drumming in Prog-metal to be kinda boring, same sound when each drumstick hit the skin. Love all subgenres of prog, Prog-metal being the one i like/listen to the least.


Edited by Anirml - February 15 2010 at 19:08

Why are classic prog and prog metal presented as the only two options?

Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of prog metal. To be honest I haven't really been exposed to too much. I've got a few Dream Theater albums, who I don't really like all that much anymore, really the only thing I'll listen to is the Mind Beside Itself suite off Awake. The rest got boring fast. I enjoy Opeth, though.

I guess I do have a problem with heavy music, in a way. I don't really mind heaviness itself, that doesn't bother me, but to me it's more the way that all the "chug-chugging" leaves the music sounding harmonically empty to my ears. When the backing for a section is just a guitarist crunching out fifths, there's only so much you can do. And sure they switch it up a bit with changing time signatures and virtuoistic drumming but it still ends up sounding a bit boring to me. Sometimes, Opeth especially, will chug chug in a way that brings out all sorts of weird notes, which I enjoy, but for the most part it's just fifths, fifths and more fifths.

WalterDigsTunes wrote: I have two prog metal albums by bands that have been active since the 80s (Queensryche and DT), but I just can't stand the cliches and samey sounding modern gloss of this genre. I'll take prog from 70s and the 80s over the claptrap being issues these days. As for metal... its all been done before and since cookie monster vocals seem to be the biggest innovation of the past 20 years I count myself out of this goofy game.

I largely agree with this point-of-view.  I tend to find Prog metal very cliched - to the extent that I think putting the word prog with metal creates an oxymoron.  When music is this formulaic how can it be prog?

i like all subgenres of metal, not just prog metal, but also black, death,doom, gothic, power.. 

Edited by angelmk - February 14 2010 at 08:33

I prefer progmetal..but I like prog.

Edited by camilleanne - February 14 2010 at 07:08

I am a metalhead but I like prog metal only selectively.  PoS, Psychotic Waltz, early DT and ACT (who are actually called eclectic prog here anyway).  I don't have a problem with any kind of metal vocals or the heaviness, obviously, but I get less riffs to bite into in prog metal and less melody than well, just prog, too so it's not often very appealing for me.