FORTRESS

Not usually a one star tagger of anything. And it's not that I don't like this genre. In fact I don't. I'm capable of recognizing talent outside my musical tastes. I'm not at all pleased that this is now considered prog. To me prog pushes boundaries. Just because the bassist plays arpeggios and the drummer throws in some syncopations and polyrythms it's prog? Shouldn't there be some respectable technical level in a prog musician? This is just another System of a Down clone w/o the skill. It's as if some kids who have each been playing a few years got recorded by a slick producer. This was painfully bad stuff and I'm a little pissed off that I have to wonder how many more like this I might click on when I see a five star review in my PA newsletter.