METALLICA in Progarchives.

Their frontman James Hatfield founded a prog band "Hatfield and the North", so I think they should be in the archives, at least in the "prog related" section.

Okay, this is obviously another joke.  His name is "HETFIELD", and he has no connection to Hatfield and the North.  And to many listeners, Metallicka is a huge wall of noise and crapola.

Gentle Ronnie wrote: Abba created prog, Metallica perfected it!

Whatever your smoking its obviously really good

Sorry, I disagree. We all like non-prog bands, but that doesn't mean they should be on this site.

There was a Simple Minds thread a while back. Simple Minds is fantastic band that most people know nothing about (the band recorded Don't You Forget About Me on a whim in one afternoon for a movie soundtrack, they didn't even write it, and they basically hate the song)

But that doesn't mean Simple Minds should be on this site, nor should Metalllica. Bands on this site should be Progressive with a capital P, as opposed to lower case.

Flip_Stone wrote: Okay, this is obviously another joke.  His name is "HETFIELD", and he has no connection to Hatfield and the North.  And to many listeners, Metallicka is a huge wall of noise and crapola.

Many people say that, though, for Trash-Metal their music is pretty soft a lot of time, WITHOUT too much noise.

Certif1ed wrote: I see no reason at all why Metallica shouldn't be in the archives : "Master of Puppets" is practically THE definitive Progressive Metal album, with "And Justice for All..." taking it to the next level. Those two albums alone out-prog many "prog metal" bands already in the archives, and without them, prog metal probably wouldn't exist.

Ahem Iron Maiden cough cough

bluetailfly wrote: Look, any band whose members lower their heads and swirl their hair around, and seriously believe they are musicians, DO NOT belong in the prog archives. No hair swirling. That is not cool and never was cool. If they're already in, get them out. If they are not in, keep them out. No hair-swirling!

Robert Fripp used to swirl his hair too.

You can even compare the simple trashy elements from metallice with the gods of iron maiden...and stating that maiden has not released a single progressive album is again an pretty silly statement....and i also wait to see 10 prog bands that are clearly influenced by metallica on a 100% if their output

And if all those metallica albums you have listed you think are progressive you CLEARLY have a very strange defintion on what is progressvie...but you think radiohead is more progressive than the mars volta and also you think queen is progressive

So i leave it at that, as said before i suspect that your favourite bands suddenly become more progressive just because they are your favourite bands...