Top 10 Reasons Why Metal Eclipses Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

cstack3 wrote:

Prog destroys metal.

End of argument.

OMG! I better warn Ozzy, Geezer and Tony, ASAP! LOL

This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State.

Oh yes, and Slayer's Reign in Blood is my favourite candlelit dinner music Tongue

!

Metal began on August 7, 2003...everybody knows that. Everything before that was 'soft rock'. Master Of Puppets is a classic Soft Rock album.

Magma America Great Make Again

Apart stupid vocals, stupid guitar w**kery, and a tendency to subdivide itself into numerous subgenres which all sound the blimmin' same to most of us, I quite like metal. But it's inferior to Prog Folk, it's inferior to Space Rock, it's inferior to Avant Garde, it's inferior to Canterbury, it's inferior to Kosmische, it's inferior to Prog Funk/Soul, and it's inferior to ...oh, y'know, that other one people go on and on and on about....

in my opinion Tongue

rotten hound of the burnie crew

dr prog wrote:

The song Sab bloody Sab is metal. Weakest song on the album

No, it's not metal. The whole album (including the title track) is far from metal. Sabbath's first 4 albums have a lot of tracks, which are a lot more metal (while still not beign actual metal) than that one. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has even those soft, jazzy passages. Not saying it's a bad song, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my fav Black Sabbath album.

Heaven and hell was heavy/hard rock. Not metal

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

So were Paranoid, MOR, Vol4, SBS and Sabotage when they were released, it's revisionist to say they weren't.

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

BrufordFreak wrote:

My top 10 list in disagreement with the OP's assertion:

1. The definition of metal is too ambiguous.

2. Led Zeppelin is a blues band.

3. Most metal, like "Hocus Pocus," makes me laugh and, therefore, is difficult to be taken seriously.

4. Most metal if listened to in order to hear all of its layers, makes my brain hurt

5. By "eclipses" do you mean "to place [prog] in its shadow"? If so, I don't see it. Maybe a partial eclipse--like at sunset, when I put my skinny fist up in the air between the sun and the rising blood moon on the horizon behind me . . . that kind of eclipse.

6. Masaru Emoto has scientifically demonstrated (Messages from Water) that metal music is deleterious to the integrity of structures that support health and well-being. (A moment of silence, please, for the Oct 17 passing of this compassionate human being.)

7. Christopher Bird (The Secret Life of Plants) scientifically demonstrated that metal music is deleterious and to the health and well-being of living things.

8. Metal artists must be without compassion otherwise they would not play music that purposely makes people's ears and brains hurt.

9. Life is too short to waste time on trying to figure out what metal artists are trying to say with their music

10. Metal is a passing phase that one grows out of once one figures out how to enjoy peace, quiet, and silence.

Am I right, or am I right?

#1. The definitions of 'definition' and of 'ambiguous' are ambiguous as well

#2. Agreed

#3. Some smirk-worthy stuff here: http://weknowmemes.com/2012/05/heavy-metal-band-name-generator/

#4. Self-inflicted misery

## 6 & 7. So is love

#9. Does anyone try to do that?
#10. My impression as well. I never "loved" metal to begin with; I do have a dozen or two albums, but I haven't played them for decades. Literally.

SteveG wrote:

^My wife keeps shouting Black Sabbath because we met at a Sabbath concert! Ok, dear:

Black Sabbath!

It's only one reason but for her it's enough!

Dam your lucky to have a wife shouting for Black Sabbath-my ex was just the opposite!

Edited by Kentucky_Hawkwindage - November 01 2014 at 20:21

"Nobody's Gonna Change My World That's Something To Unreal" Lyrics that i live my life by-from Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy's track You Won't Change Me

Sabbath only had 2 metal songs in the 70s and I don't really like those

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.