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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2009 at 05:36
Not the only band in the wrong categorization ,here on this site 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2009 at 05:09

 

I'm not sure this is in the right place at the forum but I have some problems with a categorization of a band that I feel is quite wrong.

 

The last week or so I have been listening to K2's Book Of The Dead. It is a very good album but I was very surprised to find that is was listed as Neo-Prog. This music is clearly not Neo-Prog in my opinion. First, this music sounds nothing like Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Pendragon, Arena, and similar groups. If any similarities with these groups could be detected in K2’s music, this has more to do with similar first hand influences than on any influence from these groups. Second, one of the members of K2 is the great Allan Holdsworth. Holdsworth is clearly a first generation Prog artist who have been releasing albums since the early 70's (mainly in the Jazz-Rock field) and he never had anything to do with the Neo-progressive movement that started in Britain in the early 80’s. Last, while Holdsworth is British, K2 is a US-based band (as far as I understand things) and is not in any way connected, neither musically nor personally, to the Neo-Prog movement that begun in the UK in the early 80’s.

 

I think K2 should be moved to Symphonic Prog.

I'm sorry if I bring this up in the wrong place.

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