Tech/Extreme Related Artists?

Hi,

Why are there several arguably progressive (or that have at least released one fully progressive albums in their discography) Tech/Extreme Metal acts that have been rejected from Prog-Related but yet rock bands with similar situations are accepted all the time. Some suggestions for Prog-Related would be:

Emperor - The prog album being Anthems for Welkin at Dusk
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Gorguts - Obscura (one of the most complex and technical albums of all time... I truly don't understand how this isn't in PA already)

There are plenty of others but those three profoundly stick out. What are your thoughts?

Jake

Visitor13 wrote: Jake Kobrin wrote: Gorguts - Obscura (one of the most complex and technical albums of all time... I truly don't understand how this isn't in PA already) This is a perfect example why PA should be album-based instead of artist-based. As far as I understand Gorguts have not been included because the rest of their material is quite conventional death metal.

Now, if only we can objectively pin down what "progressive" is. 

Gorguts actually only needs one more yes vote to be put on the cleared list.

ca

Gorguts

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4 yes votes, 4 no votes and one undecided.
The band was put on the rejected list before Plankowner or I even joined the PMT anyway, so we never had the chance to vote on it the first time around.
Given how close the band are to being a yes, I'm going to get some of their albums to make my decision.
Hopefully my man Planky is going to lend his vote too.
I can't guarantee a vote soon, because our cleared list is still quite big. Hopefully in about a month, I can get a vote in.


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - May 09 2009 at 06:08

Sure thing, I'll grab that album.

Gorguts would fit like a glove in the Tech/ extreme catagory because of Obscura. I fully agree. Strapping as well for the Alien album.

Visitor13 wrote: Jake Kobrin wrote: Gorguts - Obscura (one of the most complex and technical albums of all time... I truly don't understand how this isn't in PA already) This is a perfect example why PA should be album-based instead of artist-based. As far as I understand Gorguts have not been included because the rest of their material is quite conventional death metal.

Thank You! Thats what I never got. There is all this debate about whether or not a band is prog or not, or if a metal band with 7 albums but 3 are prog should they make it in based on a few? It would be so much easier to have a prog album section for all those.

King By-Tor wrote: okay - let's remove half the albums from the classic progressive bands then and not offer reviews for new albums until they've each been individually approved by the already non-stop working teams. Sounds awesome.

Well, it is a little late now...
Besides, the classical progressive bands would be fine. I think it should only be for albums from overall NON prog bands.

For example, Death. Overall, there is no way you can call them progressive metal. They are a death metal band, and they should not be here...however, they do have prog metal albums. And its in THOSE cases a "Prog Album" section would be used for.

Well there are plenty of bands like that already in the archives. Some big names would be The Beatles, The Who, Rush, etc.

There also plenty who were prog but then stopped releasing prog: Genesis, Yes, Wishbone Ash, etc.

UMUR wrote: I don´t agree with the "only" progressive albums catagory. Either everything is here or nothing is. It´s important to know an artist´s full discography to understand their development IMO.

That's cool, I hear you there. However, that being the case...I don't want to hear people complain about "X" does not belong here!