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^ ummm? Think I like this idea of forefathers and grandfathers. Ok I'll play.
If I had a prog metal family tree I would hope it would look like this.
Grandmother--Queensr˙che ( queen is female lol)
Grandfather--Fates Warning
Parents-- Mom--Iron Maiden of course (bit of a bitch though lol)
Dad--Dream Theater (great dad lol)
Siblings--Symphony X, Angra and Savatage
Cousins---Psychotic Waltz, Haken and Royal Hunt
And of course their is always the weird, dirty little red-headed step child that nobody wants to play with cause they are a little out there.
They would be...
Cynic, Tool, Animals as leaders and Devin Townsend
And that ladies and gents would be my family or birth rite for prog metal. It's a nice family. I swear.
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Posted: September 03 2013 at 20:44
Sabbath is metal with some prog songs. Rush is prog with some metal songs. Both relevants, but the prog metal scene is much more Iron Maiden/melodic oriented.
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Posted: September 05 2013 at 14:23
My vote was Other as I feel pretty strongly that Deep Purple fits the bill of Prog-Metal. Sabbath were never Prog, not even when keys entered into the picture on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
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Posted: September 05 2013 at 14:26
I don't get the votes for Rush really. I mean, you could say they were prog metal up to All The World's Stage, but hell they formed in 1974. Deep Purple was 1968.
My vote was Other as I feel pretty strongly that Deep Purple fits the bill of Prog-Metal. Sabbath were never Prog, not even when keys entered into the picture on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Yeah Deep Purple can be an honorable mention here. I mean, I look at guitarist Richie Blackmore and what he was doing with deep purple and then he took that edge sound with his guitar and blew the bloody doors off when he flipped over to start up Rainbow. Rainbow has some 'Prog metal' material, especially with 1975's Stargazer but I would never list deep purple or Rainbow as a papa to Prog metal. Just my opinion though ;)
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Posted: September 07 2013 at 01:13
dr wu23 wrote:
Svetonio wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
....I never thought of The Who as 'prog metal'......always thought of them as 'power pop/classic rock'.
I thought of The Who as Rock.
Entwistle was invented that "metal" bass sound, that's all.
OK...but what exactly is 'metal bass sound'...? And which prog metal bands use that sound?
This is "metal" bass sound I guess:
All the metal bands were used that sound - or none of them if I'v been wrong when I said that father (grandfather, that's better) of metal sound is John Entwistle (rip) as the bassist of The Who in their heydays.
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Posted: September 07 2013 at 11:31
Svetonio wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
Svetonio wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
....I never thought of The Who as 'prog metal'......always thought of them as 'power pop/classic rock'.
I thought of The Who as Rock.
Entwistle was invented that "metal" bass sound, that's all.
OK...but what exactly is 'metal bass sound'...? And which prog metal bands use that sound?
This is "metal" bass sound I guess:
All the metal bands were used that sound - or none of them if I'v been wrong when I said that father (grandfather, that's better) of metal sound is John Entwistle (rip) as the bassist of The Who in their heydays.
I still don't 'hear' anything other than a good solid bass sound there....you can find the same/similar sound (not referring to his playing..) in many hard rock bands of that time frame.
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Posted: September 09 2013 at 23:26
timothy leary wrote:
Iron Butterfly=Heavy Metal........just saying
I remember on the back album cover of In-a-Gadda-da-Vida there was a write-up about the band. It said something like "Iron because it's heavy, Butterfly because it was free" or something 60's like that
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Dean wrote:
s came before Rush. But I can't see Rush or Sabbath influences in the most regarded "prog metal" bands. 
