WTF is up with the progressive metal color scheme?

 

A lot of the albums have just a bland tan/brown/yellowish color scheme! Scenes From a Memory, The Perfect Element, Second Life Syndrome. BORING.

 

Others just have other muted colors, like LTE 2 and Perfect Symmetry. Real cool guys, yeah you are all really creative.

 

And then some of them are just greyscale with maybe one or two coloroed spots, like Operation Mindcrime, Out of Myself, and Awake. UGH!

 

I mean what's happening? Are the progressive metal guys not even trying to come up with a decent cover? Do they think that by making plain colored albums will make them stand out in the crowd? Or maybe they just think that their music is so great that a decent cover will kill the listening experience.

 

In any event, they should learn from their more br00tal counterparts in the Tech/Extreme category. These guys know how to make album covers. BLACK, BLACK, BLACK, some deep reds or blues and weird humanoid figures all over the place. In any event, these are cool covers, and they match the music inside the package, which is actual metal, and not just standard rock with more distorted guitars like those in the Progressive metal category.

 

Maybe Progressive Metal bands are just afraid to use the cool black colors because they're afraid the extreme metal heads will beat them senseless for stealing their color scheme, so they just use other neutral colors that aren't as br00tal.

 

In any event, this is definetely why progressive metal isn't as good as tech/extreme prog metal. Their album covers simply aren't as good. Plain as that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duck.