MasterOLightning
Optimator
I haven't heard all of Graveland's albums, but I feel like you could probably cut it to Thousand Swords, Immortal Pride, and Dawn of Iron Blades and not be missing too much.
while the bands that are just prog (Dream Theater spring to mind) are generally fucking tedious.
My friend and I had this argument, only it turned out awkwardly because we were arguing different things. He was arguing that "progressive" should be applied to bands in other genres and I was arguing that there was a genre called prog metal. We also argued over what "progressive" meant; he considers anything new or creative to be progressive; a band could have a song in thirty different time signatures and an eight minute guitar-and-cowbell duel and it wouldn't be progressive if it had done before. I argued that progressive is a genre name like death metal; just as not all DM is about death, not all prog metal makes progress. This went on for a while.
My general (and no doubt very controversial) opinion is that "progressive" should be used as a warning label like the PMRC stickers. "Warning: This album rated EP (Extremely Progressive) for extreme wanker and dicking around for 45 minutes."
That's probably the best post you've ever made cherko.
That shit would get so fucking boring, I don't know how you do it.
You want to listen to 45 minutes of endless guitar wankery, attempts at atmosphere, and various other things?
That shit would get so fucking boring, I don't know how you do it.
Opeth and "Crimson" are both terrible though.
I've never heard 'Crimson', but you can fuck right off with the Opeth comment
You dont think Opeth is progressive?
I was referring to Mort's comment, not yours.
That post? ...Bah. You just hold a grudge against me for flaming your home country and whatnot.
while the bands that are just prog (Dream Theater spring to mind) are generally fucking tedious.
My friend and I had this argument, only it turned out awkwardly because we were arguing different things. He was arguing that "progressive" should be applied to bands in other genres and I was arguing that there was a genre called prog metal. We also argued over what "progressive" meant; he considers anything new or creative to be progressive; a band could have a song in thirty different time signatures and an eight minute guitar-and-cowbell duel and it wouldn't be progressive if it had done before. I argued that progressive is a genre name like death metal; just as not all DM is about death, not all prog metal makes progress. This went on for a while.
My general (and no doubt very controversial) opinion is that "progressive" should be used as a warning label like the PMRC stickers. "Warning: This album rated EP (Extremely Progressive) for extreme wanker and dicking around for 45 minutes."
Not all extreme metal is open string palm mutes and four note tremolo riffs. There is plenty of death metal that is more complex, more technical, and far better written than fucking Dream Theater and the like. Get familiar with death metal before you make such a comment.Progressive Metal has bands that write great music too. Do you just want to listen to nothing but power chords, open string palm mutes, 4 note tremolo picking riffs, & 15 second out of key solos all day??![]()
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That shit would get so fucking boring, I don't know how you do it.
Props to Jason Becker & all, but speaking of "wanking" you do know you have him in your avatar, right?
I don't know what you are talking about. I don't have a grudge against you, I just happened to notice that was a really great post by you. Whether or not that was one of many good posts done on your part, I don't know.![]()