Progressive Metal
Metal that went to music school and came back with the odd time signatures. Queensryche wrote a concept record in 1988, Dream Theater made virtuosity the entire point in 1992, and everything since has argued about where technique stops and songwriting begins. At its best, enormous. At its worst, homework.
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Technical vs Progressive Death Metal
Two words measured on two different clocks. Running times, the shuffle test, what each wing asks of a singer and a drummer, and the four records that refuse to sit o...
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Progressive Death Metal
Cynic, Edge of Sanity, Opeth, late Death, Rivers of Nihil and Ne Obliviscaris. The wing that moved the argument from the bar to the record, and what it cost the band...
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Technical Death Metal Explained
Technical death metal is a claim about density, not about ambition. Death's Human, Gorguts' Obscura and the sweep era, and the three places where a technical riff cu...