This metal music known as Progressive Metal is also called “prog” metal. This is another subgenre of heavy metal. Progressive metal has elements from rock, jazz, classical and metal. The different elements coalesced into a new type of metal message. Metal bands were the most progressive from the classical or classic career. Progressive metal has […]
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If you are a fan of progressive music then you’ve probably heard of Dream Theater. They are an American progressive metal band and started around 1985. They changed their name from Majesty to Dream Theater and founding members John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and John Myung were students at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. […]
The genre of progressive rock has a proud history, and many would agree that Pink Floyd is the band that helped break it into the mainstream. Many of the band’s top songs have been played on mainstream rock radio while others from their lesser-known albums have stayed relatively anonymous to all but the most hardcore […]
10: As I Am, from the album Train of Thought This song has all the makings of an excellent metal song. The intro is soft, yet still harsh, and actually opens with the final orchestral chord that ended the preceding album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. The lyrics are most likely directed at all those […]