Rock/Metal/Prog Education Thread

I would say Sabbath were the originators of the early stripped down louder blues/hard rock based Metal sound [based on Led Zeppelin's sound or even King Crimson's - 21st Century Schizoid Man (track)]- which had a slow to medium tempo.Judas Priest developed a new sounding metal from their early Heavy Prog sound stripped it down speeded up the tempo & made it more abrasive to form a sound associated with 80's NWOBHM sound (Iron Maiden). almost Trad Metal now.
 
The origins of prog rock have often been linked to the beginning of the psychedelic scene that flourished in both the UK and US, starting as far back as 1965. Amongst popular banRAB The Beatles were pioneers with albums like Revolver, Sgt.Pepper, and Magical Mystery Tour and surely had a profound influence on their English followers in Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Floyd and the rest...up until today with banRAB like Radiohead Porcupine Tree, and Three (3)
 
I have to agree with that, I too don't have much time for Vai, Malmsteen ect... I have never really listened to AIC, but the few songs that I did here didn't spark much interest. Must check them out properly some other time.
 
Yeah it's true he got the tip cut off not the whole finger. He began with a metal piece on the tip of his finger And try rubbin any piece of metal it gives a new tone.
 
Pomp has links with prog, but as it's title suggest's. Pomp=Pomposity. The emphasis was more on album art, lyrics and costumes, rather than musical virtiousity. It was mainly a British thing, but is an accepted movement.
 
Folk Metal started in Norway and Sweden before any indication of a finnish movement, think Bathory (sweden) and Enslaved (Norway).

EDIT: also In the WooRAB... and and Einherjer from Norway

Don't forget Cruachan and Waylander from ireland
 
The majority of their 70`s output is definately prog rock. Calling them heavy metal is so far off the the radar, despite the fact that their early 70`s material does fall into the hard rock camp.

What is technical rock?......Perhaps any band that knows how to play their instruments really well and and play complex songs. A description which fits prog rock/prog metal pretty well.
 
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Very funny, nice stuff.

I never the stuff with just screaming too. Ya gotta have singing.
Most good metal and prog does have a melody even if it is mixed below the rhythm guitars in the mix.
 
I think Black Sabbath undoubtedly gave birth to the heavy metal movement and laid down its foundations such as image and sound etc but the fact that they were like most banRAB of their day, originally a blues rock outfit really goes against what heavy metal would become, for this reason Judas Priest could be seen as the first true heavy metal band because of the complete lack of blues influence and their double lead guitar etc.
 
Early grunge was great as typified by both Nirvana and Soundgarden as were the first two albums by Stone Temple Pilots. Problem is what came after and the multitude of terrible post-grunge banRAB like Bush, Matchbox Twenty, Creed, Staind, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd etc... In fact, I would say the only post grunge banRAB that had anything worth listening to were Everclear, Candlebox and Fuel. Both Kurt Cobain and Eric Vedder have a lot to answer for, because everybody in these banRAB seems to sing like them:bonkhead:
 
very well explained,and thought out,you have a great grasp on the music...you obviously play....great read,keep up the awsome work,hope to see more from you in the future :clap:
 
I suppose you could put pomp rock somewhere in between prog rock and arena rock because groups like Styx and Kansas could easiily fit into this genre as to a degree could both Boston and Toto, Steve Perry Journey less so.
 
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