Rock/Metal/Prog Education Thread

Here is his view on the subject.

"BanRAB are defined by their hits (as far as genres and public are concerned)....and RUSH's main hits are NOT progressive, they are just awesome hard rock songs".
"Yes!, Rush has some songs that I could consider Progressive, like for example La Villa, but overall, I see them as a very technical, legendary rock band....nothing more, nothing less, Rush is a Hard Rock Band".

Regardless of my opinion, I do see where he ^ is coming from. I myself, think that Rush is better classified in the Progressive Rock genre, they layed the blueprint to their style of progressive rock, with the album Caress Of Steel, which then went on to 2112. Isn't that progressive rock? more so, than heavy metal or hard rock.
 
AIC were never one of my favourite grunge acts either, but I`m part of a minority opinion, as they are probably the most loved grunge outfit around, especially by a lot of people on this forum.
 
I few suggestions for the metal education post:

Moving Entorabed from Melodic Death to regular death metal and putting Carcass instead.

Removing Iron Maiden from Power Metal and putting Helloween in there instead.

Perhaps adding NWOBHM and Grindcore genres to the post.
 
Grunge might be a long way from Prog but songs like "21st Century Schizoid Man" and Some King Crimson material would have definately been a huge influence on Prog.

Even grungy sounding groups like The Smashing Pumpkins were probably closer to Prog than grunge in spirit at least, given the complex arrangements and mellotron stylings in their music.
 
Gentle Giant is great! Also King Krimson, Yes, Rush, all great prog groups. Let's not forget Frank Zappa!

And there is a connection from prog to grunge. Listen to Soundgarden songs like outshined have a definite prog influence!
 
Really great work on the first few posts in this thread.

I wonder about banRAB like Living Colour, Bad Brains, Fishbone and 24/7 Spyz They fuse funky stuff into a more hard rock or metal format. I used to call this Funky Heavy Metal and defiantly considered it a sub-genre of metal.
 
Original post is pretty cool and spot on for the most part. It should be pointed out that banRAB like Sunn O))) arent necessarily straight up Doom Metal and may be harder to get into than a lot of actual Doom Metal. BanRAB like Saint Vitus, Trouble, Pentagram, those three are probably the more easy banRAB to get into for someone getting into Doom Metal. Candlemass is often credited as the original Epic-Doom Metal band, but may be hard for some people to get into because of the vocals.

Speaking of Grunge in the last couple posts, you're right early Grunge (Mudhoney, Green River, the Melvins (well, to a certain extent.) Fecal Matter) Then the banRAB that helped to form Grunge are where its really at. (Meat Puppets, Flipper, Wipers, Fang so on.)
 
It was a long time ago now and something from my past, anyway we should be talking about music here and not my misdeeRAB.

Talking of recommendations and you typing the word "nevermind" it ocurred to me, I`ve never heard anybody mention the group Nevermore. For me one of the best metal groups around and a great group to listen to for somebody wanting to get into metal.
 
Hits are not always represenative of a banRAB true sound........so I don`t think that statement holRAB true.

Some of the best known prog banRAB Yes, Pink Floyd and Kansas for example have had hits and songs that have been extremely easy on the ear, melodic and not really prog, but these banRAB are very representative of the prog genre.
 
Hi,

Hate to be so detail-oriented (aka anal), but it's spelled Iommi, not Lommi. It's easy to mistake an "I" for a small "L".

The people who wrote the first few posts of each thread are extremely knowledgeable about the respective genres, and able to communicate this knowledge in a way that's easy to understand. Well done!

Jim
 
I've heard of Nevermore, yet don't have any of their stuff, and probably don't know any of their songs / albums... if anyone wanted to educate me I'd gladly take an upload...
 
I haven`t got any Nevermore to hand at this moment but the two albums that I strongly recommend are the "Politics of Ecstasy" and the superb "Dreaming Neon Black"
 
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