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Progressive metal 1988
Prog rock ambition with metal weight: odd meters, concept albums and instrumental virtuosity.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 90-180 bpm
- Song length
- 6-12 min
- Written about
- Consciousness, Grief and recovery, Concept narratives across a whole album, Systems and mathematics
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Progressive metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Consciousness, Grief and recovery, Concept narratives across a whole album, Systems and mathematics | 50% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 8 out of 10 | 30% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 82% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 9. Progressive metal leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Opeth, Blackwater Park 2001
Opeth - Blackwater Park. Growls and acoustic guitar in one song, and nothing forced about it.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
Animals as Leaders, Animals as Leaders 2009
Animals as Leaders - the debut. Tosin Abasi plays eight strings as if it were normal.
The first is Progressive metal's own entry point. After it come Progressive metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Avant-prog / RIO 81%
Rock in Opposition: dissonance, chamber music and left-wing politics. Prog that refuses on principle to be pleasant.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Progressive metal.
The way into Avant-prog / RIO -
Funk rock 79%
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Progressive metal.
The way into Funk rock
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 9.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 9.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.