10 genres including "prog metal" ... quite a good and well reasoned read complete with examples:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/...nted_metal.php
10 genres including "prog metal" ... quite a good and well reasoned read complete with examples:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/...nted_metal.php
I haven't read the blog yet but I can hear the influence on prog/metal that Black Sabbath had as early as on the album Paranoid. Sabbath didn't do odd time sigs from what I've heard, but everything else is there, long songs, tempo changes, some synth and tron.
I would agree too. I've never heard of some of those "metal sub genres" but hey, Black Sabbath more-or-less invented metal so okay.
Interesting read... I tend to separate Doom and Stoner so I'd venture to say that the song "Black Sabbath" gave birth to doom, while just about any song on "Masters Of Reality" gave birth to stoner. Probably just splitting hairs though. I'll just agree that heavy metal as a genre owes a lot to the Sabs.
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Great article. Very well thought-out and defended. I would offer that the song "All moving Parts Stand Still" is MORE proggy than "The Writ" but I might be splitting hairs.
Interesting. I would think "All Moving Parts" is more an example of his theory on "funk metal," but obviously the arrangements are certainly "proggy."
"The Writ" is just as "prog" in terms of arrangements, it just doesn't have the synth. But it does have Iommi playing harpsichord atop acoustic guitars.
Interesting side-story regarding "All moving Part Stand Still"
While I was attending GIT back in 1980, for our "Final Performance", each student had to pick a song, write out the arrangement and perform it with a hired back-up band. I pick All Moving Parts... You should have seen slack-jawed look on the faces of my Jazz teachers....priceless !!!
Did Death or Extreme Metal begin as a Black Sabbath song?
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