What's awesome about things like Red or indeed "Fracture" to me, is that it succeeds in being harsh and violent and menacing WITHOUT actually drifting into metal territory. The same could be said of SO much 60s/70s progressive-and-beyond rock; even certain "fusiony" progressive acts like Soft Machine or Area possessed that quality of incendiary chaos-through-control about them, and the most menacing progressive group of all time - MAGMA - were just that because their instrumental ecstasy was one of both control, chaos and brutality - yet *never* metal.
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