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This may seem like a stupid question, "duh, because ones Rock and ones Metal" but, that doesn't really answer it...
I'm a big fan of Prog Metal... it's probably my favorite genre, so naturally, it would make sense for me to be a big fan of Prog Rock too right? Wrong.
Unlike Hard Rock and Traditional Heavy Metal, I feel like Prog Rock and Prog Metal have very little in common. The latter wouldn't exist without the former(naturally) yet even though one is basically just an offshoot, in a Metal context, of the other(that's where Prog Metal comes from, again, duh), it seems like Prog Rock is so far removed from it's Metal counterpart that I wouldn't even say they're musically related by much.
Petrucci(Dream Theater) Jennings(Haken) and so many other Progressive Metal musicians talk about their love of 70's and 80's Prog Rock and how it influenced their music, yet, besides the use odd time signatures, exotic scales and a few other elements, it seems like there's very little that you can point too that was taken from Prog Rock to develop Prog Metal.
When you look at the early Prog Metal bands of the 80's like Queensryche, Fates Warning, Dream Theater, Crimson Glory, Savatage, etc you'd think, given the infantile stage that the genre was in, that there'd be alot of overlap, but these guys weren't really that different sounding from traditional Metal bands as they were still centered around an "Operatic", (although some deviated from this), singer, hard hitting riffs etc...
Anyone have any ideas? @LuciferAlpha, I'd really like to hear your opinion on this.
I'm a big fan of Prog Metal... it's probably my favorite genre, so naturally, it would make sense for me to be a big fan of Prog Rock too right? Wrong.
Unlike Hard Rock and Traditional Heavy Metal, I feel like Prog Rock and Prog Metal have very little in common. The latter wouldn't exist without the former(naturally) yet even though one is basically just an offshoot, in a Metal context, of the other(that's where Prog Metal comes from, again, duh), it seems like Prog Rock is so far removed from it's Metal counterpart that I wouldn't even say they're musically related by much.
Petrucci(Dream Theater) Jennings(Haken) and so many other Progressive Metal musicians talk about their love of 70's and 80's Prog Rock and how it influenced their music, yet, besides the use odd time signatures, exotic scales and a few other elements, it seems like there's very little that you can point too that was taken from Prog Rock to develop Prog Metal.
When you look at the early Prog Metal bands of the 80's like Queensryche, Fates Warning, Dream Theater, Crimson Glory, Savatage, etc you'd think, given the infantile stage that the genre was in, that there'd be alot of overlap, but these guys weren't really that different sounding from traditional Metal bands as they were still centered around an "Operatic", (although some deviated from this), singer, hard hitting riffs etc...
Anyone have any ideas? @LuciferAlpha, I'd really like to hear your opinion on this.