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2 unusual facts about Progressive metal


For the Love of Art and the Making

For the Love of Art and the Making is an album by Danish Progressive metal band Beyond Twilight.

Stylistic Changes

Stylistic Changes is the first full-length solo album by Norwegian Progressive/Heavy metal guitarist Carl August Tidemann.


Ansur

Ansur is a progressive extreme metal trio from Drammen, Norway with elements from both black and death metal, and 1970s progressive rock as well as other genres.

Blues Bureau International

Blues Bureau is a member of Mike Varney's Shrapnel Label Group, which also includes Shrapnel Records, another guitar oriented label which features shred guitar, hard rock, metal and progressive metal, and Tone Center Records, a jazz oriented label featuring "fusion guitar" as well as a number of jazz tributes.

Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings

The Indonesian progressive metal band Kekal has cited the bombings as an inspiration for its anti-terrorism song "Mean Attraction," which appeared on its third full-length album, The Painful Experience.

Conquest : Writhe

Conquest: Writhe is the second full length album from Swedish progressive metal band Burst.

Dan Swanö

Swanö has also released a solo progressive death metal album entitled Moontower, on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keyboard) as well as providing all the vocal work.

Deák Ferenc tér

Deák Tér is mentioned in Ending Theme, a song by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.

Energetic Disassembly

Energetic Disassembly is the debut album by progressive metal band Watchtower, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Green Carnation

This was enough to convince Bjørn Harstad (In The Woods... guitarist), Stein Roger Sordal (Soxpan ITW... live bassplayer), Kjetil Nordhus (vocals) and Bernt Andrè Moen (Shining) to join the band in time for the actual recording for the album Light of Day, Day of Darkness, a single track, 60-minute progressive metal epic again recorded in Dub-studio.

Keeper of the Seven Keys

Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy leans more towards the genre of Progressive metal than the previous album, Rabbit Don't Come Easy, which was much more of a Power metal album.

Larks' Tongues in Aspic

The progressive metal band Dream Theater covered "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Pt. II" in 2009; the cover is featured on the special edition of their album Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

Liquid Tension Experiment 2

Liquid Tension Experiment 2 is the second studio album by instrumental rock/progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment, released on June 15, 1999 through Magna Carta Records.

Prelude to the Millennium

Prelude to the Millennium: Essentials of Symphony is a compilation album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released in 1999.

Solitarily Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement

Solitarily Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement is the second solo album by progressive metal guitarist Ron Jarzombek, released in 2002.

The Great Gig in the Sky

In their "Official Bootlegs: Covers" series, progressive metal band, Dream Theater, performed this song, as part of their full-length cover version of the entire album, with Theresa Thomason taking over vocal duties.

The Locust Years

The Locust Years is the third studio album by the progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

The album focuses on lyrical themes such as, personal, social, political and global "unfortunate events" tied around three musical themes, technical, groove-based and ambient.

The Unexpected World

The Unexpected World is the debut album by German progressive metal band, Tomorrow's Eve, released in 2000.

Tosin Abasi

Oluwatosin Ayoyinka Olumide Abasi, otherwise known as Tosin Abasi (born January 7, 1983 in Washington, D.C.), is a guitarist who is best known as the guitar player and founder of the instrumental progressive metal band Animals as Leaders.

When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago

When the Keyboard Breaks is a live album by progressive metal group Liquid Trio Experiment 2.

Yuki-onna

American progressive metal band Symphony X has a song entitled "Lady of the Snow", based on the character Yuki-Onna.


see also

2060

BE, a concept album by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation, tells that in this year the human population will be reduced to only 1.2 million.

Agius

Adam Agius (born 1971), member of the progressive metal band Alchemist

Big Dumb Face

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash/death metal song called "Darkness Becomes", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

Blessing in Disguise

A Blessing in Disguise, a 2003 album by progressive metal band Green Carnation

Carlos E. Vela

Musically, he is mostly influenced by drummers Bobby Jarzombek, Vinnie Paul and Phil Collins and by bands like Necrophagist, Spastic Ink, Bottled Science and Megadeth defining his style as mixture between Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal, Death Metal and Progressive Rock.

Divinity Destroyed

Divinity Destroyed was a progressive metal band, formed in 1999 and based in central New Jersey.

Dol Theeta

Dol Theeta is a progressive metal band formed in 2008 by Greek music composer Thanasis Lightbridge.

Faraz

Faraz Anwar (born 1977), Pakistani Progressive metal guitarist, both solo and in the band Mizraab

Jarzombek

Bobby Jarzombek, American heavy metal /progressive metal drummer

Mark Boals

Boals is the founder and vocalist for the band Ring of Fire and serves as the vocalist of Danish neoclassical/progressive metal act Royal Hunt and the US progressive band Seven the Hardway.

Melodramus

Melodramus is a progressive metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah who have recently released their album, Two: Glass Apple, in the United States, while one of the songs from the album was also released on the new Speed Racer soundtrack released by Sumthing Else Music Works on November 16 of 2010.

Michael Lepond

In 2012, he formed a Progressive metal supergroup named Affector with drummer Collin Leijenaar, vocalist Ted Leonard and guitarist Daniel Fries.

Paradise Lost in popular culture

North American progressive metal band Symphony X's 2007 album (and track #5 within) is named Paradise Lost and is themed after it.

Revamp

ReVamp, a progressive metal band founded by Floor Jansen, after the split up of After Forever, her former band

Southern Sons

He also formed progressive metal/jazz fusion band Planet X in 2000 as well as touring with Allan Holdsworth since 2012.

Third Eye Open: The String Tribute to Tool

The group uses violins, viola and cello to express their interpretation of the music of the alternative, progressive metal band Tool.