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Originally Posted by ericbfg
Thanks! Good topic as well as I have strong opinions on this, but I am not so pure Genesis and Yes from a Prog standpoint, many bands I think of as Prog such as the Flower Kings, Anathema, Karmakanic and the Tangent are from the last decade, they are all different and I agree that Metal is ok to sub categorise as Prog, Porcupine Tree, fit this perfectly. Like you said, it is confusing. But I am clear that I believe that bands such as Metallica, Led Zeppelin etc should not be referred to as prog for the reasons I have already mentioned.
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I`m familiar with the bands you`ve listed especially the Flower Kings and Anathema, Anathema are in essence a metal band anyway and their early stuff incorporates death, doom and gothic metal before they began to streamline their sound more and take on more Porcupine Tree prog type influences. Concerning metal bands and prog on this forum, Opeth are one of the dividing bands on the subject, with some seeing them as prog metal and others not.
Led Zeppelin definitely not prog and as for Metallica thats not so straightforward, as they were capable of playing looong technical songs with multiple changes......But for the record, I still don`t think of them as a prog metal band in any way, just as a thrash band that played long technical songs.