Oh c'mon, prog has like 12 sub-genres and thats about it, and of course even terms like Progressive Metal are pretty broad since many bands in that category don't sound much alike.
And Italian Prog isn't any lamer a term that Brit-Pop, it's simply used to discribe the Progressive Rock scene of that region, I do agree however that most of those bands can easly fall into other categorys like Symphonic Prog and whatnot, it's not really a genre.
Prog dosen't have anywhere as many subgenres as Metal or Punk, obviously because it's not as popular.
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