^ Nice call. I just went to see Between the Buried and Me for the second time last Tuesday. They're from not far from where I live, and I caught them on the last night of their tour. They were obviously a little tired.
I've come to notice that what classifies a Metal band as being "Progressive" is the use of clean vocals and/or uncommon instrumentation - i.e. keyboards, world percussion.
Whereas I just took the word progressive for what it means literally. In my mind a band that takes their music in different directions and pushes the envelop of what they're able to do is progressive.
The advent of creating a sound or a subgenre for "Progressive" music is a little silly to me. Kind of how people tried to capitalize on "Emotional" music. Maybe I just think about it too hard. Or literally.
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