Early Metal

Certif1ed · 09-25-2009, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Firstly, they are too recent even though they are often credited with creating Progressive metal but when I think of Prog Metal I think of Opeth and not DT.

I know this is off topic - but I find that opinion very interesting.

I would certainly consider Dream Theater to be a metal band - and I suppose "early" is a relative term - what is "too recent" after all?

DT formed in 1985, and metal as we know it started either with Priest (1975), Black Sabbath (1970) - or certainly no earlier than 1967. The maths would point to DT being the early side of the mid point, using the most aggressive calculation, and early metal using the least aggressive.

Second, while I too have difficulty in accepting Dream Theater's music as "Progressive" (noting from your comments that in the Prog community, many accept Kansas as Prog Rock - and having heard "Leftoverture", I can understand why, as it's a very intricate album), but I cannot find a single thread back to Prog in Opeth's music, which only sounds like heavy metal to me.

This is, of course, a completely separate discussion, which I would be delighted to go into further in a separate thread.