Album Rating: 5.0
It's true that genuine brutal prog is very rarely released and can probably be used more specifically than I use it here. Also, my point was merely to say that Brutal Prog bands, especially the inventors of the style, Ruins and TFL, have strong math-rock influences (not that the two genres are essentially the same). Using avant-prog in relation to a band like Area feels iffy: I would consider them to be more of a jazz-fusion outfit than an avant-garde progressive rock outfit. Situating them within any one idiom, no matter how specific is quite difficult. I would probably just consider them avant-garde if I'm honest.
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