@million ya for sure. i know broad terms are the bane of many a music aggregator website user but ubiquity and ambiguity do be tha play of tha game

@jotw gonna put in a request to add a genre terminology tags feature in hopes that it'll fuck up the code further and the global font for the site gets permanently stuck on papyrus

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pog

calm knows whats good

dialling a hefty spork tag right now this second

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Some interesting thoughts back there. Progressive music is not a genre but rather a desire to push the frontiers of creativity at a particular time. Queensryche, for example, was a progressive metal band in the 1980s/early 1990s, just as Dream Theater and Opeth were in the 90s and 00s, respectively. These guys ceased to be progressive eons ago. So, yeah, Thantifaxath produces progressive black metal music.

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Progressive thought processes for sure.

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yeah, so essentially this band is progressive but maybe not actual prog - I can agree with that



on Sput we only have genre tags and not general descriptors, so omitting prog is correct in this instance / context

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This thread is becoming progressive.

Prog having relatively rigid confines as a genre is one of the cases to be grateful for tbqh, bc half the time "using it to denote music that's setting out to expand the boundaries of (a) given genre/s" is just a shiny way to say experimental while stroking a little extra fluff out of your chin
Hence the million bands on this site mistagged as prog

and then on the other side theres all the djent and shitty Erra metalcore getting tagged as prog

excuse me, this is an Erra-free zone
one day i will make it through a whole album

id advise not to

in fact, dont listen to any metalcore except for metalcore i rec you

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spoken like a true gatekeeper



of all the prominent Sput genres, metalcore desperately needs one to be fair so I'm not against it... carry on

mort you have been gone too long, i exclusively listen to progcore now

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I only listen to Gagaku now

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I care little about the genre tags, because as we’ve seen here, they just end up as subjective interpretations no matter how ‘concrete’ someone thinks their definition is. If someone describes any type of rock/metal release as ‘progressive’ (even if it’s not the primary tag), then it’s a fairly safe bet that it will involve non typical song structures, drawn out sections of ambience, recurring motifs, polymeters (not necessarily polyrhythms) and general experimentation outside of 4/4 (or at least syncopation within that) etc etc. You can argue that there’s a spectrum at play, but I don’t see it as rigid at all; King Crimson are almost the antithesis of a band like Dream Theatre, for example, in terms of the way they present their music and the way it’s constructed. Speaking of which, there’s a track on one of Thantifaxath’s previous releases (I’ll have to go back and check which one) that could have come straight off Red.

Ps the guitarist is in another band called Ayahuasca https://ayahuasca.bandcamp.com/album/yin-3 (notice Jocelyn Barth guests again)

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Cheers Aluktodolo, will check that link

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Absolutely legendary bot post holy shit

"just end up as subjective interpretations"
the fact that they are very much not this (as per your largely accurate list of objectively discernable prog traits) is kinda very much why they exist? which is why defining prog in genre terms by how innovative or groundbreaking the artist in q actually is is so unhelpful - this does come down to interpretation

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What I mean is, some bands will tick nearly all of those boxes and other bands might only focus on one or two and run with it, or have traces of those elements. I’d call Achilles Last Stand prog but other people would just see it as an embellishment of their core sound. There’s often an overlap between progressive, experimental or avant garde as well. I’ve seen people adamant on message boards that Gojira are ‘prog metal’ and I’ve just never heard it, save the odd moment.