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mishа said:
It seems like everyone is playing metal nowadays. Not that i have anything against the genre, but i just wanted to know if there are people who still play good ol prog rock songs where it's /calm/ for the first 2 to 20 minutes and then the lead guitarist decides to rip the fattest boomer solo you've ever heard.

The track is awesome, THOUGH.
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Yeah a lot of people got amazed with tool and took prog into metal and never went back to rock. Maybe @Nihilma can help a bit more than me.
 
mishа said:
It seems like everyone is playing metal nowadays. Not that i have anything against the genre, but i just wanted to know if there are people who still play good ol prog rock songs where it's /calm/ for the first 2 to 20 minutes and then the lead guitarist decides to rip the fattest boomer solo you've ever heard.

The track is awesome, THOUGH.
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Honestly an interesting thought.
It seems to me that rock as a genre almost went extinct like 20 years ago or so.
The genre was the base layer of every modern genre of music to a degree, and now having bands who do pure rock is rare.
Most successful rock bands of our day are either "pop-rock" which only inherits the name rock in spirit, or slightly more extreme styles of rock which enter the metal realm.
The lines are blurry.

For example, Dream Theater and Opeth are considered metal bands, but to some degree have in a lot of their songs no distinct aggressiveness that can be found in metal as a whole. It sounds more like rock than metal and is still considered metal, and yet the band is extremelly successful in the prog circles.
Case in point :

Therefore idk if it's a problem of prog having lost momentum in favour of prog metal or if it's a problem or branding, or just evolution of overall sound
 
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