Your way in
Progressive metal 1988
Prog rock ambition with metal weight: odd meters, concept albums and instrumental virtuosity.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 90-180 bpm
- Song length
- 6-12 min
- Written about
- Consciousness, Grief and recovery, Concept narratives across a whole album, Systems and mathematics
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Progressive metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1988 | 92% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Consciousness, Grief and recovery, Concept narratives across a whole album, Systems and mathematics | 50% | ×1 |
| Long. Let it go somewhere. How long should a song be? | up to 12 min | 83% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 88% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1, about 1, length 1 out of 8. Progressive metal leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Opeth, Blackwater Park 2001
Opeth - Blackwater Park. Growls and acoustic guitar in one song, and nothing forced about it.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
Animals as Leaders, Animals as Leaders 2009
Animals as Leaders - the debut. Tosin Abasi plays eight strings as if it were normal.
The first is Progressive metal's own entry point. After it come Progressive metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Neo-prog 84%
Prog's 1980s comeback, with digital keyboards, shorter songs and more melodrama.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Progressive metal.
The way into Neo-prog -
Garage rock revival 82%
A reaction to nu metal and radio pop: crisp guitars, plain production, narrow suits. It put guitar rock back on festival bills in the 2000s.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Progressive metal.
The way into Garage rock revival
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 8.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 8.
- Long. Let it go somewhere. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.