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Progressive Metal is a combination of classic heavy metal, classic progressive rock, and the melodic finesse of hard rock. The resulting style is one that is dynamic, technical, usually guitar and keyboard-heavy, and melodic with a focus on intelligent lyrical content. While there exist many styles and variations of Progressive Metal, the style pioneered by Dream Theater is considered by many to be definitive of the genre.
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Progressive Metal zeichnet sich meist durch einen komplizierten Aufbau der Songs aus. Dies äußert sich in kunstvoller Verknüpfung mehrerer Themen, Breaklastigkeit, häufigen Tempowechseln, komplexer Perkussion und Rhythmik, unter anderem auch durch Überlagerung verschiedener Rhythmen (Polyrhythmik) und Taktarten (Polymetrik), instrumententechnischer Finesse (Virtuosität der Musiker) und nicht selten auch Überlänge (z. B. A Change of Seasons, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence und Octavarium von Dream Theater oder The Divine Wings of Tragedy und The Odyssey von Symphony X, alle über 20 Minuten). Gerne wird auch versucht, den hohen musikalischen Anspruch durch entsprechende Lyrics in Form von epischen Songtexten und Konzeptalben zu unterstreichen. Beispiele hierfür sind Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory von Dream Theater, Operation: Mindcrime von Queensrÿche oder Be von Pain of Salvation.
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Progressive Metal emerged in the second half of the 1980s. The first bands were essentially attempting to combine influences from classic prog rock of the 1970s (bands include YES, GENESIS, KING CRIMSON) and the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal – bands include DIAMOND HEAD, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST).
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In the 1990s American Power Metal continually lost its dominance over the core movement of Progressive Metal. Instead eclecticism and melodic/symphonic elements became the dominant attributes. DREAM THEATER quickly established themselves as the most popular band of the genre, which ... led to them becoming a reference in terms of style. Every new Progressive Metal band was compared to them, similarly to neo prog bands being compared to MARILLION, or new Prog Rock bands of the 1990s being compared to SPOCK'S BEARD.
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Progressive rock and heavy metal borrowed heavily from each other throughout the 1970s and '80s, and some artists like Deep Purple and Lemmy Kilmister of Hawkwind and Motorhead dabbled in both. But while both genres shared an interest in extreme technical precision and quick tempos, the similarities ended there, as metal maintained a defiantly rebel stance while prog sought mainstream approval with its focus on complexity over speed. It wasn't until the mid-'80s that Seattle's Queensryche would effectively blend both elements. That group's imaginative lyrics and complex song structures were distinctly progressive, while its image and attitude remained palatable to metal fans. Queensryche's 1990 album Empire spawned a Top Ten single, "Silent Lucidity," paving the way for other progressive metal acts like King's X to receive heavy rotation on MTV and commercial radio. However, prog-metal's odd time signatures, theatrical lyrics, and exploratory song structures would not survive the grunge revolution, and with the exception of revivalists Dream Theater, it was relegated to the extreme outskirts of popular culture by the mid-'90s.
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Progressive Gothic Metal takes the dark, slow-tempo elements of the Gothic genre and adds a heavier, more complex song structure. While female vocals are often prominent, male/female vocal combinations are common. Individual instrument solos are not as common as the focus of the songs is on groove and melody.
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