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| World Builder |
Progressive music is something that the most ardent fans will study to find the spot where the drummer plays the kick drum just a hair off of the time and then debate for weeks whether or not that was intentional and what it means to the song.
More interesting than that bit of glaring hyperbole is the fact that more people love prog than admit to loving prog, especially in metal.
When the roots of metal are traced, all roads lead back to Black Sabbath. Anyone who's learned any of Sabbath tunes, Paranoid notwithstanding of course, will be able to tell you how many riffs there are in those tunes. The amount of musical movements and passages on those records is more than can be counted.
Metallica...even though they've never said it perse, Lars and James discussed their albums full of mini-epics ad nauseam when the Black Album came out full of short tunes.
