| Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, you can’t
possibly mean that. Progressive rock? Wasn’t breaking free from
the shackles of prog-rock the single most important thing about new
wave? (Yes.) Wasn’t the progginess of the whole affair exactly
what made all that instrumental rock people started playing in 1995
and 1996 so cloying, and dull, and frankly awful? (Yes.) So how can
Opeth be great, and brutal and melodic and and powerful and bitchin’,
if what they’re playing is prog? |
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