Progressive death metal

The progressive death metal is a fusion of death metal with the bars and compositional arrangements of progressive music close to progressive metal.

Features

Groar-voiced progressive metal is just one consideration within the progressive genre that incorporates the time-shifting and mood-shifting characteristics of progressive metal and a death metal influence that is seen almost solely in the vocals and vocals. certain way in the sound power. Like all heavy metal subgenres, progressive metal is difficult to categorize and many bands transition from one genre to another with little difficulty and different definitions or classifications can be found within the same genre.

Progressive death metal has some similarities to technical death metal, as the latter also incorporates certain influences from progressive metal and technical metal, albeit in a more technical and less noticeable way. Among the elements that can be found in the genre are the classic growls of death metal, the drums that range from the fast and aggressive rhythms of death to the characteristic handling of amalgam bars and polyrhythms of progressive, acoustic passages and the use of little instruments. common in traditional heavy metal such as the saxophone.

History

Many fans of the genre consider the Swedish band Opeth to be the original and almost only exponents of progressive metal that actually evoke progressive rock and some elements of death metal and the term "progressive" it becomes mostly accepted that way. Opeth has clean voices and the typical death metal in their music. Undoubtedly, this group has been very important in the genre, being in charge of popularizing it among metal fans; The origins of progressive metal of this type must be placed in 1990 and 1993.

In the year 1990 three works were published that to date are considered the roots of technical and progressive death metal. The American band Atheist is one of the first bands that ventured to include complex and less conventional structures in their Piece of Time album, coming to evolve their sound with later albums; The equally American Nocturnus, led by drummer Mike Browning (also a member of Morbid Angel at the time), reveal their debut album: The Key, an album full of technically intricate structures, enhanced with gloomy synthesizer atmospheres. On the other hand, the Germans Atrocity on their album Hallucinations innovated death metal with technical and progressive sounds.

In 1992, Dan Swanö created one of his countless side projects to his then main band Edge Of Sanity. This project was called Pan-Thy-Monium and their album Dawn of Dreams is probably one of the earliest forms of death metal-influenced technical metal, with its chaotic timing and sax forays. That same year the band Afflicted released their debut album "Prodigal Sun" where technical and progressive structures combined with the sound of death metal are exhibited. In 1993, the American band Cynic released Focus. This album is also considered a technical death metal album with jazz influences. In the same period of time the Italian band Sadist brings to light their first full-length musical work: "Above the Light", although it was only with their second and most praised album: "Tribe& #34;, who experimented with progressive sounds to the full.

Pestilence, one of the seminal and crucial bands for the development of death metal, released in 1993 their fourth album entitled "Spheres", this work contains structures of progressive death metal combined with jazz influences.

Bands such as Carbonized, Phlebotomized and Disharmonic Orchestra dared to experiment with progressive sounds and even Avant-garde metal without neglecting death.

It was in 2001 when Opeth released their fifth album titled Blackwater Park. This album immediately met with great critical success and tremendous fan response, bringing their progressive metal to the fore. Not as chaotic as the works of groups before them, the question arose where technical metal begins and progressive metal ends. What is undoubted is that the works of both Opeth and Cynic and Pan-Thy-Monium have inspired a generation of groups like Estertor, (All You Hate) or Theory in Practice