Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy MetalBazillion Points Books, 2010 - 364 páginas Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential mid-1970s efforts of Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a huge tapestry of sounds and styles, including Queensryche, Fates Warning, and Dream Theater; extreme prog pioneers Voivod and Celtic Frost; Norway’s post-black metal avant garde acts Ulver and Arcturus; and the 1990s global movement that spawned Ayreon, Pain of Salvation, and others. Fighting a tide of tradition and conservatism, progressive metal has proven to be one of the most viable, malleable forms in all of modern music; here its preeminent scholar tells the tale. |
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ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE I InventionReinvention I | 3 |
All Moving Parts | 9 |
ByTor at the Gates of Delirium | 21 |
Open Mind for a Different View | 33 |
THE SCIENCE OF THE DAY 5 Passing the Threshold | 49 |
Killed by Tech | 68 |
A Constant Motion 9༠ | 90 |
A QUANTUM LEAP FORWARD 8 Sublimation from Underground I Voivod Celtic Frost | 105 |
North America | 147 |
Florida | 161 |
From 2112 to 1993 | 181 |
GENETIC BLENDS | 195 |
INTO DATA OVERLOAD | 285 |
and the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth | 330 |
Thanks | 350 |
Europe | 129 |
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