Quote Originally Posted by Avatar View Post
That's exactly where my tastes become complicated.. I've always been drawn to the blues line of progression, blues -> rock -> hard rock -> metal, but then the "harder" genres of metal, like death metal, is simply too much for me. I don't listen to much classical music for the same reason, coincidentally.

But coming at prog from the more classic, mainstream rock side with The Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria is opening the door to the types of prog sounds like you describe. I just like it all, dammit.
I'm quite the opposite. My tastes revolved around the extreme side of metal for many years - black, death and doom. Over the years I became bored with extreme metal, as most bands started sounding the same. The riffs where the same, drummers just hammered out blastbeats in each song and the nondescript growling and shrieking made that no song truly stood out from another. So I gradually went over to more melodic styles of metal and settled on prog being my sub-genre of choice.

Quote Originally Posted by AstroTurf View Post
Sorry, that may have come out wrong.

I mean back them there were no genres of metal, it was all just metal

Not meant as an insult
No insult taken. I'm just very passionate about my metal. I always urge people to be open minded when it comes to metal, as I believe it is one of the few genres of music where you get musicians that are incredibly skilled at what they do. You often get multi-instrumentalist virtuosos that often release solo albums, writing all the songs and recording all instruments and vocals on their own. I appreciate the skill and effort they put into producing the music.