Spastic Ink?

[Rapt0r]

Again, argueing genres is **** autistic.

[flowerzink]

Yeah and Led Zeppelin was the first metal band. This isn't how it works people.

Example: Black Sabbath plays Symptom of the Universe, or Deep Purple plays Highway Star? Would you consider either of them the first Thrash Metal band? No, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill, (arguably Venom) and Slayer were, etc etc. Those guys were Prog Rock and they happened to make a Prog Metal song or two, but Voivod was the first band to play pure Prog Metal (although perhaps it could be argued that some early prog acts were "prog metal" is people are really considering bands like Dream Theater Prog Metal. Voivod took prog metal to the next level before there was a level to start on. The only element of Queensryche that is metal is their vocals and chord structure. I would call them "Prog Hard Rock" if anything. I mean really Judas Priest was more "progressive" than them simply by the fact that they used classical scales before anyone else.

King Crimson is hard to define. I mean really I suppose you could say their first album was prog metal mixed with jazz fusion. Nothing tops that. But at the same time, it's nothing like prog metal as we know it, it's prog heavy metal, not METAL metal if you get my point. In that sense it's hard to say. If you really want to group in bands that are really more hard rock influenced than metal into prog metal just to save yourself from having to... I dunno, then I guess that's up to you. I mean there's far more yardbirds and who and zep influence in all three of the examples you posted than there is of influence from Sabbath, Rainbow, or Priest.

What is this i don't even...