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Tell us why you came to Berklee and the reason for it.
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Mike Portnoy When I was 16-17, I immersed myself in Rush's music.
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From there I went backwards and discovered another prog.
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I would become an accomplished drummer and learn as much as possible -
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- About music theory and harmony. Berklee was the music above all.
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John Petrucci Berklee's about all musicians. Everyone has gigbag on the shoulder.
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But there is a jazz school, so there is a distinction -
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- Between rockers and jazz folks. And rockers are in the minority.
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I divorced myself out. We formed Dream Theater with John Myung and John Petrucci.
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We rehearsed at Berklee. While others played standard jazz tunes -
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- Jammed we voted metals and prog tunes.
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If Rush was Zeppelin meetings Yes, was Dream Theater Metallica meetings Yes.
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"Metallica meetings Yes". Yes with terms of instrumentation and låttyper, -
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- But with Metallica's metal feel.
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Quick how rhythms, hard drumming, heavy guitar riffs. All the good stuff.
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This was during grunge period. Eg. was virtuosity completely umotens.
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- Why did you record deal with them? - They were incredible.
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Derek Shulman I had not heard anything like in a long time. Great events, well played.
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Although everything was about grunge and checkered flanellsskjorter, -
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- I knew when a movement going in one direction -
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- The scope for a music style which is still popular.
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Dream Theater led fans of metal and progressive music together -
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- and they saw that artistic trends not excluded each other.
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It opened up a whole new generation of progressive-metal-oriented band.
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Good or bad, I do not know.
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After Dream Theater's success came a number of bands in the 90s -
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- that led to progressive-metal was a renowned music style.
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One 90s bands accounted for a major change in the prog-metal genre development.
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In the early '90s was grunge the most popular hard rock style.
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Grung Band created a sound that was far from prog-metal.
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Then came a band that was embraced of both progressive rock and alternative audiences.
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I did not made an interview with Tool.
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To get perspective on Tools space in prog metal history -
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- I found their producer David Bottrill.
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Although Tool has played at Lollapalooza, they are outsiders enough -
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- To be totally different than any other bands that exist.
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In every generation there is a band who do things by their own rules -
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- And do not promote themselves such other bands do.
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And they can do it. Tool is band for alternative generation.
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But for me they were no alternative bands.
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What is unique Tools Music within prog genre?
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Man listening to Tool, and one drawn towards music -
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- Of the dark and mysterious. It is something much prog music have in common.
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Dream Theater and Queensrÿche stands for something grand and dramatic.
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Tool do things in a dark, intense way.
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And it is in many ways so much cooler than the first.
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What Tool do, is less about looking at the musicians and you skills.
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It's about looking at music we have created. And as we've played.
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They are virtuosos, but it's not how many notes they have time to play.
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Much of the tone and character in the notes.
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They are extremely important for progressive music. For those opened up indie side. ------
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The direction, ie indies or left-postrock-side -
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- Would not come under prog tab without Tools success.
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- Opened the new part of your brain? - They opened a new door.
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While Tool led prog metal in a darker direction, -
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- began metal band in the 90s to combining brutality with prog feeling.
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It was Swedish Meshuggah made prog-metal to a rhythmic, metal-effect.
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One of their commonalities with Tool is that the rhythm is a main element.
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Can you suggest why it is important creating interesting rhythms?
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Tomas Haake When you find a really cool rhythm, is there any tribe like.
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One hears a cool beat, it is noted it even if you do not like the song.
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Regardless of what happens, the one beat and you can dance to it.
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They have brought the idea of rhythmic experiences longer than anyone else.
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There are things going on that are so rhythmically complex that ... they have to be math whizzes.
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All instruments are percussion instruments. The vocals also.
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The vocals are not used as a melodic instrument, it is pure screaming.
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Meshuggah guitars, with jazz-like, dissonant figures, -
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- is a special feature. Can you tell about it?
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Meshuggah have strong grounds to jazz -
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Jon Weider Horn - But not in Charlie Parker or Miles Davis' jazz.
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It is an Ornette Coleman-slap in the face.
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It's more jazz-crazy. Who knows where it comes from?
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But there is an interest to present music in a new way -
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- And approach the metal in a new way. The musicians can do it.
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We were on to something that captivated us.
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The music has changed, but we are still a niche band.
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We're not going to sell millions of plates. We will not make marketable music.
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And it took the only 20 years before people began to dig our music.
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Meshuggah were not the only ones together - joined prog music with extreme metal.
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Dillinger Escape Plan music was so complex that it was called "math metal".
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The first time I saw them in 2000 ... I did not think it sounded like metal.
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It sounded barely like music. What inspired them to create the insane sound?
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Dillinger was about we gave up living as musicians.
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Ben Weinman We did not care what people thought. We tried not to reach a certain audience.
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We said, "We're never going to fit into or living as musicians. "
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It's about someone who just do what they love.
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And it works because they love it.
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Aggression level in music appeal to metal fans.
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They draw what Meshuggah do, even longer.
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They create an art form of full aggressively frenzy.
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The first time I saw them, we went to Redding in Pennsylvania.
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Matt Jacobson Dillinger Escape Plan played in a basement or garage.
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They were like crazy. They travel around and swung their guitars in the air.
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The singer screaming audience face.
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It was extremely, it was very energetic.
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When we went there, asked a staff member:"What do you think?" I saw:
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"We must write a contract with the band."
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I remember the first time I saw Dillinger alive. It looked like -
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- If they went on to harm the public. They waved among people with gitarhalsene.
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They somehow support them against the public. I've never seen anything like it.
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Dillinger is enough one of the world's most dangerous band.
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We make things difficult for ourselves, both physically and technically.
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We make things difficult and uncomfortable for people who are experiencing us.
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We will get the audience and ourselves away from our comfort zones.
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No great art emanates from something pleasant.
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In the early 2000s prog-metal so extreme and complex -
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- The connection to pioneers Genesis and Rush seems lost.
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That changed with Mastodon, that reunited metal with early progressive rock.
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How was the climate for metal and heavy rock when you started?
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Metal was well still something bad. Grunge was popular -
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- but it was watered down and suffered the same as the 80's "hair-metal".
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But there was grindcore and many crazy death metal band.
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We have our roots in the 80s and 90s more technical metal.
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we wanted to do something more progressive.
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With Mastodon I wanted playing music that was challenging -
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- In the right way, and that I had complete control over.
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We should be a collective. Each tone and every riff should sound good together.
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We should have a surprising twist here and there as a tribute to prog rock.
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In what way Mastodon up from all the foregoing?
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Mastodon is modern progressive music's Black Sabbath.
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With some King Crimson mixture. It's all about the riffs.
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Riff after riff after riff that is so leaden.
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Meanwhile, the incredible musicians. Fire is meta bilge Bill Bruford.
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What he does with his hands, is so amazing.
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One can draw parallels to Dream Theater that pulled into thrash metal.
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Mastodon has always been considered "Sludge metal", as they had with it.
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And again:"Fuck the rules. We do not care if people do not think King Crimson is hip. "
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"We draw on elements from there music and blowing the consequences. "
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They break with many contemporary metal bands.
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In 2004 stock Mastodon the new millennium first concept album "Leviathan".
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It was inspired by the classic story of Moby Dick.
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I met the boys in London after a long flight.
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Tour our would begin. "We must make a record about Moby Dick."
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I talked on about the great whales and all that.
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And all were eager: "It sounds cool. We play it."
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The story in "Moby Dick" very similar to what we felt at the time.
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We had a white van, and we left our families:
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"We travel into the unknown." As the men on the boat.
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We recognized us. Before the album came, so Well many of us as yet another heavy band.
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"They are a bit intellectual. They read books. "People took a fresh look at us.
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"Leviathan" made a big impression. a concept album with a whale on the cover -
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- was to bring things to a new level. People were absolutely crazy.
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We got rave reviews and came on the cover of Spin and Rolling Stone.
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We were not surprised that it went well.
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But it was exceptional. Of course it was fantastic.
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Mastodon is one of the 2000s most successful metal band.
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But they are not alone to continue the progressive-metal.
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Some of the genre's founders 're still in full swing.
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After more than 40 years, Rush gone away from keyboard and return to your roots.
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Why remain progressive-metal one of heavy metals most vital during genres?
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Why do we see young people Rush concerts today -
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- playing air instruments?
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I try to keep in touch with young people boy in me, and it affects the game.
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I play things I myself think is exciting.
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We make songs that we ourselves enjoy. It is the progressive urge.
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Prog Musicians are musicians. And there will always be young -
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- who will play the guitar or drums. The will see a drummer with umpteen drums -
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- And a guitarist who can play at 1000 km / h.
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Interesting music has no expiration date. One can play Rush songs about 50 years.
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They are still viable. One needs it, and one must challenge themselves.
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There are always parts of the fan base who allow themselves to imprison -
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- Of conceptual music because it is more complicated. And harder.
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There are many "empty calories" on the radio.
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So people will always feel a need listening to something interesting.
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When young fans not find it on the radio, they find it in Genesis.
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They find it in the Tool, and they find it in Rush.
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I would look at what progressive music is and what it says about heavy metal future.
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The urge to create exciting and challenging music defines progressive-metal.
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I also learned that characteristic not only applies progressive-metal.
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Both for new bands and for the genre's legends -
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- is the desire to push the boundaries and become a Cut a driving force.
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Heavy metal will still be relevant and in development for decades to come.
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