Il Progressive Metal

PROGRESSIVE METAL

Di Massimo Max Salari

Il Rock ha subito nel tempo moltissime deviazioni e sviluppi, da quando i Fab Four di Liverpool (Beatles) hanno cominciato a cambiare le regole del gioco negli anni ’60. Possiamo definirli “innesti” e sappiamo bene che spesso portano anche a buoni frutti. Tuttavia per analizzare il significato di Progressive Metal si necessita di un passo indietro nel tempo abbastanza notevole, ossia ritornare agli anni dei Beatles. Verso la fine dei ’60 con il brano “Eleanor Rigby” il noto quartetto pone una spinta notevole al mutamento del Rock, apportando in esso la strumentazione ad archi di stampo classico, ecco dunque che il Rock non è più fatto solamente di chitarre elettriche, ma anche di strumentazione “alternativa” per il genere, ossia il classico. Questa spinta è il seme di quello che successivamente verrà chiamato Progressive Rock. L’idea fu sviluppata successivamente dai Moody Blues, dai Procol Harum, dai Nice di Keith Emerson, fino a giungere nel 1969 al primo disco ufficiale del Progressive Rock, quel “In The Court Of The Crimson King” dei King Crimson con tanto di tastiera Mellotron a sopperire l’assenza di una vera e propria orchestra. Ma il gioco è fatto, il Prog Rock è nato con il suo modo “colto” di proporsi, non più dedito a canzoncine, bensì a lunghe suite. Testi più complessi, modo di presentarsi più teatrale, concept album, elucubrazioni strumentali e molto altro nella musica di giganti come Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, EL&P etc. etc. Dal 1970 al 1978 il Rock subirà al riguardo decine e decine di innesti, Prog Jazz, Prog Folk, Crossover Prog, Prog Psichedelico etc. etc. fina a giungere allo sfinimento ed ecco allora che nel 1978 la gente comincia a stancarsi di questo modo “complesso” di suonare e delle lunghe suite, cambiano le mode, giunge la “Febbre Del Sabato Sera” e la musica da discoteca così nel Rock si sviluppa parallelamente il Garage Rock in Punk, tre note, brani brevi spacchiamo tutto e divertiamoci, esattamente lo spirito contrario del Prog (Sex Pistols in cattedra). Ma questo si sa risiede nella natura delle cose, si cambia e la musica è specchio della società del momento. Ecco dunque nel 1980 innestarsi un nuovo ramo nel Rock, l’Hard Rock rappresentato da band come Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, Black Sabbath si va a congiungere con il Punk di moda in questo momento per far nascere in Inghilterra la NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal).

Per intenderci l’Heavy Metal è musica dura, distorta, assolutamente non comparata a “musica colta” tanto che i giornalisti ciecamente la tacciarono di vita breve. Il termine Heavy Metal viene estrapolato da un brano dei Steppenwolf del 1968 dal titolo “Born To Be Wild” dove all’interno del testo c’è la frase Heavy Metal Tunder”, come un fulmine nel metallo e questo è piaciuto ai giornalisti per rappresentare al meglio il frastuono di giovani band come Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon etc. etc.

Negli anni ’80 dunque l’Heavy Metal gode di ottima salute e di numerose vendite, mentre il Progressive Rock è tramortito, quasi sparito. Ma per la legge degli innesti e dell’evoluzione, c’è sempre un qualcuno che la fa strana, una sorta di piccolo Beatles. Dal Canada giunge un trio che sposta l’Hard Rock in lidi poco convenzionali, anche se il distorto delle chitarre elettriche ancora non è al massimo, loro si chiamano Rush e certi brani sono complessi e anche di lunga durata tipo suite, un anomalia per il processo del momento. Così anni dopo una band di Seattle di nome Queensryche si azzarda ancor di più a modificare l’Heavy Metal, lo fa consapevolmente? Forse no, probabilmente tutto questo nasce loro spontaneo, ma la musica si sposta verso numerosi cambi di tempo e di umore, cosa che in una canzone Heavy Metal classica questo solitamente non avviene. Subentrano le tastiere (bestemmia per un metallaro), tanto da contaminare anche i maestri dell’Heavy metal, ossia i Judas Priest nell’album “Turbo” del 1986, ma qualcosa di alieno accade di li a poco, la consacrazione del termine Progressive Metal giunge nel 1989 attribuita ad una band americana di nome Dream Theater. Con l’album “When Dream And Day Unite” (MCA – 1989) le regole cambiano nuovamente, i Dream Theater fanno ricoprire alle tastiere un ruolo quasi fondamentale, così relegano la tecnica strumentale e vocale ad altissimi livelli, proprio come segno di riconoscimento del genere, ossia il Metal colto, qui nato in maniera definitiva!

Tutto questo farebbe pensare che il Progressive Metal non dovrebbe esistere, è un ossimoro, possono condividere musica grezza e musica colta? Il tempo e l’evoluzione dei suoni ci risponderanno di si.

Come tutti i generi musicali nel tempo anche il Metal Progressive subisce a sua volta numerosi innesti, ma qui non vorrei mandarvi in confusione più totale e quindi prima iniziamo con ordine ed ascoltiamo i classici del genere:

I Classici

Rush – “Tom Sawyer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk

 “Villa Strangiato”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4

Dream Theater - “Surrounded”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnBgyhAaPU

 “The Spirit Carries On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6PPkKBXoU

Queensryche – “Operation: Mindcrime”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2QOBMlTA

“Someone Else”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3a2NPeWd1U

Iron Maiden – “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2WgQtPUsuQ&list=PL4YsnucVIwWq-XNxVNMysk6yYB8bBvZ9L&index=5

Savatage – “Chance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TboNW5AiHA8

“Edge Of Thorns”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOzdcCy1Vg

Fates Waring – “Leave The Past Behind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJmf10NNEE

Crimson Glory – “Lost Reflection”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-polqoaTEQU

Helloween – “Dr. Stein”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFTQRmsK0k

Mastermind – “Child of Technology”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vl3czQzk98

Symphony X – “Smoke and Mirrors”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhUWYOnTV3c

Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force – “Black Star”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZp323l7hes

Pain Of Salvation – “Remedy Lane”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3Srj6JDQQ&list=PL3FB920DDF3162A57&index=10

Ora avete memorizzato cosa si intende per Progressive Metal classico. Ovviamente l’universo musicale è più ampio, ma qui avete assunto ciò di che si necessita per averne buone basi. A questo punto ci si può spingere oltre ed andare ad ascoltare e conoscere nuovi innesti e quindi nuovissime sonorità.

Il Metal si spacca in moltissimi sottogeneri, grazie a band come Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost,  Voivod, Obituary, Candlemass, Venom,  ognuno in un suo campo, il Thrash Metal, il Gothic Metal, il Doom Metal, il Black Metal, il Death Metal, l’Experimental / Avant Garde Metal, Sludge Metal, Groove Metal, lo Psychedelic Metal etc. etc. Questi sottogeneri a loro volta verranno trattati da alcune band in maniera “Progressiva” ed ecco nascere un immenso calderone di nuovi suoni e di tanta sperimentazione. Ecco che con “Progressive Metal” si intendono oggi numerose soluzioni per cui si è dovuto necessariamente suddividere a loro volta i sottogeneri con altrettanti nomi (quelli fatti sopra con l’aggiunta del termine “Progressive” es. Progressive Thrash Metal), tuttavia accorpare il tutto sotto l’unica bandiera Metal Progressive va comunque bene.

Ed ora potete ascoltare cosa si intende per sottogeneri di Metal Progressive con numerosi innesti e noterete un mondo completamente differente, pur avendo le stesse basi dei classici. Ovviamente stiamo parlando di band più recenti rispetto la nascita del genere, essendo questa una evoluzione.

SOTTOGENERI METAL PROGRESSIVE

Ayreon – “Computer Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0UtJQFbog

Cynic – “Umanoid”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj43zrrQd0o

Meshuggah – “Bleed”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc

Tool – “The Pot”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g

Voivod – “The Unknown Knows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2QeFd7M0mk

Opeth – “Windowpane”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEaf9LqIUZQ

“Porcelain Heart”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmH42QnsL6Q

Anathema – “Flying”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVF4uNiy2Zk

“Forgotten Hopes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhMlXtAjf_Q

Porcupine Tree – “Blackest Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsYG_pE76o

“Arriving somewhere but not here”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWhpfXisZw

Mystery – “Pride”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9bgfpY0so

Tiles – “Reasonable Doubt”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI6_Ku81p5I

Ulver – “So Falls the World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfmD7lz99w
A Perfect Circle "Judith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgKRCXybSM
Celtic Frost – “I Won’t  Dance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySijB9hUvBM

Evergrey – “Distance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqoJTWmG4Xs

Threshold – “Sunrise On Mars”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4XKq5ArCPU

Shadow Gallery – “Crystalline Dream”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjEKQAMWpk

Power Of Omens – “Alone I Stand”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-falVbVNeE

Everon – “Everon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQhA5wDcTLA

Vanden Plas – “Beyond Daylight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Y66H24GLQ

Liquid Tension Experiment – “Paradigm Shift”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8

Angra – 2Carry On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytotGK6YQ40

Stratovarius – “Elysium”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDS1TBAElo

Redemption – “Little Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjrM0wsEK5Y

Magellan – “Estadium Nacional”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilI3nOH-krU

Enchant – “Break”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnp8WS9lhU

Riverside –“Conceiving You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMXG7kM8YZk

Sieges Even – “These Empty Places”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuoxFRW6u7s

Circus Maximus – “Sin”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD0bapCVZ0

Leprous – “Rewind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ken_aH550

Dante – “November Red”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSq6legCqH0

Epica – “Storm The Sorrow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNoTvg0t52c

Garden Wall – “Negative”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUVhwTPzp8

Labyrinth – “Moonlight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFaaIZQy_do

Rhapsody Of Fire – “Dawn of Victory”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_iOnLNt9M

Blind Guardian – “A Past and Future Secret”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8GIVtCNlCk

Walls Of Babylon – “Let Me Try”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-uawcJ05c8

Mind Key – “Waiting For The Answer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoVz9CAwbk

Moonlight Comedy – “Hidden Truth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXTS0hKG5Y8

Nightwish – “Elan”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPonioDYnoY

Platypus – “What About The Merch?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk4ig7NpAac&start_radio=1&list=RDEMT5zUI3WLyR873zh4cVegyg

Royal Hunt – “Until The Day”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYfeoH9MGyI

Seventh Wonder – “Victorious”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhubRsr11rk

Sons Of Apollo – “Coming Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1N8kVYfkE

Stramonio – “Desert Night”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ62KDZfdfI

Therion – “Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_NtCdMdGrg

Time Machine – “Cold Flames Of Faith”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opeCYXpAhTo

Haken – “The Point of No Return”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt03KJw2IAU

A questo punto per approfondire l’argomento e renderlo più esaustivo servirà la vostra curiosità, ovviamente solo se in tutto questo avete trovato spunti interessanti. Magari avete scoperto un nuovo genere che vi aggrada e questo è lo scopo di questo piccolo speciale. Oggi abbiamo internet per scoprire e ricercare, quindi buon divertimento. MS

Versione Inglese:

Rock has undergone many detours and developments over time since the Fab Four from Liverpool (Beatles) began to change the rules of the game in the 1960s. We can call them "grafts," and we know that they often bear good fruit as well. However, to analyze the meaning of Progressive Metal one needs to take a fairly remarkable step back in time, that is, to go back to the Beatles years. Towards the end of the 1960s with the song "Eleanor Rigby" the well-known quartet poses a considerable push to the change of Rock, bringing into it the string instrumentation of the classical style, so here Rock is no longer made only of electric guitars, but also of "alternative" instrumentation for the genre, i.e., classical. This thrust is the seed of what would later be called Progressive Rock. The idea was later developed by the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Keith Emerson's Nice, until we arrive in 1969 at the first official Progressive Rock record, that "In The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson complete with a Mellotron keyboard to make up for the absence of a real orchestra. But that was it, Prog Rock was born with its own "cultured" way of presenting itself, no longer devoted to ditties but to long suites. More complex lyrics, more theatrical way of presenting itself, concept albums, instrumental lucubrations and much more in the music of giants like Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, EL&P etc. etc. From 1970 to 1978 Rock will undergo in this regard dozens and dozens of grafts, Prog Jazz, Prog Folk, Crossover Prog, Psychedelic Prog etc. etc. until it reaches exhaustion and then in 1978 people begin to get tired of this "complex" way of playing and long suites, fashions change, comes "Saturday Night Fever" and disco music so in Rock develops in parallel Garage Rock into Punk, three notes, short tracks let's smash everything and have fun, exactly the opposite spirit of Prog (Sex Pistols in the chair).

But this you know resides in the nature of things, you change and music mirrors the society of the moment. So here in 1980 a new branch is grafted into Rock, Hard Rock represented by bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, Black Sabbath goes to join with Punk fashionable at this time to give birth in England to NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal).

To understand it, Heavy Metal is hard, distorted music, absolutely not compared to "cultured music" so much so that journalists blindly branded it short-lived. The term Heavy Metal is extrapolated from a 1968 Steppenwolf song titled "Born To Be Wild" where within the lyrics is the phrase Heavy Metal Tunder," like a lightning bolt through metal and this appealed to journalists to best represent the din of young bands such as Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon etc. etc.

In the 1980s therefore, heavy metal is enjoying excellent health and numerous sales, while Progressive Rock is stunned, almost gone. But by the law of graft and evolution, there is always someone who makes it weird, a sort of little Beatles. From Canada comes a trio that moves Hard Rock into unconventional shores, even if the distortion of electric guitars is still not at its best, they are called Rush and certain songs are complex and even suite-like in length, an anomaly for the process of the moment. So years later a band from Seattle named Queensryche ventures even further to change heavy metal, does it do so consciously? Maybe not, it probably all comes naturally to them, but the music shifts to numerous tempo and mood changes, something that in a classic Heavy Metal song this usually does not happen. Keyboards take over (blasphemy for a metalhead), so much so that they contaminate even the masters of Heavy Metal, namely Judas Priest in the 1986 album "Turbo," but something alien happens shortly thereafter, the consecration of the term Progressive Metal comes in 1989 attributed to an American band named Dream Theater. With the album "When Dream And Day Unite" (MCA - 1989) the rules change again, Dream Theater make keyboards play an almost fundamental role, so they relegate instrumental and vocal technique to very high levels, just as a sign of recognition of the genre, i.e. cultured Metal, born here in a definitive way! All this would suggest that Progressive Metal should not exist, it is an oxymoron, can raw music and cultured music share? Time and the evolution of sounds will answer yes.

 

THE CLASSIC

 

 

Rush – “Tom Sawyer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk

 “Villa Strangiato”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4

Dream Theater - “Surrounded”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnBgyhAaPU

“The Spirit Carries On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6PPkKBXoU

Queensryche – “Operation: Mindcrime”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2QOBMlTA

“Someone Else”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3a2NPeWd1U

Iron Maiden – “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2WgQtPUsuQ&list=PL4YsnucVIwWq-XNxVNMysk6yYB8bBvZ9L&index=5

Savatage – “Chance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TboNW5AiHA8

“Edge Of Thorns”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOzdcCy1Vg

Fates Waring – “Leave The Past Behind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJmf10NNEE

Crimson Glory – “Lost Reflection”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-polqoaTEQU

Helloween – “Dr. Stein”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFTQRmsK0k

Mastermind – “Child of Technology”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vl3czQzk98

Symphony X – “Smoke and Mirrors”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhUWYOnTV3c

Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force – “Black Star”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZp323l7hes

Pain Of Salvation – “Remedy Lane”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3Srj6JDQQ&list=PL3FB920DDF3162A57&index=10

 

Now you have memorized what is meant by classical progressive metal. Obviously the musical universe is broader, but here you have assumed what you need to have a good foundation of it. At this point you can go further and go to listen and learn about new grafts and thus brand new sounds. Metal splits into so many subgenres, thanks to bands like Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Voivod, Obituary, Candlemass, Venom, each in its own field, Thrash Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Experimental / Avant Garde Metal, Sludge Metal, Groove Metal, Psychedelic Metal etc. etc. These sub-genres in turn will be treated by some bands in a "Progressive" way and here comes an immense cauldron of new sounds and a lot of experimentation. Here it is that by "Progressive Metal" we now mean numerous solutions for which we necessarily had to subdivide the subgenres in turn with as many names (those made above with the addition of the term "Progressive" e.g. Progressive Thrash Metal), however to unify everything under the single banner Progressive Metal is still fine.

And now you can listen to what is meant by subgenres of Progressive Metal with numerous grafts and you will notice a completely different world while having the same basis as the classics. Obviously we are talking about bands more recent than the birth of the genre, this being an evolution.

 

PROGRESSIVE METAL SUBGENRES

 

 

Ayreon – “Computer Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0UtJQFbog

Cynic – “Umanoid”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj43zrrQd0o

Meshuggah – “Bleed”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc

Tool – “The Pot”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g

Voivod – “The Unknown Knows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2QeFd7M0mk

Opeth – “Windowpane”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEaf9LqIUZQ

“Porcelain Heart”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmH42QnsL6Q

Anathema – “Flying”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVF4uNiy2Zk

“Forgotten Hopes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhMlXtAjf_Q

Porcupine Tree – “Blackest Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsYG_pE76o

“Arriving somewhere but not here”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWhpfXisZw

Mystery – “Pride”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9bgfpY0so

Tiles – “Reasonable Doubt”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI6_Ku81p5I

Ulver – “So Falls the World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfmD7lz99w

A Perfect Circle "Judith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgKRCXybSM

Celtic Frost – “I Won’t  Dance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySijB9hUvBM

Evergrey – “Distance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqoJTWmG4Xs

Threshold – “Sunrise On Mars”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4XKq5ArCPU

Shadow Gallery – “Crystalline Dream”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjEKQAMWpk

Power Of Omens – “Alone I Stand”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-falVbVNeE

Everon – “Everon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQhA5wDcTLA

Vanden Plas – “Beyond Daylight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Y66H24GLQ

Liquid Tension Experiment – “Paradigm Shift”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8

Angra – 2Carry On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytotGK6YQ40

Stratovarius – “Elysium”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDS1TBAElo

Redemption – “Little Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjrM0wsEK5Y

Magellan – “Estadium Nacional”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilI3nOH-krU

Enchant – “Break”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnp8WS9lhU

Riverside –“Conceiving You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMXG7kM8YZk

Sieges Even – “These Empty Places”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuoxFRW6u7s

Circus Maximus – “Sin”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD0bapCVZ0

Leprous – “Rewind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ken_aH550

Dante – “November Red”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSq6legCqH0

Epica – “Storm The Sorrow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNoTvg0t52c

Garden Wall – “Negative”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUVhwTPzp8

Labyrinth – “Moonlight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFaaIZQy_do

Rhapsody Of Fire – “Dawn of Victory”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_iOnLNt9M

Blind Guardian – “A Past and Future Secret”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8GIVtCNlCk

Walls Of Babylon – “Let Me Try”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-uawcJ05c8

Mind Key – “Waiting For The Answer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoVz9CAwbk

Moonlight Comedy – “Hidden Truth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXTS0hKG5Y8

Nightwish – “Elan”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPonioDYnoY

Platypus – “What About The Merch?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk4ig7NpAac&start_radio=1&list=RDEMT5zUI3WLyR873zh4cVegyg

Royal Hunt – “Until The Day”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYfeoH9MGyI

Seventh Wonder – “Victorious”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhubRsr11rk

Sons Of Apollo – “Coming Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1N8kVYfkE

Stramonio – “Desert Night”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ62KDZfdfI

Therion – “Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_NtCdMdGrg

Time Machine – “Cold Flames Of Faith”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opeCYXpAhTo

Haken – “The Point of No Return”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt03KJw2IAU

 

At this point to deepen the topic and make it more comprehensive will serve your curiosity, of course only if you have found interesting insights in all this. Perhaps you have discovered a new genre that appeals to you and that is the purpose of this little special. Today we have the Internet to discover and research, so enjoy. MS