Pro Black Clouds & Silver Linings “That’s what the word progressive is all about, if you look at the genre it covers extreme metal from the likes of and all the way to , and . The term progressive in a nutshell is about the range and diversity. Right now I think progressive music is at its highest productivity level since the early 70s.
” reclines on a West London hotel sofa and nods, as if agreeing with his own statement. certainly concurs with him. It’s one of the main reasons we exist.
As are , the one band who have flown the progressive flag on a mainstream level for the past 20-odd years while the genre seemingly awoke from an enforced hibernation and has slowly but surely developed, like a beautiful butterfly slowly emerging from its chrysalis. A state of affairs for which, while not singularly responsible, Portnoy and his fellow bandmates can at least take a large slice of credit for. “I bet there were a lot of cynics who saw this magazine and said ‘How the hell are they gonna do this?’,” he continues, warming to his theme and hoisting aloft a copy of issue one of , which he admits to having spent the entire flight over from America digesting.
“But they don’t realise that it’s not just about , it’s about everything. “Ten years ago people were afraid of the term progressive. When came out Radiohead shunned the description.
Even Porcupine Tree a few years ago were scared of it. I don’t think bands are scared of it anymore, they’re embracing i.
