User:Mezmerizer/Progressive Death Metal
| Death Metal | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Thrash metal |
| Cultural origins | Early-Mid 1980s United States, England, and Sweden. |
| Typical instruments | Guitar - Bass guitar - Double-bass drum |
| Subgenres | |
| Melodic death metal - Technical death metal - Brutal death metal - Slam Death Metal | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Deathgrind - Death/doom - Deathrash - Deathcore - Blackened death metal - Progressive death metal | |
| Regional scenes | |
| Florida death metal - Texas death metal - New York death metal - Scandinavian death metal - United Kingdom death metal | |
| Other topics | |
| Death grunt - Extreme metal - Blast beat | |
Progressive Death Metal is a fusion genre, combining elements from death metal and progressive metal. More specifically, death metal elements such as death grunts and blast beats are combined with progressive metal elements such as complex changing time signatures and changing moods. Other traits include unusual instrumentation and acoustic parts.
Vs. Technical Death Metal
[edit]Progressive Death Metal is very similar to Technical Death Metal, as both are subgenres of death metal and both use experimental traits. Also, there is some overlapping between the two genres. But, technical death metal focuses more on technicality, while progressive death metal focuses on experimentation. Also, progressive death metal is a fusion genre, while technical death metal isnt.
Bands
[edit]- Amorphis (early)
- Cynic
- Akercocke
- Death
- Pestilence (later releases)
- Edge of Sanity
- Opeth
- Quo Vadis
- Atheist
References
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