I’ve struggled to find some kind of logic or way to describe this to folks that doesn’t make me sound like a snob, but also avoids making me sound like a casual listener that listens to everything at the surface level.
My musical grounding is certainly a mix of post hardcore and prog metal, but over the years I have come to love music for all the forms it can take, and I’ve found songs or artists I truly love in a wide array of genres, eras and languages, to the exclusion of maybe modern country.
Well yeah, a band like Frodus was really easy for me to fall in love with, but I didn’t really get into a band like Slint until later in life.
It wood have been more accurate to call post hardcore and prog metal separate coordinate points for my musical landscape.
Kings X is practically part of my heritage, and I was literally raised on their Beatlesque proggy metal and raised kind of surrounded by prog and hair metal bands (not at the same time).
Sunny Day Real Estate just hit me at the right time in my growing up that it became another major part of my musical identity. That’s what I mean by post hardcore, because the term emo means something meaningfully different than it did when I discovered them, but I called it emo forever until the ones with eyeliner started showing up.
I’ve struggled to find some kind of logic or way to describe this to folks that doesn’t make me sound like a snob, but also avoids making me sound like a casual listener that listens to everything at the surface level.
My musical grounding is certainly a mix of post hardcore and prog metal, but over the years I have come to love music for all the forms it can take, and I’ve found songs or artists I truly love in a wide array of genres, eras and languages, to the exclusion of maybe modern country.
So math-rock.
Well yeah, a band like Frodus was really easy for me to fall in love with, but I didn’t really get into a band like Slint until later in life.
It wood have been more accurate to call post hardcore and prog metal separate coordinate points for my musical landscape.
Kings X is practically part of my heritage, and I was literally raised on their Beatlesque proggy metal and raised kind of surrounded by prog and hair metal bands (not at the same time). Sunny Day Real Estate just hit me at the right time in my growing up that it became another major part of my musical identity. That’s what I mean by post hardcore, because the term emo means something meaningfully different than it did when I discovered them, but I called it emo forever until the ones with eyeliner started showing up.