My personal love of extreme metal is well-documented I did not take on a role as editor for Invisible Oranges nor did I gain a column titled I’m Listening To Death Metal there for nothing, and I’ve written more than my fair share of metal writing here and elsewhere as well.
It’s also been a long time coming on a personal level. We see other columns and spaces held for heavy metal, for rap, for emo, for post-punk, for jazz, all necessary and vital explorations. So it feels proper to have a space that catalogues and explores the field as broadly as possible, whether stalwart classics from bands like King Crimson and Yes, bands as mandatory for a keen ear as Nas or Prince or The Ramones, to contemporary work to records and artists who are often excluded from discussions of progressive music, be it instances of misogynistic reclassification in the case of Kate Bush and Tori Amos to racist reclassification in the case of Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Danny Brown and Shabazz Palaces to indie music’s generalized shame and derision keeping groups like Radiohead and Liars from being incorporated into the story of prog.
This, of course, excludes the tremendous records and in fact entire discographies and fields of work in the prog genre proper, with bands such as Big Big Train, The Tea Club, The Dear Hunter, IQ and more producing brilliant works within the genre, be they older bands returning with new works or younger bands invigorating the field. The tendrils of progressive music in 2019 are beautifully, ecstatically varied, from having an effective aesthetic marriage to underground metal no matter the dominating sub-genre to being the guiding hand behind a lot of the more brilliant excursions in rap over the past decade to an increasingly obvious presence in electronic music. This is true in multiple senses-progressive music has been on the rise culturally over the past roughly decade and a half, finally breaking through the barrier of a few artsy bands dabbling with the concepts to being as common a musical pool of influence as post-punk, jazz, hip-hop, etc.
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