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Mean Deviation
Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal - Book - by Jeff Wagner
(2010)
Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side
of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly
ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential
mid-1970s efforts of Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a huge
tapestry of sounds and styles, including Queensryche, Fates Warning, and
Dream Theater; extreme prog pioneers Voivod and Celtic Frost; Norway’s
post-black metal avant garde acts Ulver and Arcturus; and the 1990s
global movement that spawned Ayreon, Pain of Salvation, and others.
Fighting
a tide of tradition and conservatism, progressive metal has proven to
be one of the most viable, malleable forms in all of modern music; here
its preeminent scholar tells the tale.
