Reading Material - Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal

Artist:	Reading Material
Title:	Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal
Format:	Book
Label:	Bazillion Points Publishing
Genre:	Prog Rock / Metal, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal
Packaging Group:	Grp 6
Price:	$22.00

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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 prog rock acts Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a vast colorful tapestry of sounds and styles, from the 1980s prog metal of Queensryche, Fates Warning, and Dream Theater to the extreme prog pioneers Voivod, Watchtower, Celtic Frost, and others. Meanwhile, the prog metal spark of inspiration thrives, smouldering in obscure outposts in Scandinavia, Florida, and Japan, and bursting into full flame with the recent successes of prog metal overlords Opeth, Meshuggah, and their peers. 400 pages with 16 page color insert. Original cover art by artist Michel “Away” Langevin (Voivod), intro by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and scintillating sidebars celebrate prog metal’s oddball sense of humor, and the influence of classical music. (2010)