Neal Morse (Prog metal)

I would call ? a metal album, also, although I've never heard One before.

J-Man wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: No thanks, I HATE Neal Morse Is it the entire religion thing, or the music in general? Sometimes his lyrics can really irk me, but I can always look past it for the great music (IMO).

Partly the lyrics, but mainly I like neither his voice, nor his songwriting, nor his guitar playing

well "a little hint of metal" hardly makes him prog metal.  Seeing as how there's no "metal related" category on this site (thank goodness), I think we should stick with the hundreds of thousands of bands that are indisputably metal, ya know?

The Block wrote: ^  Anyway, on another note, what CCVP said is partly true, but there is a little hint of metal in most of the songs.

Yeah, that's called hard rock.

Something like this doesn't strike any of you as metal?

So as Jeff said before about Porcupine Tree, and how we added them even though only one or two of their albums are metal, why not do it with Neal Morse. Or something along those lines.


Edited by The Block - 21 Jan 2011 at 6:23pm

Good idea, I'll vote with you. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: okay Jeff, that song is metal I'd say. Not prog metal, though, it sounds more like hair metal :P  Even so, some of his albums definitely would be in the "non-metal" category

Absolutely. I would say to only tag ? and Sola Scriptura as prog metal... the rest is non-metal IMO.

Make that four Jeff. I trust your judgement.

Neal Morse has been added using this bio: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/neal-morse.aspx

Let me know what you guys think of it.

Musicbrainz will sync his albums to non-metal, and then I'll tag ? and Sola Scriptura (and maybe a couple live albums like Sola Scriptura and Beyond or ? Live) as prog metal. Let the aftermath begin.