Frownland

I like Queensryche a great lot. Geoff Tate is a great singer and the guitarists of the band (whose names both escape me and I find that I am too lazy to look up who they are right now) complement the band as a whole, since I greatly appreciate guitar related benefits to listening to music.

But mainly what this thread is about is this: I always see Queensryche qualifying with progressive music, and I cannot understand why.

Now I love Queensryche, by all means, do not get me wrong. But is there anyone who can explain to me why this band is so often considered to be a progressive band? All that I can see within their music as progressive is their brilliance behind the concept albums that they release and the few longer songs that they've released.

Has progressive music become so embedded in my young vein that I don't even realize it as apart from the pack? Is Queensryche just a more mainstream prog-band that is so subtle that I don't realize their progressivism? Please, these questions plague me because I have no legitimate problems other than odd queries that resonate through my mind, so a definitive answer would hinder me well.

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