This is definitely going to be the kind of review where people argue about it landing under progressive rock. Sure, a lot of it is very metallic, sometimes to the extreme end. There are more melodic movements, though. Besides that, this is complex to the point of insanity sometimes. There are things going on here that seem like they are either mistakes or so crazy in terms of design and execution that I can’t wrap my head around it and make sense of it from a musician point of view. I am going to err on the side of saying that it’s planned that way. If that’s true, then the complexity and experimental nature of this alone lands it under progressive rock. This is definitely not for everyone. It’s noisy, extreme and often incredibly chaotic. Some of it could even be called “non-musical.” I’m going to assume that it’s that way by choice. That makes this incredibly advanced stuff.

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The echoey sound that starts this feels a bit like surf music. There is almost a punk rock edge to it, though. Then some seriously thrashy guitar joins. It’s still tempered with enough melodic music to keep it more in the progressive rock vein than on the metal edge of the spectrum. There is some tasty guitar soloing. It does lean a little toward noodly at times, but not for long enough to be a problem. A short synthetic spoken sound bite at the end serves as the only non-instrumental item here.