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Sprog Rock
The music genre of Sprog is similar to progressive rock, with the exception that long riffs usually associated with progressive rock have been shortened, hence 'Sprog' meaning 'Short Prog'.

Unlike traditional progressive rock, Sprog rock evolved in the late 1990s by the Melbourne band Norsia [citation needed] as an attempt to popularize progessive rock music by condesing the often drawn out song structure. Modern rock bands Translate have continued this minamalist approach by doing away with the flamboyancy of the long epic riff and contaning the song length usually to under three minutes, making the songs more palatable to a wide audience and more radio friendly.

1) Song Structure

Progressive rock bands did away with the technical and compositional structure of rock music by going beyond the usual verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure. Sprog continues with this method but in a short concise manner.

The founders of Sprog was the 1990's, now defunct, Melbourne band Norsia. They are listed in the 'Who's who of Australian Rock' Volume 2. The other notable band carrying on the genre are a current Melbourne Australian band called Translate.