User:Chairmaneoin/Progressive Death Metal

Progressive Death Metal is a subgenre of Death Metal and Progressive Metal which combines the speed, death growls and downtuned guitars of Death Metal with the complex song structures, odd time signatures, experimentation and often clean vocals  of Progressive Rock and Jazz. Though many Technical Death Metal bands use complex song structures and odd time signatures, Progressive Death Metal is distinguished by using the aesthetics of Progressive Rock and Jazz, for example Opeth use clean vocals, acoustic guitars and a mellotron in many of their songs.

However; Technical and Progressive Death Metal share their origins. In the late 1980's and 1990's bands such as Atheist, Cynic and Death began making highly technical Death Metal with Progressive Rock and Jazz influences. In 1989 Atheist's debut album Piece of Time was released, followed by Death's 1991 album Human and Cynic's Focus in 1993. These bands influenced Technical Death Metal as well as later Progressive Death Metal bands.