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The cloud rock is a progressive rock derivative genre that appeared in 2010's. The genre appeared with the progressive rock revival bands, and because of the music that became too commercial. Some rockers and musicians wanted to tell that music is art, and everyone, in every genre, can create its own world with art. Rock was also becoming untrendy for everyone, and the satanist reputations of heavy metal bands made some ones very mad, and when prog, alternative rock and heavy metal fans wanted to create a new genre, that does cloud rock. But the genre was also created for show another view of the music by a 2010's progressive rock counterculture. For the cloud rockers, music had no more virtuosos, and the ones who were very good composers were rejected by the listeners, judging that they aren't commercial, even if this vision of the music amateurs are a little wrong, but not this far of reality, after reflection. This vision is more philosophical, but some like Metalfist and a lot of artists are cloud rockers because they love alternative rock, ambient and/or electronic music, progressive rock and perhaps heavy metal. Musicians of the genre can also be inspired by krautrock, post-rock, electronic rock, industrial rock, 21st-century classical music and baroque music.

Characteristics
The subgenre is copied on progressive rock, but the time signature isn't always complex, as polyrythms or melodies, but some songs, like prog, are devoid of choruses or verses, and sometimes, without vocals. But choruses or verses, as in alternative rock, are often existing. Rarely choruses aren't in the songs. Complex polyrythms are rare, as nearly-impossible melodies. But songs are often long, rarely less than 3 or 4 minutes. "Cloud rock is a very schizophrenic genre. This is the only place where jazz, folk, new age and death metal can copulate. Progressive metal or avant-garde metal may do it, but you can make more things with cloud rock: you can mix new age with black metal, jazz, ambient, krautrock, industrial, rap, folk, pop, chanson and post-rock, because there are no real limits, you just must take heavy metal, progressive rock, shoegaze and post-rock as primary inspirations. You can mix anything, this will be nearly trite for this genre, not in the other ones. There are limits, but in general, they are four little big rock subgenres, that's it! This is why I've made of it a genre with such multiple possibilities, I had a heart stroke when I saw it on SoundCloud. I'd like to make it a little bit more known, but how? I think that we can't know, and only God knows... If he exists. Metalfist, About Cloud Rock on his official website."

Origins
Intronaut, The Ocean, The Mire and a lot of post-metal bands tried to mix their principal music genre with progressive rock or progressive metal. Steven Wilson, a post-prog musician with heavy metal music and post-rock tendencies, can be taken as one of the biggest influence of Metalfist, one of the present cloud rock's creator.

Appearence
The term was first used on Soundcloud's platform, by art rock, shoegaze, progressive rock, psychedelic rock and post-rock bands. They often used amateur materials. The genre really got up with Metalfist, always with amateur material, a french heavy metal music musician that has big composer pontential, and that has intellectual giftedness and a perfect pitch. He made this original Soundcloud genre as a real progressive rock subgenre.

Songs

 * Blueblack - The Cloudcage
 * The Sun Shadows - Come Out Walking
 * Metalfist - The Lizard
 * Paul Walker Smith - Let Letting Down
 * Lucas Lavaine - No Reason to Complain (demo)
 * Painted Goat - Gloves