Progressive Rock and Metal Music

Progressive metal is heavy music that borrows the ambitions of progressive rock: longer forms, shifting time signatures, dynamic contrast between quiet and crushing sections, and arrangements that develop rather than repeat. In this collection that shows up as prog rock and heavy metal sub-genres sitting inside a mostly alternative rock set, with Tool, A Perfect Circle, Karnivool and Muse as the editorial sound references and an average track length over four and a half minutes.

Just over half the tracks are instrumental, and several songs are supplied in both forms, so you can switch between them in the same edit. Where The Slide Is Broken by Fake Figures exists as an instrumental and as an explicit vocal version, while Burn the Darkness by Zircon, Distant Airwaves by Justin Marcellus, Sons of Jupiter by Form And Fate and Exotic Weapon by Chris Hodges are instrumental only. Kaura, Portal and Under The Psycamore supply the vocal side.

Several vocal versions are flagged explicit in their titles: Where The Slide Is Broken (vocal) EXPLICIT by Fake Figures, Jebel Moon (vocal) EXPLICIT by Portal and Sera Phi (vocal) EXPLICIT by Kaura. For brand-safe or broadcast use, choose the instrumental versions or the unflagged vocal tracks such as Past Perfect by A Violent Purple and Remember Me by Under The Psycamore. Angry is the second most common mood after exciting, so preview lyrics even on unflagged cuts if the client is sensitive.

Tracks average about four minutes forty seconds, the longest of the rock collections, which suits a full action sports run or a gaming highlight reel without looping. Extreme sports, action, high energy and drum lines are among the tagged themes, and exciting, angry and dramatic lead the moods. For a 30-second promo, cut into the heaviest riff section rather than the intro, since prog arrangements often open quietly before the guitars land.

A licensed track from this collection is cleared for monetized YouTube video, social clips and client work, and if YouTube's Content ID matches it you dispute the claim by stating the music was licensed through Audiosocket. Licenses are perpetual for each finished video, and a monthly or annual subscription covers unlimited licensing during the term, so a channel posting several edits a week is not paying per upload.