Progressive Metal

"What are you but my reflection? Who am I to judge or strike you down?"

"But you're pushing And I'm shoving you And you're pushing me And I'm shoving you"

"And I'm slipping back into the gap again I feel alive when you touch me I feel alive when you hold me…down Slipping back into Slipping back into you"

"Painless hours of wasted motion"

"It's some kind of psychedelic experience"

"Our body is light, we are immortal Our body is light, we are immortal Our body is love, we are eternal Our body is love, we are eternal"

"Omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, without judgment"

"Locked in a place where no one goes"

"If you are calling from a secret spy phone, please press 5."

"There's a shyness found in reason Apprehensive influence swallow away"

"Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity Calculate what we will or will not tolerate Desperate to control all and everything Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen"

"Clutch it like a cornerstone Otherwise it all comes down"

"Hang on or be humbled again"

"Defining, confining, sinking deeper Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper"

"Choose to let this go"

"But I'm still right here Giving blood, keeping faith And I'm still right here"

"And if there were no rewards to reap No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now And I still may"

"I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away"

"Disintegrating as it goes, testing our communication The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so We cannot seem to reach an end, crippling our communicationI know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame—it doesn't mean I don't desire To point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communicationThe poetry that comes from the squaring off between And the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonanceThere was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away"

"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion"

"So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold nowEmbracing you, this reality here"

"We barely remember what came before this precious moment Choosing to be here right now"

"This body makes me feel eternal All this pain is an illusion"

"We barely remember Who or what came before This precious moment We are choosing to be here Right now"

"Stay inside of this holy reality This holy experience Choosing to be here in this body"

"Celebrate this chance to be Alive and breathing"

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember: We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion"

"My blood is bruised and borrowed You thieving bastards, you have Turned my blood cold and bitter Beat my compassion black and blue"

"Black Then White are All I see In my infancy Red and yellow then came to be Reaching out to me Lets me seeThere is So Much More and Beckons me To look through to these Infinite possibilities As below, so above and beyond, I imagine Drawn outside the lines of reason Push the envelope Watch it bendOver-thinking, over-analysing separates the body from the mind Withering my intuition, leaving all these opportunities behind"

"I embrace my Desire to I embrace my Desire to I embrace my Desire to Feel the rhythm, to Feel connected Enough to step aside and Weep like a widow, to Feel inspired, to Fathom the power, to Witness the beauty, to Bathe in the fountain, to Swing on the spiral, to Swing on the spiral, to To swing on the spiral of Our divinity and Still be a humanWith my feet upon the ground I Lose myself between the sounds and Open wide to suck it in, I Feel it move across my skin, I'm Reaching up and reaching out, I'm Reaching for the random or what- Ever will bewilder me, what- Ever will bewilder me, and Following our will and wind we May just go where no one's been, we'll Ride the spiral to the end and May just go where no one's been Spiral out, keep going…"

"I have come curiously close to the end—down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole"

"I may find peace within the emptiness"

"And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret—my confidant"

"I must crucify the ego before it's far too late"

"And we will come to find that we are all one mind"

"I'm a former employee of Area 51. I-I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and..."

"What we're thinking of as—as aliens, uh—they're—th-they're extradimensional beings that an earlier precursor of the, um, the space programme made contact with. Uh, they-they are not what they claim to be."

"The government knows about them. And, th-there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not! They want those major population centres wiped out so that the—the few that are left will be more easily controllable."

"And I know, of the pain, that you feel the same as me. And I dream, of the rain, as it falls upon the leaves. And the cracks, in our lives, like the cracks upon the ground. They are sealed, and are now, washed away."

"In , there’s one band that rules supreme, and that’s . Everyone from Gothenburg loves Iron Maiden for some reason, so naturally their version of death metal would be melodic and with a twin guitar attack."

"By and large, Iron Maiden's long and lengthy career can be categorized into two separate eras: "punk Maiden" and "prog Maiden"."

"Dave Murray’s and Adrian Smith’s dueling guitar harmonies, galloping riffs and epic guitar solos have influenced nearly every significant band to come out of the metal genre since the mid ‘80s. As the primary guitarists for Iron Maiden, Murray and Smith helped to popularize anthemic lead guitar playing, which has consequently become a staple in metal music for the last 40-plus years."

"Along with Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing, who worked a similar twin-lead attack, the duo of Murray and Smith was considered the top British metal guitar tandem of the Eighties. First pairing off for 1981’s blistering Killers, Murray and Smith quickly proved that they could play harmony leads and interlocking riffs as if linked by one brain, and do it with a speed and aggression that put most punk bands of the era to shame."

"Coming in at No. 2 is Iron Maiden. Theatricality is a huge aspect of metal and no band does this with more success and ceaseless vigor than these Brits. The dueling guitars, Steve Harris’ signature bass gallop, Bruce Dickinson’s operatic delivery and Nicko Mcbrain’s inimitable swing have stood as the core of Maiden’s sound. They created the most iconic mascot in music, Eddie, elevating the music to a realm of pure escape and fantasy either through the artwork alone or when he comes to life onstage, which is truly the best way to take in Iron Maiden."

"There was this chemistry between me and Adrian that went beyond the music."

"Besides one or two other acts, to date there’s still no other metal band that wields the same global popularity as Iron Maiden. The U.K. outfit has long dominated the metal genre with its signature galloping riffs, dueling guitars solos and anthemic choruses, all of which are now tropes found in metal music as a result of Iron Maiden’s massive influence."

"There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind Not state of the art, a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace to society, a social disease"

"Left the elders to their parley meant to satisfy our lust, Leaving Damocles still hanging over all their promised trust Walk away from freedoms offered by their jailers in their cage Step into the light startripping over mortals in their rage"

"El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold See my ship is oversold You've got one last chance to try"

"We are cast out by our bloody fathers hand We are strangers in this lonely promised land We are shadows of the one unholy ghost In our nightmare world the only one we trust"