The core Protest sound was settled in and becoming comfortable, and there were few surprises left out of the prog-power-by-way-of-mathcore type of sound employed by the band. The band’s discography following Fortress, while still exceptional compared to many of their contemporaries, couldn’t live up to the impossible expectations set by the band’s first two records. Fortress was stunning and haunting, with symphonic elements that elevated the band’s sound to new heights, from which it seemed (or at least we hoped) the band would never come down. Then, in 2008, the band reveled in the technical and melodic excesses of their sound for Fortress, a loose concept album about “goddess worship and the suppressed feminine,” per then-bassist and lyricist Arif Mirabdolbaghi, which again speaks to the band’s seemingly guiding principles of social justice and feminism. The fact that the boys in Protest were teenagers at the time makes this album all the more incredible. The record was intensely melodic, and saw the band matching highly technical guitar virtuosity with hardcore punk in a way that set them apart from their contemporaries in the then-burgeoning mathcore and prog metalcore scenes.
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2005’s full length debut Kezia was a compelling conceptual record telling the story of the eponymous protagonist being tried and executed for an unknown crime (presumably sex work), and is overtly feminist in its narrative.
In prog metal circles, Protest the Hero are held in high regard as being incredibly influential, with at least two albums comfortably sitting in the rank of being outright masterpieces.
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