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The idea that progressive metal is nothing more than prog rock fused with heavy metal may be frequently invoked, yet it fails to capture the movement’s fractured evolution. Certainly, it’s accurate in regard to mid-’80s pioneers Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Fates Warning. Having grown up worshipping Yes and Rush just as intensely as they did Judas Priest and Deep Purple, these American bands explicitly marry the multipart arrangements and brainy concepts of the former with the latter’s hammering riffage and galloping rhythms. By the ’90s, newer practitioners had distanced themselves from this approach. Tool, while inspired by King Crimson, are so dark and eccentric as to be more of an alt-metal entity. As for Sweden’s Meshuggah, they compose complex epics, but they come buried under extreme metal’s monstrous chug and growling vocals. These ruptures have only multiplied in the 21st century, with progressive metal breaking off into death metal, doom, sludge, and metalcore.

Pitbull has risen from the local Miami hip-hop scene to soundtracking parties across the globe. Beginning his career under the guidance of bass icon Luther Campbell, the rapid-fire rapper hopped into the crunk scene with Lil Jon in the early-'00s before releasing his studio debut in 2004. Despite a series of albums that featured collaborations with high profile artists like Pharrell Williams and Rick Ross, it wasn't until Pitbull took his randy rhymes into the dance pop world that he hit the big time. Since then, he's become a serial hitmaker.