Didn't have to provide any proof or exemple about what is Rush's music. I just said what it is and oh it is called like that by expert doing poles. Why are u searching for mosquitos to shoot with machine guns (as we say in french).
So these guys https://sudupereviewer.blogspot.com.co/2016/04/vote-for-best-progressive-metal-band.html are incorrect! Just like so many others
Well... yeah.
Look, Rush are important in Prog Metal history, but in the same way Motorhead are important to Thrash Metal history or how Led Zeppelin are important to the history of Metal as a whole. Just because they influence many bands in the genre does not make them part of it. Also, just because some obscure blogger made a poll miscategorising a band doesn't make the miscategorisation suddenly correct.
I understand your point though I have seen so many times in all Rush history that they were called so many different types of music that in magazine they appeared listed as prog metal, hard, heavy, etc. They have been sounding about any type or rock music. They never stuck just on the same type of rock music but at one point in their career they happened to be heavy, hard, metal, prog etc. The most popular magazines in the world were calling them all those types of rock music. So all a bunch of ignorants
There's two things to note here:
1. In the flurry of genres that Rush can very occasionally be, Prog Metal is probably the one least backed up by their actual music. It just doesn't fit like 99% of the time. YYZ is probably one of the best fitting to that label as well as Caravan, BU2B, Headlong Flight, Anthem and Bastille Day and even those are pretty weak links to the genre compared to material like 'Condition Human', 'One Thousand Fires' and 'Moment of Betrayal' by Queensryche, Fates Warning and Dream Theater respectively (all three being true pioneers of the genre). A few traces appear in other Rush songs but that's all they are. Rush's career trajctory from the 70s to 80s was consisting of Hard Rock, Prog Rock and Synth Rock with
shades of traditional Heavy Metal in the vein of lighter Black Sabbath and heavier Deep Purple with a varying balance of those through the 90s onwards.
2. I would not trust the most popular magazines in the world to be that accurate with terminology considering the typicality of attention grabbing headlines and buzzwords. I would treat a phrase like 'Prog Metal pioneers, Rush' with a degree of skepticism. There is often a tendency for people to essentially re-write music history because of what they like. Saying 'Rush invented Prog Metal' or simply 'Rush are Prog Metal' is essentially music revisionism. You often see this when people keep trying to disprove that Metallica were the first Thrash Metal band.