10 Bands That Ditched What Made Them Famous
4. Rush
If you ever saw yourself as a prog enthusiast, Rush was the answer to your prayers. Across the band's impeccable run in the 70's, the band took the complexity of a band like Yes and incorporated the blunt power of Black Sabbath to create a relentless sonic assault. Though their audience had gotten used to their mind-blowing riff crafting, the band never intended to stay in that lane for too long.
From the band's beginnings, they always had a mantra that no genre didn't fit within the Rush aesthetic. As the band finished writing their masterpiece Moving Pictures, the band's focus shifted from unstoppable riffs to a sound dominated by keyboards. Suddenly, guitarist Alex Lifeson found himself in competition with Geddy Lee's synthesizers.
While the band were having some disagreements, what is commonly known as the band's "synth" period still has some stellar material, from the heartbreaking survival story of "Red Sector A" to the borderline pop rock of "Time Stand Still." The synths eventually dissipated with the band continuing to tinker with their sound until their eventual end in 2015. In bucking the trends of other similar bands, Rush proved to be the most progressive of the prog rock bands by reaching for any influence at their disposal.