PROTEAN COLLECTIVE @ T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE

What flak can you levy at prog metal? For all their quirks, genre diehards know how to please the fan base (it’s with songs ’bout dragons). And one can only stand in a field, yelling at LARPers for stabbing goblins—when those LARPers love stabbing goblins, and have no pretensions about goblin-stabbing aesthetics—for so long, before one wants to … start stabbing goblins, we guess? That’s a saying. Protean Collective, leather-winging into T.T. the Bear’s Place this eve, take prog and hard metal basics and crank them to critical hit levels. Right? Critical? Like in—*goblin-stabbed*

[Thu 5.31.12 10 Brookline St., Central Sq., Cambridge. 617.492.2327. 8:30pm/18+/$10. @ProCollective. ttthebears.com]