Parallel Delirium
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Post by Parallel Delirium on Jan 10, 2007 8:44:37 GMT -5
I need to reorder some of these 01) Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third 02) OSI - Free 03) Ihsahn- The Adversary 04) Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basement of Hell 05) Enslaved - Ruun 06) Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain 07) Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors 08) Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra 09) Solitude Æturnus - Alone 10) uneXpect - In A Flesh Aquarium 11) Deadboy and the Elephant Men - We Are Night Sky 12) Celtic Frost - Monotheist 13) Dissection - ReInKaos 14) gODHEAD - The Shadow Line 15) Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses 16) Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years 17) Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue 18) Madder Mortem - Desiderata 19) Mastery - Lethal Legacy 20) Negura Bunget - OM 21) Protest the Hero - Kezia 22) Queensrÿche - OMC 2 23) Circulus - Clocks Are Like People 24) Virgin Steele - Visions of Eden 25) Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars I can name so many more. It was a damn good year That is a very nice list. I have yet to hear Ihsahn's album, The Adversary, but I've heard so, so many good things about it! Operation: Mindcrime II was supposed to be really good, too. Didn't Dio do guest vocals in a song or two? I cannot believe I forgot Devin Townsend's release. Another amazing album from another amazing artist
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BenMech
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Post by BenMech on Jan 10, 2007 9:57:13 GMT -5
Yes. lil' Ronnie was the voice of Dr. X on the song 'The Chase". It's not the best song on the album.
Devin had THREE album releases (Synchestra, The New Black, and The Hummer) this year, plus a human child (Reyne), an Ozzfest Slot, and he's continuing his production work.
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Parallel Delirium
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Post by Parallel Delirium on Jan 17, 2007 7:18:29 GMT -5
I think I might have to revise my band list once again to make room for In a Flesh Aquarium by uneXpect. I heard "Desert Urbania" and "Megalomaniac Trees" last night and fell in love
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anton
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Post by anton on Feb 7, 2007 23:22:49 GMT -5
Hello,
New here. Have been a FW fan since the late 90's (beginning with A Pleasant Shade of Grey). I know some people here from the Progressive Pages forum.
Anyway, here is my Top 5 list (the first 3 are basically a tie for #1, near perfect albums in my opinion):
1. Strapping Young Lad--The New Black 2. Evanescence--The Open Door 3. Madder Mortem--Desiderata 4. Lamb of God--Sacrament 5. Blind Guardian--A Twist in the Myth
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chimaera
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Post by chimaera on Feb 9, 2007 5:53:03 GMT -5
Hey! You´re most welcome onboard; you´re my favourite poet. I only know two poets and they both like Douglas fucking Adams but still... i mean ain´t that a conctradiction, how can you like a Hitchhiker´s guide to the Galaxy and be in tune with reality.. Could be the worst book i´ve ever read.
What happened with Lordi? If i remember correctly they were on the list. Number four. I was thinking about getting the new SYL but then i listened to their self-titled album again and it´good but a bit monotonous, it hasn´t aged very well. Alien isn´t monotonous, it´s just plain bad. Why isn´t the Haunted on the list.. and when will you ever give Tool the time they need?
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anton
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Post by anton on Feb 9, 2007 18:36:06 GMT -5
You should really give The New Black a chance--Strapping Young Lad have really reinvented themselves, in the best sense. Even though I never doubted Devin Townsend's talent, I used to actively dislike their music, as well as Devin Townsend's consciously vulgar stage image that I witnessed when they were opening for Opeth, but I have utterly revised my opinion based on that album. This is a history-making album, and it has remained in continuous rotation with me for the 7 or 8 months since its release. It's brilliant, angry, funny, exciting, inspired--and each song has a distinct personality, something that is so rare in any contemporary music.
Lordi slipped by a few spots--it is addictive, but it IS a straight-ahead pop album, and most of the songs do sound very similar to each other.
I never said I liked Douglas Adams--I have not read enough to form a judgment. I only read about 36 pages of Hitchhiker at someone else's house and never pursued it further. I did not care for the film adaptation of the book.
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kerrick
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Post by kerrick on Feb 9, 2007 18:52:46 GMT -5
I used to actively dislike their music, as well as Devin Townsend's consciously vulgar stage image that I witnessed when they were opening for Opeth, When did you see them? Because I saw both SYL and Opeth at the Sounds of the Underground a few summers ago (in San Jose, CA) and I couldn't count how many times he told the audience to f**k themselves, etc. He was booed quite a bit. People did not respond very well to it at all. It was definitely pretty insulting. Although Opeth was way awesome. -Kerrick
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anton
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Post by anton on Feb 9, 2007 18:59:42 GMT -5
The Deliverance/SYL tour, I think.
It was pretty much the way you describe it. Not the "go fuck yourselves" part, but he said things like, "I gave myself a really great handjob last night" and spit on stage a lot.
That said, if those were the "dark days" that eventually brought about the recording of The New Black, so be it. In my opinion Devin Townsend is only now coming into his own. But he IS coming into his own, and the difference is manifest.
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chimaera
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Post by chimaera on Feb 13, 2007 8:00:28 GMT -5
I never said you liked Douglas Adams. Don´t know if i can afford such insults. I´ve already received one yellow card. I did read about 35 pages than i started to feel a hole in my head beginning to grow.
I think City was funny, brilliant, angry and inspiring but it only lasted a couple of weeks, and that´s probably the difference. Alien did have three good songs, Shitstorm, Love (great song) and the last industrial thing is a killer. Especially compared to pseudo-industrial bands like Rammstein.
Btw, Deliverence is the best Opeth album as of right now. Even more solid than Ghost Reveries. I´ve only had it on tape before and that´s my excuse.
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anton
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Post by anton on Feb 13, 2007 15:25:50 GMT -5
Alien did have three good songs, Shitstorm, Love (great song) and the last industrial thing is a killer. Especially compared to pseudo-industrial bands like Rammstein. Btw, Deliverence is the best Opeth album as of right now. Even more solid than Ghost Reveries. I´ve only had it on tape before and that´s my excuse. I'm with you on Alien. "Shitstorm" and "Love" are the only songs I remember from it, and I liked them quite a bit. I don't remember the last song. (Rammstein's first 3 albums were pretty good, in my opinion--brilliant at times. Reise, Reise and Rosenrot were pretty much been dead on arrival to me.) Tough call between Deliverance and Ghost Reveries. I think I like them about equally, and have almost nothing to reproach them in either (Akerfeldt thinks "By the Pain I See in Others" was half-baked and should have been left out... this is almost upsetting to me, because I think it's absolutely wonderful, especially the way they go into the acoustic section for a minute). Blackwater Park is also a masterpiece. It took me a year to get into it, but once I did, I never changed my mind about it. It's oppressive and claustrophobic, and certainly not perfect, but it's still among the best progressive or death metal CD's ever created.
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chimaera
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Post by chimaera on Feb 14, 2007 9:01:39 GMT -5
Rammstein are so eh static. And german.
Without By the pain.." the album would lack some of it´s dynamic. Without the acoustic sections i would probably be bored. Same thing with Damnation, that cd should have had some heavy parts, for me it´s not a masterpiece in the same vein as Jar of Flies.
But i guess Geoff Tate and other velour guys would have be appaled. Imagine the sight of Tate when he starts to hear that suddenly there´s goddamned monster living in his stereo!
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anton
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Post by anton on Mar 27, 2007 13:51:47 GMT -5
Numbers 6 through 15 (maybe will generate discussion about some more bands):
6. Cradle of Filth--Thornography 7. Trivium--The Crusade 8. All That Remains--The Fall of Ideals 9. Entwine--Fatal Design 10. Eldritch--Neighbourhell 11. Virgin Steele--Visions of Eden 12. Lordi--The Arockalypse 13. Evergrey--Monday Morning Apocalypse 14. Angtoria--God Has a Plan for Us All 15. The Haunted--The Dead Eye
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anton
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Post by anton on Mar 27, 2007 14:00:35 GMT -5
Without By the pain.." the album would lack some of it´s dynamic. Without the acoustic sections i would probably be bored. Same thing with Damnation, that cd should have had some heavy parts, for me it´s not a masterpiece in the same vein as Jar of Flies. I think the problem with the song is that after the acoustic section they go right back to the exact same themes as the beginning 5 minutes of it, and the song immediately begins to feel long and redundant. They come back in the very end with some rapid changes of tempo and mood, before the grandiose conclusion, but there is a period for a couple minutes where the song feels too predictable, which might be what Akerfeldt is so unsatisfied with. Interestingly, in their live DVD Lamentations "Closure" does almost what you describe--there is a lengthy solo which is almost as heavy as something like "The Leper Affinity." I have to wonder, though, if "Hope Leaves," too, would have been better served as more of "A Fair Judgment" type song--a ballad with some heavy instrumental parts. In itself it's wonderful, but I do agree that some sort of more intense instrumental moments in a couple tracks would have made Damnation more well-rounded on the whole.
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