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The Sea Hawk theme music
What Are You Listening to Now 7.0
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Envy of None - Envy of None (album)
Very nice. I wouldn't call it "industrial", for that description to fit it would need more stompy beats and a lot more atonality. It is electronics-heavy and very frosty and sometimes distant, but always anchored by beautiful vocals. Sometimes I hear Heather Nova, sometimes Garbage and at other times even The Eden House. Very well done. Positive surprise.
Comparing this to Rush and complaining it doesn't sound at all like Rush would be... hm, like complaining that Dan Swanö's Nightingale don't sound like Edge of Sanity. Sometimes I don't get metalheads - claiming to be so open-minded and then acting the complete opposite.
Very nice. I wouldn't call it "industrial", for that description to fit it would need more stompy beats and a lot more atonality. It is electronics-heavy and very frosty and sometimes distant, but always anchored by beautiful vocals. Sometimes I hear Heather Nova, sometimes Garbage and at other times even The Eden House. Very well done. Positive surprise.
Comparing this to Rush and complaining it doesn't sound at all like Rush would be... hm, like complaining that Dan Swanö's Nightingale don't sound like Edge of Sanity. Sometimes I don't get metalheads - claiming to be so open-minded and then acting the complete opposite.
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Beautifully said, both paragraphs.
I don't get the naysayers. Lifeson was only one third Rush. I truly believe it can't be Rush without all three as each was so uniquely distinctive, and that sadly is never happening again. Envy of None is well crafted, beautifully executed music.
After Rush's covers album, Feedback, I thought Geddy and Alex might go, together or individually, in a more classic rock sounding direction, but I absolutely love where Lifeson/Envy of None went.
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FromUZ : Audio Diplomacy
FromUZ : Quartus Artifactus - Discs 1 & 2
These guys are from Uzbekistan (as the name suggests) and they're truly excellent. However, the style of music on these 2 (3) albums doesn't appeal to me that much. All instrumental (which I like) but a bit too jazzy for my tastes.
Yet their "Seventh Story" album is very different, and I rate it among my all-time favorites.
FromUZ : Quartus Artifactus - Discs 1 & 2
These guys are from Uzbekistan (as the name suggests) and they're truly excellent. However, the style of music on these 2 (3) albums doesn't appeal to me that much. All instrumental (which I like) but a bit too jazzy for my tastes.
Yet their "Seventh Story" album is very different, and I rate it among my all-time favorites.
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the whirr of my fan
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The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost
Time and time again I have bitched about how shitty In Flames have been in recent years, especially the non-vocals of Anders Fridén and the loss of everything which made them cool in the beginning (mostly those unearthly twin guitar leads backed by fat death metal sound).
Seems like most of the former In Flames members had the same idea. The Halo Effect is basically ex-In Flames members without Björn Gelotte and Anders Friden. And to top it all off, they hired Dark Tranquility's Mikael Stanne for vocals (which probably is too much cookie monster for Litfan - consider yourself warned), which is a delicious topping on the whole cake. No idea what happened behind the scenes of IF (and I couldn't care less), but if the rest of The Halo Effect's music is even close to this banger, I'll be a very happy intolerant metalhead.
THIS is how In Flames should have sounded after Clayman, not whatever Reroute To Remain and the follow-ups turned out to be.
Time and time again I have bitched about how shitty In Flames have been in recent years, especially the non-vocals of Anders Fridén and the loss of everything which made them cool in the beginning (mostly those unearthly twin guitar leads backed by fat death metal sound).
Seems like most of the former In Flames members had the same idea. The Halo Effect is basically ex-In Flames members without Björn Gelotte and Anders Friden. And to top it all off, they hired Dark Tranquility's Mikael Stanne for vocals (which probably is too much cookie monster for Litfan - consider yourself warned), which is a delicious topping on the whole cake. No idea what happened behind the scenes of IF (and I couldn't care less), but if the rest of The Halo Effect's music is even close to this banger, I'll be a very happy intolerant metalhead.
THIS is how In Flames should have sounded after Clayman, not whatever Reroute To Remain and the follow-ups turned out to be.
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Iluvatar : A Story Two days Wide
Neo prog from Baltimore. 3 of the band members are personal friends of mine. They haven't recorded or played much lately, though they keep promising that they'll get back to it. They peaked when they toured South America, and returned home to open for Marillion.
Neo prog from Baltimore. 3 of the band members are personal friends of mine. They haven't recorded or played much lately, though they keep promising that they'll get back to it. They peaked when they toured South America, and returned home to open for Marillion.
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Iona : Woven Chord
Morning moods, and time for some gentle Celtic sounds. Iona leaves the Enyas / McKennitts / Clannads... of the world in the dust. Just as engaging, but far Iona has more accomplished musicians, and more intelligent songwriting.
(A friend of mine is married to the guitarist.)
Morning moods, and time for some gentle Celtic sounds. Iona leaves the Enyas / McKennitts / Clannads... of the world in the dust. Just as engaging, but far Iona has more accomplished musicians, and more intelligent songwriting.
(A friend of mine is married to the guitarist.)
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Opeth : Blackwater Park
Another stone-cold classic. This was my "gateway drug" into the harder forms of metal https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/images/smilies/cookie.png all those years ago.
Another stone-cold classic. This was my "gateway drug" into the harder forms of metal https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/images/smilies/cookie.png all those years ago.
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Uriah Heep : The Magicians Birthday
Gotta spin these guys once every few years!
I saw them live in the mid-2000s, at a 2-day thing called "HeepFest", in Trenton, NJ. Three bands on the Saturday and the Sunday, and (obviously) 'Heep headlined both nights.
Gotta spin these guys once every few years!
I saw them live in the mid-2000s, at a 2-day thing called "HeepFest", in Trenton, NJ. Three bands on the Saturday and the Sunday, and (obviously) 'Heep headlined both nights.
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Agree. We bought their "Tales from Outer Space" album and it spins ever so often. Very Floyd-y
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From the New World. Dvorak.
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Cool.
They're a good occasional listen. I have 5 of their albums. I met them at ROSfest around 15 years ago - interviewed the band, and kept in email contact with them for a while after. Very nice guys.
Their stage show was good, and the guitarist was excellent on stage. His skills aren't shown anywhere on their albums, AFAIC. He played a Telecaster, and had a very Gilmour-esque sound.
I seem to recall that they played ROSfest again a few years later. But if they did, I didn't catch that show.
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