Pain of Salvation thread, v.2 (merged)

[Evermind]

I have no idea what PoS are up to now, but they're playing in Moscow in October, so what the hell, I'm going.

[The Cat Of Tuscany]

So...I really like A Trace Of Blood, but I just can't seem to get into any of their other music. Does anyone have any recommendations for me?

[Scorpion]

What have you tried out so far?

[abydos]

Reconciliation

[The Cat Of Tuscany]

What have you tried out so far?

I can't think of any specific songs, other than Waking Every God.  I've mostly just listened to snippets of a few select songs.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

That's likely where your problem is stemming from, I would posit. POS's music doesn't really lend itself to that kind of listening. If you liked A Trace of Blood, I'd recommend checking out the Remedy Lane album, and see how that works for you.

[jammindude]

What have you tried out so far?

I can't think of any specific songs, other than Waking Every God.  I've mostly just listened to snippets of a few select songs.

Wow.  Talk about a backwards lottery.   Of the 48 songs from their first 4 albums...you managed to find one of the 1 or 2 "meh" tracks amongst all the awesomeness.

Seriously, you could pick almost any other song from Remedy Lane, and do SO MUCH better than Waking Every God.

Ending Theme
A Trace of Blood
Undertow
Rope Ends
Chain Sling
Beyond the Pale

And that's just the songs from Remedy Lane alone...not to mention the others.

[wolfking]

Waking Every God is one of my fav POS songs.

[jammindude]

Waking Every God is one of my fav POS songs.

It's ok I suppose....but I prefer the title track.   

[Crow]

songs better than Waking Every God on Remedy Lane:
Of Two Beginnings
Ending Theme
A Trace of Blood
This Heart of Mine
Undertow
Rope Ends
Chain Sling
Second Love
Beyond The Pale

that's most of 'em
still a good song though

[Evermind]

songs better than Waking Every God on Remedy Lane:
Of Two Beginnings
Ending Theme
A Trace of Blood
This Heart of Mine
Undertow
Rope Ends
Chain Sling
Second Love
Beyond The Pale

that's most of 'em
still a good song though

All of this, plus Dryad of the Woods for me too.

[wolfking]

Jesus, what's everyone's beef with it?

[Elite]

Waking Every God is amazing.

[Evermind]

I think it's a good song, but almost all other songs are just awesome. Honestly, the only song from Remedy Lane I can't get into is Fandango.

[ariich]

I love Fandango. Probably one of my favourites on the album

[Zantera]

Waking Every God is one of my favorites on Remedy Lane, but all in all I'm not overly sold on the album as a whole. It's a great album, but it has nothing on BE, The Perfect Element or Entropia for me.

[yorost]

Waking Every God is amazing.

[jammindude]

Jesus, what's everyone's beef with it?

No beef...it's just outshined drastically by all the rest of the awesomeness.

[wolfking]

Waking Every God is amazing.

Thank you, I'll calm down now.

[faizoff]

I still don't have a favorite track from Remedy Lane, every time I put it on I listen start to finish and keep changing my mind on which is my favorite track.

[Zydar]

A Trace Of Blood is my favourite, followed by Second Love.

[Evermind]

Beyond the Pale is my favourite, followed by Second Love.

FTFM

[Ben_Jamin]

I feel stupid for asking...Does anyone know how to access the Easter Eggs on the 'BE' dvd? If so, just send a PM.

[wolfking]

No no, post it here, I'd like to know too. 

[Evermind]

Going to their Moscow gig in a few hours, will let you guys know the setlist and how it went. I'm not expecting much, but since they seem to be playing a lot of Remedy Lane (my favourite by them), I guess I'll have a good time anyway singing along to the songs.

[Evermind]

Alright, so, probably due to me having low expectations, I was actually pleasantly surprised of how awesome the gig was. It was on of those gigs that weren't ear-splittingly loud (I ended up not using my earplugs at all) and I could hear everything clear — for comparison, Anathema played at this venue 9 days ago and without earplugs you were pretty much fucked up — and Daniel's voice is much better than I thought it would be, and his jokes were actually quite funny too. The setlist was pretty good, though I wish there would be less RS2 songs — seems like Conditioned and The Deeper Cut made a debut this year, but I would've rather heard Falling / The Perfect Element instead of those two. Or Undertow. Or Second Love. Or pretty much anything from TPE1 / RL / Be. And Daniel still regards RS2 as "the new album". He didn't say anything about future plans and all.

But yeah, the show was great. The highlights for me were pretty much all songs at the end of main set: 1979, Ashes, Rope Ends and Beyond the Pale were all amazing. However, this encore must be one of the most non-satisfying ones PoS have ever played: I mean, I love Dryad of the Woods as much as you guys do, but it's not a great encore material, and The Physics of Gridlock... I dunno, this song just doesn't work as the closer. Maybe that's because I just don't like it, but with all the epic songs the band got to close the shows, this clearly isn't the best pick. People were just standing there, staring at the scene and doing nothing. So yeah, encore kinda sucked, but the main set was great.

The Theater Equation t-shirt attracts some attention though! Got two people asking me about that show after the gig.

[Crow]

literally zero TPE songs is the biggest tragedy of that setlist tbh

[Evermind]

literally zero TPE songs is the biggest tragedy of that setlist tbh

What about Ashes? It was arguably the best song of the evening for me.

[Crow]

oops I somehow didn't see that 

[senecadawg2]

Beyond the Pale seems like the it'd be the ideal closer in that set list. In any set list, really...

[Evermind]

Beyond the Pale seems like the it'd be the ideal closer in that set list. In any set list, really...

Yeah, so much this. It was a bloody amazing closer for a main set, then they went on with this encore.

I wish they'd played Falling / TPE for the main set closer, and then Dryad and Beyond the Pale for the encore. This would've been so much better.

[Zantera]

Pretty cool setlist even though Remedy Lane is not a top3 PoS album, I'd still walk out happy with that set.

[Lynxo]

From their Facebook-page:

Additionally, following-up on their latest “Road Salt” releases, Pain of Salvation have now started to work on material for a next studio album effort, which will be a concept album that goes back to the band’s harder and heavier roots of the early 2000’s. Pain of Salvation’s Daniel Gildenlöw has checked in with a brief status report on the band’s current activities as follows:

“We have a few gigs on the horizon, but in all honesty, our true focus is on the next studio album right now. Ragnar and I truly enjoy writing music together, and have that sort of completing-each-other’s-sentences dynamics to our writing that I have only found in very few people over the years. We have very creative writing sessions, and we can’t wait for the fans to hear the new material! You’ll see a hungry and strong Pain of Salvation, confidently returning to a harder and heavier form, musically. Still, as always, without losing the intimacy and originality that has been the trademark of the band ever since the first album. Anyone who has witnessed on stage what today’s Pain of Salvation are capable of, will understand how much I am looking forward to show them what we can do in a studio.”

MY BODY IS READY.

[Kwyjibo]

After another long wait I'm slightly excited, 'cause:

"concept album" okay 
"harder and heavier" OKAY 

Writing with Ragnar sounds interesting, in the past most of the songs were solely written by DG.

[Zantera]

I remember Daniel saying a few months ago that he had been revisiting Entropia and The Perfect Element and enjoying them more than in years, and that the new material would channel the more "progressive metal" side of the band. If it's true, then this might be their best album since BE. (I still liked RS2 quite a bit, but was underwhelmed by RS1 and Scarsick)