The Mountain has grown on me big time, I've been spamming the hell out of that album the last couple of days.
I really don't know what happened. Bit of a backstory, I got Visions back when it came out, based on DTF recommendations. I love Visions, I remember I heard it along side Circus Maximus Isolate for a good few month, British DT & Norwegian DT is what I called them back then. I was happy to finally have other bands that does the same exact thing -for my ears- DT is doing, after having been my sole progressive metal band for so long.
So I got The Mountain when it came out right away and was disappointed the band no longer sounded like DT. I gave it a few spins and it didn't click so I gave up on Haken. I remember what repelled me being mainly two things: the increase of vocal parts over instrumental wankery and the vocals doing a lot of overly cute things, like the barbershop quartet parts.
Last Friday, out of nowhere, l started singing to myself the "Lured by a treasure that was fit for fools" section and I couldn't for the life of me figure what band or song was that. Thankfully I remembered the lyrics mostly right so I googled it, dug the album out and somehow I'm in love with every track now, I even very much appreciate all the vocal work on this album.
I'm pretty excited cause I haven't been this hooked on new music in a long time and I know there's an EP and two or three more albums after this. But for now I'll keep milking this masterpiece.
I need to get that live DVD too, it's a shame they don't play the album in it's entirety on it but I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy the whole thing. Also a shame it's not on BR.