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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: LudwigVan on July 18, 2010, 01:14:09 AM
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When I say "emerge", the band has to have released their debut album between 2000 and 2010.
My choice is easy peasy: Riverside
What can I say? Ambient, heavy, epic, proggy and full of nuance. I think I even like these guys better than Porcupine Tree.
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Interesting question.
I think my choice would either be Isis or Giant Squid depending on the day, with Between the Buried and Me in third.
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Alter fucking Bridge
The best voice in rock n roll and one of the best guitarists/songwriters out there today, Alter Bridge is a monster of a band with soaring vocals, great musicianship, and collectively great heavy riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjM_wF1VBA
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I don't know who the best is (that's too subjective) but my favorites are 65daysofstatic, Immortal Technique (not a "band", but whatever), Hurt and Dr. Steel.
I don't listen to Riverside often, but they're one of the few more modern prog bands I like.
This past decade has been my favorite in music, but most of my favorite artists started in the 90s.
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Well, I have a LOT of possible answers, but the first thing that came to mind was THE DEAR HUNTER!!!!
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Thrice
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Muse released their first album, Showbiz, on October 4th 1999.
I'm just going to say Muse.
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Well, I have a LOT of possible answers, but the first thing that came to mind was THE DEAR HUNTER!!!!
Oh shit, how did I forget?
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Mando Diao (a Swedish rock band, influenced by 60s rock) released their debut album in 2002. I love all their stuff.
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Thrice
Holy shit I don't know how I didn't think of this. Yeah, definitely Thrice for me then.
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Mastodon
Periphery
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The Dear Hunter
Haken
Fair to Midland
Frost*
Wolverine
After Forever
The Cat Empire
Regina Spektor
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MUSE !!!
Alter Bridge !!
Isis
Mastodon
Riverside (though I listened to them a few days ago and I couldn't stand the vocals and lyrics, all of a sudden).
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I'll say Transatlantic, even though they are a side project.
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MUSE !!!
Wrong decade!
I'll say Transatlantic, even though they are a side project.
Yeah I was unsure about them as well.
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My favourite is Frost*. By a country mile. Jem Godfrey et al are wondreful, occasionally I get carried away and wonder whether they've started their sessions by going "Right. What would Rob like?" They're probably in my top three bands ever. Which is pretty good for a band with just sixteen songs. (Well, seventeen if you include Secret Song. ...and then there's the Forget You Song at eighteen. Ohhh, let's just say sixteen album tracks.)
Pure Reason Revolution would probably come second.
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MUSE !!!
Wrong decade!
I'm aware their debut is from 1999, but still.. :metal
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My favourite is Frost*. By a country mile. Jem Godfrey et al are wondreful, occasionally I get carried away and wonder whether they've started their sessions by going "Right. What would Rob like?" They're probably in my top three bands ever. Which is pretty good for a band with just sixteen songs. (Well, seventeen if you include Secret Song. ...and then there's the Forget You Song at eighteen. Ohhh, let's just say sixteen album tracks.)
What's Secret Song? And don't forget The Dividing Line!
I agree about them though, they only have 2 albums but I consider both of them 5-star albums. Incredible stuff.
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Secret Song's that weird watery thingybob that comes on about five minutes after Wonderland finishes, on EIMA.
And yeah, TDL's in the sixteen studio songs. :p
Part of me wants to fill the rest of this post with paragraph after paragraph of wank about how grand Frost* is, but I think I'll let the thread take its course. But yes! Two of the five-starrin'-est albums I ever did hear.
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Thrice
Holy shit I don't know how I didn't think of this. Yeah, definitely Thrice for me then.
Me too. I wiki'd them just to make sure they debuted in the 00's. Their first EP was in 1999 and then Identity Crisis came out in 2000.
Thrice for the win.
Transatlantic and Frost are close, though.
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Epica
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Agreed with the OP, definitely Riverside. And I can't think of any band evolving so fast within their first four albums.
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MUSE !!!
Wrong decade!
Come on, oct 1999 is practically 2000... Muse is definitely a band from the past decade.
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Frost is amazing, no doubt. Good choice there.
I like Thrice and Riverside, as well.
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Come on, oct 1999 is practically 2000... Muse is definitely a band from the past decade.
When I say "emerge", the band has to have released their debut album between 2000 and 2010.
So Muse do not count in this thread. :P
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Are we going for personal best or best as in iconic etc? Because I'd say Coldplay. Or Snow Patrol.
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Top 3:
1. Coheed and Cambria
2. Mastodon
3. Pure Reason Revolution
Honorable mentions go to Russian Circles, Arcade Fire, and The Devin Townsend Project :neverusethis:
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Sonata Arctica
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Karnivool is pretty good.
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Transatlantic
dredg
OSI
Arcade Fire
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The Decemberists or Mastodon
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Arcade Fire
Nice one as well!
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Vampire Weekend
Their album released earlier this year, "Contra", is definitely going to be somewhere at the top of my top albums of 2010 list.
One of the singles, Giving Up the Gun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccKotFwzoY)
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Karnivool is pretty good.
I could agree with this.
But Riverside is still THE band of the last decade for me.
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Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica came out in late 1999
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Linkin Park. That's the only band I could think of. Hybrid Theory is a masterpiece.
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I'll also echo the nominations for Transatlantic and Frost*, but I like Riverside a lot. I bought ADHD earlier this year and then promptly bought the previous three albums, all great stuff!
I'd also have to go with Mastodon and Muse, two very mainstream bands with a prog-edge, and both top-selling bands in US and EU, almost making it okay to call bands "progressive" again (albeit on two different ends of a prog-spectrum).
-Marc.
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My favorites to come out the last decade:
Coheed and Cambria
dredg (Leitmotif was re-released in '01 so it counts, right? :P )
Avenged Sevenfold
The Mars Volta
Riverside
Linkin Park
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This is so going to get raped, but I like that; so grab a hot pocket, why don't'cha? They fill you up on and you can eat 'em on the run. They're also fucking delicious.
The Killers.
/opinioninsanity
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Cormorant
Metazoa is a freaking masterpiece. Here's some vids for you guys:
Scavengers Feast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jakGblCnf0E
Uneasy Lies the Head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obik_DA9Edc&feature=related (VIKING CHANTS! VIKING CHANTS!)
Blood on the Cornfields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49fS1OMJXQ&feature=related
Hanging Gardens Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZM0zs7p6o&feature=related (Epic guitar solo, is epic)
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baNYY2LSc9o&feature=related
The Emigrant's Wake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDGIzkTNCk&feature=related (Listen to the sheer insanity of the solo at the end. Just do it)
Sky Burial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60SPX0Zth6E&feature=related (Epic spoken word section is epic)
Missed a few of the songs on the album, but whatever. The thing is a freaking 10/10 masterpiece, and its their debut. I can't wait to see what they do with future releases. And if you're a stickler for lyrics, they are in the videos and actually pretty good imo
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Coheed and Cambria
OSI
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Dredg or Pendulum
But should also mention:
Riverside
Linkin Park (though M2M was clearly a step down)
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OSI
and Gorillaz. I spank myself with a nail laden plank for not saying them outright.
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Sonata Arctica and Agalloch. Both bands had mid-late 1999 debut albums, so I'll consider them the past decade.
Also OSI, Riverside, Mastodon, Baroness, Frost* and Transatlantic
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dredg (Leitmotif was re-released in '01 so it counts, right? :P )
well if it counts, than the following artists would qualify as well:
Owsley, Unexpect, Mullmuzzler, Muse, Necrophagist and 3.
it originally was released in 1999, not 2001.
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The best voice in rock n roll and one of the best guitarists/songwriters out there today, Alter Bridge is a monster of a band with soaring vocals, great musicianship, and collectively great heavy riffs.
That reads like what you'd see on a sticker placed on a CD cover. :lol
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dredg (Leitmotif was re-released in '01 so it counts, right? :P )
well if it counts, than the following artists would qualify as well:
Owsley, Unexpect, Mullmuzzler, Muse, Necrophagist and 3.
it originally was released in 1999, not 2001.
Wrong, it was originally released on May 30, 1998. n00b!
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The Killers.
/opinioninsanity
Thats a perfectly fine opinion, though I'm not too fond of the newest album.
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dredg (Leitmotif was re-released in '01 so it counts, right? :P )
well if it counts, than the following artists would qualify as well:
Owsley, Unexpect, Mullmuzzler, Muse, Necrophagist and 3.
it originally was released in 1999, not 2001.
Wrong, it was originally released on May 30, 1998. n00b!
uh, what's your source? Wikipedia?
https://www.traversingboard.com/site-leitmotif.html
Leitmotif was released independently by dredg in 1999, and was re-released by Interscope Records on September 11th, 2001, with different artwork.
https://dredgonline.com/discography.shtml
Release Date: 5/30/99
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It wasn't Wikipedia, it was the guy who first got me into them. The only way I remember it was May 30th it's because that's my birthday :lol
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well, I'd venture if I asked the folks on Traversing what year Leitmotif was released, they'd say 1999, given pretty much every web source lists that as the release year.
Why would Traversing or dredgonline have it wrong?
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Well then, I was wrong in believing my friend who said it was '98.
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The Mars Volta
Fat Freddy's Drop
The Fleet Foxes
off the top of my head
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Either Between the Buried and Me or Coheed and Cambria.
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The Killers.
/opinioninsanity
Thats a perfectly fine opinion, though I'm not too fond of the newest album.
:tup
It took me a good while to get into it. Some very obscure songs, to be sure; but once it clicked, I found something quirky yet catchy and very original. For a while all I listened to was "Spaceman" :laugh:
I definitely agree with the BTBAM nominations, as well.
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Nemo and Moon Safari. Would have included The Pineapple Thief (except for fact that their debut was 1999); Satellite (except they're basically continuation of Collage, which originated in the 1990s) and Neal Morse (oops, never mind -- not only did Spock's Beard originate in the 1990s -- even his solo debut was 1999).
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dredg although Leitmotif came out before 2000
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ZO2
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I'd say Muse and The Mars Volta. Also Pure Reason Revolution.
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Hiromi's Sonicbloom
BLAZE/Blaze Bayley band
Does Coheed and Cambria count? They had an EP prior to 2000, didn't they?
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A lot of these band should obviously count. Just because they had an album released before 2000 doesn't mean they "emerged" then. So, yes Coheed and Cambria and dredg both count.
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A lot of these band should obviously count. Just because they had an album released before 2000 doesn't mean they "emerged" then. So, yes Coheed and Cambria and dredg both count.
When I say "emerge", the band has to have released their debut album between 2000 and 2010.
My choice is easy peasy: Riverside
What can I say? Ambient, heavy, epic, proggy and full of nuance. I think I even like these guys better than Porcupine Tree.
-Marc.
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Nemo and Moon Safari. Would have included The Pineapple Thief (except for fact that their debut was 1999); Satellite (except they're basically continuation of Collage, which originated in the 1990s) and Neal Morse (oops, never mind -- not only did Spock's Beard originate in the 1990s -- even his solo debut was 1999).
Forgot about The Pineapple Thief, probably my second choice.
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A lot of these band should obviously count. Just because they had an album released before 2000 doesn't mean they "emerged" then. So, yes Coheed and Cambria and dredg both count.
When I say "emerge", the band has to have released their debut album between 2000 and 2010.
My choice is easy peasy: Riverside
What can I say? Ambient, heavy, epic, proggy and full of nuance. I think I even like these guys better than Porcupine Tree.
-Marc.
pffft. Who reads the OP anyway...
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Well, but I think you can have some exceptions here. A few months doesn't make a big difference, and it still means >95% of the band's career was 2000-2010.
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Yeah, saying that Muse don't count is a bit like calling someone born on September 17th 1989 an eighties child. Sure, it's technically true, but all they really got out of the eighties was a few weeks of dribbling titmilk down their mother's front, and a lot of long naps. Maybe a week of chicken pox, if they were really unlucky, but they wouldn't've had a clue who the Human League were, and they probably couldn't give a rat's arse about the Cold War. The difference is more or less negligible.
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Yeah, saying that Muse don't count is a bit like calling someone born on September 17th 1989 an eighties child. Sure, it's technically true, but all they really got out of the eighties was a few weeks of dribbling titmilk down their mother's front, and a lot of long naps. Maybe a week of chicken pox, if they were really unlucky, but they wouldn't've had a clue who the Human League were, and they probably couldn't give a rat's arse about the Cold War. The difference is more or less negligible.
Every single one of your posts is awesome :lol
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Yeah, saying that Muse don't count is a bit like calling someone born on September 17th 1989 an eighties child. Sure, it's technically true, but all they really got out of the eighties was a few weeks of dribbling titmilk down their mother's front, and a lot of long naps. Maybe a week of chicken pox, if they were really unlucky, but they wouldn't've had a clue who the Human League were, and they probably couldn't give a rat's arse about the Cold War. The difference is more or less negligible.
:lol :lol :tup :tup
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REDEMPTION
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Transatlantic, Riverside, and Redemption are the top 3 for me.
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If muse counted (debatable i guess), definately them. Other than that, there's really not much I can think of. Not sure if that makes it a crap decade :-\
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Alter fucking Bridge
The best voice in rock n roll and one of the best guitarists/songwriters out there today, Alter Bridge is a monster of a band with soaring vocals, great musicianship, and collectively great heavy riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjM_wF1VBA
this song fucking rocks dude !
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Without a doubt in my mind, I feel as though the best band to imerge from the last decade has been Shinedown.
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Wow..other than Redemption, I cannot think of a single band that has grabbed me.
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Wow..other than Redemption, I cannot think of a single band that has grabbed me.
Where did they touch you? Show me on the doll...
-Marc.
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I suppose Heaven And Hell doesn't count? :lol
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Wow..other than Redemption, I cannot think of a single band that has grabbed me.
Mastodon?
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TAC. LOL. Alter Bridge. I just love the first 2 CD's.
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Protest The Hero
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1. BTBAM
2. Gojira
3. Bloodbath
4. Mastodon
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Thrice is my #1 from this past decade.
Actually, of my top 5 artists, Thrice is the only one from post-2000.
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Coheed
Volta
BTBAM
Protest the Hero
A7X
Frost*
The Dear Hunter
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I suppose I'd go with Coheed. I can see them becoming one of the biggest bands of this time period, and in a few decades I can see people looking back on them in the same way we look back on bands like Zeppelin.
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Without a doubt in my mind, I feel as though the best band to imerge from the last decade has been Shinedown.
probably the worst band ive ever seen live. (they opened for a7x)
id go with coheed or btbam
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Vampire Weekend
Their album released earlier this year, "Contra", is definitely going to be somewhere at the top of my top albums of 2010 list.
One of the singles, Giving Up the Gun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccKotFwzoY)
Fuck. Yes. Fanica. I Love them.
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for me its either Between The Buried and Me, Mars Volta or Mastodon
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Unexpect's first album was release in 1999 but I really consider them a 2000's band. Also: Gojira, Mastodon, BTBAM and Volta comes to mind.
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Unexpect's first album was release in 1999 but I really consider them a 2000's band. Also: Gojira, Mastodon, BTBAM and Volta comes to mind.
This I can be onboard with. Unexpect have released one of the best albums of this decade (In A Flesh Aquarium).
Also as a side note, Gorille, I got a message from one of the members of Unexpect yesterday. I freaked out thinking "ZOMGOIWEMFIW NEW ALBUM NEWS?!?!?!?" and it just turned out to be about their new facebook page. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
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Also as a side note, Gorille, I got a message from one of the members of Unexpect yesterday. I freaked out thinking "ZOMGOIWEMFIW NEW ALBUM NEWS?!?!?!?" and it just turned out to be about their new facebook page. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
I had the exact same reaction when I received it! :lol But yeah...At this rate, I even wonder if it's gonna be out in 2010 :(. Hopefully there will be more news soon!
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TAC. LOL. Alter Bridge. I just love the first 2 CD's.
I have Blackbird. It's OK but nothing earth shattering.
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Totally forgot about Karnivool. Their second and most recent album 'Sound Awake' is a masterpiece. Their style is so damn fresh, I can't get enough of it. The production of the record even rivals 'In Absentia' as far as I'm concerned. I feel this album is up to par with some of PT's best albums.
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I suppose I'd go with Coheed. I can see them becoming one of the biggest bands of this time period, and in a few decades I can see people looking back on them in the same way we look back on bands like Zeppelin.
Yeesh.
Don't get me wrong, I love Coheed, but that's quite a stretch.
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TAC. LOL. Alter Bridge. I just love the first 2 CD's.
I have Blackbird. It's OK but nothing earth shattering.
True, but I still find myself grabbing for it often. It's accessible, headbangworthy tough guy rock. No just kidding, that would be disrespectful. I have to say, they got the songs, the musical balls and one hell of a singer (+ guitar team!). Even if the songs tend to get samey after a while, 'Blackbird' (the title track) never gets old. It's over the top, but an absolute homerun on all fronts. I can't listen to that and not get a smile on my face. Or man tears. It's always something, and that's what I look for in music.
I really enjoy the studio albums, but I just don't feel them live: Songs are played to fast, and Myles compromises too much on his vocals. I know he can do better, 'cause the live version of 'Watch Over You' from the Amsterdam DVD shows what he really can do.
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I suppose I'd go with Coheed. I can see them becoming one of the biggest bands of this time period, and in a few decades I can see people looking back on them in the same way we look back on bands like Zeppelin.
Yeesh.
Don't get me wrong, I love Coheed, but that's quite a stretch.
It is, but it would be really nice if we see the Keywork everywhere in twenty years the way we see Dark Side of the Moon everywhere now.
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I suppose I'd go with Coheed. I can see them becoming one of the biggest bands of this time period, and in a few decades I can see people looking back on them in the same way we look back on bands like Zeppelin.
Yeesh.
Don't get me wrong, I love Coheed, but that's quite a stretch.
It is, but it would be really nice if we see the Keywork everywhere in twenty years the way we see Dark Side of the Moon everywhere now.
Oh yeah, I would love that.
However, in my eyes, Coheed has written 2 fantastic albums, and the rest are alright. I can't say that they are "on the path to greatness" just yet.
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Simple for me: Theocracy :metal
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Beardfish
Circus Maximus
Haken
Frost
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Simple for me: Theocracy :metal
Yes..very true.
Circus Maximus
Forgot about them too..
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Circus Maximus
I'm going thru this thread, and stunned it took 3 pages for someone to mention these guys. Them and Frost* are all that matter IMO.
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Redemption is my choice.
Frost* only has 2 albums to go from - not a big enough body of work. They also are kind of a supergroup, so it's hard for them to "emerge" when most of them have been successful (in the prog world) for years.
Riverside is a close second...very close second, but I prefer Redemption a bit more because of the lyrics.
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Redemption is my choice.
Frost* only has 2 albums to go from - not a big enough body of work. They also are kind of a supergroup, so it's hard for them to "emerge" when most of them have been successful (in the prog world) for years.
Riverside is a close second...very close second, but I prefer Redemption a bit more because of the lyrics.
True, but Jem Godfrey wasn't known in the prog world, and I'm sure when he put together this "supergroup" that they had no idea what would come of it. Jem was known for writing pop hit singles, so really with Frost*, it almost seems like he wrote pop-music with prog musicians almost as studio session guys, rather than being a "supergroup" in the sense of Transatlantic or even Kino.
I think for a band led by someone who wasn't part of the prog scene in the last decade to come out and release two great studio albums and, currently, a great live album, that's a big emergence to me, especially since his vocals and keyboard work on the albums is just phenomenal.
-Marc.
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Totally forgot about Karnivool. Their second and most recent album 'Sound Awake' is a masterpiece. Their style is so damn fresh, I can't get enough of it. The production of the record even rivals 'In Absentia' as far as I'm concerned. I feel this album is up to par with some of PT's best albums.
This.
Some of Themata is really cool, too
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Sound Awake is very good, but I wouldn't put it on par with In Absentia at all... not even close.
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textures
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Alter fucking Bridge
The best voice in rock n roll and one of the best guitarists/songwriters out there today, Alter Bridge is a monster of a band with soaring vocals, great musicianship, and collectively great heavy riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjM_wF1VBA
this song fucking rocks dude !
Yeah, Alter Bridge is awesome. I completely forgot about them, they'd definitely be on my list, as would be Mastadon, who I also forgot.