Pain of Salvation thread, v.2 (merged)

[Adami]

Oh ratings. Eh. But sure. I know my numbers 1 and 2 but the rest are a little less certain.

1. The Perfect Element
2. Remedy Lane
3. Be
4. Entropia
5. In The Passing Light of Day
6. One Hour by the Concrete Lake
7. Scarsick
8. Road Salt 2
9. Road Salt 1

If we’re adding in the acoustic albums, they’d both be in the middle.

[Kwyjibo]

1. The Perfect Element
2. Remedy Lane
3. Entropia
4. In The Passing Light Of Day
5. Road Salt 1
6. Scarsick
7. One Hour By The Concrete Lake
8. Road Salt 2
9. BE

[Kram]

Okay, here we go -

1. The Perfect Element Pt. 1
2. Remedy Lane
3. Entropia
4. In the Passing Light of Day
5. BE
6. One Hour by the Concrete Lake
7. Road Salts One
8. Road Slats Two
9. Scarsick

I would swap 7 and 9. But other than that, this would be my list

EDIT - also the entire pack of 4 thru 6 are so close that they would shuffle randomly depending on my mood that day

I've got to put Road Salts One above the other two based on Sisters and Road Salts alone.  I love both those tracks.  And yes, 4 thru 6 are close.

[ClairvoyantCat]

Road Salt One
Road Salt Two
The Perfect Element
BE
Remedy Lane
Scarsick
ITPLOD
Entropia
OHBTCL

[jammindude]

Road Salt One
Road Salt Two
The Perfect Element
BE
Remedy Lane
Scarsick
ITPLOD
Entropia
OHBTCL

You’re doing it wrong.

j/k obviously

[Dedalus]

1 - BE
2 - Remedy Lane
3 - The Perfect Element
4 - Entropia
5 - Scarsick
6 - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
7 - Road Salt One / Road Salt Two
8 - In The Passing Light of Day

[devieira73]

1 - Remedy Lane
2 - Entropia (and it's very close to Remedy Lane. I love its diversity - Pos never sounded so diverse after that - and the instrumental passages, with a lot of guitar solos - again, never more like that)
3 - The Perfect Element
4 - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
5 - Scarsick (it's disliked for almost everyone here, but I think it really works as a more catchier version of PoS)
6 - In The Passing Light of Day
7 - Road Salt Two
8 - Road Salt One
9 - BE (It's interesting and very diverse, but I never really connected with it musically. It's the only album of PoS that I don't feel the need to revisit just for the music in itself. But someday I intend to invest more in it, translating all the lyrics)

[killer_rose]

1. Remedy Lane
2. The Perfect Element
3. Scarsick
4. Road Salt Two
5. In The Passing Light of Day
6. Entropia
7. BE
8. Road Salt One
9. One Hour By The Concrete Lake

Having listened to Panther more than 10 times now I can see it going somewhere between The Perfect Element and In The Passing Light of Day but it's still early to decide.

[Nick]

1. Remedy Lane
2. In the Passing Light of Day
3. Scarsick
4. The Perfect Element
5. Road Salt 2
6. Road Salt 1
7. Entropia
8. One Hour By the Concrete Lake
9. BE

[Elite]

1. Remedy Lane
2. One Hour by the Concrete Lake
3. BE
4. The Perfect Element
5. In the Passing Light of Day
6. Road Salt Two
7. Entropia
8. Road Salt One
9. Scarsick

I think.

[pfillion]

New review

https://theprogmind.com/2020/08/14/pain-of-salvation-panther/

[Elite]

New review

https://theprogmind.com/2020/08/14/pain-of-salvation-panther/

Very intriguing

[pfillion]

Another positive review

https://proglodytes.com/2020/08/17/album-review-pain-of-salvation-panther/

[killer_rose]

The album can be found on the internet, btw. Sad that it leaked early but at least it's not very high quality.

[devieira73]

As a PoS fan, I will say only two things that I think it's relevant to people give a fair chance to this album: 1- it's not a Scarsick 2 AT ALL; 2 - if they removed the 3 songs released so far from the album, I really doubt if any reviewer would talking about that PoS was having influence of eletronic music in its sound.

[pfillion]

New review and an interview with Daniel

https://www.sonicperspectives.com/album-reviews/pain-of-salvation-panther/

https://progressivemusicplanet.com/2020/08/19/pain-of-salvation-panther/

https://metalinjection.net/interviews/restless-boy-a-chat-with-pain-of-salvation-mastermind-daniel-gildenlow

[Phoenix87x]

One thing I will say is regardless of how good Panther is or isn't, I absolutely love In the Passing light of Day and will always be grateful for its release.

[Pettor]

Every year I forget about POS and don't feel like listening to them. But when autumn / winter is approaching I slowly start feeling the vibe again and I start listening to them. And I realize just what this band does that very few others seem to do. And haha I am at that point now, maybe because the album is also coming.

Just want to say that whatever is said about Daniel this band is maybe the most special one for me. DT is the most enjoyable band I ever had the pleasure to listen to but POS just attaches itself to that part where all my emotions seems to exist. Even the ones I forgot about. I love going down that road with POS and somehow it even feels like the soul gets a bit warmer and some well needed attention. I am really envy of Daniel's ability to just go down whatever route that seems open and skip any expectations that would come with a fan base or having multiple records out.

[Herrick]

That was a rough listen. Seems catchy enough, but I can't say this is what I look for in music, especially not Pain of Salvation's.

Fred Durst verse = a hard
Tori Amos chorus = a light

Same here but I kinda like Restless Boy a lot. Twill be interesting to hear the whole album.

[SwedishGoose]

Recieved my signed 2CD edition today.

Beautiful package.... that see through bonus disc!

Only listened once..... it's certainly different. I'm really liking some but feel this will take a few listens to gel.

[killer_rose]

Recieved my signed 2CD edition today.

Beautiful package.... that see through bonus disc!

Only listened once..... it's certainly different. I'm really liking some but feel this will take a few listens to gel.

Did you listen to the two bonus tracks Fifi Gruffy and Unforever? How do they sound and how do they fit with the rest?

[SwedishGoose]

Recieved my signed 2CD edition today.

Beautiful package.... that see through bonus disc!

Only listened once..... it's certainly different. I'm really liking some but feel this will take a few listens to gel.

Did you listen to the two bonus tracks Fifi Gruffy and Unforever? How do they sound and how do they fit with the rest?

Yes I did.

Fifi  Gruffy is a very, very strange song that I will seldom listen to
Unforever is a beautiful song that could have been on the album proper. Short but sweet

[ClairvoyantCat]

Early impressions have me feeling like this is one of if not their best album.  Slays ITPLOD.  Not a weak track on there imo

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Good lord is the new album good! That last track is an excellent way to end the album.

[Crow]

yeah i dug the hell out of this on first listen. a lot more focus on the rhythm section and a really dark and angry vibe overall, i liked the last one but it didn't feel like it was pushing a lot of boundaries & didn't stick with me, meanwhile i can see this growing on me even further. wait and icon are the immediate standouts but the whole thing was good

[Pettor]

First listen is a big 

I love the small resemblances of Road Salt. Like those heartful beautifully sad piano sections. The lyrics are also fully up my bin and quite classic POS looking at life / society. The way you look at adults as a child and everything is fine and then you find out the only thing you learn "is to smile". How the normal ordinary stuff of the day just feels like some kind of theater. It's there and many times it's fine, but once in a while you just find yourself blanking out and exit the bubble. That's when it all becomes so strange. Quitting the news is the best source for mental health. Etc. etc.

[Elite]

OMG

Can't wait to listen to it after those initial reactions here. I enjoyed the singles a lot, and only listened to each one once, so it'll be a fresh experience. I hope InsideOut is swift in getting it here. I think I got an e-mail at the beginning of this week that it was dispatched, so let's hope I'll have it this afternoon.

[ariich]

Just finished it for the first time, and it's... a really strange listen. I think I like it a lot, but it's quite different, and the production style is definitely not that accessible. It's going to need a good few listens to decide how much I like it.

[SwedishGoose]

Just finished it for the first time, and it's... a really strange listen. I think I like it a lot, but it's quite different, and the production style is definitely not that accessible. It's going to need a good few listens to decide how much I like it.

I was something like that on my first listen..... now I'm addicted. It's lunchtime and I have listened twice today so far. Don't know how many times in total since I got it two days ago.

[Phoenix87x]

New album is alright. Don't hate it, don't love it.

[Pettor]

Icon and Wait are the strongest songs I haven't heard before. Accelerator and Panther was already in my best of playlist.

[pfillion]

In my opinion it's their best album since BE.   Wait is so beautiful 

[Evermind]

Okay. Holy shit. This is great. From the first listen, I'd say it's better than ITPLoD, and I really liked that one. Wow. This will stay in my rotation for a while for sure. Too early to say where it ends up in my ranking, but I can see it being very high.

Wait is just blissful. Probably the best song they've done since Iter Impius.

[Max Kuehnau]

Okay. Holy shit. This is great. From the first listen, I'd say it's better than ITPLoD, and I really liked that one. Wow. This will stay in my rotation for a while for sure. Too early to say where it ends up in my ranking, but I can see it being very high.

Wait is just blissful. Probably the best song they've done since Iter Impius.

ok, how so?

[Evermind]

Objectively, obviously.

I don't know. My first impression from this one is more positive than from ITPLoD. It's also shorter and doesn't drag like ITPLoD sometimes does (I ended up skipping Angels of Broken Things when listening to it). I can't think of a song I dislike here, even Restless Boy works really well in context of the album. And my opinion is biased a bit because at the moment I'm still stunned at how good Wait is. There's nothing like that on ITPLoD, even though there are some very good songs there.

Perhaps in a week I'll grow tired of this album and say it's worse than ITPLoD, but for now that's what I think.