Author Topic: What album are you listening to? v.4 (Read 426675 times)

Crow · « **Reply #4795 on:** December 25, 2015, 02:12:12 PM »

i may retroactively boost Roots of the Mountain's score by like .5 or so because damn what a song
but the rest of the album is pretty cool too, where Negura Bunget is more black metal with some prog this is prog metal with some black metal and I dig it a lot

Train of Naught · « **Reply #4796 on:** December 25, 2015, 02:16:23 PM »

Roots of the Mountain is like.. my favorite Enslaved song ever

Sacul · « **Reply #4797 on:** December 25, 2015, 02:55:01 PM »

Relistening after a few months, and holy shit yes, It's still fucking awesome. #3 best release of the year for me

Crow · « **Reply #4798 on:** December 25, 2015, 03:38:48 PM »

i mean what the hell am i supposed to do with this, it's awful and awesome

Sacul · « **Reply #4799 on:** December 25, 2015, 03:42:36 PM »

Listen to it again because it's awesome and you're awful

Crow · « **Reply #4800 on:** December 25, 2015, 03:44:35 PM »

i mean i could but the other 14 albums sitting behind me would get pretty pissy if i did that
also i bought mp3's of the being album bcuz i forgot to before (oops) and i have like two or three albums i haven't quite hit the "time to stop before i get really sick of this" barrier with from earlier in the month

PixelDream · « **Reply #4801 on:** December 25, 2015, 04:11:09 PM »

Quote from: Sacul on December 25, 2015, 02:55:01 PM

Relistening after a few months, and holy shit yes, It's still fucking awesome. #3 best release of the year for me

Some stuff I can't stand at all (Fields of Grey for example), but I did find plenty to like in tracks like Animatronica and The Surgeon. Even though the IM sound is very established and familiar at this point in time, those tracks really have the IM magic again. I'd say this release is their best since Vicious Delicious.

Crow · « **Reply #4802 on:** December 25, 2015, 05:04:57 PM »

listening to this one right after Destrage was a mistake but random.org is a cruel mistress
the combined insanity of the two albums has left me actually quite exhausted
but this is still super cool

Sacul · « **Reply #4803 on:** December 25, 2015, 07:43:03 PM »

Quote from: PixelDream on December 25, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Some stuff I can't stand at all (Fields of Grey for example), but I did find plenty to like in tracks like Animatronica and The Surgeon. Even though the IM sound is very established and familiar at this point in time, those tracks really have the IM magic again. I'd say this release is their best since Vicious Delicious.

Heh, I like it all, and dunno why would someone dislike that track though

Yeah, definitely their best since Vicious Delicious

Sacul · « **Reply #4804 on:** December 25, 2015, 07:44:26 PM »

Yup this one is pretty great.

Crow · « **Reply #4805 on:** December 25, 2015, 08:40:35 PM »

this is considered one of or the best Muse album and i can kinda get why, though i'll need more listens of it
though "screenager" is like the lamest "omg so edgy" commentary song i've ever seen lol but musically it's fine so i don't mind it too much

Big Hath · « **Reply #4806 on:** December 25, 2015, 09:38:14 PM »

Crow · « **Reply #4807 on:** December 25, 2015, 09:59:07 PM »

Painters of the Tempest is just fantastic but the other two are pretty great as well. I feel I'll like this more than Portal of I, really, which I like a lot but want to like even more than I do.

Crow · « **Reply #4808 on:** December 25, 2015, 11:10:33 PM »

when i think of "sludge metal" this is exactly the kind of sound that comes to mind and that's great
it helps that karyn crisis is a fantastic metal vocalist
yeah, i dig this
also i think this is the oldest album i got this year so it gets that perk

Crow · « **Reply #4809 on:** December 25, 2015, 11:50:33 PM »

it's just the one thing of taking rather technical music and making it emote
that's all you need to do to make it work
i don't want to hear bands that sound like robots playing pointlessly technical music

this is very pretty and thus rather engaging and enjoyable

jjrock88 · « **Reply #4810 on:** December 26, 2015, 01:24:28 AM »

Symphony X- Underworld

Queensryche- Condition Human

Zydar · « **Reply #4811 on:** December 26, 2015, 03:46:21 AM »

Redemption - This Mortal Coil

Train of Naught · « **Reply #4812 on:** December 26, 2015, 09:37:56 AM »

It's only been a little over 2 weeks after release but I've listened to this thing so much, definitely one of the standout modern instrumental prog 'bands'.

Crow · « **Reply #4813 on:** December 26, 2015, 10:14:56 AM »

since i only had yellow and green before this, wow
this is waaayy different but i dig it quite a lot
heavier for one, but not even close to as heavy as a lot of the other stuff i got so

CharlesPL · « **Reply #4814 on:** December 26, 2015, 10:15:57 AM »

Marillion - Holidays in Eden

Crow · « **Reply #4815 on:** December 26, 2015, 11:26:35 AM »

if you had told me a year ago that one of the most beautiful albums i'd ever heard was a black metal album, i'd have kicked you out of my house

anyways here we are and yeah this is still incredible

Sacul · « **Reply #4816 on:** December 26, 2015, 11:39:23 AM »

Check out So Hideous - Laurestine for some epic blackgaze

Crow · « **Reply #4817 on:** December 26, 2015, 11:44:34 AM »

i mean when i don't have around 20 albums i actually own that i need to spin a lot then i'll get back to you on that

Crow · « **Reply #4818 on:** December 26, 2015, 12:33:55 PM »

this one's heavier than The Apologist but there's a lot of the same sound, will of course need to listen to this about a thousand times to really get it
also the digipak for this album is beautiful

Sacul · « **Reply #4819 on:** December 26, 2015, 01:05:58 PM »

Dude, this album is so boring. Nothing in itself is bad here (the trumpets are nice), but I just don't connect with the music in any way. Ok record at best.

Crow · « **Reply #4820 on:** December 26, 2015, 01:11:12 PM »

i never got around to listening to American Football but I got the feeling it wouldn't be much more productive than listening to Don Caballero, another band who just completely fails to interest me with their music

again, CHON does it better by simply adding emotion to their music

Sacul · « **Reply #4821 on:** December 26, 2015, 01:14:51 PM »

Well I guess it's worth giving it a try, at least to the opener Never Meant. The rest of the album goes in the same vein, so if you don't like it, well, it's not your thing I guess

Crow · « **Reply #4822 on:** December 26, 2015, 02:08:02 PM »

i didn't put this one on at all for a while and i was really wanting to listen to it so i took a break from new stuff to get back to this
man, this album is still really good. i'm not quite sure if it's really great, but the atmosphere and folk elements are fantastic and there's a lot of cool riffs or moments scattered throughout the tracks as well

Crow · « **Reply #4823 on:** December 26, 2015, 04:48:22 PM »

oh man. this is a really cool progression of the Negura Bunget sound taken in a bit of a different direction but daaamn is it long. 77 minutes long. will take a lot of listens to take all this in

CharlesPL · « **Reply #4824 on:** December 26, 2015, 05:47:27 PM »

Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight

Crow · « **Reply #4825 on:** December 26, 2015, 05:51:39 PM »

i am very glad i have this, it's such a pleasant album, and quite unlike anything else i've ever got too

TAC · « **Reply #4826 on:** December 26, 2015, 06:02:29 PM »

Quote from: Zydar on December 26, 2015, 03:46:21 AM

Redemption - This Mortal Coil

I LOVE this album!

Crow · « **Reply #4827 on:** December 26, 2015, 08:03:17 PM »

i really dig this album cover, for one
this one seems to be leaning more towards guitar leads and less heavy stuff but it's far from absent
anyways it's east of the wall and i dig it

Crow · « **Reply #4828 on:** December 26, 2015, 08:48:43 PM »

this seems to get flak for being basically just more Ecailles
to which I say:
hell yeah more Ecailles inject that directly into my eardrums for crying out loud

Crow · « **Reply #4829 on:** December 26, 2015, 09:59:20 PM »

honestly this is the direction i wish all djent would take, a lot more atmospheric and a bit softer but not without some kind of edge to it
TesseracT tries to go this way and I dig Altered State still but I don't think they pull it off as well, or at the very least they don't emote as much as this does and the atmosphere isn't as thick as it is here (Intuition, Thrive, and The Parable especially are all just beautiful tracks ahh ;; )

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Author Topic: What album are you listening to? v.4 (Read 426675 times)