Author Topic: What album are you listening to? v.5 (Read 450939 times)

Crow · « **Reply #7560 on:** February 03, 2018, 11:48:22 PM »

blut aus nord: stylistically i want to really like this album but a lot of these songs feel more like ideas that don't really get developed on rather than full songs. noisy, dissonant, cold, but relatively simple in structure and generally pretty repetitive too. i also think the ambient interlude tracks are too bare to really evoke much of anything. i've kinda consistently had trouble really getting into their music it feels like and that's a bit of a shame
suspyre: ehh, about half of this is pretty good, the other half is... fine but kinda generic prog metal fare. reign is one of the better tracks, sure, siren and the closer as well both have a lot of cool moments. apparitions has some cool stuff too but a really weak chorus. i think there's a good 45-50 minute album somewhere in here but it needed quality control, and not to be 75 minutes long
zinnschaeur: this is basically just acoustic hirsch effekt. it's good. i don't know if being acoustic is a great stylistic choice for the type of music and it took me a while to be able to distinguish the tracks but there's a lot here to enjoy, even a few surprisingly intense moments and a pretty cool level of technical skill for an album that's 95% acoustic guitar and vocals.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7561 on:** February 04, 2018, 07:33:29 AM »

Kiss- Killers

Dokken- Tooth & Nail

Rush- Permanent Waves

Twisted Sister- Under the Blade, You Can't Stop Rock n Roll

TAC · « **Reply #7562 on:** February 04, 2018, 07:39:27 AM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on February 04, 2018, 07:33:29 AM

Kiss- Killers

Dokken- Tooth & Nail

Rush- Permanent Waves

Twisted Sister- Under the Blade, You Can't Stop Rock n Roll

That's 5

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7563 on:** February 05, 2018, 02:30:17 AM »

Triumph- Classics

jingle.boy · « **Reply #7564 on:** February 05, 2018, 05:25:57 AM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on February 05, 2018, 02:30:17 AM

Triumph- Classics

That's how I "discovered" Triumph. That series of "Classics" albums were gold baby. I've got Styx and Queen too.

TAC · « **Reply #7565 on:** February 05, 2018, 08:11:18 PM »

Big Hath · « **Reply #7566 on:** February 05, 2018, 10:50:15 PM »

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7567 on:** February 06, 2018, 03:07:49 AM »

Anthrax- Among the Living

Luoto · « **Reply #7568 on:** February 06, 2018, 03:38:21 AM »

Kinda derivative but decent mid-tempo melodeath from Greece.

Lowdz · « **Reply #7569 on:** February 06, 2018, 11:36:26 AM »

Yngwie Malmsteen- Facing The Animal

Giant - Last Of The Runaways

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #7570 on:** February 06, 2018, 10:32:32 PM »

Quote from: Lowdz on February 06, 2018, 11:36:26 AM

Giant - Last Of The Runaways

That album and Time to Burn are still my current go-to albums.

(3 is pretty damn good too, but it's too short and has a couple of weaker tracks towards the end)

bl5150 · « **Reply #7571 on:** February 06, 2018, 10:42:30 PM »

Quote from: BlobVanDam on February 06, 2018, 10:32:32 PM

Quote from: Lowdz on February 06, 2018, 11:36:26 AM
Giant - Last Of The Runaways

That album and Time to Burn are still my current go-to albums. (3 is pretty damn good too, but it's too short and has a couple of weaker tracks towards the end)

Top 50 album for me too Blob - consummate AOR/hard rock.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7572 on:** February 07, 2018, 02:12:34 AM »

Led Zeppelin- Coda

TAC · « **Reply #7573 on:** February 07, 2018, 04:42:49 PM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on February 07, 2018, 02:12:34 AM

Led Zeppelin- Coda

Wearing And Tearing

wolfking · « **Reply #7574 on:** February 07, 2018, 05:19:09 PM »

Quote from: Luoto on February 06, 2018, 03:38:21 AM

Kinda derivative but decent mid-tempo melodeath from Greece.

I like what I've heard from these guys.

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #7575 on:** February 07, 2018, 05:55:01 PM »

Best of my recent album discoveries

My Spotify playlists are really hitting their stride at the moment.

Big Hath · « **Reply #7576 on:** February 07, 2018, 10:17:06 PM »

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7577 on:** February 08, 2018, 12:53:23 AM »

Thin Lizzy- Renegade

Motörhead- Best of

Lowdz · « **Reply #7578 on:** February 08, 2018, 12:50:44 PM »

Quote from: bl5150 on February 06, 2018, 10:42:30 PM

Quote from: BlobVanDam on February 06, 2018, 10:32:32 PM
Quote from: Lowdz on February 06, 2018, 11:36:26 AM
Giant - Last Of The Runaways

That album and Time to Burn are still my current go-to albums. (3 is pretty damn good too, but it's too short and has a couple of weaker tracks towards the end)

Top 50 album for me too Blob - consummate AOR/hard rock.

As perfect an AOR album as there is. And as blob says, the other two are pretty great too.

And so far today...

Bat Out Of Hell

Vain - No Respect

RoeDent · « **Reply #7579 on:** February 08, 2018, 01:56:57 PM »

Marillion: Fugazi

Maschine: Naturalis

Luoto · « **Reply #7580 on:** February 08, 2018, 03:48:43 PM »

TAC · « **Reply #7581 on:** February 08, 2018, 06:28:44 PM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on February 08, 2018, 12:53:23 AM

Thin Lizzy- Renegade

One of my favorite albums of all time.

TAC · « **Reply #7582 on:** February 08, 2018, 07:15:49 PM »

Some 2018:

Real classic style heavy metal with odd sounding Euro vocals.

Big Hath · « **Reply #7583 on:** February 08, 2018, 10:14:06 PM »

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #7584 on:** February 08, 2018, 11:13:37 PM »

Voodoo Circle - Raised on Rock
This new singer doesn't have the chops for this music. $:-\$ I'm enjoying the music though.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7585 on:** February 09, 2018, 01:47:57 AM »

Saxon- Thunderbolt

Tomislav95 · « **Reply #7586 on:** February 09, 2018, 11:46:04 AM »

jakepriest · « **Reply #7587 on:** February 09, 2018, 01:42:37 PM »

This has got to be my favourite OST ever. Perfectly captures the spirit of the movie.

Lowdz · « **Reply #7588 on:** February 09, 2018, 02:44:04 PM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on February 09, 2018, 01:47:57 AM

Saxon- Thunderbolt

Me too. Enjoyed it.

Big Hath · « **Reply #7589 on:** February 09, 2018, 11:23:40 PM »

jjrock88 · « **Reply #7590 on:** February 10, 2018, 02:14:56 AM »

Symphony X- The Damnation Game

Savatage- Power of the Night

Tomislav95 · « **Reply #7591 on:** February 10, 2018, 11:36:28 AM »

The Walrus · « **Reply #7592 on:** February 10, 2018, 11:42:39 AM »

Crow · « **Reply #7593 on:** February 10, 2018, 11:52:23 AM »

hacride - well this is pretty good. not as good as lazarus & not really in the same style either which is what put me off of it originally but taking it on its own it's a pretty solid, if a bit short and maybe colorless metal album. don't think it or anything else the band has put out matches up to lazarus though, ehh
hypno5e - i think this is an overall better album experience than meme album tomorrow but the songs here also don't "pop" like the last two songs on that album. it sort of just feels like the same song 4 times with one acoustic track in the middle. it's definitely leaning more on atmosphere and there's still some metal i like here but i'm finding it hard to really point to any parts of tracks i find that memorable
oddland - yeah i think overall this is a slight bit better than the treachery of senses, despite lacking a song as good as ire. though the heavy riff near the end of hidden is one of the best riffs i've ever heard, honestly. but yeah i feel like the songs here stand on their own a bit better than on their first album, i dig it

Train of Naught · « **Reply #7594 on:** February 10, 2018, 12:06:09 PM »

While Inconsolabilis EP from last year has gotten worse over time, that album you listed has cemented itself as the more alternative and straightforward metal version of the version of Hacride that I'm used to and love. It's solid, but a bit more out of my comfortzone when it comes to metal.

Shores could be my favourite Hypno5e album, just because North Shore is probably the best multi-song suite they have put out except for maybe Gehenne 1,2,3. Also not sure if it was intentional or they just recycled the same riff but the callback on In Our Deaf Lands to the Acid Mist Tomorrow titletrack is awesome.

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