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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1645 on: August 03, 2016, 06:18:36 AM »
Someone recommend me a very obscure prog album that you like/love, wanna discover new bands.
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1646 on: August 03, 2016, 06:23:20 AM »
Someone recommend me a very obscure prog album that you like/love, wanna discover new bands.

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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1647 on: August 03, 2016, 06:23:37 AM »
Chaosbay's Vasilisa only has like 1000 to 2000 listens on Spotify but it's probably my favorite album discovery of the year, it's a German prog metal band and they sound like Steven Wilson gone metal, really cool. They claim it to be one 41-minute song divided into 8 tracks but there's some debate about that, doesn't sound like 1 song to me but the songs do share a TON of reprised themes and stuff, something I really like.
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« Reply #1648 on: August 03, 2016, 06:25:10 AM »
Someone recommend me a very obscure prog album that you like/love, wanna discover new bands.
I'll quote myself:

First is progressive rock with some jazz influences. Heard it first time yesterday and had to listen to both CDs, very good album.
Second band is not obscure here but check it if you don't know it. Pretty standard, melodic '90s prog metal, it's awesome.
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1649 on: August 03, 2016, 06:27:37 AM »
Someone recommend me a very obscure prog album that you like/love, wanna discover new bands.

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« Reply #1650 on: August 03, 2016, 07:47:36 AM »


l'enfant de la foret - abraxas

Amazing stuff, from James Kent, the same guy from Perturbator. But this is really darker than that. If you like dark/ambient/eletronic, go for it.

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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1651 on: August 03, 2016, 09:06:31 AM »
Someone recommend me a very obscure prog album that you like/love, wanna discover new bands.
The Enid - Invicta.

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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1652 on: August 03, 2016, 10:12:21 AM »

people on this board are actual music fans who developed taste in music and not casual listeners who are following current fashion trends and listening to only current commercial hits.

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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1653 on: August 03, 2016, 11:05:20 AM »


*snip*

beyond the bridge: this is actually quite good, especially the entire back half. the climax of struggle, pretty much all of the difference is human, both ballads are pretty great too and the instrumental is pretty strong, i wanna listen to this more

Listening to this right now. I definitely agree, this is a good one. I really like the second ballad, Where the Earth and Sky Meet, and of course a lot of these big climactic songs like Doorway to Salvation and All A Man Can Do.

You guys inspired me to spin this one today, and damn, after four years this album just keeps getting better and better. It's so great it's unbelievable, really.

Still astounded I've lost 425's roulette because of All A Man Can Do.
This first band is Soen very cool swingy jazz fusion kinda stuff.

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« Reply #1654 on: August 03, 2016, 11:10:15 AM »
Yeah, I gave that song an individual score of 8.5 which was the lowest score on an EP that earned a 19. In retrospect I could see a 19.5, maybe, but if I went back and redid the whole thing, a lot would have changed in retrospect.

Anyway I think this is a really good album so thanks Evermind! I'll try not to screw you over for a third time in my eventual v2. :P
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« Reply #1655 on: August 03, 2016, 02:41:50 PM »
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« Reply #1656 on: August 03, 2016, 02:51:39 PM »


Gave this a listen for the first time recently. Very hard to digest. Still unsure wheter I like Opeth.

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« Reply #1657 on: August 03, 2016, 02:54:12 PM »
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1658 on: August 03, 2016, 03:13:47 PM »
Gave this a listen for the first time recently. Very hard to digest. Still unsure wheter I like Opeth.

Though I am now pretty sure I like them, I freely admit they are a bit hard to get to (and especially for me, since I was never that much into atmospheric/melancholic music). It really helps if you decide to like them and put an album or two on repeat, until you know it by heart  ;D
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« Reply #1659 on: August 03, 2016, 03:26:18 PM »
It really helps if you decide to like them and put an album or two on repeat, until you know it by heart  ;D

Though I am now pretty sure I like them, I freely admit they are a bit hard to get to (and especially for me, since I was never that much into atmospheric/melancholic music). It really helps if you decide to like them and put an album or two on repeat, until you know it by heart  ;D

That's what made me appreciate Riverside and TesseracT. I didn't like them much at first, so I just decided to put one album on my phone and spun them in the car 24/7. Now they are both in my top 10 bands.  :lol
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« Reply #1660 on: August 03, 2016, 04:02:51 PM »
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1661 on: August 03, 2016, 05:21:19 PM »
It really helps if you decide to like them and put an album or two on repeat, until you know it by heart  ;D

Though I am now pretty sure I like them, I freely admit they are a bit hard to get to (and especially for me, since I was never that much into atmospheric/melancholic music). It really helps if you decide to like them and put an album or two on repeat, until you know it by heart  ;D

That's what made me appreciate Riverside and TesseracT. I didn't like them much at first, so I just decided to put one album on my phone and spun them in the car 24/7. Now they are both in my top 10 bands.  :lol

It's funny how you have to sometimes almost force yourself to like something. When I explain that to friends who don't 'get' my obsession over discovering music they just think I'm weird. I've got bands that I know I'll like but I know I need to put the time in. Riverside are only just starting to click for me after listening to them for about a year. I haven't forced myself with them though, I've just played them often knowing I'll get there eventually.

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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1662 on: August 03, 2016, 07:01:15 PM »
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1664 on: August 03, 2016, 11:27:28 PM »
It's funny how you have to sometimes almost force yourself to like something. When I explain that to friends who don't 'get' my obsession over discovering music they just think I'm weird. I've got bands that I know I'll like but I know I need to put the time in. Riverside are only just starting to click for me after listening to them for about a year. I haven't forced myself with them though, I've just played them often knowing I'll get there eventually.

Yeah, my longest "forcing to like" was probably with Hogarth-era Marillion. Apart from maybe Tales from Topographic Oceans, Brave definitely must hold the record for "most listens and most years spent with it while I still don't know whether I like it or hate it".


I actually found Riverside quite easy to get into however, marred mostly by the fact I discovered them at the same time as Redemption, who are definitely closer to "my style", but I loved Anno Domini pretty much instantly.
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1665 on: August 03, 2016, 11:37:50 PM »


Winger would be better!

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« Reply #1666 on: August 03, 2016, 11:49:13 PM »



    :metal

That song really is a thorn in this albums side, everything else is good to great.  Perhaps it's just because of this awful excuse for singer.
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1667 on: August 04, 2016, 12:10:38 AM »
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« Reply #1668 on: August 04, 2016, 03:00:48 AM »
Two classics there jj. MS wins for me, but only just, and probably only on the shinier production.

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« Reply #1669 on: August 04, 2016, 06:05:21 AM »


As much as i like Clayman and Whoracle, Colony is my favorite In Flames Record. That starting sequence with Embody The Invisible, Ordinary Story, Scorn, Colony and Zombie Inc is KILLER.  :metal

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« Reply #1670 on: August 04, 2016, 06:29:28 AM »
Yeah, those first five songs are just ridiculous, brilliant album all round.
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Re: What album are you listening to? v.5
« Reply #1671 on: August 04, 2016, 07:23:10 AM »
I don't think they've made anything since those three that comes close to anything resembling great.

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« Reply #1672 on: August 04, 2016, 07:52:07 AM »


As much as i like Clayman and Whoracle, Colony is my favorite In Flames Record. That starting sequence with Embody The Invisible, Ordinary Story, Scorn, Colony and Zombie Inc is KILLER.  :metal

Easily my favourite after Clayman  :metal

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« Reply #1673 on: August 04, 2016, 09:18:25 AM »
I don't think they've made anything since those three that comes close to anything resembling great.

I like Reroute to Remain (even though the production is awful), but yeah, that was the beginning of the end.


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« Reply #1674 on: August 04, 2016, 09:25:43 AM »
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« Reply #1675 on: August 04, 2016, 09:32:57 AM »
I don't think they've made anything since those three that comes close to anything resembling great.

I like Reroute to Remain (even though the production is awful), but yeah, that was the beginning of the end.

You're right. Bad production. Decent songs.

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« Reply #1676 on: August 04, 2016, 09:33:26 AM »


This is the album thread, not the post a picture of yourself thread.

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« Reply #1677 on: August 04, 2016, 09:51:46 AM »
This is the album thread, not the post a picture of yourself thread.

I guess, Stranger Heads Prevail would describe me as well.  :lol
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« Reply #1678 on: August 04, 2016, 10:13:30 AM »
This is the album thread, not the post a picture of yourself thread.

I guess, Stranger Heads Prevail would describe me as well.  :lol

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« Reply #1679 on: August 04, 2016, 10:26:46 AM »
And it was probably still fantastic!
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