What album are you listening to? v.5

[TAC]

Wow, sorry everyone. I've never had that problem happen with postimage before. Anyway, yeah, they're a Brazilian power metal band called Aquaria, if you're even slightly interested in symphonic metal I'd highly recommend listening to that album (Luxaeterna)

Just dropped the needle on a couple of songs on Spotify. Sounds cool. I will definitely check it out.

[The Silent Cody]

Fourth time since I got it two days ago... love it

Yep, great album!

[Ben_Jamin]

Some Good Hip-Hop right here.

[ZKX-2099]

[Crow]

a looot of stuff today let's go



i like this for what it is and feel like it gets a relisten by default because i didn't really like the song i got in my roulette until after a few listens. but yeah it's enjoyable enough



eehhh, this is nice but got a bit dull for me, even as short as it is. i guess. i'm looking for something at least a bit more complex or challenging



i kind of got the impression from the song i sent that this would be pretty bog-standard fare and that's exactly what i got. solid but not really standing out in any way and tbh i forgot most of what it sounds like already. very similar to that dir en grey album from my last roulette in that it's very solid but never reaches much above a baseline and doesn't do anything special



not really bad by any means but it's a bit too pensive and patient compared to a lot of the prog rock i prefer. also the marbles interludes all over the place mostly just break up the flow of the album imo, i dunno. it's pleasant enough



i feel like i may have underrated the title track slightly in my roulette, especially with how damn good those last few minutes are and the rest being fairly solid. and as a whole i thought this was pretty solid, yeah, not a huge standout but i do want to revisit it



genuinely have absolutely no clue what this album is trying to be. it lacks any sense of vision at all. sounds nice enough sure but the songs run into each other and lose any individual identity and it's hard to tell if they want to be a metal band or an atmospheric electronic band. i don't know. i feel very similar about this as i do the new contortionist record, but i don't really have the time or patience to try and figure this one out. it might be good but i have no clue



i can't really pin down the style of these guys but the music on display here is pretty solid. maybe feels a bit one note over the course of an entire album but it's a note i don't really hear other bands hitting and i enjoyed it well enough so whatever



kinda regret not checking these guys out sooner because man this album is all over the place on the emotional spectrum, though most especially there's a lot of bite to it,  way more than other emo-leaning records i've heard. singer still needs lessons but honestlly i prefer this to the super polished, syrupy high-pitched vocals on stuff like arcane matter and whatnot



midnight city is all over the place so obv i've heard it before, and it's, fine. this album has a ton of the interlude tracks like the one i was sent and that's, pretty cool actually? i went into this not expecting to like it and found it actually decently enjoyable. a lot of atmosphere, the occasional rock edge, honestly if it weren't so bloated and if the more straightforward poppy stuff was cut back i'd probably like it even more



also did not expect to be super crazy about this one but i enjoyed it more than i was expecting to. faint of heart is fine enough, really maybe scored it just a touch low in my roulette but it felt to me like there were a lot of better songs here anyways. it's a bit short though, for sure



well i finally relistened to mjod too. i dunno. something about this style, it's fine in single song segments but over the course of an album does not really do much for me. oh well

whew, finishing off tomorrow for sure, only a few left; moon safari, killer be killed, kauan, and fishmans are the only ones i have albums on my bookmarks or watch later list, so that should be all of that for good. geez. i should've done roulette stuff in a separate order i think but what the hell ever shipping is cheaper if i pay it all at once

[twosuitsluke]

@Parama, I know I sent you Glassjaw but I think you actually already enjoy them more than me. I only downloaded some if their albums because they supported Coheed and Cambria last year. They are kinda cool and I thought you might like them.

Couldn't disagree more in regards to Chthonic though! These guys add in traditional Taiwanese instruments into their music and sets them apart from other symphonic black metal, as far as I'm concerned. Also, Taiwanese harsh vocals just sound  to me. Love this band, Bu-Tik is easily my favourite album.

[Zantera]

AOTY

[jjrock88]

Coney Hatch- s/t, Outta Hand, Friction, Best of Three, Four

Dio- Sacred Heart, Dream Evil, Magica, Killing the Dragon

[Polarbear]

Unisonic - Light of Dawn
Death Hawks - Sun Future Moon
The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic
Cyhra - Letters to Myself
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair

[Podaar]

Outta Hand, Friction,

[Sacul]

Did you end up listening to Planetarium, @Parama?

[Crow]

yeah i did like months ago

too long, mostly not that interesting

[Crow]

Couldn't disagree more in regards to Chthonic though! These guys add in traditional Taiwanese instruments into their music and sets them apart from other symphonic black metal, as far as I'm concerned. Also, Taiwanese harsh vocals just sound  to me. Love this band, Bu-Tik is easily my favourite album.

odds are some of the more meh stuff will get a revisit at some point just to be sure, i didn't really dislike it, just never grabbed my interest

[Zydar]

Rush - Signals

"You move me, you move me..."

[Lowdz]

Coney Hatch- s/t, Outta Hand, Friction, Best of Three, Four

Dio- Sacred Heart, Dream Evil, Magica, Killing the Dragon

Magica and KtD let that bunch down.

[Crow]

some of this is pretty solid enjoyable stuff but a lot more of it is overly cheesy and just not up my alley, oh well.
i may check out some of their really long album because i've actually seen/heard about it before and am curious but prob won't listen to the whole thing unless it's really good



so i only just realized the lead singer is the singer from TDEP, lol. uhh anyways. this was okay but maybe a bit lacking in color? i'm interested in relistening at least once but i can't say i see myself purchasing it after that



i feel this fares better as one piece than the individual parts do separately, though it still felt like it kind of anticlimaxes or never quite hits a peak. but yeah it's solid, decently gorgeous stuff and i wanna relisten at least



there are parts of this i do like but it's either monotonous (the stuff i do like) or boring (parts 3 and 4, which i did not like). actually part 4 would be cool without the vocal thing like i said in my writeup. but yeah. i could see myself getting into something -like- this but not exactly this album itself

i also figured out what the weird wrong song nekov sent me was so i'm gonna check out that album maybe, but it's also really long lol
and there are a small few albums i wanna check out as well, the other turbid north album, another hypno5e album maybe, dunno

[jjrock88]

Crimson Glory- s/t

Fifth Angel- s/t

[Train of Naught]

so, you know that whole thing i said about the clean parts being better thna the heavy parts on the title track?
guess what
applies to the whole damn thing, unsurprisingly. i was very continously impressed by a lot of the cleaner parts, both the prettier moments and the darker, more sinister ones. the last two-part track especially, is really good, mostly because half of it is completely clean and the back half has no harsh vocals whatsoever (perfect). and story of the eye was cool too. had some flute stuff going on i think? it definitely seemed like the title track wasn't even the strongest here though it is plenty representative of the album. i will probably listen again but i don't see my opinion changing; at the same time the band seems aware enough of their strengths because i'm pretty sure there's twice as much clean stuff across the entire album as there is heavier stuff, so, lol

Yeah, the ending is great, and Story of the Eye was the song I was first planning to send. I think the weird strings into flute stuff make a pretty good transition into the slow section. Also, that song has one of my favourite Hypno5e riffs, the one around 3:55.

Honestly, I think this album and Shores of the Abstract Line are about equal, but I think you'd like that one more, has slightly less harsh vocals and when they're present they blend in a little more naturally with the instrumentals I feel. So yeah definitely that one second. Then there's Des Deux L'une Est L'autre which is a revisited version of their debut, they cut some stuff out and added some material, and I guess both are a bit more experimental and raw than the other two albums.



After the Burial: Saw them live and remembered how good Lost in the Static and Collapse were. The whole album is really solid, I guess it's like metalcore with some djent influences, not my usual type of music but it's just good songwriting, they don't go overboard on technicality and it is not constant breakdowns which I also appreciate.
Converge: I'm not quite on the same level as Zantera, but this should be in my top 10 of the year by the end of the year for sure, really good first impression. They kind of reinvented their sound without taking it too far from what we're used to from Converge. The title track, Broken By Light and Reptilian are early standouts, still really bummed that they made Eve a b-side, that's seriously one of their best songs so I have no clue why they didn't put it on the album.
Symphony X: I checked this out because of that poll of SyX vs. SoA. Even though the lyrics are really, really bad, the music is just very solid progmetal. I'm able to look past the lyrics because of it, I probably like this about as much as Paradise Lost and Underworld which is a good thing.
Ne Obliviscaris: Don't like this as much as most, but it's a good album. I think it's pretty dumb to release half the album before its release though but maybe that's just me, especially considering the last 2 singles were the two-part closing suite, kind of like spoiling the end of the book before releasing it. Intra Venus is still probably the best song here but Eyrie and Libera pt. 1 are close.

[TAC]

Coney Hatch- s/t, Outta Hand, Friction, Best of Three, Four

Dio- Sacred Heart, Dream Evil, Magica, Killing the Dragon

Magica and KtD let that bunch down.

It's so bad that we have to let our standards drop so much to enjoy KTD.

[ZKX-2099]

so i only just realized the lead singer is the singer from TDEP, lol. uhh anyways. this was okay but maybe a bit lacking in color? i'm interested in relistening at least once but i can't say i see myself purchasing it after that

That one is a grower. Listen more, you'll get hooked, bro.

[Zydar]

The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude Of A Dream

My favourite post-DT MP release.

[Crow]

so, you know that whole thing i said about the clean parts being better thna the heavy parts on the title track?
guess what
applies to the whole damn thing, unsurprisingly. i was very continously impressed by a lot of the cleaner parts, both the prettier moments and the darker, more sinister ones. the last two-part track especially, is really good, mostly because half of it is completely clean and the back half has no harsh vocals whatsoever (perfect). and story of the eye was cool too. had some flute stuff going on i think? it definitely seemed like the title track wasn't even the strongest here though it is plenty representative of the album. i will probably listen again but i don't see my opinion changing; at the same time the band seems aware enough of their strengths because i'm pretty sure there's twice as much clean stuff across the entire album as there is heavier stuff, so, lol

Yeah, the ending is great, and Story of the Eye was the song I was first planning to send. I think the weird strings into flute stuff make a pretty good transition into the slow section. Also, that song has one of my favourite Hypno5e riffs, the one around 3:55.

Honestly, I think this album and Shores of the Abstract Line are about equal, but I think you'd like that one more, has slightly less harsh vocals and when they're present they blend in a little more naturally with the instrumentals I feel. So yeah definitely that one second. Then there's Des Deux L'une Est L'autre which is a revisited version of their debut, they cut some stuff out and added some material, and I guess both are a bit more experimental and raw than the other two albums.

you should've sent story of the eye lol, yeah
also i am listening to shores now. i agree, i like this more. though their overuse of samples is a bit, killing me
but yeah the metal that is here is better and it feels like there's a lot less of it
i may check out their other stuff but lol is it impossible to find any of their albums for a reasonable price

[Big Hath]

[jjrock88]

Led Zeppelin- Celebration Day

[wolfking]

[jjrock88]

 

[wolfking]

Battering Ram has become one of my favs from them all round.  Sacrifice I didn't really give much attention to when it came out but it's just as good, I can't believe I didn't give it the attention it deserves, nice and heavy this one.

[jjrock88]

Battering Ram has become one of my favs from them all round.  Sacrifice I didn't really give much attention to when it came out but it's just as good, I can't believe I didn't give it the attention it deserves, nice and heavy this one.

All of Saxon's live albums are great, But St. Georges Day is really good with a lot of material from Sacrifice.

[wolfking]

Battering Ram has become one of my favs from them all round.  Sacrifice I didn't really give much attention to when it came out but it's just as good, I can't believe I didn't give it the attention it deserves, nice and heavy this one.

All of Saxon's live albums are great, But St. Georges Day is really good with a lot of material from Sacrifice.

I'll have to check it out.  They have so much live stuff I can't keep up.

The Let Me Feel Your Power is one I'll need to get also I think.

[Crow]

the hirsch effekt - holon : anamnesis

this close to bumping this baby up to a 5* on rym tbh

[bl5150]

Battering Ram has become one of my favs from them all round.  Sacrifice I didn't really give much attention to when it came out but it's just as good, I can't believe I didn't give it the attention it deserves, nice and heavy this one.

That was my impression (your initial one) - Battering Ram nice and consistent .......Sacrifice I really liked the title track and not much else (if memory serves correct)

[TAC]

They are both awesome, but I strongly prefer Sacrifice.

And yes, St. George's Day is awesome!!!

[wolfking]

Battering Ram has become one of my favs from them all round.  Sacrifice I didn't really give much attention to when it came out but it's just as good, I can't believe I didn't give it the attention it deserves, nice and heavy this one.

That was my impression (your initial one) - Battering Ram nice and consistent .......Sacrifice I really liked the title track and not much else (if memory serves correct)

This is pretty much what I thought too but listening to it again I'm not sure why I thought that, it's brilliant.

[bl5150]

[Big Hath]