What album are you listening to? v.7

[hefdaddy42]

Billy Joel - 50 Years of the Piano Man

[twosuitsluke]

I'm going to Iceland in just over a month so been listening to a fair bit of Sólstafir recently.

[Buddyhunter1]

Like the first part this is very much a mixed bag but the song STILL BREATHING literally just made me cry and I'm pretty sure a song's never done that to me before so... that's gotta count for something.

[cramx3]

Wilderun - Epigone

[Tomislav95]

I'm going to Iceland in just over a month so been listening to a fair bit of Sólstafir recently.

Wow. It's definitely on my list, seems like a beautiful country.

[Trav86]

[TAC]

Good stuff, Trav!



Today at work...

[senecadawg2]

I'm going to Iceland in just over a month so been listening to a fair bit of Sólstafir recently.

Wow. It's definitely on my list, seems like a beautiful country.

I love Iceland and I really like that Solstafir. When I was there (jeez, almost a decade ago, now) there was a significant amount of Sigur Ros being played 

[NoseofNicko]

[Glasser]

Deleted. Sorry.

[twosuitsluke]

I'm going to Iceland in just over a month so been listening to a fair bit of Sólstafir recently.

Wow. It's definitely on my list, seems like a beautiful country.

I love Iceland and I really like that Solstafir. When I was there (jeez, almost a decade ago, now) there was a significant amount of Sigur Ros being played 

Yea I made a playlist of Icelandic artists which mainly comprised of Sólstafir, Sigur Rós, Björk, Agent Fresco and The Vintage Caravan. I found some other cool bands though, as well as finding out that We Made God and Kontinuum are also Icelandic.

[Lowdz]

Good stuff, Trav!



Today at work...

 Can’t argue with that!



Black Swan - Generation Mind

George Lynch - Sacred Groove

House of Lords - World Upside Down

Vicious Rumors- Digital Dictator

[Trav86]

Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Saxon - Denim and Leather
Def Leppard - High ‘N’ Dry

[jingle.boy]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

[nick_z]

Saw these guys live and was totally blown away! They should get more love. After the show I hit their merch booth hard!!! Super cool dudes too!

I've been getting into Revocation this last year as well. I made a Spotify playlist, that started off as all the classic death metal albums I'd yet to check out. As time went on I added more modern death/progressive death/tech death bands to the mix. Chaos of Forms is my favourite album of theirs but that's probably more melodeath to be honest. I've been digging Obscura as well, who are similar.

Great band.

Your posts reminded me I've been wanting to check the band out for a while and never did. I've spun Chaos of Forms and it's pretty great. Love the technical thrash influence in there!

[Zoom E]

Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Pain of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake
Hittman - Destroy All Humans

[TAC]

Today at work...

[TAC]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

Some good stuff there, Chad. I love that Odd Dimension album. Still gets listens. And that's easily my favorite Avantasia album. I remember you pimped that DGM album hard.

[nick_z]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

This doesn't seem to be available on streaming platforms...I was curious because I'm reading the band was born out of the ashes of this Italian prog metal group, Zen, that only released one album (Gaze Into the Light) in 1997. That record was clearly part of the post-I&W wave of prog metal that flourished during that period - not terribly innovative or anything, but it had some cool stuff and held promise. Is this worth some further digging?   

[TAC]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

This doesn't seem to be available on streaming platforms...I was curious because I'm reading the band was born out of the ashes of this Italian prog metal group, Zen, that only released one album (Gaze Into the Light) in 1997. That record was clearly part of the post-I&W wave of prog metal that flourished during that period - not terribly innovative or anything, but it had some cool stuff and held promise. Is this worth some further digging?

YES!!

[jingle.boy]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

This doesn't seem to be available on streaming platforms...I was curious because I'm reading the band was born out of the ashes of this Italian prog metal group, Zen, that only released one album (Gaze Into the Light) in 1997. That record was clearly part of the post-I&W wave of prog metal that flourished during that period - not terribly innovative or anything, but it had some cool stuff and held promise. Is this worth some further digging?

YES!!

I agree. It’d been a while since I listened to this, and forgot how good it is. If you’d like, I can upload it to a google drive folder, and share it with you?

[jingle.boy]

Or maybe you just need to host a roulette??

[TAC]

Or maybe you just need to host a roulette??

In....and sent!

[nick_z]

This doesn't seem to be available on streaming platforms...I was curious because I'm reading the band was born out of the ashes of this Italian prog metal group, Zen, that only released one album (Gaze Into the Light) in 1997. That record was clearly part of the post-I&W wave of prog metal that flourished during that period - not terribly innovative or anything, but it had some cool stuff and held promise. Is this worth some further digging?

YES!!

I agree. It’d been a while since I listened to this, and forgot how good it is. If you’d like, I can upload it to a google drive folder, and share it with you?

Thanks so much - but let me see if there is a physical copy to be found first ...

Or maybe you just need to host a roulette??

In....and sent!

 

It'd be a fun thing to do down the road...

[nick_z]

My 2013 journey is off to a smashing start.

This doesn't seem to be available on streaming platforms...I was curious because I'm reading the band was born out of the ashes of this Italian prog metal group, Zen, that only released one album (Gaze Into the Light) in 1997. That record was clearly part of the post-I&W wave of prog metal that flourished during that period - not terribly innovative or anything, but it had some cool stuff and held promise. Is this worth some further digging?

Speaking of which:



Revisiting as we speak...

It's actually pretty good, as I remembered. You can tell the keyboard player is the "main guy" (I believe he's the one the carried on with Karnya)...the keys often carry the melodies...even in the solos...

The vocalist sounds a teeny bit, I don't know, "off" at times? Maybe it's the accent that's a little distracting. The vocal melodies are good, though.

Overall, solid prog metal from that era.

[TAC]

Thin Lizzy (with Gary Moore)-Seattle 3-13-77
Gary Moore-Allentown 6-27-83
Accept-Philadelphia 3-3-84

[carl320]

[NoseofNicko]

Steve Vai - Inviolate

[wolfking]

[twosuitsluke]

Hell yea 

I went through a bit of a Cathedral phase last year. Can't say I LOVE them but I really dig their vibe at certain times.

Metanoia is great and every time I relisten I think it creeps up my ranking for the year. Not quite as good as Aathma, but it's a slightly different sound I feel, so that's fine.

[wolfking]

Hell yea 

I went through a bit of a Cathedral phase last year. Can't say I LOVE them but I really dig their vibe at certain times.

Metanoia is great and every time I relisten I think it creeps up my ranking for the year. Not quite as good as Aathma, but it's a slightly different sound I feel, so that's fine.

The Persefone was okay, but nothing comes close to Spiritual Migration.  Nothing else sticks with me.

Yeah, I dug that Cathedral CD out and didn't really realise how incredible it is.  Just amazing , crushing doom. 

[Zydar]

The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree

[Trav86]

[Trav86]

[TAC]