The Original Perpetual Motion Board

1) PAIN OF SALVATION / The Perfect Element - Part 1 Might be the least favorite of their classic albums for me, but, yeah, fantastic disc. First 4 PoS are untouchable. For some reason, it took me sooo long to get into this band. It all finally clicked during a live show (they were supporting Remedy...

Funny, as I revisited all 4 myself not so long ago... SAVIOUR MACHINE / II -- Of all the SM discs, I feel that this one is the most proggy in the classic sense, as well as capturing some of the best SM emotion to date ....... since I loved the latest Eric Clayton solo release, I grabbed this to see ...

Not much of an audiophile either. My ears are just not good enough :-). To me, it must just sound "good enough". The first few listens to a new album (up to the buy/dismiss decision) will always be through my home PC on my Sony over-ear headphones. Every album will get at least one fully focused lis...

Venus Principle / Stand In Your Light (2022) Debut album for this project assembled by a bunch of very experienced musicians, having many connections to Crippled Black Phoenix, including mastermind Daniel Änghede. This is gorgeous, pensive atmospheric prog rock with dual male/female vocals, incorpor...

Negative Plane / The Pact... (2022) Negative Plane play a very peculiar brand of black/heavy/thrash (and we may just add progmetal to the list). "The Pact" is their third album: I always thought they were super interesting, but this is their most enjoyable work for me. They streamlined their harmoni...

Dunwich / Horror At Red Hook - Anthology Of The 1985​/​88 + Revisited Unrealesed Tracks (2022) Hailing from Italy, Dunwich are especially known for their orchestral prog/gothic trilogy from the 90s, and in particular for the excellent "Eternal Eclipse of Frost". This compilation, released at the ver...

Mental Home - that was painful to listen to, sorry. It’s over the top clicheed keyboard-loaded “black metal”-lite. Occasionally it reminds me of early Limbonic Art or Akhenaton because of the heavy keys but it’s without that quality of songwriting and it becomes just bland (at best). I don’t hear a...

I have to check out Estatic Fear, Mental home, Chalice and Dying Passion. Don’t think I’ve ever heard either. Yes, do check out "Black Art" by Mental Home... and then hopefully thanks to your encyclopedic knowledge you will point me to something that sounds similar ;-) The other three, I'm not too ...

Ah yes, doooom... Possibly my favorite subgenre, too. It was especially hard to decide what qualifies here! 1. The Gathering / Mandylion 2. Draconian / Arcane Rain Fell 3. Candlemass / Nightfall 4. Forest Stream / The Crown Of Winter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQxPrFNNeLc - I always hold my br...

Not a lot of bands I love in this style, so I'll keep it limited to a top 10: 1 - Nightwish / Oceanborn 2 - Rhapsody / Symphony Of Enchanted Lands 3 - Sonata Arctica / Silence 4 - Stratovarius / Visions (Episode is almost on par) 5 - Helloween / Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II (Part I is almost on ...

Fun thread! My picks: 1 - Dream Theater / Live At The Marquee (odd choice for DT, I know; this was actually the first thing I heard from them!) 2 - Queensryche / Operation: Mindcrime 3 - Payne's Gray / Kadath Decoded 4 - Symphony X / V (Divine Wings is almost on par) 5 - Fates Warning / A Pleasant S...

I actually bought 5 albums released in 2021 so far, so compiling a top 5 is easy: 1) Iotunn / Access All Worlds I didn't like their debut EP from 2016, but this is really good. Reminds me of several Scandinavian bands, including Insomnium, Enslaved and Mercenary. Vocalist Jón Aldará gives a mastercl...

An especially awesome release that was mentioned in the "New stuff Friday" thread (thanks "AllMediaReviews"!)... I'm becoming obsessed with this band/album, so I feel it deserves its own thread. The mini-review I posted on "the other" board: - A Formal Horse / Meat Mallet (2021) Progarchives describ...

Within a thread (aka "topic"), is there a way to flag, or highlight (for instance, display with a different background color), or even hide (if nothing else applies) the "already read" posts? Unread posts (as in those on a page you haven't visited yet or those that are new since the last visit) hav...

Triggered by the "New stuff Friday" thread... Within a thread (aka "topic"), is there a way to flag, or highlight (for instance, display with a different background color), or even hide (if nothing else applies) the "already read" posts? The above mentioned thread is very interesting, but it's a bit...

Fun thread!

I love "Honeyflow" by Amorphis (from Queen of Time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGJOv5h2jo

Sonata Arctica had a few good ones, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocVb9z5F-E off "Winterheart's Guild".

For me it should look like this: 1) Draconian / Under a Godless Veil Another gorgeous work by my beloved Draconian. More dreamy and hypnotic this time out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssWn4TeRHU 2) Vulkan / Technatura Fairly unusual for me to like this style, but Vulkan's classy heavy-ish moder...