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gazinwales wrote:I live in Australia and have never heard of them

They are not just Australian, but from Sydney!

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Everyone seems to confuse this band with the Danish Anubis Gate who sound totally different! A Tower of Silence is among PA's highest ranked neo-prog albums ever. I really enjoyed that disc and their more recent one The Second Hand is also fantastic. You may know the guitarist as Douglas Skene of He...

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I've listened to this disc twice and I'm still trying to really access much of it. The shorter songs are really good but the longer songs don't feel as compelling as something like Delusion Rain is, at first glance. The vocalist is, as always, the star of the album.

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I would retroactively call Chain Reaction one of the top albums of 2014 and Distorted Harmony's performance at PPUSA 2017 was outstanding. However, I am not altogether thrilled with this disc. The songs are more compact and heavier and have more of a djent flavor to them than before, and people I kn...

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gazinwales wrote:Love the new song, apparently it's only an intro or extract from a longer song.

I was there at the festival when they played it. It's actually a full-song version of what will be the album intro that lasts about one minute, so I wouldn't get too upset about this being overlong.

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You weren't kidding about Owner of a Lonely Heart, that riff one minute in sounds almost exactly the same!

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I should also add that this is no less than the fourth time this new-old singer has been in the band.

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There are a couple of tunes on this disc that break the mold for him. "False Paradise" even without the extra version's surprise is a rather extreme-leaning song and a couple others have a proggy flair. Otherwise it's business mostly as usual but a great disc.

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Some top selections from this year so far: Orphaned Land Ostura Neal Morse Subsignal TesseracT The Sun Burns Bright (a UK post-rock outfit) Toundra (a Spanish act similar to Russian Circles or Long Distance Calling) Entransient (American, a grungy take on mid-period Katatonia) Angra BTBAM Aesthesys ...

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Honestly sometimes it's difficult to tell the two guys apart stylistically, although perhaps Distant Dream is less heavy and fast, and more progressively inclined.

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I wasn't expecting this to be such a light album after the quite heavy and aggressive direction of the last one, but I grew into it the more songs were released and it became clear what this disc would sound like. There are tons of vivacious and colorful keys that give this a quite proggy flair desp...

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Merci pour les mots en français! Almost perfect! :wink: Corrected would be like this: "Évidemment Michel St-Père est un homme très occupé ! Semble-t-il qu'il est toujours en train d'enregistrer quelque chose. Pouvez-vous me recommander l'album avec lequel je devrais commencer ?" Je vois m...

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Great news! I think the band Huis is also coming with a new album this year... Obviously Michel St-Père is a quite busy man! It seems that he is always recording something. Can you recommend me the album I should start with? (Pour que je pratique mon français: Évidemment Michel St-Père est un homme...

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We've known the release date for a long time, but this is the first news of the album title. I don't know what to expect musically but Delusion Rain was so phenomenal that it's going to have a lot to live up to. I happen to be traveling to Night of the Prog Festival to see Mystery where they'll be d...

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For anyone interested, to get a preview of what you can expect from this album thematically, read this band press release and my response to it. https://www.facebook.com/andrew.bennett.39589/posts/1798453576873556 I still like even their ambient disc, but it's so long that it requires a very specifi...

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I've been told to expect a dark, somber and VERY heavy album, reflecting the tremendous emotional roller coaster of the past two years in the Riverside camp. Think Covered in Black relative to past Anubis Gate outputs. Even then I doubt they can replicate the perfection of Anno Domini High Definitio...

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I feel like the vocals are a bit low in the mix, but it does sound good. I'm excited to hear more. I wonder why Nick keeps doing that, putting the vocals so low? The vocals were also very low in the mix on This Mortal Coil. Tom still sounds great, and I have high hopes for the rest of the album. Th...

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We've known the album title since PPUSA and some of us were able to hear demoed songs or the full album. But now we can all enjoy hearing the full glory of the production in the newly released single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjrM0wsEK5Y I must say it took a couple of listens to appreciate wh...

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Going from this teaser, the album is going to sound somewhat like that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7paemGmzA

Which is okay with me. I did like the heaviness of the last album, but I do find myself preferring lighter fare nowadays and I love Subsignal's melodic side anyway.

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The song I heard was painfully average. I think Royal Hunt has talent but hasn't stayed with me long-term, with that said, but I don't know if I'm going to listen to the full album anytime soon.

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I was among the people who liked the previous album quite a bit, although lately I haven't been listening to it often. Spock's Beard are one of the best prog-rock bands out there nowadays still. And so even if this is reportedly a bit more straight to the point than the last one, I expect it to be e...

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You may know some of the people in this band as the one-and-done Michiganders Silent Lapse. Although that one album was fantastic. This is the second album under this banner, and if you haven't heard the first one, it's in the vein of mid-period Anathema or Katatonia and can really hit some emotiona...

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I expect something in the vein of the previous album, which although I really liked it, is not the equal of Touchstones (which is getting rotation right now). I hope on this album the band have found a level of cohesion approaching that found on Touchstones. What we have seen of some lyrics and song...

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I was not really feeling this but I will give the eventual finished album a chance. The last two albums were all-around their best albums, IMO.

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If you classified this as a mixture of their last three albums, you wouldn't be wrong. The more polished production and thicker orchestration are characteristic of All Is One, but there is a decisive return to a progressive sound. There are tons of guitars too and the heavier tracks absolutely slay....

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This is basically a proggier Widek and so fans of Widek will like this, and non-fans probably won't. Although I do tend to prefer Widek's bigger keyboard arrangements.

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The full top 30 with 3 sentences each is on my Facebook; this is the short version. 10. Exquirla - Para Quienes Aun Viven -A darkly atmospheric piece of post-rock/metal with all-Spanish lyrics and a spectral flamenco singer that creates a singularly haunting mood breaking out at its climaxes into ru...

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I should also say that because this band is local to me, I went to their album release concert with four friends all flying out from the East Coast, and the performance was simply superb. I posted a good deal of footage on my FB profile, PM me for the link (if you aren't friends with me already).

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I loved the last album, so I am not an Angra elitist, but this song just seems tame. The absence of Kiko seems apparent in the more generic rhythm work, the recording is sterile, and the riffs and melodies just aren't very memorable (even if Fabio sounds admirably like Bruce Dickinson).

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This disc - is for lack of a better term - tremendous without being perfect. The live production alone (compliments of Jeff Glixman) is superb. Hey, it was recorded in New Orleans, and Mastered in Charleston, SC - two of my favorite places !!!! The music is superb - their heaviest sound to date - m...

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I have all of his full-lengths and I'm going to buy them until his shtick runs thin. I love his combination of spacey djent riffing with spacey guitar-delay arpeggios and spacey synth work. If you haven't guessed, the atmosphere is very spacey and, despite being metal influenced, rather placid and s...

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So this is now out and I have heard it. Expect something in between the first three albums stylistically - some of the simpler structures of Machine Fish with the heaviness of Space In Your Face, and some reworked older and unreleased material that hearkens back to the debut. There are some straight...

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Perhaps this will stop the thread in its tracks, but Threshold are FINALLY returning to the USA at RoSFest 2018. http://rosfest.com/threshold-signed-for-rosfest-2018 I live all the way down in Houston and this is the only band that could appear there that might get me to come all by themselves. Alth...

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Aaaaaand this band is down a guitarist.

Not sure what will come of this now. The sound might completely change, again.

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I think this might be even better than The Optimist which I quite liked. It's stripped-down and somewhat post-rock ish, with "Soho" in particular heavily influenced by Sigur Ros. Its strengths lie in the immediacy of the vocal melodies (both Danny and Anneke's), stark lyrical minimalism, a...

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