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- Fri May 10, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
New self-titled Crownshift. Folks from Wintersun, CoB, Nightwish, Finntroll getting together for a modern metal album with some nice proggy influences. Devin-ish vocals in terms of growls as they are definitely aiming for an alternating SYL or Devin Townsend vibe depending on the track. Still pretty...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Random shelf pulls March 20 edition
- Replies: 5
- Views: 223
Re: Random shelf pulls March 20 edition
That's awesome - I don't have a CD playing in my car, so it all is from my phone. I guess I'd go back through old stuff more if I had a CD player there .... hmmmm Pick a band from every letter of the alphabet on your phone and just go from a-z, or via album from a-z. Last time I did a pass through,...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
BORKNAGAR - Fall I'm a fair weather opportunist when it comes to Borknagar ... well, actually, probably more the opposite - I like them when they are the underdog and people are not counting on them at all ... truth be told, of all their albums, my favorites so far has been their debut (which was t...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
FIREWIND - Stand United Never liked Herbie Langhans, and I really don't feel his gruff / scratchy voice fits the music of Firewind. Apollo was the perfect match for this band, and the albums with him had so much melody. Oh well ... It's another "miss" rather than a "hit". Such a shame considering h...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 457
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
Promising new Heavy Prog band out of quebec called Mr Weather. This off of their second album. Looks like they are on their way to recording a third.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSqMhbl3Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSqMhbl3Ak
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
Man, is it me, or is January really sparse this year?
We have Caligula's Horse next week, Ryujin last week, and a smattering of other things, and that's kinda it for this month? What good stuff am I missing released in January?
We have Caligula's Horse next week, Ryujin last week, and a smattering of other things, and that's kinda it for this month? What good stuff am I missing released in January?
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: This really annoys me about iTunes (anyone else feel the same)?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 401
Re: This really annoys me about iTunes (anyone else feel the same)?
Perhaps I'm to blame for buying almost all my music through iTunes, and this is only an issue with that one digital outlet? I don't know if anyone using other services have same problem? Back in the day where I purchased all my music on physical media this obviously wasn't a big deal - then again, ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
RYUJIN - Ryujin Japanese "samurai metal" ... at its core this is melodic death metal, somewhere in the Children of Bodom vein, but with lots of Japanese folk influences, a heavy dose of power metal cheese, and a mixture between cleans and scream. I just dipped into it the first time as well, I like...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: My Top 100 of 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1763
Re: My Top 100 of 2023
So glad you like those. Avenged Sevenfold is incredible. I can't get enough of that album. The funny part is that I didn't see any references until this album until the end of year lists ANYWHERE. All of a sudden it starts showing up on proggy end of year lists, with zero reviews in most places I r...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: My top 10 for 2023...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 708
Re: My top 10 for 2023...
Killer list, everything here (except the Subsignal and the jarzombek), I have in my top third-40% everything on your list.
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:04 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Last 3 discs before top ten list .......
- Replies: 7
- Views: 699
Re: Last 3 discs before top ten list .......
I have to give Moon Safari a listen when I get a chance after the holidays end, it's made a few year end lists.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Blind Guardian and Night Demon touring together. Your thoughts?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 345
Re: Blind Guardian and Night Demon touring together. Your thoughts?
I loved The God Machine, I'm there. Night Demon is pretty good too.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: End of year lists - are we ready ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4189
Re: End of year lists - are we ready ?
Here's my top 20 for 2023. There are a bunch of bands here on 2-3 albums, so I feel like the future is certainly bright. I wrote these comments for my radio show listeners (all 5 of them!) so keep that in mind. Somehow a Melodic Death/Doom band is #1, but it's such a pretty album... --- 20. Sermon /...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: End of year lists - are we ready ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4189
Re: End of year lists - are we ready ?
Okay, I'll post my biggest shitburger of the year, and I absolutely never at all expected this. Kamelot - Awakening I admit, I've not been the biggest fan of Tommy Kamelot over the years. Mostly because their live show has kinda stagnated a bit, and the albums haven't had the same pop. But man, I l...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:35 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: End of year lists - are we ready ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4189
Re: End of year lists - are we ready ?
I'm close. I've known number 1 for a while, after that is in flux.
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- Wed Nov 01, 2023 11:20 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
SORCERER - Reign of the Reaper After the previous album being quite a disappointment, this one is a step up. It's not perfect, but it is hinting more at what great potential this band has. Also, it still is "doom metal for people who actually don't like the genre" ... a lot of it sounds like straig...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:13 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Power Metal
- Replies: 10
- Views: 716
Re: Power Metal
My house is 100% fantasy nerdery, and I don't listen to much power metal anymore. To me it's because the music is cliched and boring. Virtually all power metal is stamped from one mold, and I just don't have much love for things coming from that mold anymore. The lyrics being silly as hell isn't ev...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Aviations - Luminaria
- Replies: 4
- Views: 250
Re: Aviations - Luminaria
I've come to finally realize that modern prog just isn't for me. It's not bad in any way, just not written for someone of my advancing age. Music is cool and complex. The voice... Vocals are almost always a higher pitched, nasaly, whiny timbre as if a mashup of spiral architect and Green Day. Again...
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:38 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
That Molybaron is very good. I'm definitely looking into those folks more. I enjoyed the heck out of their last one, but this one is even better. Got my first listen out of the way finally yesterday, and yeah, it's brilliant. Also working on the new Southern Empire, I like it so far after one liste...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 457
- Views: 26397
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Three really good albums came out in the last few weeks that I've been listening to alot:
Voyager -- Fearless in Love
Feuerschwanz -- Fegenfeuer
Nuclear Power trio -- Wet Ass Plutonium.
All really good stuff.
Voyager -- Fearless in Love
Feuerschwanz -- Fegenfeuer
Nuclear Power trio -- Wet Ass Plutonium.
All really good stuff.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Lance King
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1091
Re: Lance King
And for the record Lance King's Facebook page looks completely normal. I scrolled down through months and months of posts and never found anything offensive whatsoever. He may have make some mistakes before regarding comments, but I think people can be overly sensitive. He's a super nice chill dude...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:33 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
Kinda surprised no one's talked about Nuclear Power Trio here. Wet Ass Plutonium is a pretty damn good metal fusion disk...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Lance King
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1091
Re: Lance King
Now, back to music - what's your favorite album with Lance? For me I think its: 1. King's Machine - A State of Mind 2. Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver 3. Gemini - Out for Blood 4. Balance of Power - Book of Secrets 5. Shining Star - Enter Eternity I haven't heard of half those projects, but I'...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Lance King
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1091
Re: Lance King
To be fair QR's Empire is pretty political and always been performed as such, even in the 90s, so Tate being political is not new. I'm not so much disappointed in MAGA-loving folks that I won't support a musician who is off the MAGA deep-end, or someone who posts somewhat overtly libertarian philoso...
- Sat May 20, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
I also listened to a few albums, but decided against buying them: SLEEP TOKEN - Take Me Back to Eden (gave it one spin, and I just don't see the appeal ... most of it has nothing to do with metal, where it somehow gets lumped in. I'm fine with music that's not metal, but I don't understand why this...
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 7:22 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 457
- Views: 26397
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Exploring Birdsong, Piano driven art/prog rock. Good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpQtTQXpc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpQtTQXpc4
Re: Ice Age
Nice! This is good stuff!
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Favorite discs of 2022 sticky post.......(year end lists).
- Replies: 21
- Views: 979
Re: Favorite discs of 2022 sticky post.......(year end lists).
Judicator -- The Majesty of Decay Messa -- Close Byrmir -- Voices in the Sky Kissin' Dynamite -- Not the End of the Road Michael Romeo -- War of the Worlds pt 2 Persefone -- Metanoia Porcupine Tree -- Closure / Continuation Seven Kingdoms -- Zenith Tranzat -- Ooh La La White Ward -- False Light Bat...
- Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:31 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Are we putting together our year end lists ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 694
Re: Are we putting together our year end lists ?
A bit late in getting this out there. Been able to expand my metal horizons a bit this year, which has brought in some really cool stuff. Outside looking in: Judicator -- The Majesty of Decay Messa -- Close 20-11 (no order) Byrmir -- Voices in the Sky Kissin' Dynamite -- Not the End of the Road Mic...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:43 am
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: Are we putting together our year end lists ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 694
Re: Are we putting together our year end lists ?
I was telling my wife, I think I have a clear top four, and then there's like 20 albums bunched together. Unfortunately, I usually only make a top 10, so the list gets pretty hard to fill out the last six.
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:45 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: New stuff Friday ...
- Replies: 545
- Views: 40764
Re: New stuff Friday ...
Judicator -- The High Priestess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCSFH719Jk
I missed that there's a new Judicator coming out Friday. Based on this, I'm looking forward to this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCSFH719Jk
I missed that there's a new Judicator coming out Friday. Based on this, I'm looking forward to this one.
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:56 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 457
- Views: 26397
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Soen -- ATLANTIS
First pass through it as I finish for the day. Very much a lighter version of the tracks from prior albums with an orchestra and some nice backing vox. Worth listening to.
First pass through it as I finish for the day. Very much a lighter version of the tracks from prior albums with an orchestra and some nice backing vox. Worth listening to.
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: VOLA/Voyager/Four Stroke Baron tour recap
- Replies: 4
- Views: 289
Re: VOLA/Voyager/Four Stroke Baron tour recap
I'm going to tap this microphone for VOLA one more time. If you get a chance to see them in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore or NYC before they leave the US, you best do so. Saw them in front of 150 people in Detroit and they were unreally good in a tiny club. They are going to amaze people at PPUSA in...
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:06 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: ARENA / The Theory of Molecular Inheritance ......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 789
Re: ARENA / The Theory of Molecular Inheritance ......
Blech, itunes
I did find it on amazon music, where it had been weirdly missing for about a week, looks like it got fixed today.
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:38 pm
- Forum: PM: Core
- Topic: ARENA / The Theory of Molecular Inheritance ......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 789
Re: ARENA / The Theory of Molecular Inheritance ......
Anyone found a digital vendor in the US selling this?