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Whatever happened to Digital Ruin? They had one of the more distinctive sounds of the era. ***Matt, the singer, left Digital Ruin to pursue a different path in music. He went to California and for a time, was a tech for Tommy Lee's band. Matt had a project, but if I remember right, it was sort of a...

I was never a WASP fan ....... I didn't care for the band concept and Blackie's vocals felt like I was a getting a massage with sandpaper.

It's back to that old concept that once a band writes that disc that captures our hearts ( in this case it's Evership's debut ), then we compare everything after to it. I realize that it's not fair to the bands to do this, but we as listeners really have no choice. We want everything to follow to be...

Harvester wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:54 am
I'm not a fan of the direction Sirenia went with "Riddles, Ruins, & Revelations."

*****Glenn -- I'm about 4-5 discs back ........ what has changed with this band besides the singers ?

Mardoch wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:59 am
Just finished my first listen of this and it's pretty great. Well executed melodic powerprog of the kind that's been kicking around for 25ish years, but with more modern sound palettes.

*****Totally. And excellent.

This disc was one of my most anticipated once I saw that The Lasers Edge had it forthcoming ..........jumped on it immediately as I love this band. The problem is, I've been disappointed by their last two discs, and after so many years in between, I figured that this had to be the comeback for them ...

I can now add SYLVAN / One to Zero as my biggest disappointment of the year ...........such a total let down for me.

Ssssshhhhssss … don’t tell Larry …. Larry doesn't reply or even acknowledge my posts, I think he might he might even have me on ignore. No idea why either :D ****I read every one of your posts ....... I didn't jump in on this one because I'm not a big of an Amorphis fan outside of the main discs we...

You know when you hear a band - many times over - and you know they have the potential to be the next best thing in their genre ? Well, Evership is that band ..... they have the potential to be the next Mystery *if* they could master their songwriting and get a label behind them ......as it is, thei...

I already posted in the New Stuff Friday thread, but decided also to start its own thread... Neo-Prog band Nine Skies from France Copy paste from the EPK: The new album is called “5.20” and will be released the 4th June 2021. Achraf El Asraoui joins the band to record this new album. It is an acous...

Few couple of months into this and it's definitely the best I've heard this year. Need is second at this point. *****I'm the opposite - Need beats this one for me, but not by much...... there is something so emotional about that Need disc that captures me. Turbulence is fantastic prog metal ..........

I don't think I've ever seen anyone come this close to doing Kamelot ...... that was superb.

Sir Exar Kun wrote: ↑
Thu May 27, 2021 2:19 pm
I actually ordered up the new Evership and the Benthos discs yesterday, and ALMOST threw this in the cart to round it out..... Maybe next time.

*****For me it was Evership and Sylvan ........

I did give the video a play, and it just didn't grab me. I can hear aspects of the bands mentioned, but at the time I tried it I just wasn't blown away (PERSONALLY). Keep in mind, of course, that a lot of the more modern prog isn't really my thing anyway (aside from Haken and Leprous, although Lepr...

Never heard of them before, but this description from their website had me laughing out loud: 6:33, the deformed mutant child of Tim Burton raping Devin Townsend and Mr Bungle in a deserted asylum ... That's just effing funny! I definitely hear a lot of Mike Patton styling in the vocals, so I guess...

Men Who Climb Mountains was an incredible disc, however it was extremely dark and not something I can listen to often. Love Over Fear is the antithesis. Bright, positive, and authentically so. Combining the old sound with the new perfectly. "360 Degrees," "Soul and the Sea," and "Eternal Light" hit...

Powermad is where lots of us originally met - my friendships with Glenn, Ken, Todd, Guy, STevie and so many others started in 1997 at the first Powermad .....one day, while a lot of us were sitting around the huge tables they had at Powermad, someone mentioned the legendary words - " I can do bette...

POVERTY'S NO CRIME / A Secret To Hide - This was a no brainer as we've talked about > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Xd_woZExA ****Great disc. Great band. STRANGER / Kaleidoscope - Based on the video that Noren posted, this was awesome. I hear a mix of Leprous and Haken in the music with tons of...

The singer killed it for me ..... too high pitched and not enough control.

Maybe I'm talking out my ass and way too early - but I'm dumbfounded that more people aren't talking about this one, or at least checking it out ....... seems as Claus and a few others have heard it, and aren't that excited about it as I am - but hopefully that won't change when I get the disc. That...

Much like most here, I had been on the alt.prog sites all over the internet at the time. I had met Ken Golden at the time, ( man I miss The Lasers Edge catalogue ) and at the same time I met the great Erik Welty, whose now famous prog band listing helped me find all sorts of prog that was circulatin...

This was one of those days that I just felt like checking out new music and found these at The Lasers Edge - POVERTY'S NO CRIME / A Secret To Hide - This was a no brainer as we've talked about > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Xd_woZExA STRANGER / Kaleidoscope - Based on the video that Noren poste...

I bought this based on that one video alone ...... thought it was superb. When we talk about those other bands like Leprous, Haken and C-Horse, I always fear the lack of melodies ( or what I perceive as such ) ....... that video had zero lack of melodies and I found it very easy to listen to ..........

I did manage to grab the last Cast bluray on the planet earth ...... I don't know who told you this, but that's such a stupid lie (sounds like a trick to get you to buy it) ... I ordered it after you had mentioned it, and I received it this week. It's still available for sale through the bands' web...

Good call -- you're doing good bro, you're on a roll for sure. Yes, I really liked the Khali disc, and I'm a Time Machine nut too.... I think Claus sent me every TM ep known to man....hehehehe ....... I've got just about everything TM released. Evil is a great disc - and a personal one for me. Loren...

Agree with all that everyone said here - this is one of those bands that fall into the category of "better live than on disc" ....... given the talent factor here, you wouldn't think that, but its true, for me anyway. When I saw them at PP, they blew me away - and that bluray show in Bulgaria is equ...

Yes !!!! Heard the whole thing all the way through and it's excellent !!!!! Its funny - they have never written that masterpiece - but they always come up with quality disc after disc and I appreciate that. This disc sounds excellent indeed and I can see it on the Top 10 list easily.

This one is certainly a classic ....... and indeed, I used to take the disc with me to electronic stores to demo gear with. I remember on several occasions that the salesman would ask who that was and, of course, had no idea after I told him. On one occasion, I made a cassette tape of the disc, and ...

I did manage to grab the last Cast bluray on the planet earth ...... it is an 8-song show with an orchestra. There isn't much singing on this show, he comes out every anow and then and sings a few lines and disappears into the backstage pretty much for every song. The rest are instrumentals with thi...

Same for me - I have not listened to the new one, but in all honesty I'm not that anxious to dive into it. I'd much rather listen to a John Petrucci solo disc than the LTE stuff, only because of the song factor versus the jam factor...... That said - I had the privilege of seeing LTE ( thanks to Ken...

Claus and I were just talking about SG and "Tyranny" in particular as being one of the greatest emotional prog discs ever. Seeing them at PP (even without Mike) was a dream come true for me and they delivered in spades despite their singer being gone. The new singer did a great job, more so than I t...

For me, there hasn't been enough releases to warrant a list - and happily, everything I've gotten has been great for me so far this year ...... but, there is one disc that I just scratched my head at and wondered why I bought it in the first place...... THERION / Leviathan I'm not sure why I bought ...

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LarryD wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:53 pm
But more important, what did she do to her hair ????
She had cancer not long ago.

She's one who needs a little support in the songwriting department. Fantastic voice, but when she doesn't work with strong outside personalities (think Arjen) the music is a bit lackluster. Nothing wrong with that, but I'd be a bit cautious on this out of the gate also. ****I definitely agree with ...

I did not click on the link yet but I want to say that I love Marcela Bovio ...... but, her last solo disc was very disappointing to me. I'm afraid to invest in an EP of hers because of that ..... maybe after I click the link it will change my mind ....... ( holding nose and jumping in ) .......

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