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Mardoch

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 eve...

Mardoch

I'd sorta forgotten how much I absolutely loathe BenMech until I saw his name over there. Ken's right, don't click.

Mardoch

Tesseract has been my fav band in recent years, but I didn't really like the previous one (Sonder). Now they are back in form. So many fantastic moments on this album. It's really just the opening track that fails to impress me. It seems a fair number of people felt this way for whatever reason. So...

Mardoch

Finally checking out the new Pomegranate Tiger. It sure is interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about it overall, but it's not boring or samey like so much instrumental metal is.

https://pomegranatetiger.bandcamp.com/a ... t-is-error

Mardoch

introclaus wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:18 pm
KAIJU - K2
Nice djenty meets next-gen prog stuff. Lots of melodies. Mardoch, there's a Spiritbox influence creeping in here, so you should dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDGDyd_Ru4

Oh yeah, I like this. I'll be checking these folks out some more for sure.

Mardoch

That Molybaron is very good. I'm definitely looking into those folks more.

Mardoch

I know what you mean about going through tough times. I tried to commit suicide twice over the last 12 years(I guess I'm just not good at it) ended up in the hospital both times. Maybe one day I'll succeed, but I still credit metal for keeping me alive this long...............I feel like metal is t...

Mardoch

Not PM, but the festival forum proper is still at https://ultimatemetal.com/forums/progpower-usa/. It has, unfortunately, been eaten by Facebook like so many other things (rot in hell Facebook). Only King's Gene is really keeping things going over there mostly with news posts. Anyway, I refuse to le...

Mardoch

Listening to all of David Maxim Micic's solo stuff today. I started with the remaster of his first EP and have just been going through it all since. I love this dude's work. I think Bilo 3 is probably my favorite overall.

https://davidmaximmicic.bandcamp.com/al ... y-remaster

Mardoch

I think they accidentally released the whole thing on Bandcamp this morning when they meant to just load it for preorder with the single Thrash open, but I managed to get a full album stream in lol. It's really good. The production feels very weird to me (vocals buried, guitars WAY loud, kinda noisy...

Mardoch

New Unprocessed is kinda weird, but I like it. I'm pretty onboard with whatever these folks decide to go with at this point, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z3AMUSDDF8

Mardoch

Now slated to open Day 2 of PPUSA next year. That should be good.

Mardoch

New Spiritbox single is relatively laid back and generally very good. They've not yet missed for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjnZVpVvJ-k

Mardoch

There's not a whole lot of prog rock that grabs me these days, but the single available on this album got my attention. I think a lot of our resident prog rock fans will find much to enjoy in this.

https://fatherrobin.bandcamp.com/album/ ... oea-book-1

Mardoch

Giving the new Orbit Culture some spins this morning. I wanted something dark and heavy and this is right on target.

Mardoch

The new Orbit Culture is out and it's dense and heavy as hell. It does get a bit samey, but if your goal is to get melted by a wall of heavy riffs for 48.5 minutes, this'll do the trick. https://orbitculture.bandcamp.com/album/descent The new Hemina also came out earlier this week. If you've been a ...

Mardoch

Question: Can someone clarify for me what MAGA actually mean? I mean I know what the letters stand for but Is it extreme right wing? or is it extreme left wing? But if MAGA does mean extreme right wing, then yea I think Lance has chanced his stance, as I'm not seeing any pro-right-wing posts on his...

Mardoch

jhallum wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:33 pm
Kinda surprised no one's talked about Nuclear Power Trio here. Wet Ass Plutonium is a pretty damn good metal fusion disk...

oh, hell yeah it is! The shtick kinda wore off, but the music is ridiculously good.

Mardoch

Put on Everblack, 11 Dreams, and The Hours that Remain back to back. All killer albums. I need to fill out the rest, I guess.

Throwing on the Nospun after that since the Earwyrm video put me in the mood for it.

Mardoch

He's definitely fallen down a MAGA rabbit hole in recent years. The only thing he showed up on twitter to do for a while was make stupid right wing jokes. That's when I stopped supporting him cause that is extremely not my shit. It sucks because prior to that he was a super chill guy I loved shooti...

Mardoch

Thanks to the new single from MERCENARY (https://youtu.be/xn5NH9fRiAs) which by the way is really good, I decided to go back through their back catalogue… so many great albums, but the 4-album period from “Everblack” through “Architect of Lies” is one of the best in melo-death metal history. Classi...

Mardoch

He's definitely fallen down a MAGA rabbit hole in recent years. The only thing he showed up on twitter to do for a while was make stupid right wing jokes. That's when I stopped supporting him cause that is extremely not my shit. It sucks because prior to that he was a super chill guy I loved shootin...

Mardoch

New Earthside track! It's really good, like most of their stuff. They seem like a weird group with these hugely spaced out super high production value releases like this, but whatever I guess. I'm definitely still in for another album from them whenever that happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Mardoch

I really don't hear what y'all who are saying the heaviness is missing are hearing. I am left wondering if we got the same mixes, even. Also regarding the lack of Proper Prog, that's never been Voyager's thing anyway. Their longest song doesn't breach 7 minutes, but there's still more technicality t...

Mardoch

Conception - Flow Remaster
Still a phenomenal album, and the remaster really gave it the fresh coat of paint it needed.

Mardoch

Stride - Imagine (2005) Went scrolling through my collection and spotted this one. I believe they were an instrumental band prior to this release but found a vocalist for this. Catchy melodic prog with some AOR thrown in at times. Very good listen. I lament that A) I didn't get to see these folks a...

Mardoch

New Choasbay track is as strong as I've come to expect from them. I'll happily take an album like this.
https://chaosbay.bandcamp.com/track/revolution

Mardoch

Visiting Todd and he threw this in for me and I bought it inside of 10 minutes. Shades of Dream Theater, Kansas, Universe Effects, Haken. I'm shocked this hasn't had more enthusiasm!

Mardoch

https://voyager.bandcamp.com/album/fearless-in-love It's basically exactly what we knew to expect from the singles and Voyager's general trajectory. Tons of synths, smashing riffs, frenetic drums. I love what they're selling so I'm very happy with it. I'm pretty sure Ultraviolet is the darkest tune ...

Mardoch

I would also love new Darkwater. Not sure how interested I am in forking over for remasters though, to be honest. Especially since some of the recent remasters have sounded virtually identical to my crappy ears.

Mardoch

The new Tesseract is fantastic. It's like One era sounds with modern polish. Really looking forward to this.

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

Mardoch

devomeister wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:07 am
Twelve Foot Ninja- They tried to make a go of it after the singer left, but ultimately decided to disband

Oh, damn, didn't know that one.

I'm still sad about Dreamscape myself, too.

Mardoch

I distinctly remember when Oceans of Sadness did. It wasn't too long after they played PPUSA. Textures has, much to my continuing sadness. There are a ton of them, really, but not many are immediately jumping to mind.

Mardoch

Just got in my copy of the new Scar Symmetry. It's very good and I will likely be sticking with it for a few days. I was surprised by how much I liked it - to be honest, I can enjoy/like most of their stuff, but only really got into "Pitch Black Progress", so my expectations for new album were very...

Mardoch

Just got in my copy of the new Scar Symmetry. It's very good and I will likely be sticking with it for a few days. I was surprised by how much I liked it - to be honest, I can enjoy/like most of their stuff, but only really got into "Pitch Black Progress", so my expectations for new album were very...

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