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Sir Exar Kun

Heaven's Edge s/t - Very under-the-radar early 90s hair metal band. Debut album was EXCELLENT, and followup eight years later was fairly mediocre, as were most of these bands by that point. I'm seeing on FB they are back active again, with a new album coming next year.... Curious to hear if it recap...

Sir Exar Kun

Crimson Glory / Transcendence - I will never get tired of this disc. So many memories of discovering this band back in the day ........ Midnight was untouchable. R.I.P. Great album! First time I heard it, I only made it partway into "Red Sharks" and was just like..... NOPE! But then was pushed into...

Sir Exar Kun

That year was ridiculous in hindsight. Apart from the Ayreon, shadow gallery and Arena albums, there was: - clone by threshold - one hour by the concrete lake by pain of salvation - twilight in Olympus by symphony x (I must be a very small minority, but that's still my favorite by the band. Every s...

Sir Exar Kun

Long time lurker here who hadn't visited the forum for quite a while, so I just saw this post, and I think it deserves renewed attention :wink:. Those first 3 SG albums were the best that 90s progmetal had to offer for me. In fact my journey into the genre started with ayreon's into the electric ca...

Sir Exar Kun

Behind the Curtain - Till Birth Do Us Part.
One of the most underrated prog albums of all time.

Yeesh, strong disagreement on that one. I found it almost unlistenable, to the point where I traded it in before I was even trying to clean out the collection.

To each their own on that one, I guess!

Sir Exar Kun

Galderia - Endless Horizon These guys sound Italian, but according to Metal Archives they're from France. They play very infectious, happy anthemic power metal a'la Lost Horizon. The first band I've heard in many, many years that takes me all the way back to the innocent early years when I was just...

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Zierler "Esc" - Aggressive, chunky as hell Finn Zierler post-Beyond Twilight project. Kelly "Sundown" Carpenter on vocals if I recall (at work, CD not in hand, too lazy to look it up). I love Finn's composition style, and really wish he were more active in the scene as pretty much everything he has ...

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Lana Lane - Covers Collections Just one of those voices that keeps pulling me back. Discovered her around the Garden of the Moon era if I recall correctly, as one of our local CD shops (Harmony House) stocked a few LMP releases and at that point those were almost a blind buy. She's one of those arti...

Sir Exar Kun

I'm with you. This was a REALLY strong album..... Lot of great tunes throughout. Now, the cover of "Rebel Yell" tacked on at the end????? Yick.

Sir Exar Kun

Yngwie Malmsteen - Alchemy

Not as good as the previous "era" material overall, but still classic Yngwie at heart with Mark Boals on vocals.

Sir Exar Kun

All jokes and silly jabs aside, this album frigging slays! I can't get enough of it. To me (and apparently I'm alone on this board in thinking so) it's 100% ARENA - just in a new setting with Damien on vocals and trying out new things, which to me is what this band always has done - changes here an...

Sir Exar Kun

For the record - I don't have a super duper audio system here. I have a quality, very revealing system that will show the imperfections of badly recorded material..... unfortunately, most of the metal we listen to isn't that greatly recorded and use massive compression techniques to put their sound...

Sir Exar Kun

I'm in the process of trying to thin the herd some..... Common stuff I'm taking to Half Price Books, setting aside the more rare ones to eventually go on eBay or Discogs.

There's just too much here to hold onto sub-par discs.

Sir Exar Kun

Melodic: DT, FW, QR, PoS, SW, Vauxdvihl, Circus Maximus, Vanden Plas, Lethal Technical/Experimental: Psychotic Waltz, Spiral Architect, Heavens Cry Stuff I don't know: Secrecy, Ivanhoe, Eldritch If you had to put the stuff I don't know into one camp or the other, where would you put them? Eldritch ...

Sir Exar Kun

Glory "Wintergreen" - I'm a slappy for anything Goran Edmund. Not sure how you categorize Glory, but somewhere in the hard rock / AOR range with a few mild neo-classical and prog touches. Melodic as hell.

Sir Exar Kun

My list: 1. Dream Theater - Images and Word 2. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry 3. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime 4. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace 5. Spiral Architect - Sceptic's Universe 6. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 7. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape 8. Heavens Cry - Food for Thought...

Sir Exar Kun

Got a chance to listen to this solo in the car (Bose 10 speaker system, so definitely able to give it a fair critique sonically), and Larry..... I don't hear what you hear.... AT ALL. The disc sounds great to me. No issues at all with the mix. What I DO hear, and you highlight clearly, is how track ...

Sir Exar Kun

Evership / The Uncrowned King - Act 2. Very disappointing indeed. I got this with the new Arena and I thought I would be 2 for 2... nope.

I skipped this one as I wasn't overwhelmed with the first one.

NP - Symphorce "Unrestricted" (Andy B Franck, very "ehh" songwriting)

Sir Exar Kun

Manticora "To Live to Kill to Live"

Great set of albums! I was initially skeptical as "Black Circus" was a bit of a letdown, but they bring it in spades on these.

Sir Exar Kun

Took a trip up to Toronto last week for work, and managed to listen to a WHOLE LOT of new stuff that's been sitting in a stack at home. Seventh Wonder “The Testament” – It’s very prototypical SW, complete with big lush melodies and sufficient noodling to keep listeners occupied. I can’t find anythin...

Sir Exar Kun

I agree. Damian's voice is so distinctive that when I hear it my brain goes "this is a Damian album" not "this is an Arena album". I feel the same way about Fabio in Angra. In both cases I like the singers and bands but I would rather they not be together even though they produce quality albums... ...

Sir Exar Kun

I still have way WAY too many..... Like Claus said, much of it is due to "collecting" and being a bit of a completionist.... I'm actually on a work trip right now, and loaded up the car with a large stack of brand new stuff for the ride, so hoping to put together a post when I get back with thoughts...

Sir Exar Kun

Sure, but it is what it is.

And that right there is EXACTLY the point I'm trying to convey..... You are right.... It IS what it IS...... But just imagine what it COULD BE!

Sir Exar Kun

If Yngwie is a joke now then he was a joke back in the day. The only thing that has changed are the people who are listening. Yngwie is Yngwie. Did he put out better albums 30 years ago? Probably. Is he any less Yngwie now than he was 30 years ago? Absolutely not. Disagree. Yngwie has always had th...

Sir Exar Kun

Say what you will about the joke he has evolved into..... But back in the day Yngwie put out GREAT album after GREAT album, despite the revolving door of musicians around him. I had "Seventh Sign" playing at work today, and was enjoying the hell out of it just like it was the mid-90s all over again....

Sir Exar Kun

ROYAL HUNT - Dystopia Part Two Very much like the previous album with few changes/adjustments but overall very similar. Production is a bit better (I didn’t like it on the last album), the songwriting very solid (15 minute epic “screams of anger” is one of the best RH compositions in recent years) ...

Sir Exar Kun

I don't think they count as heroes really, but I've been listening to the Above Symmetry album, Ripples, again lately and it's still quite good. It's a shame they broke up, but at least they put out one great album on the way. Great disc, and agree it's a shame they never put out another..... Can't...

Sir Exar Kun

Alright..... Not my strongest area, and I'm including some prog rock material in here also as the line gets a bit blurry on what counts and what doesn't..... 1 - Neal Morse "Testimony" 2 - Arena "The Visitor" (although "Immortal" is RIGHT THERE also) 3 - Rush "Hemispheres" 4 - Tiles "Fence the Clear...

Sir Exar Kun

Spun most of "Shine" on the way in this morning..... Through the first five studio albums, this one is the best / deepest of the bunch. Probably four out of the first five tracks all jumped right out instantly again, which for Edenbridge is a lot!

Sir Exar Kun

Initial thoughts revisited...my album of the year. Instead of focusing on what this album was supposed to be, I'm loving it for what it is...essentially a second Alder solo record. I know Zonder was hyping this as some AOR/arena rock disc, but thats not accurate. I'm not exactly sure what this is. ...

Sir Exar Kun

Ultimately - this could be my last EB purchase, unless they put out an anniversary bluray concert, a concert with a symphony orchestra, or Sabine releases another solo disc (highly unlikely I'd say). I've got enough Edenbridge in the collection, and I'm in the weeding out process like you ...... so...

Sir Exar Kun

I'm gradually trying to clean out the collection, and working through all my old discs to thin the herd a wee bit..... Actually JUST started listening to all the old Edenbridges last week, and Shangi-La just arrived today from Ken. Through the first three albums, and everything continues to track ju...

Sir Exar Kun

Loving this album..... Getting the obvious out of the way, the combination of the Wastefall vocalist and Kristofer Gildenlow does lend an immediate early era Pain of Salvation sound to some of this, but it's definitely not a POS clone.... It's not as quirky as PoS, trending more in the heavy end of ...

Sir Exar Kun

Nice! I went to Tilburg in 2019 for Ayreon at 013 and I've been charmed by the place ever since. I'd love to go back for almost any reason, but definitely for some quality shows.

Did you see the announcement of the "01011100101010010101111000001100101001" performance next year? Sept 2023?

Sir Exar Kun

I found it a little "too" 80-ish melodic metal ...... or am I missing something ? Vocals were very good ........music is very good as well just a little "dated" from what I'm hearing ? I should love this ...... but my aging ears don't ........ I'm at a loss on that one..... There's nothing on here ...

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