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Sir Exar Kun

Wow, another very pleasant surprise.... Never expected another album from them. How awesome!

Sir Exar Kun

RING OF FIRE - Storm of the Pawns (single) Holy smokes! Mark Boals is on fire (no pun intended) and damn this tune is amazing. Progressive, part neo-classic, progressive, symphonic, progressive, bombastic and did I mention progressive? I had not expected this. First few times thru I felt it to be v...

Sir Exar Kun

I"m not seeing the link that you posted? or did you just forget to post the link?

I'm literally seeing it in the quote you left...

Might be the device you are viewing from.

Sir Exar Kun

Another one-and-done bands that flew well under most radars..... Nation Beyond "The Aftermath Odyssey" from 2007. Straddling the classic power/prog metal line, mixing elements of Labyrinth / Angel Dust / Queensryche together in a blender.... I think I picked this up in a bargain bin at ProgPower for...

Sir Exar Kun

Now THIS is a list more up my alley..... This is what I grew up listening to before Dream Theater blew the doors off.... 1. Def Leppard "Hysteria" 2. Guns N Roses "Appetite for Destruction" 3. Warrant "Dog Eat Dog" 4. Winger "Pull" 5. Lillian Axe "Love & War" (I could put almost ANY Lillian Axe albu...

Sir Exar Kun

Okay, I tried several songs from various eras. Not for me. Much like Claus, vocals destroyed this for me. It's like the vocal DNA of Bowie, Michael McDonald and Kermit the Frog trying to re-record the Muppet Movie soundtrack but in the style of Genesis. Theres so much good stuff happening till mout...

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I was never a big fan of them - just didn't catch my ear to be honest. I have a few of their albums, but can't remember when I last listened to them. I might go give them another spin now. Which one do you suggest? "Global Drama" is my favorite; seem to recall the album after that ("New Era") had a...

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.......now if he was talking Arena, that would be interesting to see what everyone would recommend ...

I'd expect a fairly universal "The Visitor" consensus there, but then after that.... Could be chaotic!

Sir Exar Kun

***Scott - start with either PURE or Love Over Fear ....... they should give you a pretty good idea of what they are all about. In your case, I would start with PURE first.

Funny how we just went in two completely opposite directions on this one.....

Sir Exar Kun

My point of entry was "The World" (found a couple copies with MidKnight in the discount bins at used CD stores back in the late 90s), but probably their highlight album is "The Masquerade Overture". If those two don't work for you, I wouldn't dig much further. The biggest hurdle will be the vocals. ...

Sir Exar Kun

I think what sets me and some of you apart here is that the standard prog metal stuff to me has gotten very stale and that’s just not where I find the for-me-interesting-stuff these days. I know a lot of you still love new stuff in the trad prog genre, and that’s great. But for me it isn’t where my...

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I tried to give "unprocessed" a chance, but I just can't stomach the vocals, just too radio and modern sounding for my ears.........Also, seems more rock than metal, but maybe there are other songs that are more metal.... ***I felt the same way. Now I'm hoping we are talking the right thing, we are...

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Sir Exar Kun wrote: ↑ Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:29 pm My OCD wants to order these, as I do see a few bonus tracks I don't have..... But resisting the urge for now. Also saw Arjen is re-releasing Universal Migrator with a remix / remaster plus a bonus CD of mostly unreleased stuff. Same situation there......

Sir Exar Kun

My OCD wants to order these, as I do see a few bonus tracks I don't have..... But resisting the urge for now.

Also saw Arjen is re-releasing Universal Migrator with a remix / remaster plus a bonus CD of mostly unreleased stuff. Same situation there.... Nothing on there that I can't live without.

Sir Exar Kun

Not finding much mention of them on here aside from appearing on a couple year end lists..... Bought this almost blind off Lasers Edge by description (and listening to about 30 second on YouTube). I would think the old school stalwarts like myself would dig this quite a bit..... Blending of Evergrey...

Sir Exar Kun

Blind buy. No worries. Bring it.

Sir Exar Kun

You just went on an "anniversary tour" with your best (debatable) songs in tow, and you don't film it ?

Did you see the set list they were playing for the "anniversary" shows? It wasn't even really an "anniversary" focused set list! Ten songs, four of them from Underworld.

Sir Exar Kun

Honestly, this is one of those bands that has inexplicably just never clicked for me..... I can't explain why, as it has all the elements I normally dig. I've tried several times, and just...... Nada! But to second your point.... Seriously..... How many bands will pop out Blu Rays this year, and yet...

Sir Exar Kun

Where's the covers medley?!? Isn't that a requirement of every Voyager show???

Sir Exar Kun

That quick little instrumental bridge at the 2:20 mark..... Love it!!!

Like Claus said, the vocals are a bit hard to follow, but she's got a great tone so I am perfectly OK with that.....

Good find, I'm definitely digging this one.

Sir Exar Kun

The easiest way to describe the overall sound and atmosphere is blending Ray's solo album with 21 Guns Wow, a 21 Guns reference?!? Going deep on that one!!!! Good call out. (Side note: pretty sure I just saw recently that they got back together????) Little bit concerned to see the underwhelmed reac...

Sir Exar Kun

One of my favorite power metal albums is Cloudscape self title album. It doesn't get much love around here, but I'm not sure if it's power metal or power metal borderline prog, but probably mostly power metal............ It definitely did back in the day. Several of us are big Cloudscape fans. I'd ...

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I have been waiting to order this one until Ken gets the new Chaos Frame in stock so I could combine.... Along with the new Leviathan. (EDIT: Guess what JUST posted on LE???? Order placed!)

Looking forward to it, as I very much enjoyed the first single.

Sir Exar Kun

Chronicles of the Immortals / Netherworld - After playing this, I thought that this could be my favorite VP disc yet. While The God Thing and Christ 0 have always been my talked about discs, this one just blows me away to no end. I know a lot of people prefer Part 2 to this one, but this one is mor...

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gazinwales wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:48 am EUROPEAN POWER METAL 2. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy That's about it for USPM, not really into it and to my ears is vastly inferior to EPM. I always thought that Symphony X was considered progressive metal, or is it just that one album that y...

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It's a Monday morning, I watched Westworld before coming into work so my brain is already hurt, and you throw THIS out now?!? Ouch. OK, I'll bite. Doing one list only, as I would likely only go five deep or so on the US side anyway.... 1 - Aquaria "Luxaeterna" 2 - Angra "Holy Land" 3 - Helloween "Ke...

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TOXIK - Dis Morta I love (!!!!) the first two albums (1987's "World Circus" and 1989's "Think This") but not sure yet what to think of this one ... it'll need a lot more time for sure. It's still thrashy, it's still proggy ... but not sure if it's Toxik like I want them to sound like. I'll need muc...

Sir Exar Kun

1. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray 2. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I 3. Dream Theater - Awake 4. John Arch - A Twist of Fate 5. Soundscape - Discovery 6. Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice 7. Savatage - Handful of Rain 8. Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery 9. Green Carnation - Light...

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OK, so many GREAT lists coming out that I can't begin to comment on all of it..... But one name jumped out that I just HAVE to salute!!! Lillian Axe/Psychoscizophrenia - sorry, this is prog metal to my ears and waaay more complex than anything they'd done This is a GREAT left field pick, but I won't...

Sir Exar Kun

1. Dream Theater - Images & Words 2. Eternity X - The Edge 3. Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow 4. Fates Warning - Parallels 5. Time Machine - Act II 6. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 7. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny 8. Beyond Twilight - The Devils Hall of Fame 9. Lord Bane - Age of Elegance 10. P...

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Side note: The mention of PoS in this thread made me go back and re-listen to a few of their albums (well, I actually do that fairly regularly, because ... I love that band). Well, I have said it before, and I'll say it again, "Road Salt 1" and "Road Salt 2" are criminally underrated. Gosh, those a...

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This is really cool and interesting. It's kinda...jarring...to hear clean vocals against what's effectively tech death instrumentation, but I like it. I'm definitely snagging this one when it drops. I dunno.... There's enough growl in the chorus to still keep one foot solidly in the tech death real...

Sir Exar Kun

Great list - all brilliant albums but for my taste some of them would demand too much effort to have them on while working (“Bilateral”, “Mother Earth”, “Human Equation”, “Remedy Lane”…). I think it's simply that I've heard them so many times now, they are tattooed on the back of my brain so don't ...

Sir Exar Kun

Too many choices, but here's what I tend to blindly go back to over and over: DT - Awake PoS - Remedy Lane Within Temptation - Mother Earth Symphony X - Divine Wings Queensryche - Rage for Order or Empire Blind Guardian - Imaginations Savatage - Gutter Ballet Angra - Angels Cry Leprous - Bilateral A...

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Great post! Love these random stream of consciousness threads..... Just a few things to jump in on.... Dead Soul Tribe - what a strange band. Theres always two or three songs off each album I adore. The rest I scratch my head. His vibe, odd imagery and lyrics are like Rob Zombie covering Jethro Tull...

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