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KharBevNor:
Annoying drumming most of the way through. Guitar was okay though, if a bit uninteresting. What I could hear of the very faint singing...okay, but a bit waily and weak for my tastes. Kinda got a bit faster and more rocking towards the end, but didn't deliver anything like what it's title promised. Also, it carried on that out-of-synch math thing which I loathe all the way through.
4/10
Now let's mix it up with some old-school gloom and doom.
Amorphis - Black Winter Day
People just simply don't MAKE shit like 'Tales From the Thousand Lakes' nowadays.
La Creme:
V For Vendetta - Math Rock Is Not A Four Letter Word. It's Two Four Letter Words
I'm not big on math-rock. But it's liveable. The drums and bass were just too danged subdued the whole way through til the end. And the little speedup at the end was kinda unnecesary; the vocal interludes were equally unnecesary. But anyways. On the plus, they guitar riff was ok, and the band played pretty tight. It made me think of Pinback, only with less peddle-age and more notes. But all things considered:
6.5 / 10
My Song: Paradigm Shift
by Liquid Tension Experiment
I reccomend this one to anyone who likes prog. They push prog to some ca-razy extremes. Tony Levin, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, and Mike Portnoy. It's pretty much just Dream Theatre rocking a hell of a lot more.
<Edit> Sorry Khar, didn't see the postalone.
KharBevNor:
Eh, just review mine and your recommendation can stand. I won't put up any objections to the hard-rocking prog goodness of LTE.
La Creme:
OK Khar. Yours is not half bad. And I am picky as shit about my metal.
The Downs: The drums. Boring. Sorry. And, unfortunately, I'm not much of a fan of deep bellowing as "singing". But hey, whatever floats your metal-canoe (or longship, because vicking are the kings of the long hair and the rock). There was also not nearly enough lead stuff. That guitar player gave me the impression that he could have whipped out some seriously wonderful solo-age, but he didn't. The synth was also a little lacking (but that's my pickiest thing in metal as an ELP whore).
The ups: For definately, that chorus rocked. Well, they only sang it once, so its not really a chorus. The part where he sings at a normal people octave. The intro was sorta like a Helloweeny thing. I liked that. The guitar riff that played at the begining and a couple other times throughout was catchy. Not incredible, but went with the music, so whatev.
All things considered: 7.5 / 10
And because I feel entitled to one song per review I do:
Iron Man
by The Bad Plus
This cover will blow your mind, whoever. The Bad Plus are certainly the best thing in power-jazz. Ever. I'm seeing them at the begining of June, and every time I think about it, my knobbly bits tingle. The Plus also do clever little covers of "Velouria" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which i found out is the name of a deoderant. Smells like brand name deoderant. That song would've been a billion times better if it had been called "Smells Like Old Spice Classic".
KharBevNor:
'Tales From the Thousand Lakes' is closer to their first album, which was pure doom. Closer to your taste might be the album directly after that, 'Elegy'. All the later albums get progressively more progressive, but Elegy, I feel, probably has the perfect mix: doom metal roars contrast against lengthy passages of really quite accomplished clean singing, mixed up with acoustic guitars and synths and wrapped round minute long solos.
Imo, however, Tales... is still a great album. If for nothing but the insanely out-of-place, growlarific cover of 'Light my Fire' at the end.
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