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[Nicky007]

Last Tuesday I was at my brother's home, and I found out (to my surprise) that he had bought this very album! He loves it. Yet, he doesn't like all the other Progressive artists...

You should be happy about that, Paxi. Maybe he just needs something more lively and metal than H-Marillion and IQ (just like me). Kamelot are one of the most exciting prog bands around, and Khan is an amazing singer (Norwegian, with an exceptional sense of the English language). Tell him to backcatalog. The previous album, Ghost Opera is actually relatively close to Poetry For The Poisoned, one could say "narrative metal". Further back it gets more regular metal, altho Kamelot always have their very special sound.

Oh, and btw, maybe you should listen to some Kamelot 


NP  Supertramp:  Crisis? What Crisis?

An old classic that I listened to masses in those years yonder, my first encounter with Supertramp, that metaphorically speaking dumped into my mailbox. Still holds 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Disillusion:  Back To Times Of Splendor

A very busy and demanding metal album, pleasing and exciting after some listens 

If I remember correctly, Tom is into them, and we'v discussed'm once before in the Room 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Interesting, here's what Lance King, metal singer and CEO of Nightmare Records writes about Anubis Gate's Andromeda Unchained:

FREAKING OFF THE HOOK WORTHY, September 25, 2009

By L. King "Lance King - Vocalist in Metal and CEO..." (Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
 
This review is from: Andromeda Unchained (Audio CD)

This is a sleeper that not everyone knows about but should, coming from me, this I hope will hold even more water, THIS IS SIMPLY OUTSTANDING, the playing, the production, the songs, the vocals, all outstanding. I love this record and it's one of my fav's.

- www.amazon.com/Andromeda-Unchained-Anubis-Gate/dp/B000S0L056/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1333790033&sr=1-5


I can only agree 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

I was thinking of fishing around YouTube for something else of theirs.  My guess is it's still crazy, but maybe it has a *little* more structure to it.

Here are two Mars Volta classics:

The Widow    www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUBQLnEGHNk

Inertiatic ESP    www.youtube.com/watch?v=neSQgkEy_xQ

Enjoy !

Don't expect to understand the lyrics initially, as Cedric mixes English with Spanish and Cedrish, and he associates wildly 

Nicky.

[PH]

You should be happy about that, Paxi. Maybe he just needs something more lively and metal than H-Marillion and IQ (just like me). Kamelot are one of the most exciting prog bands around, and Khan is an amazing singer (Norwegian, with an exceptional sense of the English language). Tell him to backcatalog. The previous album, Ghost Opera is actually relatively close to Poetry For The Poisoned, one could say "narrative metal". Further back it gets more regular metal, altho Kamelot always have their very special sound.

My brother already knows "Ghost Opera".

Oh, and btw, maybe you should listen to some Kamelot 

I listened a lot to "The Black Halo", back in 2005, when I was just becoming a Progger. I liked it, but lost track of them when I discovered so much more bands.

Now playing: nothing.
No music anyway. I'm playing a game: wordfeud. It's a bit of a hype, and I guess I'm sort of addicted. (And really good too!)

[Nicky007]

My brother already knows "Ghost Opera".

OK, but I hope you get the drift: If he likes Kamelot, he'l like SyX, and from there it's not so far to DT and so many other great prog groups.

Maybe he's not as interested in lyrics as you and needs somethin more metal than Arena 


NP  Explorers Club:  Raising the Mammoth

Fabulous 

One should just not expect an Age of Impact 2 (altho this is natural given the exceptional power of AoI, but AoI had Petrucci and Sheehan, which RtM doesnt, and they sure set their mark on AoI).

RtM is an entirely different bird, exciting and unique in its own right 

And Jamie does some of his most wonderful singing here 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

Peter Gee - East Of Eden
Gazpacho - March Of Ghosts

np: RPWL - Beyond Man And Time

on progstreaming.com. Pleasantly surprised by this album .

[funkster]

Some metal for the first time in about 6 months !!

Paradise lost - faith divides us , death unites us
My dying bride - For lies i sire
Anthrax - Worship music

Most enjoyable

[Nicky007]

Great new progmetalband:

Eumeria:  Rebel Mind    www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dDga7gDcw 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

Steve Thorne - Crimes And Reasons
Arena - The Seventh Degree Of Separation 

[Teunis]

Listened to a radio show with progrock called 'Sympho Shop'. A nice way to discover new bands. Today for example I heard a band called 'Soen'. Heard a track from the Flying Colors album which I enjoyed very much! And a track from the new Landmarq album. It was a nice 2 hours show!

[Teunis]

Moon Safari - The Gettysburg Address

[Nicky007]

NP  Anubis Gate:  Andromeda Unchained

Definitely a masterpiece 

It is very harsh, even for me, and needs many listens to be appreciated properly. (Ms 007 can't even hear a few seconds of AG.) Strangely, as mentioned by several reviewers, it does have a "spacy" quality, as the title implies, spacy not in the sense of Floyd, more like interplanetary and interstellar, quite unusual 

Guys, challenge yourselves with this great album 

Uplifting to have such an excellent group in this musical wasteland of Denmark 

Nicky.

[funkster]

Delirious - deeper (for a bit of worship}
Paradise Lost - Draconian times (for a bit of a hand bang  )

Variety is the spice of life after all 

[Teunis]

Gazpacho - When Earth Lets Go
Neal Morse - Testimony Two

[funkster]

Gazpacho - When Earth Lets Go
Neal Morse - Testimony Two

Me too 

[Nicky007]

NP:  Mike Oldfield:  Heaven's Open

Dumb that Mike's music gets classified as New Age 

This guy rocks, and he's progressive too 

And Simon Phillips really shines on this one 

Nicky.

[Peter]

Great new progmetalband:

Eumeria:  Rebel Mind    www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dDga7gDcw 

Nicky.

wow. fat.

[Nicky007]

wow. fat.

You mean it evokes visions of Eisbein mit Schlagsahne ? 


NP  Haken:  Visions 

I usually have somethin to say about my music    but here I'm just dumbstruck 

Nicky.

[PH]

Great new progmetalband:

Eumeria:  Rebel Mind    www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dDga7gDcw 

Nicky.

Sounds great!!

[Teunis]

Sylvan - Sceneries

[PH]

Neal Morse - "?"
6. Solid As The Sun

I always wondered who did the growl there at 2:20 or something. Mike perhaps?

[Teunis]

Neal Morse - "?"
6. Solid As The Sun

I always wondered who did the growl there at 2:20 or something. Mike perhaps?

Never noticed any growls on Neal Morse albums .

Wolverine - Still
Anathema - Judgement

[PH]

Never noticed any growls on Neal Morse albums .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf-FHRbjM60

2:23 to be exact.

Well... don't know if it classifies as a real growl. More like a grunt perhaps. Anyway, it's one of those death metal thingies, which normally won't be found on a Neal Morse album indeed.

[funkster]

Over the under by Down
Vs by Pearl Jam