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[PH]

Earlier:
Anathema - "A Natural Disaster"

Now:
TransAtlantic - "Bridge Across Forever"

[Bupie]

JF Touchstone - Wintercoast
NP Circus Maximus - Nine

Both brilliantly brilliant albums : inspiring, moving, rocking 

[PH]

Bupie, what is Touchstone like?

NP:
Arena - "Immortal?"

Pretty standard pop music.

[Teunis]

Satellite - Evening Games 

[PH]

Satellite - Evening Games 

A very nice and very underrated album. Wojtek Szadkowski is a very talented guy.

[PH]

Seven minutes into Moviedrome. Noone writes anything like this anymore.
Arena included I guess.
To me this is the best song they've done.

[Bupie]

Bupie, what is Touchstone like?

It's hard to describe. First they have two singers, a female lead vocalist and a male keyboardist/vocalist. The girl is good, the boy is great, really. I know many Roomies have problems with female fronted bands but I can't understand why 

The music is rather unique in its genre. It is a melting of heavy riffing and poppy sections, most often in the same song. But to me it's far from metal, it's more neo-prog. You can find a few vids on YT (even one with our JM playing a great solo  at the High Voltage festival but the song is a Tears For Fears cover) but they don't do the band justice. The ballads are really great (Original Sin, Sleeping Giants ...), the rockers have great momentum. I only have their last two albums but I really love them, especially Wintercoast. You can give yourself an idea reading PA and DPRP reviews. Really worth the try  Oh, and a new album is scheduled for 2013.

NP Circus Maximus - Isolate

[Nicky007]

I know many Roomies have problems with female fronted bands but I can't understand why 

It all depends on the music, Bupie. I like a lotta stuff by Lana Lane, Eleven, Janis Joplin, Simone Simons with Kamelot. But there has to be enuff goin on. Alle those female fronted saloon metal bands bore me (even with all the b**bs). And if it's more or less standard crooning, I'm off too. There's so much great music around, why should I make do with less ?

NP Circus Maximus - Isolate

Occasionally you actually get it right, Bups


JP  Queen:  Made In Heaven

One of my Top Ten albums 

The postlude is absolutely breathtaking - ainit, Teunis ? - a great tribute to Freddie 


JP  TesseracT:  One

Not for teunees (teu much growl&shout and djent) 

Super album. TesseracT is one of the most exciting bands around these days 

Noone writes anything like this anymore.

There actually are, Paxi, but you gotta get a bit more around. I'v actually mentioned some of'm 

But sure, great piece:

NP  Arena:  Moviedrome   

Rob Sowden _is_ the singer of Arena

- Nicky

[Teunis]

JP  Queen:  Made In Heaven

The postlude is absolutely breathtaking - ainit, Teunis ? - a great tribute to Freddie 

You mean the last track, the long instrumental one? Frankly speaking I skip that one most of the time, never realised it was a Freddie tribute and found it a 'weird' song . But really dig the rest of the album .

Antimatter - Fear Of A Unique Identity

[PH]

The music is rather unique in its genre. It is a melting of heavy riffing and poppy sections, most often in the same song. But to me it's far from metal, it's more neo-prog. You can find a few vids on YT (even one with our JM playing a great solo  at the High Voltage festival but the song is a Tears For Fears cover) but they don't do the band justice. The ballads are really great (Original Sin, Sleeping Giants ...), the rockers have great momentum. I only have their last two albums but I really love them, especially Wintercoast. You can give yourself an idea reading PA and DPRP reviews. Really worth the try  Oh, and a new album is scheduled for 2013.

I've seen someone comparing them to Kino. What do you think? I've also read that John Mitchell was involved (although not heavily).
I'll check out some YouTube videos. Maybe their 2013 album is a nice opportunity to become 'hooked'.


NP:
Spock's Beard - "V"
6. The Great Nothing

[maddox]

Frankly speaking I skip that one most of the time, never realised it was a Freddie tribute

Although the whole album is a Mercury-tribute, this track actually isn't. At least, not intentionally.
It's an experiment by the album's producer, David Richards.
He took some parts of one of the songs, tossed it into a sampler, added some of Freddy's vocals and voila, a 22 minute long ambient thingy.

NP> Pravda ~ The Clarity of Chaos

[Nicky007]

Although the whole album is a Mercury-tribute, this track actually isn't. At least, not intentionally.

The postlude is over in the spiritual world, Mad - quite far from bookbinding ;-)


NP  Cairo:  Time of Legends

Nice, but not fantastic. I got this album cuz of Brett Douglas. He sings fantastically on Explorers Club's Age of Impact. His singing is also the best thing about ToL imo 

- Nicky

[maddox]

The postlude is over in the spiritual world, Mad - quite far from bookbinding ;-)

What I meant to say was that this track isn't written to be just that what you describe, Nickster. 
It is what it is, an experiment by the producer in charge, with obviously the approval of the band.
Without their consent, it would never exist.

But everybody is entitled to make up their own opinion of course.
If you want it to be a tribute, then a tribute it is. 

[Nicky007]

If you want it to be a tribute, then a tribute it is. 

It's the last statement from Queen (the real Queen, with Freddie, in spirit), and it has that obvious quality 

- Nicky

[Teunis]

Thanks Mad+Nicky, very entertaining . I'll play the whole album by headphones soon  .

Satellite - Into The Night (probably my least favourite Satellite album)
Riverside - S.O.N.G.S.

[Steve Jones]

Riverside - S.O.N.G.S.

Grrr! Still waiting for my copy as, due to the snow, we went 6 days without post and are still behind.

Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions CD2

[Nicky007]

Thanks Mad+Nicky, very entertaining .

That's me job 

I'll play the whole album by headphones soon  .

Good call, Teunis. Turn up the volume a bit after Freddie's last "Yeah", and try to imagine yourself in some other dimension 


New group in the Room, surprisingly good, very grand sound, but also clear and crisp, Finnish melodic metal band (from Tampere), related to Amorphis, Seventh Wonder, and Pagan's Mind 

Guess we just swept across Scandinavia 

Long song - hear it thru, you won't regret 

NP  Anthriel:  Chains of the Past  (on repeat)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RcCy_92K_4

We live in good times re music 

The Finns are really comin on these days. They also got the best rock community in Scandinavia, e.g. the latest two Dream Theater albums went nb 1 

Denmark aint even listed

- Nicky

[Nicky007]

Still:

NP  Anthriel:  Chains of the Past  (on repeat)

Man, I simply can't get enuff of this. Just my taste, in all ways, even got a bit of that sweet Finnish tinkle - super 

Guess I gotta move this band to my pantheon 

Second Finnish band (first Amorphis) 

I'l leave the b**bs to Bubie

- Nicky

[PH]

Yes Nicky, that is indeed a really cool band.
It reminded me a bit of Symphony X when I first listened to their debut album two years ago or so.
I'll give them a listen again, as soon as I get out of work.

[Nicky007]

Yes Nicky, that is indeed a really cool band.

Cool, Paxi, so we're travelling together again 

Anthriel are amazing. And I was amazed to see that, altho their debut album The Pathway is from 2010, they'r still virtually unknown, e.g. they'r only wikied in Spanish. (Fortunately I know enuff Spanish.) And unknown in progworld, which is worse. Man, where do people have their minds ?

- Nicky

[Teunis]

Alan Reed ~ First in a Field of One

[Steve Jones]

Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves (On repeat)

[Teunis]

Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves (On repeat)

Glad you've got it finally .

Anathema - Weather Systems (in 5.1 )

[maddox]

Dreamscape ~ Everlight

[Teunis]

Steve Lukather - Transition

It arrived today and it rocks .