Metal Reviews

Amen.

I post here 'cause I like the community and doubt I could find a place closer to my music tastes (maybe I should start a 50s jazz and 00s post-hardcore forum!) and even if I could... eh, meh.

Alcest - Écailles De Lune

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance

Indulging in my addiction:

Tom Waits - The Asylum Years
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Gang Of Four - Entertainment! (remaster)
The Stranglers - The Raven (remaster)
Billy Idol - Billy Idol (remaster)
Bill Frisell - Unspeakable
Bill Frisell - Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian
Patricia Barber - Mythologies
Foals - Antidotes
Foals - Total Life Forever
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Neil Young - Fork In The Road
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (remaster)
Sanseverino - Les Faux Talbins
The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes The Knighthood
Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies
Grinderman - Vol.2
Suzanne Vega - Close Up : Love Songs /Vol.1
Suzanne Vega - Close Up /Vol.2 : People & Places
Foreigner - Foreigner (remaster)
Ornette Coleman - Ornette (remaster)
Steel Pulse - Earth Crisis (remaster)
Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets
Prince - Lotusflow3r
Pascal Comelade - A Freak Serenade
Gil Scott-Heron - I'M New Here
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brasileiro (8 cds boxset)
Elliott Carter - A Nonesuch Retrospective (4 cds boxset)
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison "Collaborations" (3 cds boxset)

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

I finally bought this album. Some songs weren't clicking with me the first couple of times I listened to it but they finally did and I'm glad they did because I have been a long time fan of Enslaved

Novembers Doom - Aphotic

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers

pure, raw, energetic, powerful.

and the best they'd ever release.

Well it's a different approach with the first two albums as they did not have a third guitarist (Brave New World). Their later stuff with Bruce is very different sounding and progressive (Seventh Son of a Seventh Son) although the presence of progressive elements is also somewhat clear in the first two albums but definitely not as much as their later releases.

The Graveland album is a first pressing and was limited to 500 copies. I picked it up for 25..I'm pretty stoked about that.

I was initially confused by this one, but I'm digging it now. It takes a while for the riffs to reveal themselves.

Skepticism - Alloy

Haunting, Ethereal.

Alloy is a great album.

It definitely is. It also has the best production in all of their albums which I find essential in an doom album.

I found that Kathy Troccolli CD for a dollar that featured Taylor Dayne's producer, Al Pitrelli on guitars, Diane Warren writing the singles and of course, Joe Lynn Turner on backing vocals. Pop music used to be so musician and rock centric. Damn near every corny pop or adult contemporary album always had some ringer guitarist playing insanely good stuff on them. My favorite guitar style is that 80's pop power chords. I think the guys in Big Country were far better guitarists than Slayer's guitarists!

After about three weeks or so of waiting for The Great Mass to become available through amazon I finally canceled my order and ordered Colosseum's second album "Nomquam", instead. I'll put Septic Flesh on to my buy list.

Septicflesh - The Great Mass
Shadows Fall - The War Within
Shadows Fall - Retribution

The Incredible String Band - Metamorphosis
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody'S Heroes
Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Vol.2
Couturier, Humair, Celea - Tryptic
Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
Ijahman - Are We A Warrior
Hell - Human Remains