Metal Reviews

Never heard of Rune, what are they?

I definitely prefer the later material to Paranoid. Paranoid gets too much attention for something that isn't nearly as interesting or varied as their later stuff. Plus Paranoid's riff is a total rip off of Communication Breakdown, and isn't nearly as good of a song.

Yeah, you were the one to reccomend me the band! And plenty of others technical death bands!

Right on! That album has some of the best keyboards in BM history. Maybe I'll do a review about it.

Haha, no, I like Strategy. My favorite game is Grandia and there is strategy required for those battles. And FF8 wasnt easy? please. Anyways it has nothing to do with being L33t or whatever, I actually generally deslike the FF franchise as there are far better games out there. I play RPGs mostly for plot. FF6 and FF4 both had better plots than any newer gen FF. I have played the demo for FF12 and Im glad to know I may enjoy this one, it reminds me of the Summoner games alot.

This is so off topic now, so to at least keep my post somewhat on in here I think more people should listen to Nightwish's Angels Fall First. Ive noticed people act like its not even an album, personally, I think its abit better than Wishmaster.

Nice. Very nice. And after this review I'll be your №1 fan

I guess you could call them sludge death? Here is the link if you want to hear some.

If I remember correctly Paranoid was intended as a filler song only anyway?

Oops forgot the link http://www.willowtip.com/store/product_ ... aspx?id=28

I'm totally with you on this one. Such a shame they never managed to do another album.

Diabolical Masquerade gets my vote, too.

I'll never stress enough how absurdly underrated Abigor were. A decade of amazing music, and almost nobody gave a damn about them.

Thy Primordial, anyone? Awesome fast melodic BM... 6 kickass albums, no one noticed. They recently split up, which infuriates me even more.

Ondskapt really deserve more attention, the atmosphere they conjure is otherworldly.

Nachtfalke is one hell of a Viking band, yet they don't seem to get as much attention as the big ones.

My thoughts. When I was gone I kind of missed the days when you said everything instead of me

Ahh, Grandia. I love that series as well! Except for Xterme, I don't know what that was, but it wasn't very good. I do agree with you on FF. While I love the series, it's not the be all, end all like some would have you think. IMHO..

Suikoden>Final Fantasy

I love how easily we can take a topic off-subject.

That's one reason why I love this place. The mods here aren't "Topic Nazis" like mods at other places. The Metal_Archives comes to mind.

They're not Nazis like at Metal-Archives (you fell into that!).

And we're all nice to each other as well. Such lovely people.

:oops: Have you ever spent any time at the boards at the Archives? Quite a vapid, frightening place those boards are.

They always take a long time to load, so I never bother. Got in an argument once over whether grindcore was metal, only to get the thread locked two seconds later. I should go there every so often, just so I appreciate this place more.

Hehe, yeah, I did too

I don't think this album is all that underrated (it gets great ratings from e-zines), but it definitely deserves more recognition from fans of the genre - Power/Heavy Metal.

Hibria - Defying the Rules. Check them out if you haven't already.

Totally agree with Seinfeld, Radagast and Eyesore - at least about Deris-era Helloween anyway, because I have yet to hear Pink Bubbles (well "The Chance" I have heard and that one kicks ass). Master of the Rings was inconsistent, but also had absolute killer moments - these moments really took over on the following The Time of the Oath and Better Than Raw. The Dark Ride would still be my pick for their finest album ever, but that's just due to sheer consistency - the songwriting on the two previous is just as good and sometimes evern slightly better when they're really on.

Well ever since, things have gone downhill, starting with Rabbit Don't Come Easy and then the even worse Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy. Losing Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow was simply too much of a blow I think, because they were both involved in the songwriting. Well Helloween did manage to release excellent stuff even after Kai Hansen left, so here's hoping the same kind of rebound will occur with their upcoming releases.

:shock: No way dude. There hasn't been a bad release with Deris in the band.

So true