Metal Reviews

No, please put it in the avant-garde/other section.



That is my fault, see my post above about forgetting to create a separate thread for prog. I have sent PM's to everyone with prog votes now in the wrong place asking them to move them.



Yes, it is. I will send a PM and ask them to delete that vote. Thank you.



I don't really have a problem with them being included. Go ahead.

I think of Rush as a prog rock band and would put it in the rock section. I've noticed it in both the rock and prog metal sections. Which is it?

My mistake, The re-issue from locomotive states "copyright 2007, under liscense from..." my mistake.

prog rock I'd say

I agree with you. It should go in Rock/Hard Rock.

As most likely the biggest rush geek here, I'm thirding that they are more Hard Rock now than ever.

umm a question - should i list only the bands that were reviewed, or?

Where do Porcupine Tree fit in? Most people have voted them in prog-metal, but they've got far more in common with Tool than Dream Theater.

No, any album released in 2007 is elgible.



Just put them in prog for the sake of keeping votes in the same spot.

Hey, 2 people other than myself voted for the new Powerwolf! Such a cool album, I wish more people would give it a try. They're pretty unknown now, but I can see this band becoming really big in the near future, they're so insanely catchy.

You find them that good? Really ?

If I were to give their new album a score it would be in the mid 30's. Return In Bloodred had a song or two worth listening but that's about it. I rated that album 55/100. This band is the lowest of the low you can get in heavy/power metal. I don't find them catchy and the combination of annoyingly bad vocals and simplicity really kills it for me. A matter of opinion and taste I guess.

I guess, since I've seen a few people very enthusiastic about them and a few thrashing them with the same enthusiasm. I like the vocals a lot and the choruses from songs like Saturday Satan or Mother Mary Is A Bird Of Pray stuck in my head for days, so that's a definite sign of catchyness. I also like simpler (as in poppier) metal from time to time. Btw, I didn't like their first album at all, so that's taste for you.

But I take back what I said about them becoming big, they may not do it if they divide metalheads like that even before becoming famous.

That is something I can never understand. Some people really love bands that play "in the pocket" throughout the entire song, but i'm not one of them. Music is a combination of keys and off-keys (minors and majors) that create drama, excitement, ect. when they never leave a scale or the key of the song, that seems kind of monotonous to me. Melody is created when your ear heres a few notes and then is thrown off whack by something that is not in the same scale or key then back again. Pentatonics are the definition of this.

i like powerwolf, heard about them about a few weeks ago, and the new album is great. nice improvement in comparison to the first album..

Vintersorg -- Solens Rötter goes in this voting list?

I know Rad, that is one I would've put in the border line genres... but according to Adam the first person to vote for a band gets the decision on what catedory they belong in.

w00t!

I consider it more prog than folk, although that may just be down to the production, which is a little sterile for folk metal. Folk metal with syncopated drums and stuff just seems wrong anyway.

Brilliant CD either way, everyone to be listening to it now pls!

Yeah, good band. I haven't heard the new one yet.

Going to edit my list now... And if I manage to listen to Devin before 29, I'm pretty sure that this won't be my last edit,

Well, yes, unless the precedent set doesn't make any sense. If someone voted for Avantasia in death metal, then obviously I would say something. It just makes it easier not to have to ask people to move their votes around because some of them won't respond and it makes tallying the votes a pain in the ass.