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Punish My Heaven Insanity's Crescendo On Your Time Ego Drama Single Part of Two Senses Tied Icipher The Grandest Accusation

Too bad no one at all selected "The Bow and the Arrow"; it is in my top 3, narrowly behind "The Grandest Accusation" and "Arkhangelsk." Really moving and haunting, with a heartbreaking central metaphor (comparing a person jumping off a bridge to both the bow and the arrow). Most definitely worth...

I don't remember the actual band appearing in the dream, but I frequently wake up with songs stuck in my head--just the music having been part of a dream somehow. Just this morning it was "At the Point of Ignition," one of the songs I've heard them play yesterday at the House of Blues Boston.

Damn, sorry, that's right, it's "Terminus." I need more coffee. During the blizzard of December my girlfriend was on a NJ Transit train from Philly to Atlantic City and the train hit a NJ Transit bus that was stuck on the track. Thankfully no one was hurt and the bus (which was "split in two"...

At the House of Blues, Boston (2/4): Terminal (Where Death Is Most Alive) The Lesser Faith Dream Oblivion White Noise/Black Silence The Endless Feed At the Point of Ignition Final Resistance

I second the "Outside in the park" verse... though I agree that "knew" instead of "known" is really a shame. The accelerated final few bars in the main part of "Heir Apparent," before the outro. End of "Weakness." Last minute of "The Grand Conjuration." Last 4 minutes of "Blackwater Park."...

"By the Pain I See in Others" is one of my favorite Opeth songs. I often feel like "Weakness" is the best song they have ever recorded. Morningrise is too boring to listen to beyond "The Advent." I wish the extended instrumental section in the Lamentations version of "Closure" was on...

Ambiguity.

For me the gateway song was ThereIn, along with the whole Projector album (I bought it after hearing ThereIn and FreeCard on the Century Media website). When I went back to hear The Gallery, Lethe impressed me most immediately, though ultimately Punish My Heaven became my favorite track from...

Well, that was a bit of a misquote: reading your quote of my message, one might think I am asking what is noteworthy about Gonzales. What I said is that I was a big fan of Gonzales, it was James Blackshaw that I had a problem with. Seemed monotonous and completely unmemorable (I've actually...

This is interesting. I also saw Jose Gonzalez on tour and thought he was fantastic, but I really did not find anything interesting about James Blackshaw. His instrumentals seemed terribly monotonous and boring too me, with no real development or drama. What is it about his music that you found...

Updated at the end of the year (Top 10): 1. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction 2. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin 3. Arch Enemy - The Rise of the Tyrant 4. Margenta - Enlightened Dynasty (a Russian all-star prog metal opera) 5. Neal Morse - Songs from the Highway 6. Within Temptation - The Heart of...

Best band - Dark Tranquillity Best album - Fiction Best song - Redemption, "Memory" Worst song - Nickelback, "Rockstar" Best tour - Within Temptation Best live act - Dream Theater Most over hyped band - Hypocrisy Most underrated band - Madder Mortem Band you miss the most - Savatage Band you...

1. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction 2. Margenta - Enlightened Dynasty (a Russian all-star prog metal opera) 3. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick 4. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin 5. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos 6. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything 7. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

In my opinion it's their best work, and an album against which all metal should be measured. The band has been extraordinarily consistent for 10 years now and has hardly released any bad songs since Projector, but this time they seem to have perfected everything they have worked on for their...