Recent content by Raven777

Can't go wrong with old Genesis... Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick Of The Tail, and Wind And Wuthering.. some of the best albums from one of the greatest bands to ever exist Steve Hackett's first solo albums are great to... ..and let us not...

Extensive Desolation : "Have you heard about a guy who spend hours hitting one note, trying to get a perfect sound??" Haha, Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman used to overdub solos for 'Countdown to Extinction' through a tuner so they could get their bends right on pitch. That's going the extra...

Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopedies No. 1 2 & 3 Albinoni - Adagio For Strings in G Minor Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings Bach - Double Concerto In D Minor, Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Carl Orff - Carmina Burina Chopin - Funeral March, any of his Nocturnes Mozart - Requiem Mass Rossini -...

Most mainstream metal is based off of the pentatonic scale... whereas melodic black/death metal or whatever uses more minor, harmonic minor and diminished scales...

Arcturus is one of the greatest bands of all time period... They have endured alot of scorn and criticism by everyone for alot of things.. it's a shame they don't tour, but maybe Sverd (keyboardist/songwriter/leader) knows that they would probably lose more money from touring than gain...

I have mixed feelings when it comes to Dream Theater... On one hand they are brilliant musicians and they are masterful players. On the other hand, Mike Portnoy can't sit still and groove in one time signature for more than 30 seconds, Petrucci can't stop wanking scale after scale on the neck...

What a mess... If you ask me, Audiogalaxy at least had some honor because each song was seperated and renamed, so you could SAMPLE the artist's work. Whereas Napster, I remember typing 'Opeth Morningrise' and getting 16 full CDs worth of MP3's of the same album, ready to load and go. On one...

You know what keyboard solos do rule? Tony Banks' key solos on old Genesis tunes like 'Cinema Show' and 'In The Cage.' I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the awfulness of Scholomance key solos yet...

Analog synths rule! Along with Moog's, there's nothing in the world quite like a Mellotron.. I'd like to hear that on an Opeth song sometime...

There's nothing like old Dimmu and there never will be... Stormblast and Enthrone Darkness Triumphant are MASTERPIECES of black metal and 'In Death's Embrace' is one of the most beautiful songs written in metal... They way they used keyboards on these two records is unparalleled... As for...

Anything off of Lou Reed's '79 album "Berlin" has to be some of the most depressing music ever. Check out "The Bed", "Sad Song", "Caroline Says II"... I always thought the Who's "Quadrophenia" was one of the most unforgiving albums I ever heard... even though the music may be deceptivley...

Check out Leo Brower, Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin... Very open minded classical guitarists.

Bauhaus fuckin' kick ass dude!! 'Double Dare' sounds strange because it's old, man.. that track is from 1978... nobody was doing that stuff at the time. If it wasn't for them, gothic rock would not exist. They were adventerous as hell, not many bands have gotten away with as much...

Interesting... This thread is a good example of how fan prejudice can be a deadly thing... Well, looking at Paradise Lost's current state, Anathema's current state as well, all I can say is that they're doing what they wish to do and so be it... The new Paradise Lost is weak, yeah, maybe...

Show show much they've changed... Orchid has ALOT of guitar lines on it, in fact the whole album is led totally by the guitars... on the later albums, more of the whole canvas of production and instruments become the music... beautiful both ways!