Recent content by Rick from Oddyssey

Neil Peart is probably the Godfather of progmetal drummers, period! Anyway, here is my list : 1 - Neil Peart (Rush) 2 - Virgil Donati (Planet X) 3 - Mike Portnoy 4 - Bill Bruford (ex Yes, King Crimson) 5 - Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) Cheers ! :notworthy

Animals, without a doubt. Their most prog, rock album.

What about Loudblast? Listen to their Sublime Dementia album! It kicks ass! If you are into industrial metal, check out Division Alpha. Gojira's latest album, From Mars to Sirius, is also something you might want to check out. To those who named Quo Vadis and Cryptopsy, they are from Quebec...

Deliverance : moments of evil brutality, moments of ecstatic beauty, technical AND heartfelt, this song has it all !!!

My latest purchases : Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (Excellent album!) Tool - 10,000 Days (Definitely my favorite Tool album) Bal Sagoth - The Chthonic Chronicles (a band with a sound all their own) Moonspell - Memorial (My favorite Moonspell album) King Crimson - In the Wake of...

I love all of their albums, so one favorite is not enough for me. I'll go with In Absentia, Stupid Dream, Signify and The Sky Moves Sideways...

Welcome to Opeth, man! Huge shoes to fill, right? We all know you can be as tight as Lopez, but the real question is: can you be as creative? The next album will tell. Cheers !

Buy the two albums from Austrian band Hollenthon... Domus Mundi and With Vilest of Worms to Dwell. They use samples from various soundtracks and write songs around them. The main writer is Pungent Stench's guitarist. A must for orchestral metal. You may also dig Arcturus, Bal-Sagoth, etc...

Deliverance... Probably the Opeth part I simply [I]cannot[I] resist the urge to headbang. Lopez' beat is so heavy, precise... the backward piano at the end, I find, is plainly spine-chilling...

To be totally honest (and at great risk of being bashed :lol: ) I only like a few songs from Opeth's first two albums, the majority being on Morningrise. My Arms Your Hearse and afterwards are albums where the "juice" is, in my most humble opinion. So I agree with you concerning the early...

I play a Paul Reed Smith custom 24, dark cherry sunburst (an incredible beauty), and a Norman 12 strings acoustic guitar. My amp is an old Crate combo (can't wait to change it) and my guitar goes through a Line 6 Pod 2.0. Basswise, I play a 5 string BTB Ibanez that has a deep purple finish...

Good songwriting has many aspects and ways of being made. A very repetitive song can be as good or better than an elaborate prog song (Lightning Crashes by Live is a good example in my opinion) and vice-versa. Lyrics are an important part of songwriting, no matter what is being said through...

Very Pink Floydish, I even read somewhere that Wilson is not at all pleased with this album mainly because of the Floydian comparisons... He said something like it was a record he had to do but if he could go back and erase it he probably would... Saw PT 3 times in concert and they never played...

Well during the O.S.I sessions he did not, let's see for this project...

I DEFINITELY second that... In fact, I call him James The Brie (speaking of cheese...)... I personnaly hate it when he sighs as a divaaaahhh... But who else could sing in that band now that he has made so many albums with them? Anyway, the Wilson, Porntoy (!!!) and Akerfeldt project sure has...