Recent content by Tom C

Hmm. I see the Psychotic Waltz comparison a lot and I've never really understood it. Yes the singers sound alike timbre wise, but that's it. Musically they're WORLD'S apart. I mean Chris Salinas sounds a lot like Geoff Tate, but to compare Power of Omens or Zero Hour to Queensryche...

Well, most similar would be Twisted Into Form, since the guitarist was actually in Spiral Architect. In regrard to your original question, I much prefer SA to FB. I agree though that since Frantic Bleep are not a technical metal band, comparing the two is a bit like comparing Dream Theater to...

Seriously?! I need to hear this. Where? What song? What CD? Do tell. Tom C

Well, that's where you and most others disagree with me. I see labels/catagorization as a necessary evil. But don't misunderstand me; I'm not against progress or advancement or new sounds or any of that. What I'm against is lumping all bands into one catagory. I don't want to search blindly...

Zyquix wrote: Well STOP DOING THAT!!!! Just kidding. Let's take a few examples. Dream Theater. By now pretty much everyone agrees that they are a progressive metal band. So as not to confuse the issue, let's take their CD Images and Words. Now play that CD, and just listen to...

Occam's Razor wrote: Not to split hairs, but if we're talking true technical metal bands, then there aren't many at all. When I say true, I mean not prog bands with technical tendancies, ala Zero Hour, and not , chaos bands who are largely about noise, ala DEP, and Behold the Arctopus, and...

Yeah, I would love to hear a band like that with melodic vocals. Can that even be done? I love dissonance in music but I can't tolerate the hardcore yelling. Death vocals don't bother me at all, but PsyOpus's and DEP's vocals are just too much for me. The day that somebody fuses that music...

:wave: First off, I should say that I'm thrilled to see a forum for SA. It's very cool to be able to interact with the band. There is some really great stuff being shared here. I am such a huge SA freak I can't even tell you. Spastic Ink and you guys totally ruined other music for me...