Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

Henrik Main

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This leaked a couple of days ago, and I'm sure some of you've already heard it. My initial thought when listening to the first track, "Hibernation Sickness Complete", was something like "WOW SHIT I THINK I JUST CAME IN MY SHORTS, THIS IS LIKE LA MASQUERADE INFERNALE ONLY BETTER". However, I can't really say that the other tracks are VERY great. Solid stuff, no doubt about that, but I don't worship it yet - here's hoping it'll grow on me.

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I was gonna download it, but I noticed the quality is severely low.

However I'm jumping in to proclaim my joy that Simen is handling the vox.
 
Doomcifer said:
What other band does "Simen" do vox for?

Not the same "Vortex" that is in Dimmu, is it?

I'm terrible with names. :(

That would explain some of the song titles on this one getting uncomfortably Dimmu-ish...Evacuation Code Deciphered? That said, his presence alone gives me reason to hope this album will rival La Masquerade or TSM (whatever you were about to say, shut up.) :)
 
I don't think I'll bother with this one. Arcturus has never blown me away and The SHit Mirrors was such a turd. And Lamented SOuls did nothing for SImen's reputation. His best performance is still Quintessence and "The CHaos Path" and "The Insight and the Catharsis". THat's it.
 
It's understandable. But seriously, I'm not a HUGE Vortex fan, but I can't imagine "The Archaic Course" without him. Arcturus has some fantastic stuff, and certainly has some crap... I'll check this one out.