Hypnos said:
what's with 'Pentecost III'? this brilliant masterpice is sadly overlooked by a lot of people. 'Eternity' and 'Silent Enigma' are my favourite Anathema-albums and ae far superior to 'AFDTE' or 'AND'. Vinnies voice improved technically, i agree, but i still prefer his singing on 'Eternity'. this is similar with Mike. he is a better singer now technically but i like his clean voice on 'MAYH' the most
i disagree. my favouite PL records are 'Gothic' and 'Draconian Times'. with the release of 'One Second' i lost my interest in this band, although i always tried to give them a chance. the biggest disappointment for me was 'Host'. i have no problem with the particular style they play on that album, but the songs are all so uninspired and boring as hell. the following albums were not much better.
i agree partially. 'William Blake' is a masterpiece. but i also love their former albums, esp. 'Bergtatt' which is an unmatched gem in its genre. 'Blood Inside' is great aswell...
ok, agreed.
well. their newest stuff is somehow repetitive and uninteresting. 'Theli' and 'Vovin' are great but after them they started to copy themselves and lost the innovation. i'd love to hear a brilliant album like 'Ho Drakon, Ho Megas' again...
i like their new stuff as much as i like their old stuff. 'Viva Emptiness' almost reaches the top-quality of a classic like 'BMD' imo. hope 'TGCD' kick as much ass...
'Souvenirs' is fine, yet i still prefer 'Mandylion' over any other release by this band. but their style-change works quite well for them.
See, this is good. This is interesting, because you have
very different musical preferences to my own. Firstly, forgive me, because i forgot 'Pentecost 3', which is very good. Much better than 'Serenades'. I only got it very recently, which may be why I forgot it. Some people seem to like the more 'warbled' style of Vinnie on 'Eternity', but personally I think it's much better now. I think AFDTE is their best work.
Again. with PL, you seem to be interested in a different sound to me. See, from my point of view, I just can't understand how you can dismiss the songs on 'Host' as boring. That album has some of the strongest songs I ever heard. How can 'Its Too Late' not move you? Maybe I'm just a sucker for string arrangemenets, I dunno... However, I will admit that the songs from 'Host' don't work as well live as any of the others.
Ulver, well maybe I just think the way I do because I don't appreciate trad BM as much as some others. And I don't really like that their third album has
deliberately shitty production. I think Krys Rygg has become a fantastic musical innovater of late.
As for Katatonia... when you get TGCD, let it grow on you. On first listen, you may be disappointed, but it really does kick major ass
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