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I like Symbolic (though I think I still like latter day MA better), but I really hate The Sound of Perseverance. It's wankery plus horrible vocals.
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Black Friday
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I can understand disliking the vocals, as they're definitely not for everyone, but TSOP has alot of great writing on it, even if it's played really fast.
rms
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I hope it isn't controversial to say that lamentations is way better than new dark age! I was lied to ha ha
Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
Replace Chuck with Alf and Death with the At the Gates and you get my opinion on TRiTSIO.
Only there is a clear difference in Alf's ability to compose music and Chuck's inability to do so - so that opinion is kind of bunk.
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Houses Ov Mercury
Godlike wankery does not impress me. Stop making me repeat this by replying like it's somehow going to change or negate my opinion.
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Orion Crystal Ice
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When I listen to TSOP I just hear ripping progressive thrash, nothing more or less than that. I feel like if it was a different band some people would be singing a different song about it than they are. Not all, but some.
Orion Crystal Ice
Rider of the Astral Fire
Also, to continue the theme of the thread, I pretty much don't find any ATG to be too good at all. I appreciate what they were trying to do with the early stuff, but the writing just doesn't hit the mark for me. I'm still trying to find a record that has some really really inspired songwriting but in that odd, atmospheric, death/black/prog-ish.....style..thing. The second Chasm is sort of like that but that could be better too.
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Houses Ov Mercury
TSOP is by no means progressive thrash, and even if you were just using thrash as an expressive term there, there's just way too much pointless herking-and-jerking on that album, it gets pretty damn annoying. Also Chuck sounds like total shit (not to mention he absolutely destroyed Painkiller...goddamn) most of the time, including total voice-cracks in Bite the Pain! Anyway, I like listening to Spirit Crusher and Voice of the Soul here and there, but most of the album sounds like poo to me.
Death Aflame
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IMO, Crimson Massacre seems to have continued where Alf and early ATG left off. Can't wait to hear the new record.
Orion Crystal Ice
Rider of the Astral Fire
I agree the Priest cover sucks, the feel is horrible too. I know not what to call the riffs on the album but thrash, however, and I'm not using 'progressive' as in...it's doing something new...rather as in the 'prog' sense metal is mostly familiar with, of utilizing odd scales and signatures within the music.
Black Friday
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I don't hear the voice cracks, in fact, they seem to be MORE prominent on earlier albums. Human comes to mind. And where's this herking-and-jerking? Everything on that album flows very naturally to me.
Hippy Dippy Weatherman
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I find it hard to be motivated enough to listen to a band for the
first time,that has a really sucky name.
first time,that has a really sucky name.
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Houses Ov Mercury
Um, you don't hear them? Chorus of Bite the Pain, second time 'round. Trust me.
Also, no it doesn't. The structure of songs like Scavenger of Human Sorrow sound ludicrously broken.
Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
Alf, alongside the boys in The Chasm, are is the best songwriter in death metal. Chuck has only like two songs that deviate from a typical verse-chorus-verse structure, definition of boring and unoriginal.
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