I absolutely second Rene's laughing at all you fools placing Heaven's Cry so lowly. You will poke your eyes out with rusty spoons after hearing them. Actually, go out and get their album Primal Power Addiction right fucking now and come back and thank me. And maybe Rene too.
But seriously, I'll chime in with the hype: not only are they better than Dream Theater, they're also better than ANY OTHER BAND mentioned in this thread so far (with the exception of maybe Sieges Even, who they still beat in the "energetic music" department). There are very, very few bands in my all time favorites higher than Heaven's Cry and they usually have names like Opeth and Zero Hour, so you shouldn't even try to compete with them anyway.
And before you start telling me that Carnut already proposed Zero Hour and as such they've been mentioned in this thread, no, he suggested "Zero Houre", who sound suspiciously French
So once more: go out and listen to Heaven's Cry's incredible album "Primal Power Addiction". I don't know where you can get it though because they're signed with some obscure little label from the Netherlands... Devious records or something like that. Anyone ever heard of them?
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;P
As for our (Martyna's and Daniel's) dream lineup, incorporating what we already know:
Pre-party:
Meshuggah
Dream Theater
Saturday:
No bands at all because we always spend Saturday getting drunk and missing all the fucking bands. So no bands on Saturday. More Russians for drinking though.
Sunday:
Jon Oliva's Pain, to wake us up, maybe, in case we fell asleep at Sjiwa.
Next we have a back-to-back concert of Beyond Twilight and Circus Maximus; this way we can play "can you tell if Circus Maximus are already playing or if this is still Beyond Twilight", one of the funnest party games ever.
Then Heaven's Cry play as long as they fucking want to. 1am for all I care.
And finally a 3 hours show from Textures, because fuckit if 2006 taught me anything, it's that NO ONE can fucking play after Textures. Merce-who? They sounded like fucking Abba in comparison to the audio genocide that is Textures.
Uhm. Serious. You want me to be serious. Right.
Okay, so here's our wishlist for 2007 in no particular order and with a heavy bias on unknown/small bands:
Tomorrow's Eve -- because I fucking love those guys
Neurothing -- if Textures are the dutch Meshuggah, these guys are the Polish Meshuggah. Check them out here:
zomg it's a myspace page
I'll repeat what Wojtek said:
Stolen Babies, Gojira, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Sikth, Dagoba
Atrophia Red Sun (fucking awesome prog death with lots of electronic stuff, inspired by Cynic --
guess whose space has a lot of their songs and
their official webpage whose name has arse in it has one more song online. They fucking play live with gas masks. What else do you need to know?
Lord of Mushrooms are crazy French guys that you should know--you know them, don't you? Maybe they're too big for PP ;P Anyhoo, here's the obligatory
myspace link and
their official webpage whose url sufficiently describes their music
Mechanical Poet are an awesome band from Russia. They make something like progressive soundtrack metal. They have *gasp* no myspace page, but they have a
real webpage. And hey, if you book them we'll have Russians to party with again. And Rene, make sure they place them right next to our room again
As far as big bands go, how's about letting Opeth headline Saturday? I guess you're saving Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, and Fates Warning for the 10th anniversary PP in 2008? ;P
Martyna edit: also,
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