Freedom Call - Beyond - Awesome!!

[DustyV]

I tried. I gave it a full honest listen. I don't think I would do it again though.

Yea, it has to be your sub genre of metal for your to enjoy it......It's the same way I would never listen to death metal....

 

[AngraRULES]

I tried. I gave it a full honest listen. I don't think I would do it again though.

If I liked this Freedom Call disc, ANYONE can.

 

[DustyV]

If I liked this Freedom Call disc, ANYONE can.

What's your comparison of it to their previous discs? The new one reminds me of a mix between Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys" and Gamma Ray's "Land of the Free".......

With the early Freedom Call discs I had a big problem with the annoying high whiney vocals, and they have all but disappeared on this new one as he seems to be singing in a lower register and his vocal range is much more developed.....

 

[spag]

If I liked this Freedom Call disc, ANYONE can.

It's just a level of cheese I couldn't get over. I mean, I would love to see Gloryhammer at ProgPower, so it's not like I don't dive into some occasional cheesy power metal. This was too much for me. Maybe it's the vocals...just not working for me.

I've had a tough time with the latest Stratovarius disc as well, and most people seemed to like it as well.

 

[DustyV]

It's just a level of cheese I couldn't get over. I mean, I would love to see Gloryhammer at ProgPower, so it's not like I don't dive into some occasional cheesy power metal. This was too much for me. Maybe it's the vocals...just not working for me.

I've had a tough time with the latest Stratovarius disc as well, and most people seemed to like it as well.

Yea, I totally get where you are coming from... Although I still wonder what the exact definition of "cheese" is? LOL... I mean, what makes something "cheesy" when it comes to music? is it the fantasy aspect? Like Dragons? etc?

It's like when my girlfriend watched the movie Lord of the Rings with me. She told me it was way too cheesy and she couldn't stomach it....

 

[AngraRULES]

What's your comparison of it to their previous discs? The new one reminds me of a mix between Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys" and Gamma Ray's "Land of the Free".......

With the early Freedom Call discs I had a big problem with the annoying high whiney vocals, and they have all but disappeared on this new one as he seems to be singing in a lower register and his vocal range is much more developed.....

Ah, I guess you've never seen me express my feelings for Freedom Call around here...

Let's just say I have never been able to get into them.

 

[spag]

Yea, I totally get where you are coming from... Although I still wonder what the exact definition of "cheese" is? LOL... I mean, what makes something "cheesy" when it comes to music? is it the fantasy aspect? Like Dragons? etc?

Yeah, that's a tough one. I mean, I don't know how over the top you can get than something like Powerwolf, but I have little problem with them; so it can't just be the lyrics. I'll even listen to some of the xtian based bands, like Theocracy, and enjoy that from time to time. Or Ghost, and I was a die hard Rhapsody fan for a lot of years, so it's not just unicrons, trolls, elves, dragons, etc... I'm even down some good geek metal, like Slough Feg. I'm like the biggest Aryeon fan as well. No problem with happy metal either. Something about Freedom Call just pushes my bounds.

Luckily there is a ton of great music out there.

 

[DustyV]

Yeah, that's a tough one. I mean, I don't know how over the top you can get than something like Powerwolf, but I have little problem with them; so it can't just be the lyrics. I'll even listen to some of the xtian based bands, like Theocracy, and enjoy that from time to time. Or Ghost, and I was a die hard Rhapsody fan for a lot of years, so it's not just unicrons, trolls, elves, dragons, etc... I'm even down some good geek metal, like Slough Feg. I'm like the biggest Aryeon fan as well. No problem with happy metal either. Something about Freedom Call just pushes my bounds.

Luckily there is a ton of great music out there.

Yea, the more I think about it, "Cheese" is probably purely subjective. Some people call really huge bombastic choruses cheese, whereas I just call it powerful and awesome .... So yea, cheese sounds like it's purely subjective...

 

[adaher]

I'd consider Freedom Call to be cheese, not because of the music, but because of the lyrics. And not because the lyrics are happy, but because they often aren't saying anything and they use ridiculous turns of phrase. I think the awesomeness factor of this band would go even higher if they let someone edit their lyrics. Of course, I suspect they are doing it on purpose. Chris Bay's command of English seems way too solid for him to be singing "Bang Bang for a big time." If you handed Jorn Lande those lyrics he'd probably skin you alive.

 

[Justin G]

I'd consider Freedom Call to be cheese, not because of the music, but because of the lyrics. And not because the lyrics are happy, but because they often aren't saying anything and they use ridiculous turns of phrase. I think the awesomeness factor of this band would go even higher if they let someone edit their lyrics. Of course, I suspect they are doing it on purpose. Chris Bay's command of English seems way too solid for him to be singing "Bang Bang for a big time." If you handed Jorn Lande those lyrics he'd probably skin you alive.

Sure, the Duke of Love is way too mature for that crap.

 

[adaher]

Heh. No, I meant that he'd want the lyrics to make some kind of sense.

The dude behind Alestorm and Gloryhammer plays a lot of happy and cheesy stuff, but his turns of phrase are clever enough that it's funny, whereas with Freedom Call it's laughable in a different way. And repetitive. Although I'm still a fan, because they are so cheery and they write awesome hooks.

 

[DustyV]

I'd consider Freedom Call to be cheese, not because of the music, but because of the lyrics. And not because the lyrics are happy, but because they often aren't saying anything and they use ridiculous turns of phrase. I think the awesomeness factor of this band would go even higher if they let someone edit their lyrics. Of course, I suspect they are doing it on purpose. Chris Bay's command of English seems way too solid for him to be singing "Bang Bang for a big time." If you handed Jorn Lande those lyrics he'd probably skin you alive.

Yea, they are just doing it to just have fun....They aren't out to try and impress anyone and write sophisticated lyrics. I'm sure they know their lyrics are simple and goofy...... It's just about having fun and enjoying life to the fullest is all .......