Great 2004-cd Releases?

[PRauhala]

What you think of this year releases?

I think some of bands have made very good cds exam.

Diablo - Eternium
Empty Tremor - Alien Inside
Evergrey - Inner Circle
Fear Factory - Archetype (hmm..not so good in fact)
Time Requiem - The Inner Circle of Reality

and maybe unsuccesfulest attempt Vitalij Kuprij - Forward and Beyond (of course awesome players, but not a very good cd..)

 

[Knight of the Templar]

Waiting for the New Porcupine Tree album... oh, that one and Dream Theater's live CD (and DVD)... and Blind Guardian's DVD.

 

[The Stormbringer]

2004 will see a lot of mouthwateringly promising CDs, and even moreso, DVDs released... Ayreon´s "The Human Equation" and the DVDs by Blind Guardian, Enchant and Dream Theater.

 

[shaq]

Evergrey - The Inner Circle
Edguy - Hellfire Club
Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion

among others

 

[Rifugium]

Some good uns so far:
Pain of Salvation--12:5 (ruleth)
Spastic Ink--Ink Compatible
Iced Earth--Glorious Burden
Evergrey--Inner Circle
After Forever--Exordium

Anticipating:
Ayreon--Human Equation
Dream Theater--Live
After Forever--Invisible Circles
Pain of Salvation--BE
Megadeth--(title?) <---will rule

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Nightwish and COC have new albums coming out too.

 

[BastrdDrmr]

I haven't heard any great releases so far from this year, and that includes the new Evergrey.

 

[Yngvai X]

Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
Edguy - Hellfire Club & King of Fools EP
Kotipelto - Coldness

anticipating:
Borknagar - Epic
Nightwish - Once
Children of Bodom - Trashed, Lost, and Strungout EP
new Angra

and I've still yet to pick up the new Finntroll.

 

[Connauch]

Iced Earth-The Glorious Burden
Rad CD. Awesome theme and Gettysburg is up there with any other long epic.

Kotipelto-Coldness
Don't like it as much as Waiting for the Dawn; a little too subdued. I still love Kotipelto <3.

Evergrey-The Inner Circle
I don't like this as much as I should. I dig a few songs quite a bit such as Ambassador, In the Wake of the Weary and A Touch of Blessing, but the samples are annoying and really detract from the songs; I mean it's cool to have a neat soundclip open a song, but it's so abrupt that it detracts in further listens. Just a bit too angsty for my tastes with a weak conclusion.

Ayreon-The Human Equation
yes, oh yes.

Pain of Salvation-12:5
Live and acoustic, two things I really don't listen to much, yet I love this album.

 

[Demonspell]

The 2004 releases I've been listening to the most:

Evergrey - The Inner Circle
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness...
Pain Of Salvation - 12:5

 

[snakeey11]

I'll add Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd to the list.

 

[SilentRealm]

Edguy Hellfire Club is ma fav so far. Lets see how 2004 goes though.

 

[Taliwakker]

I remember posting this a few days ago....and now it has vanished.

So far i like

Spastic Ink-Ink Compatible
Incubus-A crow left of the Murder
Jorn-Out to Every Nation (what a singer!!!)
Killswitch Engaged-End of Heartache
Raunchy-Confusion Bay
PoS-12:5

and bring these fuckers on....

PoS-Be
Ayreon-T.H.E
a new Freak Kitchen and new Freak Guitar


SR wrote

Edguy Hellfire Club is ma fav so far

I hear they are coming next month......i'll be saving my cash to go see Steve Vai (with Brett Garsed in support...big smile)

 

[Smoke and Fire]

Hmm...not much goin on in 2004 so far... After Forever - Invisible Circles was good, Pain of Salvation - 12:5 is nice too (though an hour of acoustics is pretty long). Still waiting for the big things though....

Nightwish - Once (It's gonna kill - so save yourself a penny for the ferryman )
Pain of Salvation - Be

 

[SilentRealm]

I hear they are coming next month......i'll be saving my cash to go see Steve Vai (with Brett Garsed in support...big smile)

I know and I'm crying because i dont know if i will get to see them because i dont know if i can afford it. If i can that would be amazing, but we'll see.

 

[Taliwakker]

SR

I know and I'm crying because i dont know if i will get to see them because i dont know if i can afford it. If i can that would be amazing, but we'll see.

I'm sure there is someone you could blow to get ticket money

 

[Marre79]

Here's what have been listening this year so far :

Fear Factory - Archetype
Ensiferum - Iron
Altaria - Divinity
Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
Mokoma - Tämän Maailman Ruhtinaan Hovi [Fin]
Sympforce - Twice Second
Thunderstone - The Burning
Skyfire - Spectral
Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

+Many more to be listened to...

 

[SilentRealm]

I'm sure there is someone you could blow to get ticket money

hmm wouldnt be a bad idea if i was a hooker.. but then if i was going to prostitute myself out for concert tickets why stop there, i would pay my way into the next progpower (if it wasnt already sold out that is)

 

[Hawk]

My favorite so far is OHM - Live On Kpfk 90.7 FM

 

[Snowmaker]

I haven't heard any great releases so far from this year, and that includes the new Evergrey.

Ayreon - The Human Equation is AWESOME!

 

[glasscastle]

Platitude-Nine

Akashic-Timeless Realm

Empty Tremor-The Alien Inside

Dreamscape-End Of Silence

Space Odyssey-Embrace The Galaxy

Time Requiem-The Inner Circle of Reality