That clip of nevermore is awesome. I love their music and have every CD they made. I can't wait till this cd comes out, there's so many great cds coming out there year!
I respect COB's technical skill, but I just can't say their songs are on par with Nevermore and Opeth. The songwriting and composition do it for me, and NEVERMORE and OPETH do it PERFECTLY! I love hearing shredding solos, but just shred gets boring to me. I'd rather hear well place riffs and one solo, than a 5 min song full of sweeping. But hey I wanna be a shredder one day, but I also wanna compose good music.