Orphaned Land
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Dick Sirloin
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Dick Sirloin
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NAD and Black Winter Day - have you guys heard this yet? I can't imagine the two of you not going ga-ga over this.
Why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't you tell me?
cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
mabool = fucking win, and i still don't think i've spent an appropriate amount of time with it either
Ellestin
one-click buy
JayKeeley said:
Bullshit. "El Norra Alila" is a killer album without a single flaw. I agree that "Mabool" is one of the few certified epics of metal history.
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
Weird to see a pre-Mabool thread on these guys...to further convince BWD of Mabool's greatness, here's my writeup from my top 25 list last year:
1 – orphaned land – mabool (CM) – Lord, here comes the flood…
Why is this my choice for number one? The best way to answer that question would be to list some of the elements that make Mabool such an extraordinary album. It’s their first album in eight years and the band is from an anomalous market. It represents a welcome risk by Century Media by signing a unique and hard to categorize band. It is a concept album with omnipresent biblical and spiritual themes, yet manages to avoid preaching to the listener. It refuses to acknowledge a distinction between Middle Eastern music and metal and treats them as a single entity, whether by using a lengthy vocal chant (Kiss Of Babylon) or building a song around a traditional melody (Norra El Norra). It has an epic scope that rivals just about anything in metal and is truly progressive in its arrangements, using a wide variety of instruments and the lyrics are in multiple languages. Its pacing is superb, Birth Of The Three opens the book in grandiose fashion and each song drives the story forward before culminating in the amazing final sequence: an acoustic interlude, the flood’s arrival being represented by the album’s heaviest track, the aftermath being expressed by a hugely emotional solo, and the peaceful epilogue.
Best songs: Halo Dies, Ocean Land, and above all the last four tracks
PS ENA and Sahara (I prefer the latter) are well-worth owning, but nowhere near the masterpiece Mabool is.
1 – orphaned land – mabool (CM) – Lord, here comes the flood…
Why is this my choice for number one? The best way to answer that question would be to list some of the elements that make Mabool such an extraordinary album. It’s their first album in eight years and the band is from an anomalous market. It represents a welcome risk by Century Media by signing a unique and hard to categorize band. It is a concept album with omnipresent biblical and spiritual themes, yet manages to avoid preaching to the listener. It refuses to acknowledge a distinction between Middle Eastern music and metal and treats them as a single entity, whether by using a lengthy vocal chant (Kiss Of Babylon) or building a song around a traditional melody (Norra El Norra). It has an epic scope that rivals just about anything in metal and is truly progressive in its arrangements, using a wide variety of instruments and the lyrics are in multiple languages. Its pacing is superb, Birth Of The Three opens the book in grandiose fashion and each song drives the story forward before culminating in the amazing final sequence: an acoustic interlude, the flood’s arrival being represented by the album’s heaviest track, the aftermath being expressed by a hugely emotional solo, and the peaceful epilogue.
Best songs: Halo Dies, Ocean Land, and above all the last four tracks
PS ENA and Sahara (I prefer the latter) are well-worth owning, but nowhere near the masterpiece Mabool is.
IOfTheStorm
Gogol Bordello
"El Norra Alila" is almost equally good to "Mabool" just very different in every aspect. They cant be compared.
Dick Sirloin
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BenMech
student of the d'eh
Live warm acoustic, including their Paradise Lost cover of Mercy(live version, not the tribute stereo version) Good stuff.
Anyone actually LISTEN to their copies of Ararat?
Anyone actually LISTEN to their copies of Ararat?
Dark One
The Tainted Dogma
Mabool is a soaring, majestic masterpiece. I love when you guys recommend something for me to listen to and today is no exception. Outstanding.
Ellestin
one-click buy
JayKeeley said:
Uh, okay, I'm easily put off by perspective, I'm short-sighted.
I wonder if they'll ever get the chance to put a two-hours gig around here like they're able to do in Israel. I wouldn't risk a leg off to experience that.
MFJ
Active Member
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
I'm not blown away by this... I find it quite too long, and a few parts of the song writing quite awkward (some weird chuggy parts).
Is this one of those albums where it takes a a few intense listens to take it from great to:
Is this one of those albums where it takes a a few intense listens to take it from great to:
EricT
Don't you ever get...
J.
Old Fart
EricT
Don't you ever get...
I like Sahara way more than El Norra Alila. But Mabool is still my favorite among the grip. Not a bad album among them, yet. When's the new one hit?
WhiteBeastofWotan
Apostitutes!
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Have any of you lads picked up their latest? It's been receiving some favorable reviews, yet I remain reticent to check it out based on the ridiculously gimmicky promo pics that coincided with it's release. They're hitting up the Whiskey in two weeks in support of Katatonia. It wouldn't humor me in the slightest to drop $25 clams only to show up and see Matisyahu. Katatonia's latest was goat awful, and i fully expect their set-list to be saddled with NitND tracks. OL is this gig's selling point.
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