I nearly forgot... While in Atlanta I went on what I would like to call the "SUPER HAUL OF THE YEAR"!!!
here is my small lsit of pick-ups:
Steel Prophet - Unseen (digi-version)
Flower Kings - Unfold the Future (digi book)
Symphony X - The Odyssey (ltd. Ed.)
Hammerfall - Crimson Thinder (digi-version)
Pretty Maids - Planet Panic
Scanner - Scantropolis
Eldritch - Reverse
Nightwish - Century Child
Nightingale - Alive Again (HA! I got it early..everyone has to
wait until January who wasn't at ProgPower!)
Opeth - Balck Water Park (Ltd. ed. double CD version)
Mob Rules - Hollowed Be Thy Name (needed the "official" release!)
Warrior - The Code Of Life (working on my Rob Rock collection!)
Iron Savior - Condition Red
Edguy - The Savatage Poetry
Karmakanic - Entering the Spectra (excellent recomendation
from Tomer at The End Records!)
Threshold - Psyhedelicatessen & Wounded Land (special Ed.)
Threshold - Clone (completeing the collection)
Evergrey - The Dark Discovery (got em' all now!)
Masterplan - Enlighten Me (E.P.)
not to sahbby I'd say....
I haven't had a chance to listen to all of these indepth, but so far the two big suprises are the Scanner and Eldritch albums! How anyone could feel the new Eldrtich is not up to par with there older material must be up in the night...sure it's not as Dream Theater-esque and proggy as the last few releases, but DAMN it's heavy!!! Persoanlly I like it alot! there are some Excelllent songs on this album!
And Scanner! Wow...another big change there...at first I wasn't sure I was really going to like this (I am a HUGE Scanner fan!) since they pretty much revamped the entire band and ousted Harridon and hired a female vocalist by the name of Lisa Croft (not to be confused with Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame
) but the more I spin it... the more I like it, and the more I hear it.....well...it's Scanner! I think it's a pretty underated album.
Biggest Upset? Pretty Maids... I'm not sure what it is about this one, but I am really trying to like it. It's heavy, it sounds like Pretty Maids with more chunk, but something is missing... I have listened to it three times, the thirds with all sincerity and nothing sticks out on this album for me. I HATE that! I want to like it but It's not getting through my thick skull... I LOVE all their other albums but this one is a bit off...hopefully it kicks me in the ass soon.
anyone out there have any opinions on the Hual? recomendations on what I dshould dive into next on this list?
\m/
Dustin
here is my small lsit of pick-ups:
Steel Prophet - Unseen (digi-version)
Flower Kings - Unfold the Future (digi book)
Symphony X - The Odyssey (ltd. Ed.)
Hammerfall - Crimson Thinder (digi-version)
Pretty Maids - Planet Panic
Scanner - Scantropolis
Eldritch - Reverse
Nightwish - Century Child
Nightingale - Alive Again (HA! I got it early..everyone has to
wait until January who wasn't at ProgPower!)
Opeth - Balck Water Park (Ltd. ed. double CD version)
Mob Rules - Hollowed Be Thy Name (needed the "official" release!)
Warrior - The Code Of Life (working on my Rob Rock collection!)
Iron Savior - Condition Red
Edguy - The Savatage Poetry
Karmakanic - Entering the Spectra (excellent recomendation
from Tomer at The End Records!)
Threshold - Psyhedelicatessen & Wounded Land (special Ed.)
Threshold - Clone (completeing the collection)
Evergrey - The Dark Discovery (got em' all now!)
Masterplan - Enlighten Me (E.P.)
not to sahbby I'd say....
I haven't had a chance to listen to all of these indepth, but so far the two big suprises are the Scanner and Eldritch albums! How anyone could feel the new Eldrtich is not up to par with there older material must be up in the night...sure it's not as Dream Theater-esque and proggy as the last few releases, but DAMN it's heavy!!! Persoanlly I like it alot! there are some Excelllent songs on this album!
And Scanner! Wow...another big change there...at first I wasn't sure I was really going to like this (I am a HUGE Scanner fan!) since they pretty much revamped the entire band and ousted Harridon and hired a female vocalist by the name of Lisa Croft (not to be confused with Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame
) but the more I spin it... the more I like it, and the more I hear it.....well...it's Scanner! I think it's a pretty underated album.Biggest Upset? Pretty Maids... I'm not sure what it is about this one, but I am really trying to like it. It's heavy, it sounds like Pretty Maids with more chunk, but something is missing... I have listened to it three times, the thirds with all sincerity and nothing sticks out on this album for me. I HATE that! I want to like it but It's not getting through my thick skull... I LOVE all their other albums but this one is a bit off...hopefully it kicks me in the ass soon.
anyone out there have any opinions on the Hual? recomendations on what I dshould dive into next on this list?
\m/
Dustin
It's so good it's a top 3 of the year thus far IMO. I was also pleasantly surprised with Hammerfall's new one. This was their last chance to keep me as a fan (yes, cheese = good) and it's very good. Not superb, but very good. Another fanastic surprise is the new Ablaze My Sorrow. These guys wail AGGRESSIVELY like a good 1998 Gothenburg band should wail (except that it's 2002). As in, most of it's been heard before, but this is done extremely well. That's it so far...I LOVE new albums to listen to! 
