Chipmonkcheeks
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Forests of Legend is such a great song. My favourite off the album too. Like DNA as well. He screeches it awesomely.
Vektor!
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D.Ingram
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Slatanictrash
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Der Morgenstern
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Caveman Ninja
It's a carnival... of monsters!
Podgie
Young Man, Old Soul
Podgie
Young Man, Old Soul
I'm a little behind everyone here as I ordered Black Future a long time ago from the US and it only just dropped through my letterbox today. I guess that's what you get when you combine already slow (but cheap!) distros on the other side of the world, and volcanoes.
Anyway, I made a point of not judging this band and jumping on their wagon before hearing this album properly. Since it arrived I've listened to it three times (it's currently on it's fourth spin as I write this) and I have to say, I don't think they have recieved any kind of false praise. The album is, on first impressions, fantastic. It's progressive without loosing any aggresion and, more importantly, it doesn't come across completely pretentious. In fact, I think the longer, more complex songs on the album come across the best. The highlight for me undoubtdly being Forests of Legend, which features that clean guitar remincant of classic Metallica intros such as Battery and Fade to Black, etc. I noticed that as the song progresses it becomes brooding like Metallica is too, and even more so, Megadeth (which is probably why I have fallen in love with this song, the leads and the melodic riffing especially). Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Vektor, or this song sounds like Metallica and Megadeth. It doesn't, though their influences are clearly present...
At this point I'll stop talking about Forests of Legend and assure you that I have actually listened to the other songs on the album.
No really, I have.
I just felt the need to have a little rant about it. I look forward to listening to the album more in the (black) future and building a proper opinion on it. At the moment I'm just going to enjoy it though
Anyway, I made a point of not judging this band and jumping on their wagon before hearing this album properly. Since it arrived I've listened to it three times (it's currently on it's fourth spin as I write this) and I have to say, I don't think they have recieved any kind of false praise. The album is, on first impressions, fantastic. It's progressive without loosing any aggresion and, more importantly, it doesn't come across completely pretentious. In fact, I think the longer, more complex songs on the album come across the best. The highlight for me undoubtdly being Forests of Legend, which features that clean guitar remincant of classic Metallica intros such as Battery and Fade to Black, etc. I noticed that as the song progresses it becomes brooding like Metallica is too, and even more so, Megadeth (which is probably why I have fallen in love with this song, the leads and the melodic riffing especially). Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Vektor, or this song sounds like Metallica and Megadeth. It doesn't, though their influences are clearly present...
At this point I'll stop talking about Forests of Legend and assure you that I have actually listened to the other songs on the album.
No really, I have.I just felt the need to have a little rant about it. I look forward to listening to the album more in the (black) future and building a proper opinion on it. At the moment I'm just going to enjoy it though
Covet Chaos
Weedian
Caveman Ninja
It's a carnival... of monsters!
I'm a little behind everyone here as I ordered Black Future a long time ago from the US and it only just dropped through my letterbox today. I guess that's what you get when you combine already slow (but cheap!) distros on the other side of the world, and volcanoes.
Anyway, I made a point of not judging this band and jumping on their wagon before hearing this album properly. Since it arrived I've listened to it three times (it's currently on it's fourth spin as I write this) and I have to say, I don't think they have recieved any kind of false praise. The album is, on first impressions, fantastic. It's progressive without loosing any aggresion and, more importantly, it doesn't come across completely pretentious. In fact, I think the longer, more complex songs on the album come across the best. The highlight for me undoubtdly being Forests of Legend, which features that clean guitar remincant of classic Metallica intros such as Battery and Fade to Black, etc. I noticed that as the song progresses it becomes brooding like Metallica is too, and even more so, Megadeth (which is probably why I have fallen in love with this song, the leads and the melodic riffing especially). Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Vektor, or this song sounds like Metallica and Megadeth. It doesn't, though their influences are clearly present...
At this point I'll stop talking about Forests of Legend and assure you that I have actually listened to the other songs on the album.
I just felt the need to have a little rant about it. I look forward to listening to the album more in the (black) future and building a proper opinion on it. At the moment I'm just going to enjoy it though
When I first got it I listened to it constantly for weeks. I even looked forward to washing up and having to walk places because it meant I could listen to it. Then a couple of months ago I went for several weeks without listening to it... came back to it after a month or two... and by God, it's still every bit as awesome. Definitely one of my favourite albums.
Caveman Ninja
It's a carnival... of monsters!
I feel like the only person on earth who doesn't like Vektor
Sorry, weren't you the one who said that thrash was too limiting a genre? Man, you're a tough cookie to please.
MetallicSlayerDeth
Staring into your soul...
When I first heard them I got my first "WOW! This is fucking amazing!" experience since the first time I heard Thrasher. All though that time it was because before that my metal world was limited to the Big 4 and Evile opened my eyes. But when hearing Black Future for the first time (the song) I was "Wowed" because it took my favorite parts of my 3 favorite metal genres, thrash, death and black metal.
Covet Chaos
Weedian
Haha sorry dude! I don't meant to offend. They just don't interest me. I don't like thrash that much at all.
I gave this Vektor album a listen. And I realised there's nothing much to thrash metal that makes me tick.
Caveman Ninja
It's a carnival... of monsters!
No worries, you're not obligated to like anything... just that this album does prove that you can push the boundaries of the genre with new and exciting effects! It's part thrash, part melodic death, all prog, even kind of black metal in places... but it's fast, which might be why you don't like it. Me, I like fast music, it gets my adrenalin going... I just don't like slow music very often...
That bolded part is why I love this band. All my favorite genres blended into one. Except for the Black Metal part
Oh well 
Heavy Metal Rich
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I did the same and had the same feeling about it. I put it in the player with Ihsahn's After and Triptykon's Eparistera Daimones and it fits perfectly.
Great review Podgie, hope you have many happy years with this album and band.
Podgie
Young Man, Old Soul
Oh, that wasn't really a review. I've never actually written a review before, I'm considering writing one for Black Future though.
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