As I am still being exposed to countless new bands thanks to PP, I continue to be amazed at how many turn out to just blow my mind. Every time I think I've heard the last band that I'm going to go apeshit over, I open a new CD and the rocket ride starts all over again.
Thanks to my friends Bobbie (BlackRoseMetalHeart) and her s.o. Nick (Demon of the Woods) , I was exposed to THRESHOLD and their new album Dead Reckoning. Their performance at PP just blew me away, they were hands down my favorite band of the festival. And thanks to The Laser's Edge, I purchased virtually their entire back catalog in the dealer's room.
I have had "Critical Mass" in my car's CD player ever since I got back from PP. It's incredible! Where have I been and why haven't I known about these guys? They are easily on par with anything Dream Theatre or Symphony X has done. I would give anything for these guys to tour the US, I would follow that show from city to city for sure! :zombie:
And second place by a nose-hair goes to FIREWIND. Even though I had claimed to be a Firewind fan prior to PP, I was only familiar with a small handful of their songs. Seeing them "open" for Epica on my own show in Minneapolis and then subsequently performing an amazing set at PP (kudos to another brilliant "Glenn-ism" for getting their original singer to do a couple of songs with them - WOW WOW WOW - we'll sure as hell never see *that* again!), I realized I needed to get more CD's from them as well. I bought two of their CD's including an older title, "Forged by Fire." That CD is just f*cking amazing. Every single song on it is good! Once again, I'm sitting there in utter amazement thinking to myself, "Where have I been?!"
So THRESHOLD and FIREWIND ... for better or for worse ... have me as a new raving lunatic fanboy.
What about y'all?
Thanks to my friends Bobbie (BlackRoseMetalHeart) and her s.o. Nick (Demon of the Woods) , I was exposed to THRESHOLD and their new album Dead Reckoning. Their performance at PP just blew me away, they were hands down my favorite band of the festival. And thanks to The Laser's Edge, I purchased virtually their entire back catalog in the dealer's room.
I have had "Critical Mass" in my car's CD player ever since I got back from PP. It's incredible! Where have I been and why haven't I known about these guys? They are easily on par with anything Dream Theatre or Symphony X has done. I would give anything for these guys to tour the US, I would follow that show from city to city for sure! :zombie:
And second place by a nose-hair goes to FIREWIND. Even though I had claimed to be a Firewind fan prior to PP, I was only familiar with a small handful of their songs. Seeing them "open" for Epica on my own show in Minneapolis and then subsequently performing an amazing set at PP (kudos to another brilliant "Glenn-ism" for getting their original singer to do a couple of songs with them - WOW WOW WOW - we'll sure as hell never see *that* again!), I realized I needed to get more CD's from them as well. I bought two of their CD's including an older title, "Forged by Fire." That CD is just f*cking amazing. Every single song on it is good! Once again, I'm sitting there in utter amazement thinking to myself, "Where have I been?!"
So THRESHOLD and FIREWIND ... for better or for worse ... have me as a new raving lunatic fanboy.
What about y'all?