Your last purchase??

[mawdyson]

Dethklok - The Dethalbum
LORD - Ascendence
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

 

[Meedleyx10]

a box of cookie crisp, some sweatpants, and a pack of Ultex Jazz III picks (hoping they're as good as I've heard)

 

[SilentRealm]

GRRM's 'A Feast For Crows'

WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH *cries loudly and annoyingly* I'm nearly finished what's completed so far of the series!! I dunno how I'm going to wait for the next ones to be done. By the way, 'A Storm Of Swords' = Z0MG brilliant!! I finished the whole double-book-thing in about a week and a half haha.. if that..

 

[progmetaldan]

I ordered:

Howe / Wooten / Chambers- Extraction

MacAlpine / Brunel / Chambers- Cab

MacAlpine / Brunel / Chambers- Cab 4

 

[Kenneth R.]

GRRM's 'A Feast For Crows'

WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH *cries loudly and annoyingly* I'm nearly finished what's completed so far of the series!! I dunno how I'm going to wait for the next ones to be done. By the way, 'A Storm Of Swords' = Z0MG brilliant!! I finished the whole double-book-thing in about a week and a half haha.. if that..

hahahah

 

[Jax]

Not counting the PPUSA sampler & various freebies I received, at PPUSA I grabbed:
Artension - New Discovery
At Vance - VII
Ayreon - The Final Experiment (special 10th anniversary edition)
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Eyefear - 9 Elements of Inner Vision
Eyefear - A World Full of Grey
Lion's Share - Emotional Coma
Mob Rules - Ethnolution A.D.
Seventh Wonder - Become
Seventh Wonder - Waiting in the Wings
Devin Townsend - Physicist

 

[DoomsdayZach]

At Vance - VII

Now Jax, you know that I would never make fun of someone for their musical tastes (heh... *cough*) so all I will say is that I sincerely hope you enjoy this album infinately more than I did... that can't be hard though

 

[Jax]

Now Jax, you know that I would never make fun of someone for their musical tastes (heh... *cough*) so all I will say is that I sincerely hope you enjoy this album infinately more than I did... that can't be hard though

That one was something of a blind purchase..a friend had given me an At Vance cd that I really liked, so I wanted to get another..Ken Golden was busy at the time or I'd have asked his advice, but since he wasn't available, I just grabbed one. Now I'm afraid to listen to it..

 

[DoomsdayZach]

http://www.globaldomination.se/reviews/at-vance-vii

I’m going to be perfectly blunt: you will not want to read this review to find a band to check out. You don’t want to listen to At Vance. I understand, people have different opinions and such, but seriously… no. Any further reading should be for entertainment value only. Fair warning.

This is truly some of the shittiest power metal I’ve ever heard. I used to own discs by Steel Attack, Pegazus, and a few other bottom of the barrel, pure shit power metal acts, but none of them compare to At Vance. I’ll admit, I own a few Blind Guardian discs, have a pair of Gamma Ray albums (no wait… their latest three), even went ahead and helped myself to a good portion of Sonata Arctica’s discography. There is some quality stuff in there, albeit cheesy as fuck and borderline homosexual. I’m surprised HammerFall’s “Glory to the brave” doesn’t come packaged with a dildo to stick up your ass while listening to epic tales of slaying dragons and the glory of fallen warriors. But yes, even HammerFall is better than At Vance.

The music is bad, generic power metal. Mostly midpaced, lots of hard rock vibes here and plenty of solos that are ultimately unmemorable. No need to explore much further because if you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it millions of times. That’s bad enough, but then they have the vocals. Hooooly fuck, the vocals. Honestly, it sounds like a mix of Jörn Lande and Michael Bolton. That’s right folks, Michael Fucken Bolton.

“Why should I change my name? He’s the one who sucks.”

You want to hear Michael Bolton? Check out “Shiver”, one of the three ballads. Yeah, I know. There’s only 10 songs and 3 are ballads. Anyway, “Shiver” has the total Michael Bolton feel. I fully expect him to amend the vocals live “Shiiiveerrrr…......WHEN A MAAAAAAAAN LOVES A WOOOOMAAANNN!!!” Then there’s “Answer me”. How about you answer the phone guys? It’s Nelson, and they want their gay back. And speaking of gay, “Lost in your love”... fucking hell. I almost want to upload this song just so people can hear how fucking bad it is.

Ken, hurry with the cover art review so the hurting can stop!

“Epica has no boobs. We offer 4.”

And nothing else needs to be said. Sorry… I just can’t go on. I’ve listened to the album a number of times now and there’s just nothing else to say.

1st place in the shitty adult contemporary vocalist contest out of 10 contestants.

 

[Jax]

Oh lordy

 

[Burnout]

As far as power metal goes I try to stick to the Persuader/Manticora/earlier Blind Guardian end of the genre that actually has some punch. I haven't heard At Vance though and, after that review, I don't plan on changing that.

My last buy was Eventuality by Alarum. Some Oceansize might be up next.

 

[Kenneth R.]

My last buy was Shadow & Claw (see sig) cause I lent my copy to a friend a long time ago... and they still have it. . . . . .

 

[Meedleyx10]

I ordered:

Howe / Wooten / Chambers- Extraction

Howe's best work IMO

 

[noble savage]

Howe's best work IMO

I will 2nd that.

Also, I recently bought Allan Holdsworth - 16 men of tain and my opinion on him remains. Excellent guitar player but his compositions are so disjointed. I think Virgil Donati and Derek Sherinian brought out the best of him in Planet X.

 

[Burnout]

Anathema - A Natural Disaster

 

[Kenneth R.]

Anathema - A Natural Disaster

fuckin excellent choice

 

[Burnout]

fuckin excellent choice

Thanks, I'm really digging it so far.

Judgement and A Fine Day To Exit will probably follow at some point.

 

[progmetaldan]

Eyefear - 9 Elements of Inner Vision
Eyefear - A World Full of Grey

Great Aussie band!

 

[progmetaldan]

Howe's best work IMO

From what I've heard I'd definately have to agree... And great line-up with Wooten and Chambers...

 

[HackerX]

Thanks, I'm really digging it so far.

Judgement and A Fine Day To Exit will probably follow at some point.

Eternity for the motherfucking win