Dream Theater Review (3/10): Awake & A Change Of Seasons Pt.2
A Change Of Seasons is not an album but still a very crucial release for Dream Theater. It is the first thing they made without keyboardist Kevin Moore being replaced by Derek Sherinian. I will only talk about the song because it was only meant to be an ep with the title track. The song is the second epic in DT's career, the first being A Mind Beside Itself off of Awake consistening of Erotomania, Voices, and The Silent Man. ... read more
Dream Theater Review (3/10): Awake & A Change Of Seasons Pt.1
Awake is the third album by Dream Theater that would take a much more dramatic change than the first two releases. The first two releases were pretty proggy and bright, not really that dark or heavy despite them having their moments. Awake takes a 180 and it becomes the band's heaviest release. Though people may point to Train of Thought as it being their heaviest with Portnoy backing the claim, I disagree. Awake has ... read more
Dream Theater Review (2/10): Images and Words
Images and Words is the second album in the Dream Theater discography and the first with vocalist James Labrie. This album is much more focused than the predecessor and it's a fan favourite with Pull Me Under and Metropolis Pt.1 in patricular making it the most popular album in their catalog. The production is much more polished although I have issues with the triggered snare. I'm not the only one because even Portnoy hates it, but ... read more
Dream Theater Review (1/10): When Dream And Day Unite
Dream Theater are one of the most influential and important figures in metal history pushing boundaries in the musical and technical realm to further refine progressive metal. Over their almost 40 year career to me and many fans included, the best era was when Mike Portnoy was in the band. Ever since he left in 2010 the DT momentum fell apart a bit but I will say the last two albums were really fucking good. After 13 long years Portnoy has ... read more
Thank God Steven Severin and John McGeoch went for their little coffee break during the Juju sessions so we could have The Creatures.
Take away the shitty deathcore breakdowns and this would be way better.
Cannibal Corpse Barnes Era Review: 4/4
The Bleeding would mark the end of the classic Barnes era, and would also mark the beginning of Rob Barrett being in the band. He would leave after Vile, but after Jack Owen left after The Wretched Spawn Rob returned and has been in the band ever since. This album has great songs like Fucked With A Knife and Return To Flesh. However my favourite track goes to the opener Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead. The song is so fucking brutal and I love the ... read more
Cannibal Corpse Barnes Era Review: 3/4
This is the best Cannibal record. This band fucking nailed it here. You can hear Alex Webster properly with his sick basslines, Bob Rusay’s riffs are more gnarly than the first two albums and have a bigger technical edge to them. Jack Owen also has some pretty solid moments but my fucking GOD Paul Mazurkiewicz is a fucking machine on those drums popularizing the bomb blast with Hammer Smashed Face. Which speaking of, I don’t care if it’s ... read more
Cannibal Corpse Barnes Era Review: 2/4
This album is Eaten Back To Life on fucking steroids. For starters Barnes vocals went to the gutteral range and the lyricism also took a darker turn. We really went from songs like Born In A Casket and Edible Autopsy to fucking Meat Hook Sodomy and Butchered At Birth. The riffing here is very similar to the first record and the bass can be heard more but Paul Mazurkiewicz takes the drumming up a notch and on Gutted we can hear the creation of the bomb ... read more
Cannibal Corpse Barnes Era Review: 1/4
Ah yes, Cannibal Corpse. One of the pioneers of extreme music from the death metal realm. When I think of ways to release angst music is a great way to do so especially with more extreme genres. In my case I got into Cannibal when I was 12 years old in 2019 and personally I thought it was really excellent but when the pandemic hit and I met my best friend we shared our love for Cannibal and the other big band I was into was Metallica because Ride The ... read more
“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be 25 years better than we were then, and we were good then.”-Sting
A couple days ago I was craving to listen to The Police and revisit some things like the Better Than Therapy and Outlandos-Synchronicities documentaries which were about the band live. I always knew these guys were a musical powerhouse but after I went to check out Certifiable live on DVD again my spark for The Police came back. They have always been a top 5 band for ... read more
I am writing this on 08/03/24 which means that I decided to relisten and write this during the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking album The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. To give some perspective on my NIN experience it’s pretty limited. I have known the band for around 5 years because of how big their name was in the circles of alternative music but never 100% gave them a shot until my friend’s industrial phase was kicking. Originally I had a way different opinion than ... read more
Siouxsie and the Banshees and their album Join Hands was the second album that they worked on. This would be the last album recorded John McKay on guitar and Kenny Morris on drums. The direction that this album would take would be a much more darker and aggressive approach compared to The Scream. The album is ferocious due to internal and external issues with the band. Internally things were falling apart because of the conflict of Siouxsie and Steven vs. Kenny and John because of the producer ... read more
Siouxsie and the Banshees and their album Peepshow was their first original full length since 1986’s Tinderbox. This is because the Banshees wanted to take a break and wanted to persue the idea of making more covers as a full project that ended up being Through The Looking Glass released on March 2, 1987. After the album JVC left the group and Martin McCarrick became a permanent member along with Jon Klein coming in for guitar duties. The first thing they did was make the official version ... read more
Siouxsie and the Banshees and their album The Rapture was the last thing they ever made as a group. This album follows a more rock direction than Superstition however there is a lot of pop flair that I enjoy from the 90s Banshees output. It is impressive that after so long they still have enough fuel, ambition, and inspiration to make another hit record. To me this album is a masterpiece of a swansong and one helluva way to end a career. So let’s now get to the substance and why I adore ... read more
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On firegold763's review of Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade
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On trevsfs's review of Depeche Mode - Violator
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On trevsfs's review of Depeche Mode - Violator
"Yes it can be prevalent at times like Sweetest Perfection but it isn't always there. Also to your comment on "I wish it was a closer like Brain Damage and Eclipse" i find stupid and funny because Clean samples the bass from One Of These Days and the guys are Pink Floyd fans. Also for people not memorable like David Bowie??? This is either some next level ragebait or you're genuinely fucking retarded because David Bowie is still one of the most influential and talked about artists of all time. It's fine not to like an album, what isn't fine is being an ignorant asshole who has his head so up his ass to say bullshit to sound smart."
On trevsfs's review of Depeche Mode - Violator
"This is easily the worst review for any album I have read in my life. The absolute ignorance and lack of research goes to show how stupid a lot of people are on this fucking platform. For starters don't come here so high and mighty talking about music theory. I myself know a decent bit of theory and from a theoretical standpoint everything on the album makes sense. Wanna know why? Well because even though Martin Gore was the primary songwriter, the arranger was Alan Wilder who has a fucking background of being classically trained. A lot of the stuff here is memorable because of the catchy hooks. Also not everything is drowned in a phaser effect."
On liamelias's review of Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
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On liamelias's review of Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
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On liamelias's review of Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
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On liamelias's review of Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
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On healio's review of Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
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