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    Posted: June 17 2010 at 02:12
Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

when all else fails, just be an ass....

the funny thing is that you are getting mad over nothing but words and differences.  And the attacks at intelligence are rather relative, comical, and just juvenile.

This is why I hate most metalheads, because they are generally pretty quick-tempered and myopic.

Exactly my own verdict on what I have written and said too. That dog = myself.

...... But it would help ProgArchives if you were kind enough to do some reviews of the Anata albums. That is just a humble wish. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2010 at 21:35
when all else fails, just be an ass....

the funny thing is that you are getting mad over nothing but words and differences.  And the attacks at intelligence are rather relative, comical, and just juvenile.

This is why I hate most metalheads, because they are generally pretty quick-tempered and myopic.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2010 at 12:47

Your thread makes me feels like this dog and I am pretty sure I have written thing in thread that are as intelligent as this dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNMrrwo1m_A

I need to lay down on my triple-massage sofa.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2010 at 08:31
MAVIII,
Damn man, you are right on the money with what you call that "rant".  I enjoy your passion and zeal for life, in spite of whatever problems you may have in it.  I agree wholeheartedly that the "I am right, you are wrong" deal has gone too far.  Perhaps I contributed to that unfortunate exchange.  It's sad that most people rely on that as a survival mechanism.  I realized last night after going through the responses throughout the whole thread, mine and others (and as I was later driving on a 3 lane main street- with people competitively roaring past each other- riding each other's asses in their cars- blasting their music) that most people need to be left alone to be safe in their insecurity (hey, I'm trying to be conscious of it myself!).  It's insecurity that motivates us to prove to everyone else that they are wrong and that we are the only correct ones.  I have tried to communicate in a manner that points out the fact that my posts are only my opinions, even though I have gotten caught up in going back and forth; yet I feel I did it without being a real jerk.... guess we need to take the bait less.  What it comes down to is things can get carried away really fast and misinterpreted or just picked apart because online interactions tend to be like scavenging parties for online buzzards- where people live to pick you apart.
We all are at this site for many commonalities.  Let's try to keep it civil please.

After what I have experienced on this message board several times and even in this thread, I have stopped subscriptions to many threads because of these things that make online interactions so relentless and cold.  I even considered deleting this whole thread, it has become just another exercise in futility- whether on my part or all other parties involved- even though there have been some great lines to read... It's always a learning experience....Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2010 at 08:13
Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

Avalanchemaster.

I get your point and I accept it. But for the record: I am one of very few people who has written about Anata i mainstream media. I have interviewed them on two occasions. I have reviewed their albums many times. There is a lot of bands I really like. Anata is one of them. But I no longer like their music. I am always, always reviewing music on it's own merits and not on the merit of friendships or personal fondness or even hatred towards the musicians. The same goes for other things in life. One of my best friends is a convicted terrorist and a murderer. I abhor what he did in a conflict which is now over, but I like he as a person.

The whole point is: Always make a distinction between "he/she is" and "he/she does".  

....... and I can see that you share this view/I share your view. Excellent !


 



Excellent.  Glad we agree.  I wish there was more camaraderie online!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2010 at 01:14

Avalanchemaster.

I get your point and I accept it. But for the record: I am one of very few people who has written about Anata i mainstream media. I have interviewed them on two occasions. I have reviewed their albums many times. There is a lot of bands I really like. Anata is one of them. But I no longer like their music. I am always, always reviewing music on it's own merits and not on the merit of friendships or personal fondness or even hatred towards the musicians. The same goes for other things in life. One of my best friends is a convicted terrorist and a murderer. I abhor what he did in a conflict which is now over, but I like he as a person.

The whole point is: Always make a distinction between "he/she is" and "he/she does".  

....... and I can see that you share this view/I share your view. Excellent !


 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 22:44
You know . . .

This will be my last rant.  And then I'm stopping my subscription to this thread Ouch.

Agree to disagree. I mean it.

I just came from a rather long and arduace walk, at a fast pace, because of the situation I live in,
no matter what I do, its the wrong thing.  It sums up my life, damned if I do, damned if I dont.
And I was pondering all the words in just this one thread, and of many (Posts) I've seen of late,
this thread even holds more validity than what most of the threads have become at PA . . .
IM f**kING RIGHT AND YOU! ARE f**kING WRONNNNNNG!!!!!! <--said with MUCH anger Unhappy.

This Music in the whole vast scheme of things does not matter to the Record Industry or the
"outside world", we are like that metaphor I used (hey, if you can read a Book or a Review, you
can read my rant).
I was also thinking, Why do I need a Review of a Movie, Art or a Band?  I'd rather have a description
of a Band than a review Geek.  I march to a beat of a different drummer in almost all I do so I'm gonna'
be the best critic (I . . . am a Loser, I will get mad if someone calls me that, but I know of my failures,
I dont need anyone to remind me).

I have soo many problems to deal with, most would take a gun to their head  . . . its THESE very
Musics, Album Covers, Artists that keep me alive and hopeful whats around the corner. And
good decent folks that dont judge me by my long hair and the music I like, they judge me by the
character of the way I treat people.  The way I want to be treated, just plain simple kindness.
Forget singing Cumbaya and putting flowers in each others hair . . . TURN IT UP!!!! turn up the
music you like and just enjoy it Exclamation

What does the music mean to YOU . . .
Thats it.  Thats what matters, what does the music mean to YOU.

This place is becoming like the YOUtube comments . . .
You can help taking out soo much of the Animosity that has gathered at PA like a dark cloud that
wont stop raining.  Just agree to disagree everyone and enjoy your own music.
(That goes for MMA too, but so-far, it hasnt been too bad . . .)

-MAVIII and I stand by this message Rawks(Go look at my links to discover more Tech Metal
at the end of my last rant! Big smile).

"Shapes and forms, against the norms..."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 21:26

I really don't think you should complain about hate for a band with so few reviewers. These reviewers just happen to be people who don't like the band. I'm sure there is tons of people here who like Anata but just never thought of reviewing or have never heard but would like if they did. I wouldn't base something on such a small group of opinions.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 20:49
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

MAVIII:

Clap

thank you!  you invested WAY more time and thought into this thread than I had/have and made some excellent points.  This is about more than just the band Anata themselves, it is about unbridled denigration of art merely because said art does not suit someone's taste.  There is no need to campaign against art because it does not fill you with excitement.  I feel that is what has happened here.  I clearly think that Anata was and were somewhat ahead of their time with the technical, thrashy, and progressive death metal aspects of their music.  In their latest album they even had clean, almost jazzy lines and solos and really very progressive, shifting riffs.  I may one day review their albums, but I don't really need to prove to anyone my love for the band, nor should I try to convert anyone else; but I don't think their music deserves anything less than a 3.  To some they may be average, but others exemplary.  There are several bands (even on this site) who are far less interesting than Anata.  In my opinion at least....



The last five words.
Everything is said. It's only a matter of opinion.

Even if Anata is a band of my time (I was 20 when their first album came out), I've never thought of listening to them (the worst was that my local library had this records among their collection).

Oh, so they are sellouts for being in a public place, eh?

I guess Nile and Arch Enemy overshadowed them, not to mention my interest for the French metal scene.

Nile and Arch Enemy are pretty damn pedestrian if you ask me-


I also feel a contradiction in your ranting: you're putting some nearly philosophical lines about art VS. excitement, saying: "there is no need to campaign against art" - which is the last thing one would do on this forum.

then why are you doing it right now?  Campaigning against my campaign... which is a campaign against the lowraters, who are campaigning their feelings...

After that, you write "I don't need to prove my love for this band, nor should I try to convert anyone..." These lines make me speechless, for they are a contrast with your previous statements and the main goal of your thread: to prove that Anata should be given better marks and more stars.

why are you typing this if you are so speechless?  I never set out to prove they were good to anyone else, it's just a difference of opinion...

One personal example: I gave 4 stars for Alchemist's Jar of Kingdom (I was the first one to review this record), but UMUR gave it only 2. Well, I haven't felt the need to open a thread to show my "angar" and to start a flamewar against anyone claiming not to enjoy their music.

Case in point:  Alchemist bore me to tears.  Is this a flamewar?  I thought it was just a statement of disappointment...

Art - would it be music, painting, sculptures or dance - is a matter of personal views and choices. The appreciation of any creation is a subjective experience, through the brain and, therefore, the mind, the intellect, the education... of a living person with its own emotions - INCLUDING AN EXCITEMENT since one can feel joy and excitement from intellectual stimulation.
To have little interest in ONE band, ONE movie, ONE comic, ONE creation is not campaigning against art: it's only expressing its opinion about the said creation.


thanks, you just restated what I have already.  And I meant "campaigning" loosely- jeez you guys hang on people's every word around here!  Again:  It sucks (imo) that a band gets such low marks when they are at least worthy of a 3 (an average score) or more.

Now, go and write a review for Alchemist and give'em 6 stars.

haha.  touche.  You should start a thread about how Alchemist is deserving of 6 stars- or that we should have a possibility of 6 star ratings!   Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 20:37
Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

MAVIII:

Clap

  There is no need to campaign against art because it does not fill you with excitement. 

You are accusing me for campaigning against Anata ?? Shocked That is, to put it as nice as possible, horse manure. Not to mention; a lie and slander. And frankly, you are discrediting Anata with your rant.  



I never accused YOU (it's a blanket statement towards people in general- who feel the need to squash what they hate and fear or merely dislike) of campaigning against anything.  Some do so just to show their ire though.  I'm not mad, merely bemused by people's dichotomous ratings on here... Just because I state things rather seriously does not mean I am flaming or hating.  But then, it's hard to tell without personal face-to-face interaction.....or emoticons... I guess I am using this as an example of the site at large; as someone already stated:  fanboys vs. haters.  Nothing has been directed at you as mudslinging.  And you should be able to separate one guy's take on a notion from the artwork he is talking about.  (i.e., my statements should in no way discredit a band....because if that were the case, I could safely assume that you are giving the picture in your avatar a discredit -for example-, or any further railings against something on your part is means for discrediting it.)  Would you (or anyone) start hating a certain classical (or any musical) artist you previously enjoyed, merely because you found out Hitler sponsored them?  Or what if someone else who offends you claimed to like something you enjoyed- would you start to knee-jerk hate it?  (Go back and read my statement re: critics...) I would hope that you can separate the art from the artist.  Lord knows that there are several musicians out there who are dickheads but their music is lovable (to some- once again an opinion). 

This was not intended as a flame war.  I thought I made it pretty clear what I was mulling over.  Pardon me for typing my thoughts!!!???  Confused  Seems like others are more concerned with flaming me and picking apart everything I have typed, analyzing it to the very last thread... ANALyzing... message boards, oh how they keep people divided... LOL We're all guilty of keyboard jockying...

funny; how no matter which side you start a thread on (in favor or opposed to something), there will always be derision and opposition- almost for its own sake!  As if people needed desperately to prove something!
Are we really that grumpy and quick to jump at each other?  shame.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 19:21
Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

MAVIII:

Clap

thank you!  you invested WAY more time and thought into this thread than I had/have and made some excellent points.  This is about more than just the band Anata themselves, it is about unbridled denigration of art merely because said art does not suit someone's taste.  There is no need to campaign against art because it does not fill you with excitement.  I feel that is what has happened here.  I clearly think that Anata was and were somewhat ahead of their time with the technical, thrashy, and progressive death metal aspects of their music.  In their latest album they even had clean, almost jazzy lines and solos and really very progressive, shifting riffs.  I may one day review their albums, but I don't really need to prove to anyone my love for the band, nor should I try to convert anyone else; but I don't think their music deserves anything less than a 3.  To some they may be average, but others exemplary.  There are several bands (even on this site) who are far less interesting than Anata.  In my opinion at least....



The last five words.
Everything is said. It's only a matter of opinion.

Even if Anata is a band of my time (I was 20 when their first album came out), I've never thought of listening to them (the worst was that my local library had this records among their collection). I guess Nile and Arch Enemy overshadowed them, not to mention my interest for the French metal scene.

I also feel a contradiction in your ranting: you're putting some nearly philosophical lines about art VS. excitement, saying: "there is no need to campaign against art" - which is the last thing one would do on this forum.
After that, you write "I don't need to prove my love for this band, nor should I try to convert anyone..." These lines make me speechless, for they are a contrast with your previous statements and the main goal of your thread: to prove that Anata should be given better marks and more stars.

One personal example: I gave 4 stars for Alchemist's Jar of Kingdom (I was the first one to review this record), but UMUR gave it only 2. Well, I haven't felt the need to open a thread to show my "angar" and to start a flamewar against anyone claiming not to enjoy their music.

Art - would it be music, painting, sculptures or dance - is a matter of personal views and choices. The appreciation of any creation is a subjective experience, through the brain and, therefore, the mind, the intellect, the education... of a living person with its own emotions - INCLUDING AN EXCITEMENT since one can feel joy and excitement from intellectual stimulation.
To have little interest in ONE band, ONE movie, ONE comic, ONE creation is not campaigning against art: it's only expressing its opinion about the said creation.

Now, go and write a review for Alchemist and give'em 6 stars.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 17:07
I shall give Anata a listen.
 
You should do what every Floyd/Crimson/Porcupine Tree fan does and give Anata 5 stars for everything!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 16:59
Originally posted by avalanchemaster avalanchemaster wrote:

MAVIII:

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  There is no need to campaign against art because it does not fill you with excitement. 

You are accusing me for campaigning against Anata ?? Shocked That is, to put it as nice as possible, horse manure. Not to mention; a lie and slander. And frankly, you are discrediting Anata with your rant.  



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 09:58
MAVIII:

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thank you!  you invested WAY more time and thought into this thread than I had/have and made some excellent points.  This is about more than just the band Anata themselves, it is about unbridled denigration of art merely because said art does not suit someone's taste.  There is no need to campaign against art because it does not fill you with excitement.  I feel that is what has happened here.  I clearly think that Anata was and were somewhat ahead of their time with the technical, thrashy, and progressive death metal aspects of their music.  In their latest album they even had clean, almost jazzy lines and solos and really very progressive, shifting riffs.  I may one day review their albums, but I don't really need to prove to anyone my love for the band, nor should I try to convert anyone else; but I don't think their music deserves anything less than a 3.  To some they may be average, but others exemplary.  There are several bands (even on this site) who are far less interesting than Anata.  In my opinion at least....


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2010 at 04:27
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Who the heck are they anyway = Heard thousands of bands but these guys escape me

Anata, Arsis, The Faceless, Psytropic anyone?

You know, I imagine, from past threads, that fans like me are a RARE breed, I've witnissed the Births of
Progressive Sub-genres, Prog and Metal musics since I was born in that magical year of 1963.
And I actually LOVE all of Progs sub-genres, and my Metal leanings are more extreme, that includes
Tech-Thrash, Tech-Death and Math Metal. As well as NWOBHM and that ilk (Internationaly).
I've seen (heard) folks up in arms why many of the "Mathematical" lot always fall short to impress most
folks, and proof was in the pudding of Reviewers "Why's" above, BUT . . . I appreciate his explaination.
BUT . . . at the same time it makes less sense to me Confused.

How do I 'splain . . .
Well, I'm going to try, this is the reason I don't do reviews, I'm not as articulate as some, and my grammer
is something to be of dissaster (would this be called "Gonzo" writing?) . . .

If you don't really like the "Genre" of the music, why review it?  Thats like me saying "I really appreciate
Prince for his knowledge of Music but his Music is awful" - That type of Rock/R&B is not my style, but I
know that his brand of R&B is more complex than say "The Pussycat Dolls" . . . but I still don't like that
type of music. Yet lets go back to pre 80's R&B and I'll show you lost treasures.
But if I am not into the era of contemporary R&B, it will be rare that I will like something in the genre.
maybe I'll make a point of it, that I have been "not impressed by this 'new' R&B, but Corinne Bailey Rae,
Alicia Keys, or Joss Stone on the otherhand...". But most critics I've read, I get the feeling they don't
care for this new "Extreme Prog Metal", its not their cup of tea, well I say "Dont drink it".
Or . . . learn to like it, aquire its taste.  I'm a sodaholic, but I'm sure theres a Beer or Wine that will
educate my tastebuds Wink.

Heres the paradox though . . .
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

I doubt prog fans would be intereted in a rather uninspired death metal band.


Well, I'm a Prog Fan and I like them, but I have many other Bands that I want to get around to before
these guys I guess.  But they are not just a "Death Metal Band", they have a Technical proficiancy that
can be unbelievably complex, and they were one of the 1st to come out of the gates teetering on the
"Core" side and the Death Metal side of things.
I'd have to say the Band that is the seed to germinate this brand of Technical Metal is Meshuggah.
The 'Shuggahners took bands like Cynic, Death and Watchtower and added a few Vulcan Canons to
the mix and made it extra brutal.  But the beauty of Meshuggah was they fooled everyone thinking that
all their timing is an odd measure here - another one there, but they themselves have said its all "4/4"
. . . but its what they DO within that 4/4, in other words, they always have a groove, a groove that you
can headbang to for awhile, then it switches up, and your head is bobbing faster or slower.
For you "proggers" who think thats silly, then think of it as tapping, or "drumming" on your lap Wink.

I have seen that term "unispired" used again and again.  Meshuggah for the EP "None" was nothing
more than a "Pantera Clone" to a critic I read years ago.  And imediately I thought that this person
clearly did not understand what he was listening to, or that he reviews soo many albums that
everything becomes a blur, and if I am to review an album, I need to clear my head, my pallet for
awhile, relax, sit back and start a review with a clear head . . . or his tastes suck and I'll listen to my
own taste Tongue.
I read under a Vid on the notorious YOUtube "comments", one guy thought Meshuggah was another
"Emo Screamo Band", this guy must be 15 years old.  Thankfully someone corrected him and said
"Dude! Meshuggah were making albums decades before anyone even concieved of making that
sh*t!" (I discovered them 15 years ago!).
Rush was deemed uninspired and  . . . oh no! WAIT FOR IT . . . "Pretentious" (and the strangest,
"Technical w**kering" each generation thinks another band is too tech, and it was never a problem
for me).  As Neil Peart would say on their latest Documentary, "We were never 'pretending' to be
anything!".  Think of the countless Prog bands endlessley paraded as pretentious, over the top,
techno babble by all those AOR listeners, and Top 40 hacks writting positive reviews for the flavours
of the week (weak).  From the late 60's on.
Those examples are as bad as that old saw "Its all just noise" . . . well YOU try to play it!  Chances
are most think that pounding your fists on the strings sounds the same . . . I call that bad hearing.
Now, lets say this comes from the dreaded "Progger", well, chances are that most (again, most)
Prog musicians can not play the heavier or extreme type of Tech Metal, on the other hand chances
are that the Metal musician can play Prog, maybe even Jazz.  I even heard Bassist Dan Lilker of
Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., Holy Moses and Brutal Truth say this.  Now this isnt every
Metalhead, I'm not saying the members of Motley Crue can, but todays underground Metallers have
chops that are influenced from more than just Metal.
I can think of Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastik Ink, Blotted Science), Fredrik Thordendal,
Cynic, Continuo Renacer, Gordian Knot, Mourning Sign, Rosicrusian, Athiest and Aghora to
name just a VERY few that can handle Jazz/Fusion and prove it in a few or more tracks.

But here we are, in a Prog Forum, and most (most, NOT all) Proggers have their "formula", what they
deem "Prog" and damn it all to hell if it doesnt form into their mold.  Which is like a Dandylion seed
landing on the penis of a Cow 100 yards away from the Highway you are driving on at 120 mph in a
Ferrari LOL.  Face it, we are Nerds and Geeks complaining about a certain band in a Genre that the
rest of the world could give 2 sh*ts about.
But we can look at it as Sci-Fi/Fantasy Art to Contemporary Modern or Classical Art, its just not taken
as serious (and go look at all the supposed "Bad Album Covers" put up, many I LIKE and appreciate
their artistry. And go look at "Bad Covers-Good Music", there is one guy trying to convince another
WHY he "shouldnt" like the Beatles Art Covers).  I like all types of Art . . . at a time I did not because I
thought Picasso was just a guy that painted like a child, until I discovered that he could draw and
paint "Realism", he had the Foundation of what you needed to be an Artist , a Journeman (Or
so-what, what if these contemporaries didnt?) and he began to see new ideas, he re-invented Art as
we know it.  We need Dali's, Pollock's and Giger's to shake things up (does it help that I'm an Artist
that makes a living at it, yeah probably).
EVERY PERSON IS INSPIRED WHEN CREATING A PIECE OF ART IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT <<<
Read and repeat, the Art can be bad or good, its your interpitation, its based on your "knowledge" of
the Art , how it was created and YOU will see a unique insight of why it works for you.  Lets keep this
in the context of Prog because we see and hear a lot of Top40 music that lacks any merit of "Art" and
is just more of the same to fit in a Top40 hole.  I endlessly have to hear how DT's "Six Degrees of
Inner Turbulence" is uninspired when I can take each song off that album and describe the lyrical
and musical intricasies that make each song inspired and an inspiration, and a few that move me to
tears.
But thats how I see it, it just rubs me the wrong way when some tell me I cant . . .

Gentle Giant and latter day King Crimson , with 8 String Guitars and Cookie Vocals!!!!
Now . . .
Back to our Math Lesson, here is my minor problem with many Math Bands of today.  These young
guys coming out of the woodwork have something to prove, its hard to think what will come next in
Metal (or even Prog, where does it go, sometimes backwards, all the bands having 60's/70's
influences), so basically they thought, and I give them credit for taking on such an endeavor, "Lets
become more complex".
But this may be an old man gripeing, this time, it does become almost a cacophony of sound,
everything has a rhythm but I myself like to have a "groove" once in a while to break things up, not
just stop and go THEN go to left field, THEN change here, blast beats HERE.  That tends to make
the songs sound too similar, it litteraly becomes too mathematical, it comes to a point that you do
have to be a musician to play it.  Though proggers gripe about bands like Spiral Architect,
Watchtower
, Twisted Into Form, Canvas Solaris, Death, Cynic etc. that they "have no rhythm"
. . . well watchout folks, here come the New Wave of Math Metal LOL!!!
But I like it, its just not something I can listen to back to back unless I break it up by making one
of my Compilation CD's with "other" bands in the mix, and in different tempos, voices and genres
of Tech-Thrash and Death Metal.

I just bought Gorod "Process of a New Decline", I've ony known tracks from YOUtube because their
stuff is difficult to purchase (especially if you dont buy on-line like me), I really liked what i've seen
and heard, but I was ready to have another "The Faceless" album of Mathematical madness.
Well . . . I got the mathematical madness, but God bless them, it had a GROOVE in each song!
Every Track was complex to the power of 50.000 and yet it was all groove driven . . . HOW THEY
DO THAT? We're talkin' Gutteral Cookie Vocals and Blast beats, but then clean guitars come in,
beautiful melodies, wonderful neo-classical finger taps and pull-offs, and . . . believe it or not,
around a Sci-Fi Concept that was far beyond anything I've seen/read in awhile.
THAT is whats missing from "the New Math", but saying that, there are MANY international Bands
doing just that (Gorod is from France), pushing the envelope but making things melodius enough
to appreciate the musicality, yet make it just as brutal as Malevolent Creation or At the Gates.

Lets face it, its not for everyone, the typical Genesis fan is not going to go "WOW! This Obzen
album from Meshuggah is Wonderful!" (But maybe a Allan Holdsworth fan may appreciate
"Destroy Erase Improve" or Fredrik Thordendals Special Defects), but me as a Genesis fan
would Wink
We are a rare breed that are into it all.  I supply Progulus.com with all the Meshuggah CD's, we
have possibly a whopping 10 people who are into them and other Math Metal (and the more
extreme stuff we cant have on the station) and you see the ratings for Meshuggah songs and
its dis-heartning Cry (hey, even for Cynic and Spiral Architect). They just tossed a Bulldozer into
the Orchestra Pit, its just too much for most.  We have to get used to that.

I think, if you are a Critic that doesnt like this genre of Prog, you are doing a dis-service in rating it,
but  no-one should base "their tastes" on any reviewer.  Look at them as information, something
may click in a "why" does that not work for them but it does for your own taste.  If I see a record of a
Critic reviewing Prog Metal ala' Dream Theater-type bands, I may put some credence in their
reviews, but  if the original Classic era of Prog is their thing and the new DT comes out and says
the typical "They havent been the same since their Images & Words album", I snicker -the paradox
of "progressive" comes to mind and who's interpitation of progressive.

Find your own interpitation, educate yourself on different art styles, purchase other genres, stack
them up and look at your collection and the variety and say to yourself, "Can I really criticize the
various genres within prog to make a responsible critique that represents my knowledge of what
I've experienced in my catalogue?".

"My opinion is just a Point of View, and your position, is the otherside".
-Fates Warning

For more Bands of the Heavier and Technical see these 2 Forums:
Spiral Architect Thread:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/spiral-architect/254094-i-need-bands-like-spiral-architect.html

Progulus.com "Math Lab":
http://www.progulus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=451

. . . I'm sure I don't know what I'm talking about, somewhere in all that drivel youre bound to find me
out Unhappy.



Edited by MAVIII - June 15 2010 at 22:44
"Shapes and forms, against the norms..."
And join the Prog Family: prOgulus.com
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 06:25
Who the heck are they anyway = Heard thousands of bands but these guys escape me
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 20:04
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I'm going to say I just have to hate them because I've never listened to anything and don't know who the hell they are.  I am of course all knowing and all listening and so they must be really really bad even though I've never heard them.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 20:03
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

I doubt prog fans would be intereted in a rather uninspired death metal band.
 
See, that is where your thinking goes wrong.  Neither you nor anyone else should have sway over anybody's opinion.  Calling a band "uninspired" is like saying you don't like chinese food, or italian, or frickin' monkey brains for dinner....AND that everyone else should feel the same as you, because your opinion is infallible.  It's an opinion, not a fact.  If you consider them "uninspired" I would like to see which bands you do think are inspired, because as far as I am concerned, I would say (and this is my opinion; no opinion is a fact, so please don't treat it that way) that 90-95% of metal bands are uninspired, due to the long history of metal (at least for almost two generations), it has nearly run its course, there is very little innovation left to be had, without resorting to genre blending.  I guess in the end reviews don't do sh*t for me, because I want to experience the music/movie/book/entertainment/distraction piece for myself.  It's like asking someone to believe in something that cannot and has not been proven.  But I guess that is faith for you....(sorry to get sidetracked).  I just never understood the point of reading a review and then getting all hyped up because somebody eloquently wrote passionately about their likes and dislikes; it's much like the zeitgeist snake-oil salesmen....  Nobody can do music justice by merely writing about something that can't always be intellectualized or spoken about in adequate terms which are universally understood for everyone.  In short, words fail where emotions are involved.  We're all having a love affair with our favorite reviewers because we like and have liked the way they express themselves... I can't say I agree with a lot of the reviews around here. I guess it can be helpful to field many reviews and then get an average, but when the average seems comparably skewed, because, quite frankly, many of the guys on this board are simply myopic about certain musics.... and rate bands unfavorably because of this hate...this does not bode well.   It seems simpler to just listen to the posted samples of a band, read the bio, research them a little bit yourself or find their myspace, and then make up your own mind, rather than trusting some fanboys/trashtalkers tug of war.  I never eat my opinion off of someone else's plate.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 18:57
I don't have them, I don't know this band at all, just using it as example for other similar deeds that are happening.
There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 18:52
Hey Marty
 
 
 
send me some Anata MP3s and I will do a review for you
 
 
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