Queensryche - Empire
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Topic: Queensryche - Empire
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Queensryche - Empire
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 08:36
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I really like this album for its tight songs, heavy riffs, strong melodies, and atmosphere. there is some magic on this album on songs like Silent Lucidity and Anybody Listening i would call this a crossover progressiv metal album, as it melts perfectly down the sound of heavy metal and progressive metal, and dare I say some tiny tiny bits of AOR metal into a fine mix of heavy hard hitting, but also gentel and symphonic metal. A great passage of heavy progressive metal with heavy neo prog and AOR falvours, good album -------------  
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 11:02
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Haven't listened to this in a while, but I think "Anybody Listening?" is my favorite. Promised Land is a better album, though. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 11:30
| great album, one of thie best for sure, I think Della Brown, Silent Lucidity or Anybody Listening< ="text/" ="" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 11:57
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would anyone call Empire to be more neo prog then progressive metal, it is bit similar to Marillion in someplaces, and the heavyness of Arena
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 12:21
| ^ more like standard mainstream melodic hard/heavy than prog, still a very good album in my books, title track is probably the most epic, followed by Anybody Listening |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 12:38
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Not very proggy at all but still the only album I ever really liked from them. Voted title track. You can hear some Wall-era Floyd and 80s Rush influences. (In the album, not the song I mean). ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Say'en
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 13:45
| Silent Lucidity would be the track you could point to as proggy; but for me Jet City woman still makes into my playlist on a regular basis. |
Posted By: Say'en
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 13:48
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"it is bit similar to Marillion in someplaces, and the heavyness of Arena"
You say that as if being a bit Marillion is a bad thing.
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 14:11
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Silent Lucidity. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 14:22
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Say'en wrote:Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 18:49
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Great album, though as infocat said above, I prefer Promised Land. With that being said, I was surprised that I cast the first vote for the opener. "Best I Can" is such a fantastic song and opens this album beautifully. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 18:57
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The title track, its the only one I can come back to repeatedly.
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