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Topic: The Flower Kings Desolation Rose due for OCT. 2013
Posted By: javajeff
Subject: The Flower Kings Desolation Rose due for OCT. 2013
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 06:33
The Flower Kings announce on their facebook page: "the fantastic new album ‘Desolation Rose’ due out on 28th October 2013."

http://www.facebook.com/TheFlowerKings" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/TheFlowerKings

I did not see this coming, but I love the band, so this is exciting news.



The track-listing for Desolation Rose is as follows:

1 Tower ONE 13:39
2 Sleeping Bones 04:16
3 Desolation Road 04:00
4 White Tuxedos 06:30
5 The Resurrected Judas 08:24
6 Silent Masses 06:17
7 Last Carnivore 04:22
8 Dark Fascist Skies 06:05
9 Blood Of Eden 03:12
10 Silent Graveyards 02:52



Replies:
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 08:03
Cool

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Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 08:52
Unusual track lenght from them! They got my attention ! pretty cool artwork too. I liked Banks of Eden so I'm looking forward to it


Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 09:33
I'm excited.

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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 11:02
Good News!! Great cover

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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 11:32
Great cover, perfect track lengths, and hopefully a continuing of BoE in style. Lets make this a streak, 2 albums from these guys that I would like? Blasphemy.

Hopefully they keep Stolt on guitar and have the lead singer... Sing.

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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.


Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 12:11
Saw this on Facebook this morning - this is a very pleasant surprise.

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Posted By: javajeff
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 13:40
I like all their albums.  I do not think they can do any wrong.  This is a great band!


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 14:25
Good to see no potentially long boring tracks. I didn't like Numbers at all but the rest of Banks Of Eden impressed me.


Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 14:38
Thumbs Up

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Posted By: the lighthouse keepe
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 17:30
Yippee!Clap


Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 20:03
Cool.

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Posted By: dennismoore
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 20:46
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Great cover, perfect track lengths, and hopefully a continuing of BoE in style. Lets make this a streak, 2 albums from these guys that I would like? Blasphemy.

Hopefully they keep Stolt on guitar and have the lead singer... Sing.


Oh this is completely intolerable...   For the first time ever:

I completely agree with my good friend, Horizons. Confused  

Next thing you know it, we will have peace in the Middle east....LOL


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Posted By: dennismoore
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 20:48
Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Thumbs Up


Hey Laz:

Have you been taking lessons from yer pal, Snowdog on how to type as little as possible in a reply?   ;)


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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 21:01
LOL

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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 11 2013 at 21:39
I'm ready

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Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 04:25
the track names are very unlike the Flower Kings that I know of. They are pretty dark. Sleeping bones? Desolation? Resurrected Judas, Dark Fascist sky? Blood of Eden (a nice nod to the previous album here), and silent graveyard? I mean what happened to all those cosmic stuffs from Stolt and gang?


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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 07:34
^ Didn't you know they've traded places with Opeth?

This is to be their Ghost Reveries album Cool.


Posted By: freyacat
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 10:13
To me, the Flower Kings have always been at their best when their music is full of optimism, light, and spirituality.

"Dark" is such an easy cliché these days. Dark is neither new nor surprising. Hopelessness is easy to come by.

I guess I would rather listen to Roine Stolt complain for an hour than anyone else, but now, I do not have high hopes for this album.

What usually goes along with The Flower King's "darker" pieces is a sound that is more metal/hard prog than symphonic, which is also usually a disappointment.

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 14:57
The Flower Kings needed to develop a harder edge imo. Glass Hammer have the cosmic side of symph prog well covered already. TFK music is often too unstructured for my liking. Coming up to date shows what a great guitarist Roine Stolt is now he is not so lost in a sea of tranquillitySmile


Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 21:41
Originally posted by Roj Roj wrote:

^ Didn't you know they've traded places with Opeth?

This is to be their Ghost Reveries album Cool.


Thumbs Up


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And who are we to justify the right in all we do
Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0


Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: September 12 2013 at 23:19
I don't know... BoE had some darker overtones, but it still had lots of inspirational moments; moments that made feel glad to be alive.

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 13 2013 at 01:54
Going UpHug


Posted By: infandous
Date Posted: September 13 2013 at 09:38
Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

I don't know... BoE had some darker overtones, but it still had lots of inspirational moments; moments that made feel glad to be alive.



Well, lyrically anyway, it was totally dark and dismal......with the exception of Jonas Reingold's tunes, which were like Roine's used to be, lyrically.

Personally, I find I don't really like the "darker" direction Roine has taken his lyric writing, as he created the Flower Kings specifically to counter the prevalence of such music and lyrics.

Don't get me wrong, I love darker music (I'm a big Steve Wilson fan, for example).  It's just that the Flower Kings were always the band I turned to for positive, upbeat (yet still very proggy) music and lyrics.  They have always had some dark material for contrast, which is good, but I just felt the overwhelming negativity of the lyrics on Banks of Eden was just too out of character for them (the music was pretty typical, though I found that less enjoyable for various reasons as well).

Still, I'll make my judgments of the album when I hear it, and I am certainly looking forward to hear what they've done this time.



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