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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 18:24 |
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I just saw this band this past weekend at Rosfest and they were really great. This was my third time seeing them with my first two times being at Nearfest(which ended a few years ago). Anyway, I feel this is a band every prog fan should at least know about and if you like classic symphonic prog you should at least have their first album called "hybris" which is essential for any prog fan imo. Any other fans?
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 18:56 |
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They are indeed a very good band. I enjoy their music a lot.
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 18:57 |
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All their 3 albums are must have albums
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 19:15 |
Bien sûr, bien sûr. Own the first two, both excellent. Will buy the third one someday if I see it below the thousand bucks.  Playlist for tomorrow, been a while.
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 20:05 |
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Although their first album could be classified as symphonic prog the ones after it were a bit more avant gardish. Their music can be challenging at times but I really enjoyed their performance and the cds I bought(I bought all three studio albums at the festival). I even said hello to Tord briefly at the hotel the next morning and shook his hand.
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Posted: May 10 2017 at 21:02 |
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I really love Hybris, and that's enough to make them prog legends. I haven't got the other 2... I wish they had kept their swedish vocals, and that's one of the reasons I have not gotten them yet. Besides, I heard some of the second album on Youtube and felt it was not so much to my taste as the first one (less melodic), but perhaps I should need to give it more listens. What I heard from the last one seemed really good to me, though.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 01:35 |
I'm an Epilog man myself, I feel they more fully transcended their influences on that one.
Overall I have an ambivalent relationship with them - for a long time I felt their music added up to less than the sum of its parts, then eventually it seemed to gel for me, and I came to feel that their compositions are actually rather brilliant. But even now that I have grokked them, it's an on/off thing. Sometimes they hit the spot like nothing else, other times I put them on and have to stop almost immediately - it can feel like the aural equivalent of being force-fed a kilo of marzipan.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 03:27 |
Those who get to witness this band in a live situation are very lucky. I don't think they'll be touring 'Down Under' anytime soon  One of my all-time favourite bands.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 06:03 |
I adore Hybris; in fact I realised I was overplaying it to the point of rubbing off some of its sheen, so now I only allow myself to listen on equinoxes and solstices, and man it sounds amazing! (I also attach some kind of dark primeval Scandinavian sylvan mystery to Anglagard, so bringing astronomy into the mix seems legit.) Live they're incredible too, a real crazy explosion of everything.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 13:38 |
I have all 3 of their albums but they are another one of those bands that seem to be missing something for me......maybe I'm just getting too old.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 14:08 |
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Yep. Indeed one of the best current bands.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 14:29 |
 Mascodagama wrote:
Sometimes they hit the spot like nothing else, other times I put them on and have to stop almost immediately - it can feel like the aural equivalent of being force-fed a kilo of marzipan.
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I know exactly what you mean! I love Hybris but occasionally its just a bit too much of a good thing and .. the influences are all very much 'worn on their sleeves'.. with genuine respect and love no doubt. The 'Live in Japan' lp is quite astounding if it is a genuine (which i believe it is) representation of them in the live arena. They pulled out of the one festival which i was due to see them at which was very disappointing.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 14:38 |
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I can understand having to be in a certain mood to listen to them. It's the same thing with Magma but less so with Anglagard.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 20:30 |
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I love Anglagard. They are unfortunately not a great band for solos or improvised material, but the complexity and tightness of their arrangements provides me a lot to be fascinated with.
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Posted: May 11 2017 at 23:13 |
Barbu wrote:
Bien sûr, bien sûr. Own the first two, both excellent. Will buy the third one someday if I see it below the thousand bucks.
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....thought Bobby was you thing !! Nah, just taking the piss. Viljans is not that expensive, surely ??
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Posted: June 01 2017 at 22:41 |
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Hey I saw them at ROS Fest too! Yeah they were amazing!
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Posted: June 02 2017 at 21:09 |
An excellent band. Hybris more or less cemented them as among the greats, and I've often heard them referred to as a classic-era prog band that were accidentally born twenty years too late. It's just inspired enough by the Big Five to evoke that era, but just distinct enough to not sound derivative.
IMHO they only got better after that. I was especially pleasantly surprised by Viljans Oga. A third album a good decade or so after the second one is not a recipe for success, and gives the impression of something that's just being churned out because they want some money. On the contrary, I think it's their best album yet, and their most fiercely inventive one. Where Epilog distanced them from the clear 70s influences, Viljans Oga seems to have seen them shed it entirely and they're operating with a voice that is distinctly and uniquely theirs and theirs alone.
That being said, the marriage of strong Genesis and KC influence with more contemporary approaches was one of the things that made Hybris so fun to listen to, and it's not about to leave my prog rotation any time soon.
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Posted: June 02 2017 at 21:20 |
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Viljans was nearly 2 decades after Epilog !! And killer it is.
Every album of theirs is a masterpiece for me (like Wobbler). Fantastic music to get really lost in.
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Posted: June 03 2017 at 00:23 |
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One thing about Änglagård you also have to keep in mind is what they meant to prog fans in 1992 after what seems to many to be a 10-15 year "prog drought". I personally was only a few years in to prog at the time, but for a "modern" band at that time to have their sound, it just blew people away.
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Posted: June 03 2017 at 11:55 |
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I you like Änglagård than be sure to listen to German 70s band SFF (Schicke, Führs & Fröhling)
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