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NEW MUSICS and Other Things Pertaining to that.
Let's start with Avenged Sevenfold. A while back I saw the video for Seize the Day on mtv at someones house and have been wanting to check them out since. Well the whole Taste of Chaos thing reminded me, so I picked up City of Evil because I knew it had Seize the Day and the other couple I had heard of.
Verdict: City of Evil rocks. It's great. It's catchy and the guitars stay busy and all of that. Matt Shadows has a pretty unique voice and their image just goes along with it completely I think. They don't vary much from the main genre on the cd, but they manage not to make it too repetitive.
So, once I realized that the self-titled album was actually their new one I picked it up too. (City of Evil is from 2005). Unfortunately that was probably the poorest purchase I've made all year.
Verdict: Avenged Sevenfold (the album) uh...isn't very good. First off, the only thing I could think the first time I listened to it was "who does he sound like??" Once I figured out that he had mastered the art of sounding exactly like the guy from Disturbed, all I was able to think about after that was "why the hell does he sing like that guy now?? it was better before..." On top of that, someone replaced Zacky and Synyster with evil robots programmed with Mainstream Rock 101 on half the songs. Seriously, I think they play less than half the amount of notes they played on City of Evil, and the notes they do play are freaking power chords. How many times can you guys possibly play the open D chord in one...two...four songs? Dir en grey does this too now. IT'S ANNOYING. Er..well, Dozing Green was good. Anyway. Now I'm just pissed because this is what they are going to be playing at the show. And it won't be their best. Fuckers. Did I mention they have a country song?
Speaking of TOC, Bullet for my Valentine has a new album 1.29.08, so hopefully we won't have some running theme going.
Now. I have to admit. I had never listened to Coheed and Cambria until last week when I was on one of my cd shopping sprees. So I picked up the new one that has a ridiculously long title that I can't be bothered to look up. It's something like Good Apollo (something something) IV: No World for Tomorrow.
Verdict: It's not always the case that an album is good just because I felt like buying it. But this time I think it worked out well. I don't have much music like this and it's kind of refreshing to get a good change up while still having good musicianship and definitely unique melodies and stuff. So yeah. I should try their other stuffs.
Best For Last.
A band I had never ever heard of. Out of....North Carolina? Who knew.
Colors by Between the Buried and Me
One dreary day at Wal-Mart's cd section a neat album cover caught my attention. It was one of those cardboard sleeves too. It was a sort of a rainbow going into an outlined city street. I decided not to pick it up at the time, but after that I got curious. I couldn't remember the band though. So it wasn't for maybe three months until I saw it on my trip to Best Buy and got it.
Verdict: Hells yes. I don't know if anyone else likes progressive metal and screaming and stuff. but I really don't care. This whole album is flawless start to finish. It's not even 8 songs. It's one huge 64 minute tropical storm in 8 sections. You will hear everything from death metal to jazz to a bar scene straight back into the heaviest most epic arrangement of the canon in D....ever. This is the most fucking awesome metal piece this side of Train of Thought by Dream Theater. And That is saying alot. It was the number one album of 2007 on Ultimate Guitar, and ranked in the top ten in some other lists I've seen. Mike Portnoy himself of Dream Theater listed this as his top album of 2007 and has invited them on a tour sometime this year along with Opeth and 3.
So. There you go.
I know I killed your friends page.
And I'm not sorry.
Buy Colors.
~heath
Let's start with Avenged Sevenfold. A while back I saw the video for Seize the Day on mtv at someones house and have been wanting to check them out since. Well the whole Taste of Chaos thing reminded me, so I picked up City of Evil because I knew it had Seize the Day and the other couple I had heard of.
Verdict: City of Evil rocks. It's great. It's catchy and the guitars stay busy and all of that. Matt Shadows has a pretty unique voice and their image just goes along with it completely I think. They don't vary much from the main genre on the cd, but they manage not to make it too repetitive.
So, once I realized that the self-titled album was actually their new one I picked it up too. (City of Evil is from 2005). Unfortunately that was probably the poorest purchase I've made all year.
Verdict: Avenged Sevenfold (the album) uh...isn't very good. First off, the only thing I could think the first time I listened to it was "who does he sound like??" Once I figured out that he had mastered the art of sounding exactly like the guy from Disturbed, all I was able to think about after that was "why the hell does he sing like that guy now?? it was better before..." On top of that, someone replaced Zacky and Synyster with evil robots programmed with Mainstream Rock 101 on half the songs. Seriously, I think they play less than half the amount of notes they played on City of Evil, and the notes they do play are freaking power chords. How many times can you guys possibly play the open D chord in one...two...four songs? Dir en grey does this too now. IT'S ANNOYING. Er..well, Dozing Green was good. Anyway. Now I'm just pissed because this is what they are going to be playing at the show. And it won't be their best. Fuckers. Did I mention they have a country song?
Speaking of TOC, Bullet for my Valentine has a new album 1.29.08, so hopefully we won't have some running theme going.
Now. I have to admit. I had never listened to Coheed and Cambria until last week when I was on one of my cd shopping sprees. So I picked up the new one that has a ridiculously long title that I can't be bothered to look up. It's something like Good Apollo (something something) IV: No World for Tomorrow.
Verdict: It's not always the case that an album is good just because I felt like buying it. But this time I think it worked out well. I don't have much music like this and it's kind of refreshing to get a good change up while still having good musicianship and definitely unique melodies and stuff. So yeah. I should try their other stuffs.
Best For Last.
A band I had never ever heard of. Out of....North Carolina? Who knew.
Colors by Between the Buried and Me
One dreary day at Wal-Mart's cd section a neat album cover caught my attention. It was one of those cardboard sleeves too. It was a sort of a rainbow going into an outlined city street. I decided not to pick it up at the time, but after that I got curious. I couldn't remember the band though. So it wasn't for maybe three months until I saw it on my trip to Best Buy and got it.
Verdict: Hells yes. I don't know if anyone else likes progressive metal and screaming and stuff. but I really don't care. This whole album is flawless start to finish. It's not even 8 songs. It's one huge 64 minute tropical storm in 8 sections. You will hear everything from death metal to jazz to a bar scene straight back into the heaviest most epic arrangement of the canon in D....ever. This is the most fucking awesome metal piece this side of Train of Thought by Dream Theater. And That is saying alot. It was the number one album of 2007 on Ultimate Guitar, and ranked in the top ten in some other lists I've seen. Mike Portnoy himself of Dream Theater listed this as his top album of 2007 and has invited them on a tour sometime this year along with Opeth and 3.
So. There you go.
I know I killed your friends page.
And I'm not sorry.
Buy Colors.
~heath