Lethe

I'm with you :) it's just that, indeed, there are also people who send a lot of reviews all at once... too many! and the right column goes down...

It would have a longer stay even in the right column, if someone didn't send 20 reviews at once!!! Anyway, Zappa, the [...] fundamental!

How nice it would be to limit the reviewers... I don’t know, a max of 1 review per week! There would be much more tranquility and much more order, and the reviews themselves would definitely be much more thoughtful...

Yes, but for heaven's sake! Besides being the 100th of Octavarium, you send 3 reviews at a time?!?! I mean, at this point, what's the point of writing, if after a couple of hours some random guy churns out 800 reviews at once?! (Some of which are useless, to boot!!!)

The nice thing is that the other group members now admire Nödtveidt a lot more, and they're going around saying that he did the best thing he could... mbà -.-'

I think that without whispers, songs would be much less enchanting :)

How can I blame you?! Especially regarding the criticism of the power-epic...

Indeed, I had read that interview too but I didn’t remember it well... that’s why I had my doubts! :D Anyway, good storytelling has a message, absolutely. Of course, we also need to distinguish the various currents within the genre, because, I repeat, there are people who just want to put on a show, purely to make a good amount of money... but that's another story :)

Hmm, but I still have some doubts about Araya, I admit!

"Philosophy: conception, orientation at the basis of an activity." With this dictionary quote, I don't want to offend you, far from it; I wouldn’t dare. I just want to point out that philosophy also means a system of thought and... well, Lemmy and -yes- even Araya highlight this in their lyrics and, therefore, aim to express a message (whether shareable or not, serious or not). Instead, I don't think those Rhapsody guys express any thought among dragons and noble knights; there's no message, not even a trivial one; they are not to be taken seriously at all. If a musician doesn't want to express anything through music or lyrics, then we have reached the end; music has become a moment of entertainment and spectacle, when it should continue to be considered an art!!!! I really can't conceive this; self-celebration or making music because "we-have-nothing-to-do" drives me crazy.