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Sweden has recently been experiencing a great revival of glam/hair/hard rock from the '80s. Thanks to a couple of these bands (like Hardcore Superstar, Crazy Lixx, and these Vains...), I discovered many "nice" little groups from that era (I was stuck on just Europe) and I realized that there was more to Sweden than just death metal :D

Very good review... what to say about her? I don't question her voice and her abilities, but she has never really been to my liking: for instance, I find Nightwish boring (I almost prefer them with Anette) and in "symphonic" metal with operatic vocals, I prefer Therion.

I can see a collaboration between Andrea Saidu and Jovanotti titled "A brown lizard goes for a run among sixty rocks of Sassari." No offense, eh!? :D

I don't know, I've always liked it... I completely agree with the last sentence of the review. By the way, I wasn't aware of the production of another series, good to know: if it gets aired again on Italia1, at least it will give some sense to the existence of this channel, which is becoming more and more a sewer of the worst things ever conceived by the human-cathodic mind...

"minimal trash metal," yes, maybe it's time to use that exact term to define the post-Cavalera Sepultura. I’m sorry, but I didn’t like the review; it has too many mistakes. I don’t think I’ll ever listen to the album, but I’ll find refuge once more somewhere between "Beneath the Remains" and "Chaos A.D."

I liked the previous two episodes. I still have to catch up on this one and its "twin," I'll try to do that and comment again :) I'm also very curious about "The Mighty Masturbator" (what a title...). Also, I didn't know about the concept behind the album; well, it’s Townsend :D

I don't know them and I really don't care to fill that gap... but the review is fantastic (I laughed for 5 minutes at the 'third day' :D)

Anders (I imagine these last albums have been quite a blow for you :D), from Clayman to Soundtrack, have markedly declined, to the point that I now only remember and listen to the same 4-5 songs from those albums (which are also the ones I could name: "Pinball Map," "Trigger," "Cloud Connected," "Touch of Red"...). The others? Total blank, listened to a few times and then immediately forgotten. I honestly struggle to remember other good songs from those works; I had already made this point about another band: probably if they had chosen the best songs and created a single album, it would have turned out to be a very good work, certainly different from The Jester Race or Whoracle, but still good. I’m certainly not expecting them to infinitely repeat one of those two masterpieces (it wouldn’t be humanly possible, I think), but at least I hope that their "evolution" carries along a minimum level of quality, which for me was still present in flashes in Come Clarity, but that has really faded away from the next one onwards (like the voice of your namesake xD). And now, talking about death metal, even if melodic, is just not possible... but what is it now? Metalcore? Alternative-something? Who knows…

Since 2000, this group hasn't hit the mark completely (in my humble opinion): Clayman is good but with a few too many fillers, Reroute is good for half, Soundtrack is horrible except for 4 tracks, with Come Clarity they had somewhat recovered, to the point that it’s the only album from the "new course" that I still listen to with pleasure... then the previous one left me with an endless sadness, which unfortunately continued with the listening of this new "masterpiece". Bah...

uhm, I didn't know about the cover made by Uriah Heep...