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Beautiful!!! Among the most interesting bands of (wrongly labeled) Hair Metal, perhaps the deepest (also on a lyrical level) of them all. Bratta played the guitar divinely, or rather: he made it sing.

Exquisitely out of the blue... but is there already a review for "Journey"? I'm going to check.

But did Slash really not listen to the opening phrasing of "Xanadu" before torturing our ears with the one from "Sweet Child..."?

Great proposal, although with this album I believe they lose a bit of their personality by getting too close to the sound of the bands you mentioned in the review. Personally, I am very fond of "Hölderlins Traum," thanks also to the delicate female voice and arrangements that I find more free and instinctive.

^ The lists you've mentioned are no longer something I read; in fact, I'm surprised they even included Howe among the 100 best guitarists. As a prog enthusiast, I understand that it might seem outdated, or that it represented a dead end in the history of rock; however, I believe the time has come to listen to it again with much more serenity - and honesty - than we did back in 1978!

Demis in "It's Five o'clock" delivers a thrilling performance. What a voice!!! I'm glad to hear about these groups.

This is the first album by Popol Vuh that came into my hands. I expected something completely different (it was '93 and the classic encyclopedia associated them with Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream: during the first listen, I spent half an hour in vain anticipation of a synth!), but then it blew me away. However, after listening to other works by the group, I reassessed this one, perhaps mostly because of Fricke's voice.

With classical music, given my limited knowledge, I just express my emotions. Stravinsky's "Pulcinella" fills my soul. It doesn't seem so sacrilegious to me.

^ For heaven's sake, "At the Mountain..." is a decidedly heavy attempt at a utopian novel. However, you see, during his lifetime Lovecraft never edited a professional edition of his stories. He wrote at a rapid pace to earn a few dollars, publishing everything in more or less famous pulp magazines. A good editor would have selected his best works: personally, I struggle to find boring - or at worst mediocre - works like "The Rats in the Walls," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dreams in the Witch House," or that fantastic kaleidoscope that is "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," just to name a few examples. Lovecraft is like an old attic: one must know how to select and dust off, keeping in mind that he was still a genre writer who certainly did not aim to change the course of world literature (I’m sorry, though, to take up space reserved for this Morbid Angel album... when will there be a page for literary de-reviews?).

@Fallen: I graduated in foreign languages and literatures with a thesis on Lovecraft... No, make your peace: there is no mind, no matter how great, that can put an end to a literary debate. Good luck with your studies.