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Nice review Kosmo (you're annoyingly precise and knowledgeable gh). I toss the coin: heads I trust, tails I don't. Stomp...tin tin tiiin...

P.S. I didn't include Meshuggah and Tool in the mix, okay?! I wouldn't want to be misunderstood :) Ziauu

Oh, the usual arguments. Have you ever thought about the ambiguity of the nu-metal genre? It seems like a melting pot where everything gets thrown in. It would be nice to define it, give it the right weight, and a structure of its own. Billions of meteors like Limp Bizkit, Evanescence, Staind are, for me, just the degeneration of an impulse born from the "melodic" post-grunge discomfort and the "hip-hop" anger. A trajectory drawn by albums like Adrenaline by Deftones or All is not Well by Manhole, already in decline by the end of the last century (with the aforementioned bands). But in 1994, the self-titled album by Korn began to simultaneously write the TRUE nu-metal manifesto. Without creating indefinable hybrid objects or simply extremizing what already existed, Korn set the line along which all others have moved. And now in 2004, perhaps we are tired of hearing the extremization of it all. Mudvayne is pure "evolution?" of nu-metal. But they will soon be forgotten. So much better to hope for and focus on proposals from Tool or Meshuggah: at least they strive to give us something "new." But almost everything is relative, and tastes are just that (thus subjective), right? Peace and looove :))

Lester Bangs.. that’s what his name was :) It seems my memory let me down.. even though I remember very well the documentary from which I got the info. It talked about Bangs describing Zeppelin's music as a huge piece of metal falling on our heads.. or something like that. Anyway, I'm still doubtful just because the Blue Oyster are, if I remember correctly, a band from the 70s (and not from the late 60s, like Cream or Zeppelin). Moreover (besides considering them PERSONALLY) mediocre, they give me less of a sense of "heavy metal" compared to Cream or Zeppelin. But history is history... maybe I was wrong (or the doc!). Anyway, the concept of genre association remains. Heavy metal was born in the late 60s and died around the end of the 70s... :)) Byeee

I don't know the album.. the review is good. I just wanted to point out, in a truly know-it-all tone, that if the album sounds very Zeppelin-like, then "heavy metal" is the most appropriate genre to associate with it. In fact, the term was first used by an American journalist in 1970 to describe the music of the Zeppelins... :) let's put everything in its place. The genre game is way too messy :°D Ciauu

/me Aghora - Satya

To me (no) shelter only reminds me of RATM's Godzilla. What a song...

Both (but with a very ironic sense) gh

I have Sirio 2222 (from 1970) which is an Italian Sabbath Zeppelin (really beautiful!).. and then YS (from 1972) which represents the shift towards prog (if you like the genre, it will be a nice discovery). I recommend both of them :D Byeee

what an ass.