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Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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@Larrok: if you look closely, Rage have all the credentials to stand alongside the groups you mention. Helloween released 3 albums that are historical in the genre between '85 and '88 (Walls and the two Keepers), and then they went through a shameful series of flops, only to bounce back in the second half of the '90s. Blind Guardian started to have something to say with their 2nd/3rd album (so '89-90), they rocked until the fifth, and then – as far as I'm concerned, mind you – they lost their way. I've already talked about Gamma Ray (before Land Of The Free they released some good albums, but nothing that would make you tear your nose hairs out). Stratovarius, in my opinion, could have made just Episode and maybe Visions (which is just a prettier version of Episode) and called it quits, since they never really had much to say and, above all, they achieved success when the path had already been well paved by others. Rage, from Perfect Man to End Of All of Days, have produced 7-8 albums of great power: they were among the first proponents of the genre and, in fact, hold the record for "Good albums without degradation." That's why I say: I completely agree with you that to understand the genre, only a few, very select albums are needed. But among these, in my opinion, a Rage album can certainly be added to the list! :))
Maurice Sendak Where The Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak Where The Wild Things Are
29 may 09
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I never said I was good-looking!! It's my fans who spread these rumors!!
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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@Defender: I gave it a 5 because, in my opinion, this album still stands today (16 years after its release) with very few rivals in the group's discography. However, if we want to consider it in absolute terms, it certainly should be downgraded. Plus, I wanted it to be a bit of a provocation towards the detractors of the genre! :)) Regarding the issue of educated lyrics and arrangements, I ask you: which classic metal band can boast them?! The Judas who made it square with the defenders, the hellion, and the harleys?! Or the Iron who - according to the vast majority of the visitors to this site - ended after the second album?! I'm not talking about metal in general; I’m talking about classic metal. In the end, looking closely, to find truly sophisticated lyrics and arrangements, you have to go to the borders of the genre. Therefore, in my opinion, if you want to criticize lyrics and arrangements, it should be done across the entire classic metal spectrum and not just on power. Regarding Gamma Ray, I’ll tell you: for all the albums that followed Land Of The Free, they were nothing more than an attempt to repeat the success of that record. Not surprisingly, they came out with an improbable sequel last year, proving that Land Of The Free represents the turning point in their production. After all, before that, it doesn’t seem to me that they had done any masterpieces, or am I wrong?! :))
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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@Dream: in fact, I never said that Imaginations is a joke. On the contrary, I believe it is the best album by Blind Guardian and perhaps the entire power scene of the '90s. However, I think that Imaginations was the crowbar that blew the lid off the sewers. In some ways, Imaginations reached the pinnacle of the genre: melody + epic + big guitars without seeming ridiculous. Everything that came after was a rapid descent into pigeon droppings. As far as I'm concerned, even Nightfall in Middle Earth is already "too much": the solos that can truly be defined as such start to become scarce, there are excessive compositional structures, unnecessary baroque elements, and superfluous overdubs begin to emerge. And should we talk about the lyrics?! Everyone praises Kurcsh as a writer, but has anyone really ever understood anything from his lyrics? Take And Then There Was Silence... it's supposed to be about the Iliad, right?! Well, at least half of the lyrics are disconnected phrases with no relevance to the work!! :DD
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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In my opinion, Turilli has also jumped on the Blind Guardian bandwagon. The turning point, I repeat, in my view happened with Imaginations (which, again in my opinion, remains a great album, if for no other reason than that it managed to evolve a genre that, by its very nature, has very limited room for maneuver). Essentially, around '96-97, the success of a band was directly proportional to the number of choirs and counter-choirs you could find on an album: Turilli understood this more and perhaps earlier than many others, systematically cranking out the project of "THE ITALIAN POWER METAL BAND". People went kind of crazy: I don't know if you remember that even the guitarist of Gazosa, during their performance at Sanremo, was wearing a Rhapsody t-shirt!! And all this without even having played a concert or done any hard work. The newspapers were just waiting to find their own "national" phenomenon to hype and sell more copies. Rhapsody were simply the mass phenomenon in the right place at the right time. But the true and material architect of the mess, in my opinion, remains Kursh. :))
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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So, you don't like '80s heavy metal, since that record and, in general, the '80s German power production did nothing but take NWOBHM bands like Satan or Blitzkrieg and speed them up/power them up. If someone tells me: I like '80s heavy metal, but I don’t like, let's say, Walls Of Jericho, well... I think there’s a contradiction in terms. The truth is that the genre has definitely gone downhill, and at the beginning, there were loads of raw and naked metalheads (those who wore leather even in August, the denim jackets, the pins, and the patches) who listened to Running Wild, Rage, and the first Blind Guardian enthusiastically. Then, when the genre started to become a circus, there was a rush to jump off the losing dragon. Take, for example, the first Blind Guardian: I know thrashers who have openly admitted to liking it and have bought it on vinyl for crazy prices from German importers. Today, though, you can’t even mention Kursh without someone calling you a poser regardless... it happens when you fill your records with nonsense!! :DD
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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Another thing. I believe that the true executioner of the genre has a name and a surname: Hunsi Kursh. I'm convinced that if it weren't for that idiot from Blind Guardian bothering half the world with his obsessions for Tolkien, the seven hundred overdubs of orchestras, choirs, and all that nonsense, we wouldn't have arrived where we are today. I remember perfectly that in the early '90s, finding a record by the early Blind Guardian in an Italian store was quite a feat. Today you can find them at Media World in a display shaped like a dragon's poop. A friend of mine went to the concert they had in Milan (at the Rainbow, if I remember correctly) for Imaginations: well, he told me there were a maximum of about fifty people there. In short: no bespectacled high schoolers with acne and t-shirts, no role-playing game Nerds reciting Kursch's lyrics from memory (which, let's be honest, are crap), no embarrassing ideos with swords and armor. And the albums (I repeat, for those who love metal in general, not just for those who listen to power), were nice melodic metal albums. That said: I agree with those who say that the heat definitely plays some nasty tricks... :DDD
Rage Trapped!
Rage Trapped!
29 may 09
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Good morning everyone, my dear ones, and thank you so much for stopping by! So, the premise is that I knew I would definitely be making a fool of myself with this review!:DD!! The thing is, I hadn't written anything in a while, and not having much time lately, I finally decided to dig up something I wrote a long, long time ago... That's all there is to it!:)) @Brat: to tell the truth, the exact opposite of what you say happened: I went from metal (better, from thrasher metal) to stoner and psychedelia. Basically, for about 15 years, I listened almost exclusively to that. In fact, I haven't listened to a single note of metal in several years, but it's still the genre I know best and the one that's easiest for me to write about. To be honest, power metal was never among my favorite genres, but I think you can definitely find some good stuff, especially among the productions from the late '80s to the early '90s. For example, if you don't like an album like Death Or Glory by Running Wild, well, that means you don't like the '80s metal, and then the problem lies with the metal genre in general, not the power.
Demis Roussos Demis
Demis Roussos Demis
29 may 09
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@Enea: my vote was for the hot girl... ( Y )( Y )( Y )( Y )( Y )
Maurice Sendak Where The Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak Where The Wild Things Are
29 may 09
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it's really true!!! I am featherless!! :DD
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