Senmayan

finally a reviewer with balls!

The two comments above are very profound and show great intelligence, congratulations, especially to wickerman, a man, a why! Good review, but you could have put in more effort, but you're improving!

great review. As someone who doesn't know the band (but knows the Creed), I was able to get an overall idea of the album in question! I liked the voice of the Creed's singer, but it was indeed too stereotypical, a typical post-grunge grunge voice, you know, like eddie vedder!

I might be interested, since I quite like the lyrics of "weathered." The review is pretty poor. At least you could have respected the punctuation; with all those commas and never a period, it’s hard to tell where a sentence begins and ends!

I really enjoyed the movie, and I haven't read such negative reviews either, quite the opposite. However, I absolutely don't remember the soundtrack!

The lead singer of Judas Priest is openly gay, metalmaniac, but does it change anything for you? What matters is the music!

Hi Fidia, if by epic you meant groups like Rhapsody or Blind Guardian, then you are right, in the sense that it's hard for Black Sabbath to use keyboards and often tacky choirs like Rhapsody does. If Enrico meant that, I think he was mistaken. Anyway, I used to think this way too, but I did some research and the genre enthusiasts consider epic to be a completely opposite genre. In fact, I have some albums and I can tell you that these groups are very minimal (meaning there’s no baroque style and pompous keyboards in their arrangements, often there aren’t even keyboards), they have a lot of the hard rock from the 70s and are also influenced by 80s doom or dark hard rock like Pentagram. I recommend you to listen to, for example, Cirith Ungol for a taste of epic metal (I have King of the Dead, not a masterpiece but a particular and interesting album), also the early Manowar, but the very early ones, not the heavy and power ones from the second half of the 80s. Then many cite Manilla Road as the best in the genre, for their lyrics and music. Furthermore, in every metal site I’ve visited that has a section describing the various genres, epic was understood to mean a certain dark heavy rock (almost proto-doom) with epic themes reminiscent of 80s Conan the Barbarian. In fact, if you go to these sites, there are many fanatics who will get offended if they hear you say that Rhapsody is epic, eh!

I don't know if you'll read my comment, mayhem, but don't you think you're exaggerating when you talk about the best underground musicians? The underground certainly has great names, even innovators and perhaps better than more famous names, but that doesn't mean that Black Sabbath aren't innovators themselves; that's just a load of nonsense. The godfathers of doom and the band that Kyuss drew inspiration from to create stoner rock are Black Sabbath, and their influence on metal is undeniable. You can come at me with Amon Düül and anyone else you want, but the impact of an album like "Black Sabbath," released during the height of the hippie era with dark and satanic themes, represented a novelty. Moreover, Black Sabbath were also among the pioneers of distorted guitar sounds. In short, praising the underground just to show off that you know more about music seems a bit snobbish to me. I don't deny the importance of Amon Düül, but you shouldn't deny that of Black Sabbath!

Hi, I liked the review also because I’m completely ignorant when it comes to Black Sabbath in the '80s, so my vote goes for how you wrote and because I find the review smooth. Now, I don't know if this album is epic or not, but I think if there are epic influences, Enrico probably wasn’t referring to Rhapsody or Blind Guardian, who moreover play power metal with epic themes, but not epic metal. Epic metal is that of Manilla Road, early Manowar, Cirith Ungol, Omen, Virgin Steel, so in this case, I don’t even think it’s bold to talk about epic, since '80s epic metal is heavily influenced by '70s hard rock (from the same Black Sabbath), indeed it is an extension of it let's say with heavy influences and epic themes. Rhapsody are not epic and neither are Blind Guardian, if Enrico meant '80s epic metal of the American school, perhaps it’s not wrong to talk about epic, but I’m speaking hypothetically because I haven’t listened to the album, but I've also heard from others that the Martin period is very epic, actually in Tyr I read a review that talked about a song that sounded like Blind Guardian (who, however, are not epic metal)!

great review! I don't know the group!