Senmayan

the black lodge is the metaphysics of evil, the evil itself that, like an alien organism, has infected humanity. Beautifully written

It was criticized at the time, but it's actually a great film, I agree. An unprecedented and much more realistic perspective than other films in showing first contact. There's also Matthew McConaughey, far from the current widespread praise and the peaks of today, at that time a B-movie actor.

I don't know the album, but the presumably competent Eddy Cilia has nonetheless caused more damage than hail (indirectly); that category of reviewers who glorified punk while sneering at what seemed to be its nemesis (hard rock, prog, and for a long time even metal), a criticism that made sense back then but seems utterly nonsensical today, leading to the so-called Italian indie-snobs (similar processes occurred in other parts of the world) who are the flipside of the Riccardoni coin. So, since Cilia has panned it, I’ll give it a listen; maybe it really does suck.

sorry for the grammar I wrote quickly

Even I, when I think of this album, one of the first things that comes to mind is the chorus of "the needle lies." It may not be one of the most celebrated tracks on this album, but it is definitely one of the most striking and infectious. A beautiful and important album. Then, with Queensryche, it's said that everything is the opposite of everything else, so anyone who listens to them will find something different from what is commonly said. Just think that for many, this album is one of the first prog-metal albums and has influenced the genre. However, when you listen to it, you realize that Dream Theater, for example, and Queensryche really have nothing in common. Could it be a certain elegance unknown to most classic heavy groups? The uniqueness of this album lies in its compositional elegance and in applying to classic heavy soundscapes and structures from rock opera—something that had never been done in metal before this album. Later, there will be other albums, including "streets" by Savatage, which, if not historically, is definitely more emotionally impactful than this album.

I usually accept the "de gustibus", but when I hear Miami referred to as a dud or a misstep, I think there’s really a lot of earwax and ignorance, or rather, a lack of willingness to listen.

To confine Blur to Britpop is frankly limiting; they are one of those bands that survived the 90s and have been simply one of the best pop-rock bands of recent decades. This is a masterpiece, but I agree that the previous "modern life is rubbish" is even better, one of my all-time favorite albums.

I am among those who appreciate them (and quite a lot) up to Nation. After Nation, from what little I listened to, I understood that my experience with Sepultura was over, but damn, Nation is massively underrated and, above all, has the merit of not imitating the old Sepultura, proposing some pretty original pieces in their context. Well, maybe it only appeals to me. Regardless of whether people speak poorly or well of it, live they still rock hard.
As for the rest, Roots is my favorite from Sepultura; objectively, Chaos AD is better, but Roots was a kind of Copernican revolution in mainstream metal. There is a before and after Roots. They made the combination of tribal music and metal credible and incredibly groovy—who the hell could have imagined that before Roots? To say the least.

"no one there" can now be considered a classic piece of melodic metal of the new millennium.
A CD that reminds me of the end of adolescence or rather the post-adolescent period when I was fiercely metalhead, where "metallus" by Signorelli was my bible and whenever I had a little money saved, I tried to buy the releases that metal hammer pointed out as masterpieces, and this work by Sentenced received the highest rating. Perhaps listening to them today, with all the many listens I've had even in related genres, they might excite me less, but I wouldn't want to do an injustice to a work that, while not original, has excellent melodies and a strong personality, with a melodic taste that is distinctly Finnish (for those who know some bands from that country), being halfway between the evocative and the melancholic. In short, really well done. I tried listening to just a few tracks from their more extreme works and they seemed impressive even in that form, but my personal knowledge of Sentenced is still limited to this album, which represents the period when metal in Europe (excluding the usual names like Metallica and Iron Maiden) definitively entered the mainstream.
Great review, I can't give stars anymore but still 5 ;-)

for me the best are beechwood park and time of the season. It's trivial to say it, but melodies like these just don't exist anymore. When I first heard them, I thought I had found a great (we're still talking about the 60s) second-tier band; instead, with this album, they have nothing to envy to the Beatles and Beach Boys in terms of harmonies and "good vibrations." Of course, 5