Senmayan

Ok mauroprog ;-)! I like Genesis, as well as prog; in fact, I adore Selling England..., but Foxtrot doesn't thrill me. There are albums considered masterpieces by the majority that can still leave you unimpressed; after all, we're not all the same. That said, Watcher of the Skies and Get 'Em Out by Friday are excellent.

mauroprog, it's all a matter of taste; I don't see everything in black and white like you do, thinking that all prog CDs are masterpieces and the rest is crap. Your nickname and your response say it all. In fact, your reply has shown everyone how foolish you are.

I've never been mad about this album; after being struck by Selling England by the Pound, I found this album to be of a lower level. First of all, the production is really dated, which makes the sound seem shallow. Anyway, the tracks are splendid; strangely enough, the only one I'm not completely convinced by is the suite Supper's Ready. I know I'm among the few, but when it comes to production, sounds, and arrangements, I prefer the subsequent one, which I consider a true masterpiece. A Foxtrot gets a nice 3.5.

I pee sitting down if I'm a guest somewhere... the premise is terrible, but I wouldn't make a tragedy out of it; we're on Debaser, not on a political platform, so we can mess around a bit. Sure, Alessioride poor thing is still a kid (I hope for his sake), he's presumptuous and lacks tact, but I see neither malice nor racism in his review. I give it a solid 3.

I'm intervening late! I agree that those who speak of Dream Theater as the best band ever are often quite musically ignorant, especially since listening to Rush, Kansas, and Pink Floyd reveals that many sounds were already used by these bands, meaning Dream Theater didn’t invent anything new. However, I'm not as drastic as easycure, also because the review is very inaccurate, as has been pointed out to you. First of all, Kevin Moore doesn’t play on this album, and this keyboardist is light-years away from the idea of a showy keyboardist. In my opinion, the artistic decline of Dream Theater actually began with his departure after the album "Awake." Kevin Moore founded Chroma Key, with which he creates very minimal music (which should appeal to you, it seems) far removed from virtuosity, closer to ambient. If that’s what you call showiness… Dream Theater's merit (or demerit, depending on your tastes) is having revived progressive rock in the early '90s. Their little revolution lies in blending progressive with metal (even though, in this case, they weren’t the first; they just brought the phenomenon to the forefront and set some standards). Good or bad, in their early years, despite not creating anything original, they crafted a sound that was quite personal. In my opinion, they ridiculed themselves from the mid-'90s onward when they began releasing one album a year and indulging in self-satisfaction. In their own way, Dream Theater was quite courageous because in 1992, during the height of grunge, they proposed a sound that was distinctly opposite, with lyrics that were anything but depressive. Dear Easycure, there’s also passion in music, not just the false intellectualism of many bands, so I see nothing wrong in playing things that have already been done and said. Dream Theater were fans of Rush, Yes, etc., so did they simply create music similar to that of their idols? Does that seem pathetic to you? No, that’s musical passion; in my opinion, you’re taking it too seriously.

I like Metallica in this version; they're at a point where they have no idea at all, and to show themselves as pure and badass, they create a pot effect with the drums. It's light-years away from being a masterpiece, but at least in this album, the band was still proposing something different. Metallica is shifting towards rock without simply copying someone. Re-load, on the other hand, seems like crap from what I've heard so far.

Morbid Angel are among the bands that strive to evolve and change their sound with each album (and in death metal, this isn't very common). Perhaps their only "normal" album is *Formula Fatal to the Flesh*. I like this one for its claustrophobic atmospheres and the beautiful rhythms by Sandoval, who is truly a monster on this album. Of course, *Blessed Are the Sick* (for me, their only masterpiece) is far from being matched... 3.5

The actors may be pathetic, but the film is truly original and has several layers of meaning; for me, it's very intriguing. Of course, if you only scratch the surface of the film, you can't help but have a negative judgment...

Metal, when it blends with hardcore, is often more interesting than hardcore itself, which in the end repeats the same formulas. Like punk, it's a genre that evolves little (without any negative connotation; a genre doesn’t have to evolve necessarily). Pure hardcore is interesting, but I prefer the fusions with the genre (those are very, very interesting; see Breach and Isis, especially Breach).

be arise thrash in its purest form doesn't seem right to me, Sepultura have never really done thrash, rather hardcore death metal with tribal influences, but I see very little thrash, maybe a few riffs here and there, in fact arise is considered one of those albums that brought death metal out of the darkest underground.