The Metal Thread 4.0

[Astral]

tracer & Station, sorry they cancled the show around there guys

I hope i can get tickets to next week here and even if i do i 've lost all my days off since thanksgiving so im not sure something will happen to make me not be able go, the universe seems to really have it out for me right now.

[station82o]

I hope you can pull some strings to make the show happen for you.

[CynicalSphere]

Yet again being the voice of dissension here...

Personally, if I had to pick between Doodoo Burger and Curdle of Milk, I'd pick DB, but that's based solely on the fact that Dani Filth's voice makes my dick shrivel up and quit working. I don't really like either one.

If you're checking out these bands, check out some samples of ANCIENT RITES - Dim Carcosa (though Fatherland is good too...). They've got the epic keyboard flavor but they've also got killer riffs and guitar melodies to die for, and a vocalist that actually DOESN'T sound like a kitten going through some bizzare sexual torture...

I'm of the firm opinion that anyone that out-and-out hates the last AR album is deaf. Of course, based on some of my tastes, the other denizens of this thread would also argue that I am (or am going) deaf too... :P

[station82o]

ROTFLMAO @ "Doodoo Burger and Curdle of Milk" !!!!!

I think everyone would be a bit dissapointed if you stopped being the voice of dissention. I will check out Ancient Rites!

[edit]

It just occured to me that we've never asked you (Cynical) about the Blind Guardian show - I guess both Tracer and I at the time didn't really care to hear anything relating to a Blind Guardian show and you seemed to pick up on that - but I don't want to leave you silenced. I can handle it and deal with it - so what was your experience like?

[CynicalSphere]

Well, I'm working on the full story of a friend's website but I'll post the most important bits here...

After getting lost numerous times in Dallas and getting GOUGED for Bronco Bowl parking, I finally get into the concert hall. While the BB looks a bit too "nightclubbish" for my absolute liking at least I didn't have to worry about being smashed into a pole (as I was at the Backroom in Austin) and it was reasonably well-furnished. I'd go see another band there.

After waiting what seems like forever, Symphony X took the stage. FOr some reason, ASKA was taken off the bill, which sucks because I was looking forward to singing along to "Valkyries" or "Angels of War." But oh well, maybe some other time. Going into the show, I wasn't really looking forward to Symphony X because the short sound samples of them made them sound like another Dream Theater clone. However, SX came out like a lion and instantly won me over with an enthusiastic, energetic performance. Even though Romeo was working with a blown amp the band sounded really good, and the singer really put on a show (In that respect, I think they one-upped BG just a bit). I should probably look a bit further into SX, since from their show they are a metal band with some prog leanings rather than another prog* band pretending to be a metal band. I don't know the setlist but I know they played Smoke and Mirrors. The only reason I know that is because they announced it.

*(Note: "prog" as in "whoo, look at me, I can wank all day on my instrument," not genuine progressive music.)

Blind Guardian live is one of those bands sorta like King's X. They are consummate musicians that can put on ball-breakingly/heart-wrenchingly great live performances, but they don't really *do* much other than play music, so if you expected stage antics you'd probably be disappointed. That said, part of what makes a BG performance so special is that nearly everyone there knows the songs and is singing along. Hansi's voice was in fine form (and he showed Dallas that he can screech like Dani Filth when he really wants to), and the sound was great despite the fact that there were technical problems out the ass while getting set up.

The best part of the show was the massive crowd response to all the songs in terms of singing along. Blind Guardian finally got to see what happens when you pile loads of drunken Texas metalheads in a room together and play some BG songs...

BG sold tons of merchandise. Even though the tour shirts were expensive and kinda ugly...

Here's the setlist. These are not in exact order but they're in some semblance thereof.

Whatever It's Called (the intro to Nightfall in Middle-Earth)
Into The Storm
Welcome to Dying
Nightfall
The Script for My Requiem
Harvest of Sorrow
Time Stands Still at the Iron Hill
Under the Ice
Bright Eyes
The Bard's Song: In The Forest
The Soulforged
Mordred's Song
Imaginations from the Other Side

ENCORE:
Lord of the Rings
Punishment Divine
Mirror Mirror

They played more ANATO stuff than I really wanted to hear, but at least they picked my three favorites off the album and they really DO sound good live (or at least a lot better than the overcooked album). I was mildly disappointed that they didn't play anything off the first two and more than one song off SFB and TFTTW, but at least I got to hear most of my favorites.

CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS:

Best Song of the Night: "The Bard's Song." No contest. I damn near started CRYING when Hansi sang the part that goes "You can see them too..."

Best Goof-Up Of Night: Hansi accidentally unplugged Marcus's amp during Harvest of Sorrow.

Best Omen: No one started a mosh pit. The first person to mosh me during Blind Guardian would have gotten a barstool shoved up his ass.

Best Band Quote (tie): Hansi: "We've had a Blast in Texas thus far!" and "We promise we won't take 17 years to come back to Texas! How about next YEAR?" (someone in audience replied: "How about next week?")

Best Audience Quotes: "Bullshit! I saw the setlist!" -- Someone in reply to Hansi saying they only had one song left that night

"WORD TO YOUR MOTHER!" -- Someone responding to Limp Bizkit being played.

"FUCK LIMP BIZKIT, THEY SUCK!" -- See above

Best Mass Complaint: "WHAT THE FUCK?!" -- Roughly 50 people standing around (including me) when Limp Bizkit started playing between SX and BG

Worst Part of Show: Sphere somehow injuring his neck during Punishment Divine, causing his right bicep to flinch whenever he turned his head. This is the reason he did not meet Blind Guardian.

I really do hope they come back to Texas next year...and this time get some dates that won't fuckin' get cancelled...

[Tracer]

Originally posted by CynicalSphere


Best Song of the Night: "The Bard's Song." No contest. I damn near started CRYING when Hansi sang the part that goes "You can see them too..."

I would have cried probably... and yeah... if there was any song I'd sing along to it would be that one even though I would have likely sung along to all of them anyway =/ I'm glad you had a great time Cynical, very glad.

ºTracer

[station82o]

me too


BTW - if anyone's interested - I have an mp3 of one of the tracks that is going to be on Opeth's upcoming "damnnation" (mellow) album - very fucking cool track - it is a demo however but very good quality - Mikeal is singing in swedish but the finalized version is supposedly going to be sung in english. Very 70s prog-rock vibe to this.

[FirstBlood]

i would be interested, but i've sworn to not listen to anything on the CD until i have it in my hands...

did the same thing with deliverance

[station82o]

I think you'd benefit yourself by listening to this - I managed to find the link again so you wouldn't have to contact me via AIM.

http://hem.bredband.net/frisun/Sorsk..._i_Grottan.mp3

[station82o]

To be honest I thought that the mellower songs were going to sound like the 2 soft songs on the deluxe edition of blackwater park (still day beneath the sun and patterns in the ivy II) - but in a way I'm kinda glad that they seem to be something different, although I wouldn't mind a couple songs in that soft blackwater vein.