TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
Morbid Angel just DESTROYED the stage @ the Sölvesborg Sweden Rock Festival, thank you fans! Here's the show setlist:
Immortal Rites
Fall From Grace
Rapture
...Pain Divine
Maze of Torment
Sworn to the Black
Existo Vulgoré
Nevermore
Angel of Disease
Lord of All Fevers and Plague
Chapel of Ghouls
Encore:
Dawn of the Angry
Where the Slime Live
Bil Ur-Sag
God of Emptiness
World of Shit (The Promised Land)
MorgensternICH BIN DER PESTVOGELDU KAMPFAFFE!Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Holy shit. The new Parasytic is crazy good. Short, but good.
Morgenstern on
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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MorgensternICH BIN DER PESTVOGELDU KAMPFAFFE!Registered Userregular
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt died of a heart attack. I got to meet him 2 months ago when I saw them live. He's quite hilarious but he was definitely abusing multiple substances. Was a matter of time.
Finally gave the new Vried a listen and it is fucking awesome! Slicing guitars, etc. *punching self in face for waiting to check it out* What are you guys listening to these days? Also, what other PA threads do you follow?
The last decade of Florida Death has been fairly depressing. So much reduced to so little.
So ... anyone else a scenester, before getting into metal? I, as I've mentioned, was into the punk scene for quite a while before I got into Metal.
Do people have a Top X So Far 2011 list they want to share?
Right now I'm only sure that the Best Album - 2011: Scepticflesh - The Great Mass or Beyond Creation - The Aura
I wasn't a fan of Vreid at all until the new album. Which showed me how important Valfar was to what I liked about Windir. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing them with Kampfar.
Lately, been listening to the new Samael, some old Samhain, Christian Death, The Clash, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God, Tiamat's Amanethes.
The last decade of Florida Death has been fairly depressing. So much reduced to so little.
Well, fear not, today there's an unexpected and good one. 2007 begins tomorrow, but I can't promise anything really 'good' again until I hit maybe...2010...
Right now I'm only sure that the Best Album - 2011: Scepticflesh - The Great Mass or Beyond Creation - The Aura
Definitely a bit early for a top list, and as usual I'll post mine either December 31st '11 or January 1st '12, but thus far my favorites include:
SepticfleshThe Great Mass VirusThe Agent That Shapes the Desert DeceasedSurreal Overdose Negative PlaneStained Glass Revelations BurzumFallen SabbatSabbatrinity DoomswordThe Eternal Battle Pagan's MindHeavenly Ecstasy MitochondrionParasignosis
Honorable mentions to: Sarke, Sonne Adam, The Crevices Below, Satan's Host and a few others. The Enslaved EP is amazing, but its only an EP.
Also, someone on M-A posted a version without the heads:
I wasn't a fan of Vreid at all until the new album. Which showed me how important Valfar was to what I liked about Windir. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing them with Kampfar.
Lately, been listening to the new Samael, some old Samhain, Christian Death, The Clash, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God, Tiamat's Amanethes.
I'm guilty of having never heard Windir, so I have no frame of reference, but V is fucking excellent!
They are touring with Kampfar? - woot! Other than Mare what are om good Kampfar albums?
Which Samhain, and Christian Death albums do you return to most?
... *chopping down quotes trees left and right*
It felt toothless and soulless, particularly compared to their previous two releases, both which I like a lot.
So a "their passion is gone, so mine doesn't get ignited by their music anymore" thing?
OK, this makes me dumb, but what does CTTS stand for?
And, I just didn't feel like there was any energy or passion in the newest Primordial. It seemed like a very by the books Primordial album. It almost seemed like another band trying to copy what made To the Nameless Dead so good.
Hmmmmmm ... Just curious, because there seem to be quite a few people that really enjoy Redemption At The Puritan's Hand, but I guess you're saying it seems phoned in. Not catchy or unique or interesting enough for repeat spins, amirite?
I wasn't a fan of Vreid at all until the new album. Which showed me how important Valfar was to what I liked about Windir. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing them with Kampfar.
Lately, been listening to the new Samael, some old Samhain, Christian Death, The Clash, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God, Tiamat's Amanethes.
I'm guilty of having never heard Windir, so I have no frame of reference, but V is fucking excellent!
They are touring with Kampfar? - woot! Other than Mare what are om good Kampfar albums?
Which Samhain, and Christian Death albums do you return to most?
... *chopping down quotes trees left and right*
It felt toothless and soulless, particularly compared to their previous two releases, both which I like a lot.
So a "their passion is gone, so mine doesn't get ignited by their music anymore" thing?
OK, this makes me dumb, but what does CTTS stand for?
Honestly, I recommend everything Kampfar has done. They're one of the few bands were I haven't heard a release I didn't like. If you like the new one, just work backwards from there. You may hit a point where you don't care for it any longer. I guess, stop there? Haha.
As to the other question.
Well, right now I've recently spun every Samhain album except Final Descent which I might get to later today. My favorite though would probably be November Coming Fire. You can start to really hear the band that Danzig would become. ...and then when John, Eerie and Chuck left become a steaming pile of mess.
This will sound cliche to anyone that knows, but for Christian Death I find myself mostly listening to Only Theatre of Pain the most. The Iron Mask is also enjoyable, as is Ashes. I will not recommend any album when the band was front by Valor. Yes, I'm one of "those people" who think the Valor stuff is awful. And it's because I actually don't like it. Not because I was into the band before Valor took over. I mean, I was 2 when Only Theatre of Pain came out.
The last decade of Florida Death has been fairly depressing. So much reduced to so little.
Well, fear not, today there's an unexpected and good one. 2007 begins tomorrow, but I can't promise anything really 'good' again until I hit maybe...2010...
If you mean The Stench Of Redemption, then consider yourself stinky cause you just redeemed modern FDM.
The Stench Of Redemption is easily Deicide's best, and its their only release I ever had the desire to revisit.
Right now I'm only sure that the Best Album - 2011: Scepticflesh - The Great Mass or Beyond Creation - The Aura
Definitely a bit early for a top list, and as usual I'll post mine either December 31st '11 or January 1st '12, but thus far my favorites include:
SepticfleshThe Great Mass VirusThe Agent That Shapes the Desert DeceasedSurreal Overdose Negative PlaneStained Glass Revelations BurzumFallen SabbatSabbatrinity DoomswordThe Eternal Battle Pagan's MindHeavenly Ecstasy MitochondrionParasignosis
Honorable mentions to: Sarke, Sonne Adam, The Crevices Below, Satan's Host and a few others. The Enslaved EP is amazing, but its only an EP.
Sad that I still haven't got several of those you call out :x, but I'm working on it.
Also, have you still not obtained The Aura, by Beyond Creation, auto? It's a glaring hole in the above list of excellence.
Beyond Creation's The Aura easily ranks as my #1 tech death album of all time, because the songwriting is actually that great!! The Aura is like a really well thought out mash-up of the best moments of Neuraxis, Obscura, and Augury, but more consistently great than any of the three individually, with better songwriting. Also, unlike a mashup it all makes sense together.
Edit: Legion is easily the most influential album they ever put out, but like most metal, I'm tardy-to-the-pardy and so the "influencialness" of an album has little to no impact on how I evaluate an album. While I do enjoy Legion, it simply doesn't live up to most other people's opinions and The Stench Of Redemption just has consistently better songs for my money. Obvs YMMV.
The Stench of Redemption is damn good. I think you could probably make a case for it being their best, but I have my rose-colored nostalgia glasses on when I listen to Deicide's first two records. It always reminds me of me and my friend blasting those on road trips to go see shows.
Okay, what is going on with Nargaroth's Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare. I was not expecting this at all. I'm just over halfway through. I guess no one can pigeonhole Nargaroth anymore. I'm liking it, but it has definitely caught me off guard.
The Stench of Redemption is damn good. I think you could probably make a case for it being their best, but I have my rose-colored nostalgia glasses on when I listen to Deicide's first two records. It always reminds me of me and my friend blasting those on road trips to go see shows.
I can promise that you aren't the only sufferer of nostalgia-based love for albums (see ANUS), and I'll never hold it against you, except for the small amount of jealousy I feel knowing that you've been into metal that much longer than me.
Okay, what is going on with Nargaroth's Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare. I was not expecting this at all. I'm just over halfway through. I guess no one can pigeonhole Nargaroth anymore. I'm liking it, but it has definitely caught me off guard.
Haven't got it yet!! How have they changed things up?!
Edit: @GreasyKidsStuff - when you get a chance and want more deathrash that evolved out of the Symbolic sound, check out one of the best: Martyr (Can). Also, Obliveon (Can) is great deathrash too.
The Stench of Redemption is damn good. I think you could probably make a case for it being their best, but I have my rose-colored nostalgia glasses on when I listen to Deicide's first two records. It always reminds me of me and my friend blasting those on road trips to go see shows.
I can promise that you aren't the only sufferer of nostalgia-based love for albums (see ANUS), and I'll never hold it against you, except for the small amount of jealousy i fell knowing that you've been into metal that much longer than me.
Okay, what is going on with Nargaroth's Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare. I was not expecting this at all. I'm just over halfway through. I guess no one can pigeonhole Nargaroth anymore. I'm liking it, but it has definitely caught me off guard.
When I get a chance to check it out ...
I wasn't in to those albums in 90 and 92 (was Legion 92? I think that's right...), so you definitely don't need to be jealous. I wouldn't have known what to do with a Deicide record in 1992. This was around 2001 or 2002, heh.
On another tangent, I was talking to a friend recently about albums we love, and I was talking about a hip-hop record that I love to pieces (Float by Aesop Rock, for what it's worth). I was talking about how I wish I could have found that record when it first came out, and pretty much right after I said it, I realize there's no way I would have liked that album if I had discovered it in 2000. Is it a common experience to realize that there are some albums that you're just not ready for for one reason or another? I remember that I didn't really "get" Peste Noire the first time I heard Ballade, which was my first PN record, but I went back to it with the right mindset and it finally clicked for me.
The Stench of Redemption is damn good. I think you could probably make a case for it being their best, but I have my rose-colored nostalgia glasses on when I listen to Deicide's first two records. It always reminds me of me and my friend blasting those on road trips to go see shows.
I can promise that you aren't the only sufferer of nostalgia-based love for albums (see ANUS), and I'll never hold it against you, except for the small amount of jealousy i fell knowing that you've been into metal that much longer than me.
Okay, what is going on with Nargaroth's Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare. I was not expecting this at all. I'm just over halfway through. I guess no one can pigeonhole Nargaroth anymore. I'm liking it, but it has definitely caught me off guard.
When I get a chance to check it out ...
I wasn't in to those albums in 90 and 92 (was Legion 92? I think that's right...), so you definitely don't need to be jealous. I wouldn't have known what to do with a Deicide record in 1992. This was around 2001 or 2002, heh.
On another tangent, I was talking to a friend recently about albums we love, and I was talking about a hip-hop record that I love to pieces (Float by Aesop Rock, for what it's worth). I was talking about how I wish I could have found that record when it first came out, and pretty much right after I said it, I realize there's no way I would have liked that album if I had discovered it in 2000. Is it a common experience to realize that there are some albums that you're just not ready for for one reason or another? I remember that I didn't really "get" Peste Noire the first time I heard Ballade, which was my first PN record, but I went back to it with the right mindset and it finally clicked for me.
Ah well, I fail at assumption. Still, I agree that good memories/associations does more for many albums than the music does and that's to be expected.
On the "not ready for that album" kick - yes, it happens to me quite alot. Pretty much all of Black Metal has fit into that space up until Naxzul and Slavia changed me a few months back. It was a "come to Satan" thingy.
If I had to make a sweeping generalization I'd say it's not only common, but common in this thread, because I'd guess around 80%-99% of the kvlt find tech death so distasteful, that I think most will never check out the greatest tech death album yet produced (y'all ain't ready for The Aura :P).
Edit: OK, that response was totally an agenda to get you all to check out The Aura. In all seriousness, I can say that anytime I hear metal older than 2007, I wasn't ready to hear it before 2007.
Okay, the new Nargaroth may have just cemented itslef as my favorite album of the year so far. Or it's at least up there. Musically, it seems all over the place, but it fits itself so well thematically. It ranges from "whoa, is this a keyboard only track? what the hell?" to "okay, this is more what I was expecting" and then in the middle of what you were expecting "wait, this is really really beautiful to listen to" and then the last track sounds a bit like a laid back Samael song with all the guitars removed. I really really dig this album.
And on LoveIsUnity's question. Yes. There are a number of albums like that for me. Especially since I went through a "if it's not Black Metal it doesn't deserve my attention" phase for about a year as a teenager.
But even on a black metal type note; I absolutely hated Mayhem's Grand Delcaration of War when it first came out. About a year after that, when I listened to it again, I fell in love with it. I still really like that album. I really feel Alice Cooper's Dada is overlooked and didn't care for it the first time I heard it either. However, a few years ago I gave it another spin and something on it clicked with me.
Hell, there are bands I dismissed for years. The wife finally got me to admit that The Cure put out some good albums and are worth listening to. I recently rediscovered Godgory a bit. I didn't like Sigh's latest the first time I heard it, but it has since grown on me.
This goes the other way too. There are albums I liked once that upon listening to recently found out that I no longer cared for them at all.
Also, have you still not obtained The Aura, by Beyond Creation, auto? It's a glaring hole in the above list of excellence.
Beyond Creation's The Aura easily ranks as my #1 tech death album of all time, because the songwriting is actually that great!! The Aura is like a really well thought out mash-up of the best moments of Neuraxis, Obscura, and Augury, but more consistently great than any of the three individually, with better songwriting. Also, unlike a mashup it all makes sense together.
Nah, not a glaring hole for me in the slightest.
I've listened to it a few times some months back. It's not bad. I enjoyed the bass playing and some of the riffs, and how it throws together a panoply of the Canadian and tech melodic death/thrash influences (sort of like a better Arsis or Quo Vadis jamming with Augury or The Faceless), but the vocals are nothing special, a few of the chugging riffs with leads over them get a little tiring, and then of course the song structures that are cycling through riff after riff after riff after riff after riff because they can. Sometimes they'll hit a really good note sequence and then, 'puff' it vanishes. I found I was more into the long instrumental sections of songs like 'Coexistence' than most of the metal parts.
Good enough, lots of technical talent, and definitely better than the new Obscura, but ultimately flashy and forgotten six months down the road, without even a single malevolent DEATH METAL riff on the whole album. For tech death I'm more into Decrepit Birth (2nd and 3rd albums) because it feels that much more ominous, but then again the 'tech death' label sort of changes from year to year...what's complex today seems like child's play tomorrow, know what I mean?
I more enjoyed the songs from the last albums by Augury, The Faceless. Also there was that one other review Narian posted (Archspire?) I kinda dug a little more than this one. Not year's end listable for me, but maybe like an 8/10.
Also, have you still not obtained The Aura, by Beyond Creation, auto? It's a glaring hole in the above list of excellence.
Beyond Creation's The Aura easily ranks as my #1 tech death album of all time, because the songwriting is actually that great!! The Aura is like a really well thought out mash-up of the best moments of Neuraxis, Obscura, and Augury, but more consistently great than any of the three individually, with better songwriting. Also, unlike a mashup it all makes sense together.
Nah, not a glaring hole for me in the slightest.
I've listened to it a few times some months back. It's not bad. I enjoyed the bass playing and some of the riffs, and how it throws together a panoply of the Canadian and tech melodic death/thrash influences (sort of like a better Arsis or Quo Vadis jamming with Augury or The Faceless), but the vocals are nothing special, a few of the chugging riffs with leads over them get a little tiring, and then of course the song structures that are cycling through riff after riff after riff after riff after riff because they can. Sometimes they'll hit a really good note sequence and then, 'puff' it vanishes. I found I was more into the long instrumental sections of songs like 'Coexistence' than most of the metal parts.
Good enough, lots of technical talent, and definitely better than the new Obscura, but ultimately flashy and forgotten six months down the road, without even a single malevolent DEATH METAL riff on the whole album. For tech death I'm more into Decrepit Birth (2nd and 3rd albums) because it feels that much more ominous, but then again the 'tech death' label sort of changes from year to year...what's complex today seems like child's play tomorrow, know what I mean?
I more enjoyed the songs from the last albums by Augury, The Faceless. Also there was that one other review Narian posted (Archspire?) I kinda dug a little more than this one. Not year's end listable for me, but maybe like an 8/10.
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Hahaha, hell yeah, after hearing that track I am really looking forward to the new album.
http://www.last.fm/festival/1823932+Rites+of+Darkness+3
Demigod
Evoken
Antaeus
Behexen
Stargazer
Sargeist
Urfaust
Nunslaughter
Root
Mournful…
Akitsa
Tribulation
Loss
Hour of 13
Midnight
Zemial
Plutocracy
Dead Congregation
Cianide
Strid
Demonical
Mitochondrion
Valkyrja
Funebrarum
Weapon
Mortuary Drape
Interment
Butcher ABC
Divine Eve
Aldebaran
Oh, and just a pre-fest event. No biggie.
Pre-fest event:
http://www.last.fm/event/1889912+Rites+of+Darkness+3+Pre-Fest
ONDKSAPT (SWE)
WODENSTHRONE (UK)
DISPIRIT (CA)
OAK (MD)
HELLVETRON (TX)
STURMGEWEHR (TX)
Yeah, it pretty much made my day
Powerwolf delivers, certainly.
Then everything clicked. I still turned it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZpJ4lvEs8&feature=player_embedded#at=66
I also can't ever see one of those without thinking about how much it must bug people that actually speak German to try and watch those.
New Powerwolf! WOOOOT!!
And what a track!! \m/ :twisted: \m/
I was really sad to discover that they are only planning to tour, like 8 cities in Europe this year, though. :x:?
On the flip side, the album is supposed to be released sometime in July!!!!! Not much longer to wait!!!
well, more avant-garde than usual
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
The Three Metamorphoses
from their twitter, heh
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
The last decade of Florida Death has been fairly depressing. So much reduced to so little.
So ... anyone else a scenester, before getting into metal? I, as I've mentioned, was into the punk scene for quite a while before I got into Metal.
Do people have a Top X So Far 2011 list they want to share?
Right now I'm only sure that the Best Album - 2011:
Scepticflesh - The Great Mass or Beyond Creation - The Aura
Lately, been listening to the new Samael, some old Samhain, Christian Death, The Clash, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God, Tiamat's Amanethes.
PSN : Bolthorn
Well, fear not, today there's an unexpected and good one. 2007 begins tomorrow, but I can't promise anything really 'good' again until I hit maybe...2010...
Definitely a bit early for a top list, and as usual I'll post mine either December 31st '11 or January 1st '12, but thus far my favorites include:
Septicflesh The Great Mass
Virus The Agent That Shapes the Desert
Deceased Surreal Overdose
Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations
Burzum Fallen
Sabbat Sabbatrinity
Doomsword The Eternal Battle
Pagan's Mind Heavenly Ecstasy
Mitochondrion Parasignosis
Honorable mentions to: Sarke, Sonne Adam, The Crevices Below, Satan's Host and a few others. The Enslaved EP is amazing, but its only an EP.
Also, someone on M-A posted a version without the heads:
Might want to save it for your file folder.
Incidentally, this is my biggest disappointment so far this year. (I wasn't really expecting the new Morbid Angel to be that great.)
How did it fall short of your expectations? Too much auto-plagiarizing, or what?
New CTTS should be out this year. That could really swing either way really. There's a lot of anticipation for it.
It felt toothless and soulless, particularly compared to their previous two releases, both which I like a lot.
I'm guilty of having never heard Windir, so I have no frame of reference, but V is fucking excellent!
They are touring with Kampfar? - woot! Other than Mare what are om good Kampfar albums?
Which Samhain, and Christian Death albums do you return to most?
So a "their passion is gone, so mine doesn't get ignited by their music anymore" thing?
OK, this makes me dumb, but what does CTTS stand for?
And, I just didn't feel like there was any energy or passion in the newest Primordial. It seemed like a very by the books Primordial album. It almost seemed like another band trying to copy what made To the Nameless Dead so good.
Edit:
Thanks, I think that's the third time in this thread that I've needed that acronym de-obfuscated. o_O
I must not be a -core scenester ... ;-)
Honestly, I recommend everything Kampfar has done. They're one of the few bands were I haven't heard a release I didn't like. If you like the new one, just work backwards from there. You may hit a point where you don't care for it any longer. I guess, stop there? Haha.
As to the other question.
Well, right now I've recently spun every Samhain album except Final Descent which I might get to later today. My favorite though would probably be November Coming Fire. You can start to really hear the band that Danzig would become. ...and then when John, Eerie and Chuck left become a steaming pile of mess.
This will sound cliche to anyone that knows, but for Christian Death I find myself mostly listening to Only Theatre of Pain the most. The Iron Mask is also enjoyable, as is Ashes. I will not recommend any album when the band was front by Valor. Yes, I'm one of "those people" who think the Valor stuff is awful. And it's because I actually don't like it. Not because I was into the band before Valor took over. I mean, I was 2 when Only Theatre of Pain came out.
PSN : Bolthorn
If you mean The Stench Of Redemption, then consider yourself stinky cause you just redeemed modern FDM.
The Stench Of Redemption is easily Deicide's best, and its their only release I ever had the desire to revisit.
Sad that I still haven't got several of those you call out :x, but I'm working on it.
Also, have you still not obtained The Aura, by Beyond Creation, auto? It's a glaring hole in the above list of excellence.
Beyond Creation's The Aura easily ranks as my #1 tech death album of all time, because the songwriting is actually that great!! The Aura is like a really well thought out mash-up of the best moments of Neuraxis, Obscura, and Augury, but more consistently great than any of the three individually, with better songwriting. Also, unlike a mashup it all makes sense together.
I agree
:P
Fine I'm too cool for that anyway ... 8-)
Edit: Legion is easily the most influential album they ever put out, but like most metal, I'm tardy-to-the-pardy and so the "influencialness" of an album has little to no impact on how I evaluate an album. While I do enjoy Legion, it simply doesn't live up to most other people's opinions and The Stench Of Redemption just has consistently better songs for my money. Obvs YMMV.
PSN : Bolthorn
Haven't got it yet!! How have they changed things up?!
Edit: @GreasyKidsStuff - when you get a chance and want more deathrash that evolved out of the Symbolic sound, check out one of the best: Martyr (Can). Also, Obliveon (Can) is great deathrash too.
I wasn't in to those albums in 90 and 92 (was Legion 92? I think that's right...), so you definitely don't need to be jealous. I wouldn't have known what to do with a Deicide record in 1992. This was around 2001 or 2002, heh.
On another tangent, I was talking to a friend recently about albums we love, and I was talking about a hip-hop record that I love to pieces (Float by Aesop Rock, for what it's worth). I was talking about how I wish I could have found that record when it first came out, and pretty much right after I said it, I realize there's no way I would have liked that album if I had discovered it in 2000. Is it a common experience to realize that there are some albums that you're just not ready for for one reason or another? I remember that I didn't really "get" Peste Noire the first time I heard Ballade, which was my first PN record, but I went back to it with the right mindset and it finally clicked for me.
On the "not ready for that album" kick - yes, it happens to me quite alot. Pretty much all of Black Metal has fit into that space up until Naxzul and Slavia changed me a few months back. It was a "come to Satan" thingy.
If I had to make a sweeping generalization I'd say it's not only common, but common in this thread, because I'd guess around 80%-99% of the kvlt find tech death so distasteful, that I think most will never check out the greatest tech death album yet produced (y'all ain't ready for The Aura :P).
Edit: OK, that response was totally an agenda to get you all to check out The Aura. In all seriousness, I can say that anytime I hear metal older than 2007, I wasn't ready to hear it before 2007.
And on LoveIsUnity's question. Yes. There are a number of albums like that for me. Especially since I went through a "if it's not Black Metal it doesn't deserve my attention" phase for about a year as a teenager.
But even on a black metal type note; I absolutely hated Mayhem's Grand Delcaration of War when it first came out. About a year after that, when I listened to it again, I fell in love with it. I still really like that album. I really feel Alice Cooper's Dada is overlooked and didn't care for it the first time I heard it either. However, a few years ago I gave it another spin and something on it clicked with me.
Hell, there are bands I dismissed for years. The wife finally got me to admit that The Cure put out some good albums and are worth listening to. I recently rediscovered Godgory a bit. I didn't like Sigh's latest the first time I heard it, but it has since grown on me.
This goes the other way too. There are albums I liked once that upon listening to recently found out that I no longer cared for them at all.
PSN : Bolthorn
Nah, not a glaring hole for me in the slightest.
I've listened to it a few times some months back. It's not bad. I enjoyed the bass playing and some of the riffs, and how it throws together a panoply of the Canadian and tech melodic death/thrash influences (sort of like a better Arsis or Quo Vadis jamming with Augury or The Faceless), but the vocals are nothing special, a few of the chugging riffs with leads over them get a little tiring, and then of course the song structures that are cycling through riff after riff after riff after riff after riff because they can. Sometimes they'll hit a really good note sequence and then, 'puff' it vanishes. I found I was more into the long instrumental sections of songs like 'Coexistence' than most of the metal parts.
Good enough, lots of technical talent, and definitely better than the new Obscura, but ultimately flashy and forgotten six months down the road, without even a single malevolent DEATH METAL riff on the whole album. For tech death I'm more into Decrepit Birth (2nd and 3rd albums) because it feels that much more ominous, but then again the 'tech death' label sort of changes from year to year...what's complex today seems like child's play tomorrow, know what I mean?
I more enjoyed the songs from the last albums by Augury, The Faceless. Also there was that one other review Narian posted (Archspire?) I kinda dug a little more than this one. Not year's end listable for me, but maybe like an 8/10.
Understatement of the thread? Brilliant band with at least 10 essential albums...