"Atma" is released earlier this month as a 'name your price' release on which the Russian band Moriya brought a psychedelic post-metal with orderly genuine, yet thunderously heavy riffage. Moriya creates an idiomatic approach that is thoroughly catchy, and in places astonishing and beautiful. Their album, in my humble opinion, particularly should appeal to the fans of the bands like Om, The Atlas and Baroness.
If you have not see the LaTorre version of the band you really should. The first time I saw them was on the first tour with him and although it was kind of a bare bones show it was great. I saw them again on "The Verdict" tour just before COVID and they had really upped their production and the show was fantastic. The only negative is that Scott Rockenfeild is no longer with them, and his drumming was certainly missed, but other than that it was a killer show.
The whole Scott thing is really weird. Neither side has said much of anything about it. Apparently Scott tweeted something about a new project and "soon the truth will come out" or something like that about the Queensryche situation, but to my knowledge he never followed up with any information. I think Todd does ok with the drums on the albums, but Scott had such a unique style that you can really tell a difference. The live drummer that they have is also very good, but again, you can just tell it is not Scott.
Just heard on Sea of Tranquility that singer Eric Wagner (Trouble, The Skull) passed away from Covid....RIP.
I was surprised to hear "wasted years" by Iron Maiden today in Redners.
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How can you play hard, tricky riffs gently? How do you organically merge violent eruptions with calm, lyrical moments? Pumping bass lines lead to melodic runs? Drums thunderstorm, but with an organic groove? Hard and tender, united without remorse? Tender, beguiling singing in the midst of an instrumental crowd? Opposites attract, even merge? Where can you experience, hear, and empathize with all of this? The answer: on "Portals"; come to them and be amazed!
Indeed, TesseracT manage to present us with a live album that is catchy and coherently structured, atmospheric and dreamy, magnificent and complex. On the one hand the variations of vocal melodies, varied mixture of complex 'djent' riffs provide enjoyment for the fans of progressive metal, on the other hand the dynamics between relatively airy passages with singing, pauses and the mentioned short touches of intensity and force. In this respect, "Portals" is of course a successful record.
Tried to find something worthwhile in the last several Ozzy albums dating back to 2001. Came up pretty short, roughly one song from each album. Does Ozzy tell Zakk Wylde that he needs to do that 'squeal' thing 24 times throughout literally every song, or does he just naturally do that?
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He's done some good solos and he can deliver crushing riffs, but he comes across to me as a one-trick pony after a while. I'm not a guitarist so there may be things about his playing I'm missing, I don't know.
Of course, Flying High Again is my favourite hard rock/metal solo of all time, so I may be biased.
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Randy was a rarity. Ozzy has never played with anyone like that since.
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This one's quite good! I'll listen to more of it when I have time.
Good but rather generic metal, a la the majority of metal discussed in this thread.
I listened to just 1 track while I was working, so this may be a bit unfair - but I'd guess that most metalheads will probably give this a 6 or 7 out of 10.
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Duncan
NP: MANOWAR....Kings Of Metal.
Pure. Knucklehead. Fun!
NP Quiet Riot - Metal Health (a friend got it for me on vinyl as a Christmas present when it came out but sometime earlier in the year I bought it on cd for five bucks; I'm not even sure if I still have the old vinyl copy). Ditto the knucklehead fun for this although to be honest I'm not even sure if this would still be considered metal these days.
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