As to the questions of modern bands and epics, as much as I love some of them, Transatlantic's "The Whirlwind" and The Flower Kings "The Truth Will Set You Free" are great examples in my mind of songs that could have stronger. The Whirlwind has some nice moments, but they're thrown together as "movements" in this larger piece and can't standalone. With "Truth", I always get lost about half way in. I've always felt if they'd wrapped that track up in 13-15 minutes (as opposed to 31), that would have been much stronger.I unfortunately agree with the poster about Transatlantic epics. There's a lot of repeating motifs that just build forever, and after a while I'm at the "Enough already!" point.
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