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Post by JohnnyMetal on Apr 2, 2005 13:44:02 GMT -5
I'm a few songs into this and I like this CD! It's different from Undeceived and Synergy but this has some great grooves and melodic metal sound. It's very different but I believe this one will catch on with me quicker than Synergy did. Yes, BTA and these guys? WOW!!
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Post by Solid on Apr 2, 2005 14:59:24 GMT -5
I gotta get that CD...and BTA and Extol together? I'm definitely gonna see this! ;D
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Post by JohnnyMetal on Apr 3, 2005 13:41:13 GMT -5
After hearing the whole CD, I like this more than I liked Synergy. It's different. That's the best way to describe it. It just seems fresh, if you can call it that.
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Post by Jacob Lance (EpitomeParadox) on Apr 4, 2005 12:27:04 GMT -5
It didn't seem fresh to me, because I had already heard ganglion. I don't know if I'm actually going to pick up this cd, or not. I'm not a fan of what I've heard so far.
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Post by JohnnyMetal on Apr 4, 2005 19:33:28 GMT -5
Ah, see you're one up on me because I don't think I have heard Ganglion and if I had, I don't remember it. I don't know why I liked the new one so much. I just dig it.
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Post by MetalInfluences on Jun 1, 2005 15:14:04 GMT -5
Maybe you guys can tell me a bit bout it. I'm kinda leary cause the European critics are goin nuts praisin it. I've heard "Gloriana" on the internet. Are there any harder songs, meanin w/o the wierd Falsetto singin? (It was a good song though.) Wat bout solos? I love Tor's solos. Educate me here, man.
Yo, wat's Ganglion's last CD called?
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Post by fleshnblud on Jun 1, 2005 17:18:40 GMT -5
I heard them live with BTA and that was a weird experience...they were on tour with BTA, Winter Solstice and The Showdown...so metal, to hardcore w/ some metal to metal to...Extol! They played one old song and the crowd went crazy, when they were playing the new stuff people were just kind of standing around wondering what to do. But, at the end, more than half the crowd was yelling "one more song" and they came back out. So, if you are expecting them to sound like the old stuff, you are in for a real suprise, maybe even a disappointment. But, if you are looking for something different...the music is heavy, perhaps heavier than any of their stuff, but definately not as fast, there's a lot of singing and melodies and even duets...it's not like their old stuff and you may or may not like that.
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Post by DenverRockBrian on Jun 2, 2005 18:27:59 GMT -5
This new album is by far my favorite Extol album. I love the depth to it. It doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard (and nope.. I haven't heard Ganglion yet). After listening to this album, I said "wow.. these guys are really well rounded musicians... they can play anything... this is amazing."
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Post by JohnnyMetal on Jun 3, 2005 6:26:29 GMT -5
And as I said once or three hundred times before, getting to see them do the new stuff live was amazing. It's starting to overtake Undeceived as my favorite CD of theirs!
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Post by Jacob Lance (EpitomeParadox) on Jun 3, 2005 20:14:45 GMT -5
If it says anything I know that two of the songs on the blueprint dives are ganglion songs. Possibly more.
I'm still not digging what I've heard.
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Post by MetalInfluences on Jun 6, 2005 9:42:46 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me if they have any stunnin solos on this album? I know Tor Magne did the one on "Nihilism 2002" on the last album. That was amazin, man, not my faavorite but amazin still. And do all the songs sound like "Gloriana" vocally?
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Post by Always the Hunter on Jun 14, 2005 21:31:27 GMT -5
I like the new CD alot all though a am not a big fan of singing, but on this CD I like the singing on it. I can recall no solos. There is one song that realy stands out to me though it is The Things I Have Found. It kind of reminds me of some of their older stuff before Synergy but slower, x cept without the growling. Over all I think the CD is very good and worth buying.
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Post by JohnnyMetal on Jun 14, 2005 21:52:45 GMT -5
No, I can't say that there is much in the way of guitar solos but the musical composition is just so incredible to listen to. I was just listening to it again on my way home from my men's group meeting tonight. Great stuff! I actually enjoy the singing on this one. I can actually sing along and not lose my voice!
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Post by amoyensis on Jun 29, 2005 20:51:46 GMT -5
Firstly, no there are no solos on the new album.
Tor Magne did NOT do the solo on Nihilism 2002, that was Tore Moren.
Blueprint does not all sound like Gloriana. Gloriana is dominated by the clean vocals; Blueprint I'd say is about half screaming and half singing. Stylistically, it's also quite a bit more experimental than Gloriana would have you assume.
I personally think it's perhaps the greatest rock album to come out this year, but it's definitely nowhere near the quality of Extol's previous material. Undeceived will remain, in my mind, the greatest metal album of all time.
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Post by JohnnyMetal on Jul 2, 2005 15:12:35 GMT -5
And Tore Moren did some serious soloing for that song and another one on Synergy if my memory serves me correct.
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