They've really surpassed their debut. Out-of-the-box songwriting and excellent musicianship, checking out the drummer is practically a must.

Fuck, this is some seriously good shit. And here I was thinking there haven't been any great Avantgarde releases yet this year

Unbelievable.

This is a solid album, reminds me a lot of Tool in some weird way. Good surprise overall

Damn, I somehow forgot this existed. I thought this was a distant 2013 release. I remember liking it a lot. Need to recap.

Written by [user id=4365] on 14.07.2014 at 01:59

Damn, I somehow forgot this existed. I thought this was a distant 2013 release. I remember liking it a lot. Need to recap.

If you liked the debut, I'm almost certain you'll dig this one as well (In case you forgot about what this one sounded like).

I really love this one. Never before I had seen any progressive band employing musical textures and actually doing it very nicely.
This actually seems like a combination of tool an aluk todolo for me. No reason for not liking it.

Very interesting and promising, but why couldn't they have split-up the tracks into more, shorter songs? I'll probably never listen to this again given the length of each song...

Written by LeKiwi on 16.02.2015 at 03:40

Very interesting and promising, but why couldn't they have split-up the tracks into more, shorter songs? I'll probably never listen to this again given the length of each song...

That's a shame. I personally don't give a damn about the song themselves as I always listen to albums in their entirety. Makes no sense to me to listen to just one track randomly.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 07:07

That's a shame. I personally don't give a damn about the song themselves as I always listen to albums in their entirety. Makes no sense to me to listen to just one track randomly.

Unless I'm really in the mood for a particular album or haven't listened to one of my all-time favourites in a long time, then I just shuffle my entire library. I have far too many songs in that collection to listen to each album individually...I'd never finish

Written by LeKiwi on 16.02.2015 at 15:23

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 07:07

That's a shame. I personally don't give a damn about the song themselves as I always listen to albums in their entirety. Makes no sense to me to listen to just one track randomly.

Unless I'm really in the mood for a particular album or haven't listened to one of my all-time favourites in a long time, then I just shuffle my entire library. I have far too many songs in that collection to listen to each album individually...I'd never finish

I guess we all have our troubles. I feel that unless an album is a compilation, then it's not a collection of songs and should therefore be both judged and listened as one solid piece.
This of course makes it difficult for me to check my own albums I purchase. I have at least 60 albums I bought which I haven't heard a single note. Hahahahaha.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 15:36

I guess we all have our troubles. I feel that unless an album is a compilation, then it's not a collection of songs and should therefore be both judged and listened as one solid piece.
This of course makes it difficult for me to check my own albums I purchase. I have at least 60 albums I bought which I haven't heard a single note. Hahahahaha.

I'd never judge an album based on couple of tracks unless it was pure genius or pure shit I love variety and I get the most enjoyment from shuffling my library, going from prog rock to brutal death to post-metal to grindcore to prog metal to thrash to the occasional pop shit that I still have

Oh dear... When I haven't heard an album in its entirety, I try and listen to it as a whole before to rate it and decide if I should delete any tracks. Then it just goes into the "shuffle" pile until a particular urge arises.

Written by LeKiwi on 16.02.2015 at 15:46

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 15:36

I guess we all have our troubles. I feel that unless an album is a compilation, then it's not a collection of songs and should therefore be both judged and listened as one solid piece.
This of course makes it difficult for me to check my own albums I purchase. I have at least 60 albums I bought which I haven't heard a single note. Hahahahaha.

I'd never judge an album based on couple of tracks unless it was pure genius or pure shit I love variety and I get the most enjoyment from shuffling my library, going from prog rock to brutal death to post-metal to grindcore to prog metal to thrash to the occasional pop shit that I still have

Oh, I tend to change from time to time, obviously... My original comment came to be because I am a bit baffled that despite that you obviously liked the album, you wont listen to it again based on the song lengths only. I just find it contradictory. Not unlike soemthing like "This is the best cake I had in months, wont eat it ever again". I just failt to see the logic. If you actually liked something, be it cake or a song... You would save some time to listen/eat.

Now I'm hungry... My plan backfired.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 15:49

Oh, I tend to change from time to time, obviously... My original comment came to be because I am a bit baffled that despite that you obviously liked the album, you wont listen to it again based on the song lengths only. I just find it contradictory. Not unlike soemthing like "This is the best cake I had in months, wont eat it ever again". I just failt to see the logic.

I might listen to it again, but only on the rare chance that it pops up while I'm shuffling music at home, which at the moment is about 1 in 6491 <--- (the number of songs I rated as 5/5 for listening purposes.) I don't carry any songs longer than 15 minutes on my phone or music player, which is how I listen to most of my music, so...I'll probably never hear it again

Written by LeKiwi on 16.02.2015 at 15:56

I don't carry any songs longer than 15 minutes on my phone or music player, which is how I listen to most of my music, so...I'll probably never hear it again

^Spoken like a true prog fan.

Finally reached the avantgarde nominees. Liked this quite a bit, particularly tracks 3 & 5.

Written by LeKiwi on 16.02.2015 at 15:23

Written by X-Ray Rod on 16.02.2015 at 07:07

That's a shame. I personally don't give a damn about the song themselves as I always listen to albums in their entirety. Makes no sense to me to listen to just one track randomly.

Unless I'm really in the mood for a particular album or haven't listened to one of my all-time favourites in a long time, then I just shuffle my entire library. I have far too many songs in that collection to listen to each album individually...I'd never finish

Hey bro you NEED to change that type of listening , you missing some huge atmosphere and emotion when you listen song by song . . . man I was like you but recently I understand how wrong is that type of listening metal and rock kind of music . . . its not bad to listen one song or two when you want to find are you going to listen whole album or not either by friend/MS user recomendetion or lastfm listening number but having a list filled with your favorite songs from random places just make no sense (man I know your feeling but thats not the proper way) tray to find ~1 hour free time in your day and listen to one album at it entirely, just test it and see if you like it or no.

Fuck I forgot about this gem.