Friday13th: Obscure Prog Discovery M5

Friday13th 12.31.14	Voting ends Saturday. Both are on Spotify and segments are on youtube I think.
SCREAM! 12.31.14	Somehow I knew this round was next! Gave both of these a listen last night but I'll give them another go or two before I vote
JJKeys 12.31.14	OH BOY HERE WE GO And I've been swamped recently so I haven't had time to vote in M4. I'll give White Arms of Athena a listen, but I'm pretty sure you can guess who my vote'll go to
SCREAM! 12.31.14	Anubis was great instrumentally but the vocalist was kind of a miss for me, we'll see if that changes with more listens. White Arms of Athena was definitely less original but still had some solid songs for the most part and a lot more energy.
Friday13th 12.31.14	The length of Byzantium is a bit daunting...I think I'll jam the metalcore first ;]
JJKeys 12.31.14	Huh, funny - I find that the vocals from WAoA are grating from the sounds of the first track
Mad. 12.31.14	Lol i love that description Anubis is on bandcamp: https://anubismusic.bandcamp.com/album/hitchhiking-to-byzantium I've just gotta say this PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: ANUBIS GROWS it doesn't seem that good at first, it started off as a 3.3 for me but the more you listen, the more you understand it's subtleties like solos, lyrics, song structures etc and now it's a 5.0
JJKeys 12.31.14	Ditto at that And lel, the best part of WAoA so far is the instrumental part at the beginning of This Transition. I'm really not liking to vocalist
Friday13th 12.31.14	sounds like every hardcore "clean" singer ever
JJKeys 12.31.14	Do not want. If there's an instrumental version of WAoA, I'll happily take it; the instrumentation is neat, and I love the ambiance, but the vocalist in this is really poor IMO (he sounds flat half the time). I've finished my first listen of it, and it's only about a 3 for me at the moment. I'll give it a few more spins just to be a good sport. but it's never going to beat Hitchhiking. My vote goes to Hitchhiking to Byzantium
manosg 12.31.14	Modern prog is not my thing but Mad. raving about 2 has made me a bit curious. Let's see how that goes...
Friday13th 12.31.14	Digging that "Welcome to the Machine" synth on track 2 of Byzantium
SCREAM! 12.31.14	Well see Mad. There were a few moments were I found the album kind of ploddy and like I said the vocals were mostly a miss but I'll try and give it another two listens before I vote (hopefully I can find the time with it being so long :p) The vocals for WAoA weren't anything to write home about either but I prefer that style over what I heard in Anubis
OwMySnauze 12.31.14	Haven't heard Anubis yet so this will be interesting. I'll try not to be biased ha! The vox for WAOA are something to get used to. They won't be for everyone but what makes this album is the instrumentation.
Friday13th 12.31.14	Not gonna lie, sometimes Byzantium does sound like alt rock for criminals lol
MeatSalad 12.31.14	Ugh
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	""f*ing pleb garbage", and most recently, "alt rock for criminals."" hahahaha fuck yeah
Friday13th 12.31.14	I could have just copy and pasted Potsy's entire rant, but I still have some professionalism left in me lol
TwigTW 12.31.14	Glad you added Anubis Mad. I listened to it a couple of times when it was released and meant to get back to it, but you know how that goes . . . Sounds good coming back to it now. You're right; it's a grower.
Mad. 12.31.14	Glad some people are being open-minded
MrSirLordGentleman 12.31.14	Both albums are decent overall, but nothing special tbh
menawati 12.31.14	going for 2
JJKeys 12.31.14	Twig has seen the light! Hallelujah!
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	"I could have just copy and pasted Potsy's entire rant, but I still have some professionalism left in me lol" "professionalism" anyways cant wait to 2 both of these
MrSirLordGentleman 12.31.14	I think I'll go with Anubis, not really interested in any of the two albums, I don't think I'll listen to them more than the 2 times I've already did
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	any of the two
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	"I don't think I'll listen to them more than the 2 times I've already did" i cant believe u even listened to them both twice even tbh
MrSirLordGentleman 12.31.14	Hey, it has been a boring afternoon here
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	so u decided to make it even more boring!?
MrSirLordGentleman 12.31.14	listened to them while playing Age of Empires so it wasn't that terrible
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	bro age of mythology greaterthansymbol
MrSirLordGentleman 12.31.14	There ain't no Cobra cars in Mythology m8
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	yeah but egypt
JJKeys 12.31.14	Isis for best Major God Norse suck ass
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.31.14	agreed because egypt
gagnonov 12.31.14	vote goes to anubis easily, even though i didn't particularily enjoy it what is 1 even doing here who let this fuckery happen names pls
JJKeys 12.31.14	Thanks Obama
SharkTooth 12.31.14	wwba
MeatSalad 01.01.15	Norse fucking rule, nothing but ulsfark and troll spam all day every day
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	no cuz egypt
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	speaking of egypt that Anubis band is a fucking disgrace to the egyptian god tbh really fucking pisses me off fer real
Mad. 01.01.15	Good for you bro
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	whatever false prog boner killing shit tier australian lover
Mad. 01.01.15	Well it's all fine for me cuz I can dig both types of music
JJKeys 01.01.15	'false prog' Do you like, have a shrine to Peter Gabriel you sacrifice lambs to every day or something? Geez.
SharkTooth 01.01.15	lamb sacrifice is for plebs
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	goats you fucking pleb. i sacrifice goats to Peter Gabriel you idiot. "Well it's all fine for me cuz I can dig both types of music" no u only false
JJKeys 01.01.15	b-b-b-but I like 70's Y-Y-Yes, Pots-kun
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	i wouldnt know i havnt evn hrd it lmao haha taste the pain
JJKeys 01.01.15	Well if Anubis isn't real prog and 70's Yes isn't real prog, then I don't know what the fuck is Screw it - I knew we should've put up A Tower of Silence instead of Hitchhiking. I'll go jam that now
SharkTooth 01.01.15	"Well if Anubis isn't real prog and 70's Yes isn't real prog, then I don't know what the fuck is" all the answers will come when you jam Fuzzy Duck
Friday13th 01.01.15	lol Fuzzy Duck has the best album art in prog along with Love Beach
MrSirLordGentleman 01.01.15	Why jam Fuzzy Duck when there's Uriah Heep?
SharkTooth 01.01.15	Cuz Uriah Heep's not elite enough
MrSirLordGentleman 01.01.15	David Byron's the most elite singer ever
Friday13th 01.01.15	gotta be leeeeeet like White Arms of Athena
SharkTooth 01.01.15	exactly, there's a Uriah Heep album with 165 votes obv that band's too mainstream
SharkTooth 01.01.15	Smh MrSirLordGentleman, I expected better from you
Friday13th 01.01.15	For the record, I take full responsibility for making you guys jam WAoA. My fears were definitely realized. Makes it all interesting, right? :D Anubis is pretty good though and doesn't deserve the hate.
SharkTooth 01.01.15	All isn't lost if we manage to get OwMySnauze to jam real prog
Friday13th 01.01.15	Exactly...it's only 30 some minutes of your lives right. It's the price we pay to save a soul from faux prog hell XD
JJKeys 01.01.15	>uriah heep >good huehuehuehuehueheuheuheu
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	30 minutes of false prog is like 1000 lifetimes of immolation
SharkTooth 01.01.15	But not much else can be done to show these plebs the error of their ways
JJKeys 01.01.15	I can't hear you over the sweet sound of sax But you can't deny that the artwork for Hitchhiking is pretty damn beautiful
Calc 01.01.15	we aren't gonna do mine are we?
Calc 01.01.15	vote goes to 1 by the way
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	"I can't hear you over the sweet sound of sax" thats actually saux you're hearing. faux sax.
JJKeys 01.01.15	Genuinely kekd at that, Pots, gg And say WHAAAAAAAAAT
MrSirLordGentleman 01.01.15	">uriah heep >good" excuse me m8?
OwMySnauze 01.01.15	The vocals and the production on Hitchhiking is meh for me. WAOA wins it for this one.
OwMySnauze 01.01.15	Calc has good taste
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	haaaaaaaaaa
Friday13th 01.01.15	"thats actually saux you're hearing. faux sax." lol best comment
JJKeys 01.01.15	Forgive them, Anubis, for they know not what they do
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	the real anubis would literally rip those d-bag aussie rat-fucks chests open and devour their dumb hearts
Friday13th 01.01.15	lol JJKeys, I think Jesus actually said to beware of false prophets...and faux proggers ;]
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	^^^fact. it was lost in translation somwhere between 1000-1100 AD
sonictheplumber 01.01.15	these from the 70s or not? cause if not
MrSirLordGentleman 01.01.15	I have a dream that one day a good modern prog band will appear
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	they arent its fucked this is pleb round of the contest
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	"I have a dream that one day a good modern prog band will appear" id say hold your breath but i dont hate you so dont hold your breath
MrSirLordGentleman 01.01.15	I'd die if I do that man :(
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	exaaaaactly
MeatSalad 01.01.15	"Calc has good taste" Okay let's not get unrealistic here
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	'greeed
JJKeys 01.01.15	"the real anubis would literally rip those d-bag aussie rat-fucks chests open and devour their dumb hearts" Something troubling you, son?
Lord(e)Po)))ts 01.01.15	yes this band blaspheming Anubis's name is troubling indeed
Friday13th 01.01.15	Alright, let's try to finish this sucker formally. My vote goes to Anubis cause it's pretty good Floydish modern prog. 2-5 right now
TwigTW 01.01.15	Anubis
JJKeys 01.01.15	>finish >voting ends Saturday lel, there'll be blood by then
Mad. 01.01.15	Anyone got a stream for 1 Friday, are you planning to do another one of these with a different genre after this one finishes?
JJKeys 01.01.15	http://whitearmsofathena-official.bandcamp.com/
MrSirLordGentleman 01.02.15	Friday, there has to be a Hard Rock contest
MeatSalad 01.02.15	Probably gonna skip out on this round, trying to catch up on time spent away from family and dont have time to listen to 2 albums i know i wont enjoy anyway, no offense
Friday13th 01.02.15	I would like to do a classic heavy metal/hard rock one at some point.
Friday13th 01.02.15	@MeatSalad try to catch up next week when you have time.
MeatSalad 01.02.15	Yeah no worries I'll be back, still looking forward to the next few discovery rounds here
Onirium 01.02.15	This kind of contest is probably adaptable for many genres. A hard rock one would be great; so would a folk or jazz/fusion one for me. As for my vote, it goes to Anubis without a doubt. I don't know if I could say I really digged it, but it definitely has strong melodies, and some interesting atmospheres and ideas. Jamming 1 was very painful anyway.
Jethro42 01.02.15	I cannot see how 2 could be a grower (as Mad said it to be), it's rather an instant delight to my ear. Really a great neo-prog album with lots of treasures hidden in the mix. I have yet to listen to 1. Haven't heard a single note out of it yet. Also, 100th comment.
manosg 01.02.15	"I would like to do a classic heavy metal/hard rock one at some point." That would be awesome, if/when you have the time.
JJKeys 01.02.15	>I cannot see how 2 could be a grower D:it's rather an instant delight to my ear :DDDDDDDDDD
Jethro42 01.02.15	;)
Jethro42 01.02.15	Anubis with no hesitation. WAoA is truly painful.
SCREAM! 01.02.15	I definitely don't find WAoA painful haha the instrumentation is solid even if the vocals are pretty lackluster Overall I also have to give it to Anubis though. The vocals are growing on me and the music is generally better written even if it does drag a little in parts
Friday13th 01.02.15	2-9 seals it basically
Friday13th 01.02.15	Hey Jethro, I just bought Double Dimple on vinyl for $3!
Jethro42 01.02.15	Enjoy! Might sound better than on youtube :D And try to get Spartacus, it's a helluva great album too.
Friday13th 01.02.15	I'll check it out. I also found the original SEBTP CD so I'm feeling pretty good today :D
Jethro42 01.02.15	You know what you like :D
Friday13th 01.02.15	...and I like what I know! hehe
manosg 01.03.15	My vote goes to 2 but I really forced myself listening to both albums. Not gonna rate them for the time being cause I'll be unfair.
Mad. 01.03.15	Gonna have to go for 2, I'd see why someone might like 1 though White Arms is pretty good tbh
Friday13th 01.03.15	2-11 and Anubis wins! Next one coming up.