Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Vector was better.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Affinity was better than both, tbh
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Affinity is pretty underrated, yea
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Album Rating: 2.5
Vector or the Mountain still remain their best works
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
That's a weird way to spell Vector and Visions, but I absolutely agree
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Or Mountain and Affinity, sth's fucked up with autocorrect
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Album Rating: 2.5
Visions relies too heavily on Dream Theater-type symphonics and wankery for it to be among their best
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Album Rating: 4.0
Vector or the Mountain still remain their best works (2)
Agreed Visions is way too derivative. Also hella compressed and a little long. Glad they came into their own a little more with The Mountain and onward
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Deathconsious is a faggot agreed
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Visions has their best production imo. It may be a bit too long, but I'll take it over the mountain any day
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Visions relies too heavily on Dream Theater-type symphonics and wankery for it to be among their best"
Agreed hard, although I love Aquarius so it could just be the execution for me.
"I never read the lyrics tbh"
I'll probably do a dissection of Vector, Virus, and the Cockroach King at some point so if you give a shit I'll let you know when I publish it.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I'd be curious tbh. I read the lyrics for Vector and it works really well as a concept imo. I'm curious about your interpretation of Vector though
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
"Visions relies too heavily on Dream Theater-type symphonics and wankery for it to be among their best"
True, couldn't phrase it better. It's the album with less character, so many things going on and yet it still falls a bit flat. It mimicks the DT era I care less about.
Even Aquarius was different and huge, especially for a debut album. DT couldn't even dream (no pun intended) of playing with such playfulness (still, no pun intended). Aquarius makes noodling sound like story telling, and that's what makes it for me.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I actually feel this way about Aquarius. Visions makes the better job at songwriting in every way imo. Aquarius just does a lot of things that just don't really add up imo
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Nah... When I first heard Streams I had the impression it was the ''Little Mermaid'' soundtrack progged up.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
It's very Kansas, yea
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Album Rating: 4.0
I love Visions because I don't really listen to it too much, then when I revisit it it's like: 'Owh yeah nice this great song was on there too'. The songs themselves stand out so much for me. Yeah the bookends are a bit overlong but the rest is quite focussed really.
The thing I slightly dislike about Vector and Virus is the heavier focus on chugging. More melodic focussed Haken = best Haken imo.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Agreed, Vector and Virus are their worst for this precise reason. Guitarwork is just subpar throughout most of those two albums.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I really started noticing it last year when they opened up for Devin Townsend. They played most of Vector which live was almost a djent chugfest. The few older songs they played were really a breath of fresh air. Devin felt like a melodic relieve after them.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Not the biggest fan of the heavy approach either. Gets tiresome
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