Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.
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Mythodea
March 3rd 2015


7457 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

thanks bud!



PT are not prog metal, but their latest work is heavier than everythig else SW has done.

PrefrontalCortex
March 4th 2015


128 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Really wanna give this album a listen one day

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 4th 2015


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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"PT are not prog metal, but their latest work is heavier than everythig else SW has done."



In Absentia onwards was basically prog metal mixed in with various other styles tbh



Mythodea
March 4th 2015


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Accurate enough. I think In Absentia and FOABP are the closest they've been to metal. Deadwing had some hard rock parts, but not truly metal, while The Incident had no nerve whatsoever.

Artuma
March 4th 2015


32773 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

pt has never been metal lol. they've had some metal riffs and stuff (esp on in absentia and foabp) but they've always been essentially anything but metal

Mythodea
March 4th 2015


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I know, that's what I said. These two albums are *the closest* they've been to metal, but not purely.

Mongi123
March 4th 2015


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I've always considered PT a psychedelic band at heart. They have some Prog in them of course but at heart that's what they are to me if we're talking one genre.

LunaticSoul
March 4th 2015


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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Post-Lightbulb Sun has been more about prog than psychedelia.



Anyway I've read a really great review just destroying this disc musically - in which the reviewer takes each track, sees a lot of influence from neo prog (which according to him, SW 'detests'), and says that the only moments of glory of the disc are due to a sole genius, whose initials are not SW.. but GG.



Thoughts?

Tunaboy45
March 4th 2015


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

At heart they've always been a psychedelic/progressive band, they just dabbled in metal for In Absentia and FOABP.

Tunaboy45
March 4th 2015


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream are transition albums between the psychedelic and the prog.

Mongi123
March 4th 2015


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

They still have lots of psych stuff on IA and Deadwing.

Tunaboy45
March 4th 2015


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah they have their moments but I think they lean more towards prog.

Itwasthatwas
March 4th 2015


3177 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

What a shit album title.

Mongi123
March 4th 2015


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yea probably but .3, Lips Of Ashes, and even Heartattack are trippy as fuck ;)

Tunaboy45
March 4th 2015


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed they're pretty trippy, especially Lips Of Ashes

Tunaboy45
March 4th 2015


18429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@itwasthatwas they're literally just some random words he put together, I think it's fine



Mythodea
March 4th 2015


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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@LunaticSoul Got a link? I'm interested in reading it.

@Mongi Apart from their first, say, four albums, I don't see much psychedelic in their music. Of course they experiment with it at times, but that's a general part of progressive rock, thus I'd say they're just flirting with it. I see a great distance between their post Lightbulb Sun music and psychedelia.

Mythodea
March 4th 2015


7457 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@Tunaboy Almost forgot, they're not random words. The way I see it, what he's saying is that, the heroine's mistakes and deeds cannot be erased by any means, id est, hand. The random thing is panctuation, which he explains he liked because of its mysterious feeling.

LunaticSoul
March 4th 2015


2403 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Myth, it's in Italian. The guy is a pretty respected writer in the 'scene' though, but is he a bit of a SW hater. He liked both the Raven and Grace though



Well, the titletrack has pretty shitty lyrics. it reminds me for some reason of that awful new Floyd track, lol.

Artuma
March 4th 2015


32773 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

there's nothing psychedelic about their 00s stuff



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