[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]Sorry to go off topic here, but has anybody heard An Evening With John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess? It's absolutely amazing...specially Rudess. I knew he was good, but never knew this good...[/QUOTE]
I have heard bits...being the DT fanboy I am, I was incredibly impressed.

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]Sorry to go off topic here, but has anybody heard An Evening With John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess? It's absolutely amazing...specially Rudess. I knew he was good, but never knew this good...[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure if what I heard was that or Liquid Tension Experiment. Much better than what I heard from Dream Theater.

[QUOTE=Steerpike]I'm not sure if what I heard was that or Liquid Tension Experiment. Much better than what I heard from Dream Theater.[/QUOTE]
LTE is like DT without vocals, An evening with isnt really. Though I have only heard a little of it.

I prefer LTE to Dream Theater, but I did spark a little interest in the latter again last night. I do still love The Glass Prison, and [I]Images and Words[/I].

I've really gotten quite sick of Dream Theater, I dunno.

I haven't had enough time to form an opinion on LTE though.

NP: Darkest Hour - With A Thousand Words To Say But One

Glass Prison is my favorite DT song...I think.

I havnt heard a whole lot though. And, I havnt listened to any DT ina long time.

[quote=Deconstruction]LTE is like DT without vocals, An evening with isnt really. Though I have only heard a little of it.[/quote]

Then it was probably An Evening With. All I know is this song was playing on the speakers at a local record shop, and I asked the guy what it was and he said he didn't put it on, but he knew it was one of John Petrucci's projects.

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]Sorry to go off topic here, but has anybody heard An Evening With John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess? It's absolutely amazing...specially Rudess. I knew he was good, but never knew this good...[/QUOTE]
I bought it awhile back.. it was cool to listen to a few times, just for the instrument playing, but it's really not that interesting. I get bored of it quickly. Check out some Liquid Tension Experiment if you like that sort of thing-it's much better with drums behind it.

I much prefer DT to LTE, because I'm one of those people who, if James LaBrie's voice took on an incarnate form, would attempt to have sex with it.

Hehe, my favourite moment in a record store was at the local HMV. The manager put on When The Tigers Broke Free, and I exclaimed, rather loudly, "Holy crap, it's Pink Floyd!" to my girlfriend. The manager came over and told me that I'd restored his faith in humanity. :)

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]omg new review of [url=http://musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11842855&postcount=541]Chinese Democracy[/url] :eek:[/QUOTE]

Seriously, I hate Axl Rose, that review was probably true though.

All in all: GnR is boring.

I do like LTE and DT to extents (the latter more), but I'm really liking this for some reason. It's heavily piano based, and the piano is completely jaw dropping.

GNR I could care less about. Decent at best.

Mine will be the time when Someone comes up to me in the metal section and says "You look like you belong here, tell me what to get!"

I live for that day to come.

NP-Autopsy-Ridden with disease

I quite like GNR, but mostly in short bursts. I learnt to play Welcome To The Jungle ages ago, but I can't remember it now. :(

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]Mine will be the time when Someone comes up to me in the metal section and says "You look like you belong here, tell me what to get!"

I live for that day to come.

NP-Autopsy-Ridden with disease[/QUOTE]

Hey, you look like a slightly creepy goth with long hair and a fascination with corpses. Tell me what to get!

[QUOTE]Hey, you look like a slightly creepy goth with long hair and a fascination with corpses. Tell me what to get![/QUOTE]

I like that better.

I will probably buy Chinese Democracy when it surfaces...I'm interested more than anything, really.

NP-Entombed-Left Hand Path

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]I almost bought Twisted Sister's best of a couple of weeks back but my girlfriend said :no9: and thank god. I downloaded it and all the memories of wanting to kill Dee Snider with a rusty batch of poison came back. The guy is a charisma-free zone and irony repellent.[/QUOTE]

Hey, if I scratch your back, you're supposed to scratch mine. :mad:

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]I like that better.[/QUOTE]

You have any pics of yourself ? Heavy Riva's description has gotten me curious :p

Five posts in just over 13 minutes...I'm on a roll. :cool:

NP-Blind Guardian-Mirror,Mirror(live)

[QUOTE]You have any pics of yourself ? Heavy Riva's description has gotten me curious [/QUOTE]

Check out the MX photo album, it's on the first page of the pit ATM.

Hmm ok. I saw it.

I would just maybe post one of me...just maybe.

Heh, I think Riva's description is pretty accurate.

NP-Cannibal Corpse-The time to kill is Now.

Heh kinda :p

I'm trying to find a decent picture of me...all of them i have me Iced Earth shirt on :p

100 greatest drummer nomination results have been posted. Wander over at your leisure and express your displeasure at the choices.

I've never been in a photograph...too TROO for that.

[QUOTE=PinkFreud]100 greatest drummer nomination results have been posted. Wander over at your leisure and express your displeasure at the choices.[/QUOTE]
Pretty good list, man.

Most of my favourites made it, but lack of Fenriz makes me a sad panda.

Fenriz's drumming on Darkthrone isn't that impressive and I havn't heard his other stuff. He just days blast beats or the basic rock beat all the way through songs. Fills... yes... what fills?

Question for mods: would this be an informal paragraph review or a full review?

At the time, Darkest Hour was:
John Henry - Vocals
Mike Schleibaum - Guitar
Fred Ziomek - Guitar
Billups Allen - Bass
Ryan Parrish - Drums

Darkest Hour's second full-length album [i]So Sedated, So Secure[/i] was released March of 2001. The album is very reminiscent of At The Gates' [i]Slaughter of the Soul[/i] though more thrashy. Oftentimes Darkest Hour has been called metalcore, however they have no elements in common with any hardcore band I've ever heard, and few in common with the trash that people throw around as metalcore these days.

With that said, onto the review.

[i]So Sedated, So Secure[/i] is quite possibly one of the greatest albums I've heard in my life. From the first moments of [i]An Epitaph[/i] you know it's something special. Throughout the album we have a nice balance of brutality and melody, and quite fantastic vocals from John Henry, also, Billups Allen's bass playing is more prominent than that of other bands in their genre. Throughout the album there are indeed breakdowns, but the chugging ones are a more intellegent, 4-5 second section that leave's you saying, "that was a nice touch," and the longer breakdowns are more along the lines of melodic sections that are slowed down much like In Flames' [i]Episode 666[/i].

Highlights:
[i]An Epitath[/i] (3:45)
[i]So Sedated, So Secure[/i] (4:09)
[i]The Hallow[/i] (3:28)
[i]No Closer Than A Stranger[/i] (4:53)
[i]The Last Dance Massacre[/i] (8:37)

Also, I've submitted it as an informal paragraph, and it won't show up at all.

EDIT: It's showing up now.

[QUOTE=Silenius]Fenriz's drumming on Darkthrone isn't that impressive and I havn't heard his other stuff. He just days blast beats or the basic rock beat all the way through songs. Fills... yes... what fills?[/QUOTE]
He's better than Lars Ulrich...

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]He's better than Lars Ulrich...[/QUOTE]
Tisnt that hard....

[QUOTE=Deconstruction]Tisnt that hard....[/QUOTE]
Agreed.

It's one of these lists I've been actually happy with

Bugger me.
Anyone who has Kill by Cannibal Corpse, listen to Five nails through the neck at 1:40.
That's the kind of thing that makes me both drop my jaw and wish feverently I could do that.