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| Stuff I bought volume 4
Finally, I managed to have a better month financially, allowing me to buy a bit more than the last times. This list consists of practically only must-have classics, some of which I had earlier, copied on to tape (!), but mostly I was embarrassed for not having them in my collection. Up to now! The four first albums were on my waiting list, and I bought them through my favourite net shop, and the other two, well you could say that there were on my waiting list too, but I but them on a trip to my favourite physical CD shop. The list is a mix of metal and progressive stuff. | | 1 |  | Lamb of God
Ashes of the Wake
I really like LoG- I think of them as a definition of ''metal''. Up to now I owned only ''Sturm und Drang'', but I knew and listened through practically all of their CDs. A couple of years ago, I listened to them regularly everyday, and now I find them to be one of the best soundtracks on my way to work. | | 2 |  | King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Over the past couple of years, I have a growing liking for progressive metal and rock. Once I was rather scared of it, thinking, oh no, it's boring and the equivalent of a drunken scientist at a party. But, as is with many things, when I started checking it out, it actually turned out to be very listenable. Progressive doesn't mean that the music won't have hooks or melodies. It also doesn't have to mean that it is completely serious and stuck up. For some time now I was wanting to buy another classic progressive album, and I was thinking long and hard about ''In the Court of the Crimson King''. Of course I knew the material before, but not really in it's entirety. Looking forward to give this a proper listen and check where all the modern progressive music originated from. | | 3 |  | Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath was always very high up on my list. Out of the three great classic hard rock/ heavy metal bands (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath), I think the rockers from Birmingham take the first place for me. But Black Sabbath was always Ozzy for me- the band without him I always thought to be something slightly different. I really like Dio though, so that version of the band is much more acceptable than, for example, the band which we can experience on ''Born Again''. I don't own much Black Sabbath albums (4 or 5, one of which is a compilation), and I want to slowly expand my collection. I decided to start from Heaven and Hell, because the title track made me check out the rest of the songs, and I for me, this is exactly what I look for in hard 'n' heavy. | | 4 |  | Iron Maiden
Brave New World
One of the first records I bought (or rather, my Mom bought for me) was ''Somewhere in time''. Later on I bought ''Powerslave'', ''Iron Maiden'' and ''Killers'', and also I copied a few CDs off my friends. One of them was ''Brave New World''. I quickly stopped listening to Iron Maiden- God knows why, but I pay a lot of attention to the whole ideology behind a band, and, umm, let us call it marketing (although the implication of this word in art is terrible). I think I just saw one too many spotty teenager wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt, and when something becomes too commonly used, I take a dislike to it. I also stopped liking the whole ''story'' behind the band- the galopades, Eddie, fantasy mixed with history facts, the spandex... But now I'm a bit older and wiser, I returned to the Irons. I even listened to Somewhere in Time again, after so many years and I loved it! So, I remembered that Brave New World was something I liked very much. Melodies plus metal in this form is superb. | | 5 |  | Dream Theater
Images and Words
If you remember (or read) what I wrote in the description for King Crimson, you'll know that progressive metal/ rock was never my favourite, seeming like a good excuse to masturbate over ones technical abilities. Dream Theater was always associated by me as one of the leading bands in boredom, stuck-upivness and masturbation.You know, solos are nice and all, but I always thought that they give more pleasure to the player, than the listener. I must admit I was quite wrong. I started to actually listen to them with understanding when their last album came out (Distance over Time). I saw that their music is actually quite catchy, and the guys often know when to let go before a song gets boring. After purchasing D/T, I looked into their catalogue and saw that Images and Words keeps appearing as a masterpiece and as one of the most favourite albums of all time in many musicians ''best CDs'' list. As I can be a bitch for somebodies opinion, I bought it, and I'm listening to it right now. | | 6 |  | Opeth
Still Life
Opeth is in my top 5 bands, or maybe even top 3. The ''marketing'' element that I wrote about earlier is there, the band's attitude is awesome (really cool guys with a lot of humour), their technical abilities are superb and they don't give a flying fuck about what anybody thinks (hence the progressive trio of albums). I'm near to completing their discography, although I was/ am missing a few positions. It's embarrassing to say that one of them is Still Life, an album that I of course know, but I just never got down to buying it. Yesterday the situation changed, and I am one step closer to completing my collection of one of the best bands in the world. | |
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