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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Zzzptm on January 27, 2022, 08:49:56 AM
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Tony Martin's Thorns... definitely will be in considerations of a "best of" dimension. I'm only three songs in, but this is a great album thus far. I'm significantly impressed.
EDIT: 9 songs in, it never let up. And "Run Like the Devil" lines up strongly against my favorite Eternal Idol track "Lost Forever".
And then Martin goes down an Ian Gillan-esque rabbithole with "This Is Your Damnation". I'm loving this. :rockon:
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Oh yeah baby, got the MP3s, about to play it all over again. Every track a winner, this is a solid, solid offering. Hell yes!
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This one is going on my list for 2022 today and Wo Fat's new album will join it in 3 weeks.
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Yep, Wo Fat is on my list. MASSIVE jams on their 2022 release! :D
Gonna also give a listen to The Space Huns' latest. It was only a buck on Bandcamp and I like their jams, so I bought it without a full pre-listen. Black Sky Giant's End of Days Pilgrimage will also receive due consideration.
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New Sasquatch album, I think I'll check it out...
https://store.sasquatchrock.us/album/fever-fantasy
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New Sasquatch album, I think I'll check it out...
https://store.sasquatchrock.us/album/fever-fantasy
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This is a strong album with an awesome set at the end. It had a good opener, a few slow/mid-tempo tracks and then tracks 5-9 give it a powerful second half. Heavy rock without any screamo, cookie monsters, or shrill pipers. Good rocker vocals, in other words. Gonna buy this one and it may be a contender with Wo Fat's The Singularity for my #2 album of the year, I'll have to play them against each other.
Thorns still holding that awesomeness at #1 for me.
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Never heard of them but I had to check them out because of that and holy moses! That's some heavy groovy stuff!
I'm digging it! The vocals are bit questionable maybe but the music is great!
I think I'll be buying that album!
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Yeah, I just up and bought it for my upcoming flight today. :smug: Gonna be good...
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Well it's starting to be that time again that this becomes a valid topic for real so to speak.
Top albums of 2022...
Nothing really has touched Tony Martin's Thorns yet...that album is just simply put SUBERB...no to ways about it.
Others that have climbed up are
Wolfsbane - Genius
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead
Deep Purple - Turning To Crime
Savage Master's Those Who Hunt At Night should rise up but I haven't gotten my copy yet...same goes for Visions Of Atlantis' Pirates.
Iron Maiden's Senjutsu will NOT be making it on the list...that was a huuuge disappointment again...
Ozzy's Patient #9 was bland as hell as well...not that I had any kind of expectations for it to begin with but I atleast expected some sort of quality with the tracks featuring Tony and Zakk but alas no...
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Unless Dio rises from the grave and cuts a live album for streaming release, I think Thorns is easily the top album of the year. I'm very happy with the Wo Fat, Sasquatch, and Marlboro Men offerings. For non-metal/stoner, I enjoyed Chris Joss' TR 013. In other albums, I picked up some releases from smaller bands that I had fun with, but didn't play a lot: We Lay on Cold Stone by Josiah, Heavy Road by Parlyzed, Volume I by Sons of Arrakis, and End of Days Pilgrimage by Black Sky Giant. I was a little disappointed with the BSG offering, as their two previous releases are ones I play a lot.
I was disappointed overall with Ozzy, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden's releases. DP's last album with Morse was an unexpected swan song for their guitarist of so many years, and I very much enjoyed most of the tracks from it.
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I am looking forward to the Nov. 11 release of Deaf Radio's new album, Arsenal of Hope.
@Kilo, it's got a great vibe to it, similar to The Stranglers. This band has gone through some great growth of late.
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The Iron Maiden and Deep Purple albums were both released last year... doesn't time fly!
I think I've only bought 4 albums this year,
Thorns
Patient Number 9
The Sick, The Dying and the Dead
Jazz Sabbath Vol 2
Thorns is quite far ahead, Ozzy's and Megadeth's are fine, and Jazz Sabbath Vol 2 is garbage.
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Oh ass....so they did...where the hell did this year go?
Well that surely cuts down the number of albums released this year...
In my defense though I did buy Turning To Crime this year so that did screw my memory up a bit...but surely I should have remembered the Maiden...
One album I could add to the list is Hammerfall's Hammer of Dawn...although I am bit disappointed by that one I might have to relisten to it again as it's been few months and who knows it might have grown on me...
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Playing Thorns again, totally not regretting that choice! :headbanger:
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Couldn’t get into Thorns at all. Heavy yes, but unimaginative and unmemorable down-tuned nu metal riffing with bland generic vocal melodies and silly lyrics.
Was actually one of the worst years for new releases I can remember. Hoping 2023 is a much better year.
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While I'll disagree with the gent from Oz on Thorns :) , I'll agree with the big beautiful bastard that 2022 was slim pickins for new albums.
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This year surely didn't see a lot of albums coming out...Anthrax was one that I was looking forward to but they pushed that way back...might not even come out next year! Sucks.
Alice Cooper also recorded a new album but that didn't come out either...
Candlemass' new album is supposed to come out on Nov 18th so that's next week....that still has pontential then.
Tim Ripper Owens' new solo EP comes out on Dec 9th but that's just an EP....although the songs I've heard from it are sounding rather excellent!
But all in all this was a bit of an underwhelming year as far as albums go.
Next year might be better...I'm not holding high hopes for Anthrax but would be nice if they finally get it out.
Blaze is recording a new album as we speak.
Alice's album should come out next year
Delain's new album is coming
Tim Ripper Owens but that'll be at the end of the year I think.
Death Angel maybe
Judas Priest maybe
Doctor Butcher maybe
Solitude Aeturnus maybe
Archon Angel maybe
Doro maybe
So there are a bunch of maybes out there and some sure things....looking pretty positive though.
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Yeah a number of possibilities for releases in 2023.
Judas Priest
Anthrax
W.A.S.P.
Overkill
Mercyful Fate
Testament
Metallica?
Iommi?
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Full length album from Mos Generator coming in mid-December. :yes: :rockon: :smug: :wootwoot: :partay: :batdance: :zomg: :excited: :drama: :headbanger:
VERY MUCH looking forward to this one!
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Ranking albums I bought released this year (expecting Mos Generator to make a great one, so rankings will change after 16 December!)
1. Tony Martin - Thorns
2. Sasquatch - Fever Fantasy
3. Deaf Radio - Arsenal of Hope
4. Wo Fat - The Singularity
5. Chris Joss - TR 013
6. Paralyzed - Heavy Road
7. The Marlboro Men - It Ain't a Hunting Party Until Something Gets Broken
8. Black Sky Giant - End of Days Pilgrimage
9. Josiah - We Lay on Cold Stone
10. Sons of Arrakis - Volume I
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Releases for 2023 we can now add:
Metallica - 72 Seasons (14th Aoril 2023)
Black Sabbath - Tony Martin era Box Set sometime next year according to Tony Martin!
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Yeah the Metallica release was one no one saw coming. They had said they’d been working on new music while not being able to tour during the pandemic hence the ? on my list of albums to look forward to in 2023 but I still thought it would be much more unlikely than likely let alone an April release.
As for the Tony Martin boxset, I’ll believe it when it actually comes from Iommi’s mouth with a definitive release date and pictures of the boxset and preorders go up.
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The new song was pretty meh...Kind of like modern Metallica by the numbers...which was no real surprise to anyone I think.
I didn't bother with the last one as the songs they put out weren't all that good...part from the title track which had a bit of that classic 80s Metallica feel to it...too bad the others were like left over tracks from ReLoad!
The Tony Martin Boxset should come out next year. I am hoping there would be some unreleased tracks included but I'm not holding my breath to be honest...But we might get some unreleased live stuff though which would be awesome too!
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I don’t love the new song but I think it’s ok. Riff has a NWOBHM vibe to it and James sounds pretty good on it. Sounds very much like a HWTSD song with structure and production. In saying that I probably prefer it over most songs on the new Megadeth album.
I think the tour concept is very cool. Two shows in each city with completely different set lists. Also with two different opening bands. Not many bands would do that these days. Least of all Maiden who play the entire same setlist for the whole tour.
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Yeah the tour idea is really cool. Metallica is one of the few bands that do these kind of things. Sure it means that the preformances are anything but tight but I guess that just adds to the whole live feel.
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Getting a listen of the Mos Generator tracks before they drop on Friday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkTX-LIAGU for the opening track, "Aja Minor".
It has an interesting hard progressive feel to it, like really early Rush from Caress of Steel or Black Sabbath from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Tony Reed cites Joni Mitchell's Hejira as an influence, and there's a lot going on in this track. There's a good groove in the fast-moving parts. Yes, that means there are also slow sections, it's that kind of track. Great finish on it, I think, and I'm enchanted and intrigued by it.
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"Burn Away the Years" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkP42MvLkB0
Definitely another step away from heavy-hitting rock and towards the more progressive side of things. I'm ready for the move and open to it, and I think I'm going to really enjoy the rest of the album come this Friday. I'll need to hear the whole thing to see if it cracks into my top 5 or not. Wondering if it will play through like Whooosh! did, where it's better taken in as an album than as individual tracks.
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I really love the new Mos Generator album - it's VERY prog, which I'm enjoying greatly. It's not so prog that it's experimental, but it do be proggy.
So where do I slot it in on my list for the year after playing it through about 4 times just now?
1. Tony Martin - Thorns
2. Sasquatch - Fever Fantasy
2.1 Mos Generator - Time // Wounds
3. Deaf Radio - Arsenal of Hope
4. Wo Fat - The Singularity
5. Chris Joss - TR 013
6. Paralyzed - Heavy Road
7. The Marlboro Men - It Ain't a Hunting Party Until Something Gets Broken
8. Black Sky Giant - End of Days Pilgrimage
9. Josiah - We Lay on Cold Stone
10. Sons of Arrakis - Volume I
I already had something of a tie between Sasquatch and Deaf Radio, and this one somehow manages to land in between the millimeters between those two. It's excellent work, and I'm thrilled with it.
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Just listened the new Candlemass again and I have to say it is very very good indeed.
Sure Johan's voice has gotten bit grittier and he doesn't even try to do the highs or push it to operatic style but that's okay. The music is great. Bunch of great riffs, I'd say the riffs on this are better than anything on The Door To Doom.
So this rocketed to the top albums list for sure!
So I think my list looks like this now:
1. Tony Martin - Thorns (This album is just about as perfect as an album can be. An instant classic)
2. Savage Master - Those Who Hunt At Night
3. Wolfsbane - Genius
4. Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
5. Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead
6. Hammerfall - Hammer Of Dawn
Just received the Visions Of Atlantis' Pirates so haven't had the chance to listen to it yet but I have a feel it would rise above Hammerfall...
Tim Ripper Owen's EP Return To Death Row is rather excellent as well but it's just an ep with 22 minutes of running time so I don't think it counts...if it did it would be #3.
This is a rare year that I didn't not even get to top 10 albums...meaning I haven't even bought 10 new albums this year....wow. That might be a first....
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Indeed on the lack of offerings - the Mos Generator album gets me to 11 releases for the year. Everything else I picked up is from 2021 or earlier.