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SolariS 
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Joined: October 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 891 |
 Posted: January 02 2008 at 23:52 |
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well, i bought judgement and really enjoyed it. so i decided to buy eternity and alternative 4, but found them somewhat boring. they lacked something that judgement had...i just dont know what.
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Hamfari
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Joined: June 25 2007 Location: Iceland Status: Offline Points: 131 |
Posted: January 02 2008 at 10:56 |
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Well that´s old news, it is rumoured that they´ll sign w. Roadrunner like Porcupine Tree.
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Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.
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frantic
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Joined: December 07 2007 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Points: 39 |
Posted: January 02 2008 at 05:28 |
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as an Anathema listener (fan once, but not anymore) since their Silent Enigma (1995), i wanna share my thoughts.
maybe some of their works, precisely in last two albums, gives a floydish taste. they have lots of experimental approaches in time. i love Anathema, they are generally very atmospheric, experimental but never prog for me. i never saw a band that changes the genre that much in time.
(i saw them live 6 times. every gig they play "Comfortably Numb" or "Wish You Were Here")
but they are so underrated that they can put this in their website, they must be in hard conditions:
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From www.anathema.ws:
anathema release three new songs on i-tunes 18th april anathema will release 3 new songs, on i-tunes in april to coincide with their tour supporting finish goth rockers HIM. the three tracks rumoured to be released are.. 1 one day 2 everything 3 angels walk among us there will be official announcements soon. IMPORTANT! as the band is without a record deal and without any financial backing to record an album, we respectfully ask all our fans to go to the i-tunes site and pay for the songs. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! as you will be directly supporting the band at a difficult time, and your money will go towards paying for anathema to record an album this year. we need your help. if you want to be a true fan and help the band directly, instead of helping record companies... do not copy these songs from your friends! go to i-tunes on april 18th and buy them. the price is very cheap! best wishes anathema --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
we see them on tour in Turkey every year since 2003, at least with 5-6 concerts. if they move to Turkey they will survive  |
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hunger for more prog can never be quenched.
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Melomaniac
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Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4088 |
Posted: December 19 2007 at 09:56 |
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[QUOTE=sinkadotentree]Their last five studio albums are all very good in my opinion.They sure know how to create dark,sad and atmospheric songs, with excellent lyrics.QUOTE]
I share that opinion, though my favorites are A Fine Day to Exit and the excellent Alternative 4.
Yep, I think they are underrated too.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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kcmadman
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Joined: December 18 2007 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 6 |
Posted: December 18 2007 at 18:07 |
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Well, I can't say they are underrated when you look at some great bands that are not even featured in PA, or another ones that don't get a lot of attention, specially, by the way, on the death/doom metal area, and Im pretty sure the same thing happens with another genres.
What I dislike is the kind of attention received by bands such as Sigur Ros, Cult of Luna, goodspeed you black emperor! and other ones that may suggest something different, but not artistically innovating or challenging...
Of course, Anathema should get more credit, I don't know if the same amount on the prog area, but definitely on the metal one..
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"Silence has a virtue that apparently denies, which is obligate to speak"
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Thandrus
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Joined: February 05 2007 Location: Georgia Status: Offline Points: 402 |
Posted: December 17 2007 at 21:06 |
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A fine band for me. This means I will enjoy listening them if someone will put their CD into player... but I'd seldom do it bt myself.
Yeah... Their first demo An Illiad Of Woes has a really cool name... as well as Crestfallen...
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Hamfari
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Joined: June 25 2007 Location: Iceland Status: Offline Points: 131 |
Posted: December 16 2007 at 14:22 |
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indeed underrated. Alt4 and Judgement are one of my favorite albums of all times.
Can´t wait for the new album, it sounds promising.
I would describe them to some1 as Radiohead covering Pink Floyd? Not really that prog for the most part, and often regular song structures, but that doesn´t matter.
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Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.
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aapatsos
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 11 2005 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 9226 |
Posted: December 16 2007 at 09:24 |
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Let me put my thoughts on it.
Being a huge fan of the band since I discovered The Silent Enigma and Eternity (their best IMHO), I own all their albums now and have made my mind about this band a long time ago. Unfortunately, inspiration stops after Judgement, and this is not because of the non-metal sound. It's because of the repetition. A Fine Day to Exit still sounds a bit better than A Natural Disaster, but this latter one is indeed a DISASTER in my opinion. I consider everything from A Silent Enigma to Judgement as at least excellent. And if I 'forgive' them for their earliest releases (being the initial ones, a band progresses through time after all), I can't do the same for their latest two outputs. Seen them live on the 'A Fine Day to Exit' tour, I was somewhat disappointed, with the new tracks sounding so empty on stage. Peace |
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Lanor
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Joined: September 28 2007 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 32 |
Posted: December 16 2007 at 01:43 |
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A few years back I was really into A Fine Day To Exit. Really loved it. Loved it so much in fact that I bothered to burn it as a recommendation for someone, along with a few other albums I also liked at the time. I remembered this a year or 2 later and the person said they hadn't had time to listen to it .
Good, because I chucked it on again and realised how mediocre it actually was. Still couldn't recall a track for the life of me. |
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Erick NM
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Joined: December 15 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: December 16 2007 at 01:09 |
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I just got into this band and I think they're great. Actually, "Parrisiene Moonlight" (Judgment) is playing right now....but they're not infallible. I have this same tendency with Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, etc. I want to believe that everything they do is great. I've been trying to leave that mentality behind, and just discover new music for musics sake, not for the band's sake. |
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There are two kinds of music, good and bad
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Ahmadbarqawi
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Joined: May 10 2007 Location: Jordan Status: Offline Points: 149 |
Posted: July 03 2007 at 04:53 |
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exactly... lately i've been listening to alot of unsigned bands (with the help of myspace of course) & believe it or not i'm actually enjoying lots of these musicians for some reason more than the major acts... |
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spo1977
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Posted: July 03 2007 at 04:47 |
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I just could not get into them. I bought 2 of their cds and I made sure they were ones that did not have death metal vocals. Like someone else had said, the whole cd seemed to be a dirge. I need some dynamics.
Roadrunner were cool in the 80's but they lost their way. Unfortunately the music business is a business and they have bills to pay. What I do not like about them has made them successful. I feel your pain though. I have enjoyed bands and cannot figure out why they don't have a deal in the U.S. (back before imports were so cheap) or why they don't have a deal at all. Skyclad comes to mind. |
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Ahmadbarqawi
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Joined: May 10 2007 Location: Jordan Status: Offline Points: 149 |
Posted: July 03 2007 at 04:32 |
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C'mon mate... the band is absolutely amazing & yet they have no record deal, at least they produce music that is 10 times better than the "music" produced by those on Roadrunner's label
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spo1977
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Posted: July 03 2007 at 04:25 |
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I find them overated. I just cannot enjoy their music.
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tardis
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Posted: June 28 2007 at 13:07 |
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Ahmadbarqawi
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Posted: June 28 2007 at 10:13 |
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& I'm sure you think "Tool" & "The Mars Volta" are great bands
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xhamasaki
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Joined: June 13 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 128 |
Posted: June 28 2007 at 10:03 |
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anathema is cheesy and bad
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Ahmadbarqawi
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Joined: May 10 2007 Location: Jordan Status: Offline Points: 149 |
Posted: June 28 2007 at 08:50 |
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i find antimatter a lil too "Alternative" for my taste... nonetheless they are a great band... Anathema on the other hand somehow managed to find a strange balance between so many styles of music that it made it hard to classify them within a certain genre... actually may be that's the reason they're considered "prog" in PA
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Visitor13
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VIP Member Joined: February 02 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 4702 |
Posted: June 28 2007 at 08:41 |
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Very cool band, although I used to like them more than I do now.
Antimatter is a band in a similar vein. |
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Norbert
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Joined: October 20 2005 Location: Hungary Status: Offline Points: 2506 |
Posted: June 28 2007 at 04:36 |
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Anathema is a fine band, they certainly deserve more recognition, than they actually get.
Karin(Antennas) is too busy to post in this topic? |
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