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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 10:00
Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Is the Battles album out yet??? I predict it will be up there for me.
 
Devin Townsend's Deconstruction is likely to be my album of the year. I've sampled most of it on youtube and it seems spectacular. Waiting for the pre-order CDs on June 20th to arrive to be able to accurately assess.
 
So the 2 DT albums, Battles, Symphony X, ??? Opeth or MA + SW project are all anticipated albums for me. Otherwise see my sig.
 
The Grayceon album is awesome.


Where is the new BtBaM ranking with you now? I know you said you liked it, but I don't see it in your sig.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Definitely this so far



or this if you count EPs



What's that first one Pat? And I agree - New I Fealing is amazing.
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That's the Tartar Lamb II album Polyimage of Known Exits.

Don't Don't Don't is the song of the year for me.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 10:48
So far I've only heard...3 albums from 2011 - Korekyojinn's Tundra, Combat Astronomy's Flak Planet, and Red Army's Kill Your Dreams.  They've all been good so far, but I can't quite make a list yet with only 3 titles listened and half a year to go.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 10:49
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

I just can't get into Beardfish- what's wrong with me??? 

Nothing, they're just a "meh" band.
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Points: 3659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 11:47
Not too many great albums for me this year so far but there's a few killers. Best is Revolu$ion by Nemo and in hot pursuit Pandora, Uriah Heep and Magic Pie. Beardfish seem to be getting quite a few mentions and their new album is certainly a good'un but not the excellent album I was hoping for.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 13:57
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

So far I've only heard...3 albums from 2011 - Korekyojinn's Tundra, Combat Astronomy's Flak Planet, and Red Army's Kill Your Dreams.  They've all been good so far, but I can't quite make a list yet with only 3 titles listened and half a year to go.


The Make A Rising EP is free. Go download it.
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The only correct answer is Van Der Graaf Generator..
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

The only correct answer is Van Der Graaf Generator..

No, it's not. It's a good album, but absolutely nothing special whatsoever.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 14:38
It is special because by random chance the creators of the album were born before an arbitrary cut off date. What are you stupid?
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Bands that have 2011 albums that I have are:

Beardfish
Neal Morse

Bands that have 2011 albums that I am looking forward to hearing:

Karmakanic
King Crimson (Projekcts)
MMPLM
Phideaux
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Hiromi
Return to Forever
Riverside
Pain of Salvation
Rush
Derek Sherinian
Opeth
John Petrucci
OSI
The Mars Volta
Metallica
Magic Pie


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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:


Bands that have 2011 albums that I am looking forward to hearing:
Metallica
really ? Cool
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Lars must be his father or something.
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2011 at 22:03
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:


Bands that have 2011 albums that I am looking forward to hearing:
Metallica
really ? Cool


Well, from what Ive heard; if it comes out in 2011, it'll be November or December. But I bet it's pushed back to early 2012
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Points: 887 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2011 at 05:06
Listening to a lot of classical seems to be ruining new prog for me.  The last outstanding album I've
heard was tracks from the last Stereolab album.  Check out "Everybody's Weird Except Me" by them
on YouTube.  Certainly sounds the most adventurous out of all the things I've seen mentioned in this
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Is the Battles album out yet??? I predict it will be up there for me.
 
Devin Townsend's Deconstruction is likely to be my album of the year. I've sampled most of it on youtube and it seems spectacular. Waiting for the pre-order CDs on June 20th to arrive to be able to accurately assess.
 
So the 2 DT albums, Battles, Symphony X, ??? Opeth or MA + SW project are all anticipated albums for me. Otherwise see my sig.
 
The Grayceon album is awesome.


Where is the new BtBaM ranking with you now? I know you said you liked it, but I don't see it in your sig.
 
It's on my queue to buy. I heard it in its entirety on a radio promotion and then have sampled it a few times. My bad luck with Colors still casts a shadow.
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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2011 at 10:52
Need to find ACR's thread about this as I listed the few album's I've heard this year, mostly because I can't really remember. Calomito, Korekyojinn, Combat Astronomy, Faust are probably my top four at this point. The new Ahlechaistas album is wonderful, but don't know it well enough yet to rank it. Still need to listen to Fen, Grails, Altar Of Plagues, Grayceon, all of which I have. And of course all the stuff that's out that i've yet to hear that certainly contains some contenders.
 
I'm sure John Zorn released something this year I enjoyed as well, whatever it is called.
 
But a pretty fair year thus far.
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So far the year has brought me 2 major deceptions, Wobbler and Aheulchatistas, both horrible albums for which I had such high hopes. Top 3 albums so far this year would have to be Jardin De La Croix, Planeta Imaginario and Virus. Hopefully the rest of the year brings some stronger material as the first 2 albums on that list are only good, 3 stars tops albums, not something that should be album of the year candidate. I've got high hopes for the new gorguts record!
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For me it is by far Testimony 2 by Neal Morse. One of his best albums yet, and even more amazing when I saw it live this weekend.

Other albums I've loved this year so far:
Phideaux- Snowtorch
Beardfish- Mammoth
Wobbler- Rites At Dawn

And there are many more great albums coming soon! Seems to be another great year for prog for me!
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Points: 1303 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2011 at 13:49
I thought the new VDGG was like an easy listening version of VDGG. VDGG lite. Where's the power and fury of their old records?!?
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