We have been told that we are very much a prog band, but the way we see it is that we just play the music we like to hear. We've got some tracks that you can preview on iTunes and Amazon, but our signature tune is 'Rapture' which you can listen to for free on our music video...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGxQwmb7P0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGxQwmb7P0

 

We would love any feedback, especially if you can help classify our music genre.

 

Much love.

 

Mark & Elysium

Actually the song sux.

Totally uncalled for comment.

Nice song for a good cause, keep up the good work

Final Diagnosis: "Not Prog"

OP wrote: We would love any feedback

Of course...an open invitation to be offensive. How stupid of me.

I'm absolutely sure that " I didn't like the song much" would somehow be a little better though.

OP plays in a band - he should be used to direct, unfiltered and biased criticism.

 

I believe the song is more oriented towards Alternative/Indie, with vocals that remind me of Bryan Adams but better. I like the interplay of acoustic guitar with electric instruments, not my cup of tea but can't deny sounds pretty good.

 

And about being Prog or sounding like Porcupine Tree, I don't believe so, but as I always say, Pog is not a synonym of good, only a genre.

 

BTW: I don't like Porcupine Tree at all. so not being negative about the sound of your song.

 

Good cause, go on

 

Iván.

 

The post starter asked us for an opinion Triceratopsoil, so we have to say if this song fits our concept of Prog.

 

That, and being good is a different issue, I believe is a good song but not Prog.

 

Iván

 

And if you want some more true criticism, the vocals were a bit pitchy at times. Still I would pay to see you guys gig anytime and wish you all the best!

 

Thanks for sharing.

I sincerely don't hope OP is so faint of heart that my initial remark 'got to him'. It's a series of letters on a screen communicating a message from an anonymous internet-character. But, surely - for any offensive force my remarks may have had - I apologize.    

I must say that I am a little surprised by the reactions though.     

You seem to believe that because this communication via the internet it's ok to be rude or that it doesn't matter. You also said that Paravion is not actually you but an online persona. 

I think in reality it does matter how you behave and when I address Paravion I am talking to you......otherwise wahts the point?

Thinlk I got lost here somewhere. Don't mean to sound preachy.

Also I'm not making up excuses to be rude - I sincerely never had intentions of that sort. 

The way I see it, an expression's 'rudeness-force' is very sensitive to difference in scenarios or context.

This scenario:

Musician asks for opinion in a public forum

Someone who is completely unknown to the musician and who appears in 'disguise' writes: 'it sux'. 

By my standards, this particular context undermines and tones down the rudeness force. (x was actually applied to tone down the rudeness force even more)

 

If

A musician I know asks me for an opinion IRL, I would never dream of saying "i think it sux". (even if I do - and sometimes I genuinely do)

There is a very, very distinct difference between these two scenarios.   

Actually I just left out the indefinite article, possibly because we don't use those with the word for 'custom' (vane) in the equivalent Danish phrase.  

"It's not a custom in English" was the intended form. But I think 'not customary' is even better though..   

 

At this present time the song has been listened to 2293 times on myspace, streamed 735 times on Napster and an indetrminate amount of times on several other sites (accounting systems for them doesn't come through just yet).

 

The video has been viewed 301 times for version 2 (which is the version I linked you all to) and 126 views on version 1 which was a different edit - now removed because of quality/edit issues. Generally the feedback is highly positive. Only 2 people (Paravion here and someone else on Facebook) made any remarks that would be considered 'Rude' as such, but I sincerely hold no ill feelings towards either...

 

As I think I said in my original post - this song isn't really expressive of my bands overall sound, I'll try and get some audio of our original style for you to listen to and that would allow a fairer assessment of the band. Much of the material we use now is much more 'mainstream', but it is still within the identity of the band and seems to have been a natural progression for our writing.

 

We have spent 2 years re-evaluating, rewriting and reducing our sound. Our producer often comments on the epic scale of our tracks and many of them were of a length that was sometimes unbearable. 'Rapture' is one of our first songs that bridges the gap between our old and new format. It has a structure of Verse to Pre Chorus to Chorus, much more in line with commercial sounds.

 

The song can be interpreted in a few different ways:

Mentioning about 'Waiting for the sun to fall down' and commenting that 'Sun set' would be much more approachable - writing the song, I felt that the sun falling down would be a much more sudden and unnatural event than the gradual sunset which seems to include the possibilty of a sunrise... The general tone of the song I want to achieve is that the centre of someones universe is coming crashing down without hope. A sunset, I feel, would be more cliche and loses poetic potential as it is a commonly used phrase. Imagine if Shakespeare wrote 'Should I?' instead of 'To be or not to be?' - I'm sure his work would have not been as thought provoking...

 

'Fading like the light, faster than the speed of night' - is just a play on the two phrases that it derives from. Night doesn't fall fast at all, it's just saying that 'darkness' (as an ending or finality) is occurring much faster than it should be...

 

'Just a little bit, one more little bit, just a little bit more life' is just what is known as a 'Hook' in writing terms... It's one of those little bits of a song that stick in your head because it is repeated so often, though typically the 'hook' tends to be the chorus of a song when it is placed at the start of a song. I'm just gratified that whenever people meet up with me - that's the part of the song that they sing at me.

 

As for mentioning that the sun is an entity which is incapable of 'falling' - you may wish to re-evaluate that thought... ALL gravitational and attractional effect is based on the idea of 'Falling'. The Moons orbit around the Earth is actually described as a fall, as the Earth around the Sun is a all too. The Sun 'Falls' around the gravitational centre of the galaxy and so on... BUT - it's my brother that is an Astronomer, I studied Psychology instead and I only understand it from it's most popular sense.

 

Thank you all so very much though, I will check out some other posts here cos I like a bit of Floyd and Dream Theater.

 

You all seem very nice (even you Paravion)

 

Regards,

Mark & Elysium

Thanks for returning to the Forum. For a moment I thought you wouldn't be back.

About the song. For me there are shades of Porcupine Tree about it but on that song alone I wouldn't consider it as Prog Rock. As for the "hook"...it goes on a little too long for my tastes and I get tired of it. Otherwise a perfectly good song.