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Points: 24558 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2010 at 10:27
I hope that they are able to raise the quality standard of the Eurovision Contest, but I fear that they are coming too late. The contest should have been abolished long, long ago.
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Maybe they made a lot of music and then though, "Hey, I wonder how far we could get into Eurovision with this?" I bet it was a reaction to their latest musical move and not a reason. Maybe they figured they could spice the contest up a bit with some actual, real, quality music.
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Eurovision sucks, it's a shame that a band like PoS even think on preforming there, most of the preformances being playing there are way too popish for them.
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I hope Road Salt makes it, though I've heard that Gildenlow was surprised is was that one of the three PoS songs he submitted that was chosen (from what I gather the bands in Sweden dont make the final choice on the songs they perform, they submit three possibles and its one of those that gets chosen by a comitte) as its more singer/songwriter territory than the others.
 
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Points: 1833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2010 at 05:24
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Cool, Norway is aming for Black Metal in Euro vision this year so Evil Smile be ready for some scared grandmothers around in Europe. epic Black metal called Keep of Kalessin

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_of_Kalessin

The last year's winners can basically do whatever they want since there is almost no chance for them to win two times in-a-row.

Did you guys check out the Pain of Salvation-link I posted? I get the feeling that the band is aiming to establish an entirely different image for themselves. Btw, they are going to perform the title track from the new album which, to tell you the truth, doesn't sound all that promising anymore.

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You can see their contenders at the bottom of the page-link I posted.


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Tons of folk on Scarsick lemme tells ya!


America? I mean, sure, it was bad, but so was the rest of the album.
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Maybe it's due to my recent discovery of Mike Patton and Faith No More, but this latest direction of Pain of Salvation is better than I'd hoped for. Making some fantastic rock/metal tunes with depth and toned-down-yet-amazing vocal shenanigans is a brilliant turn for the guys. And there's nothing wrong with aiming for Eurovision... though I would imagine they are still far too strange and progressive to make it anywhere there. For all the straightforwardness of Scarsick, they never once sacrificed progression. The only time they failed to be progressive was One Hour by the Concrete Lake, their worst album by a long shot, which is mostly typical cheese progmetal.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Rune2000 Rune2000 wrote:


Now the change of direction on Scarsick is finally making sense. Cry


Oh bullsh*t.

The new album is going to be very different from Scarsick. I think Gildenlocks said the song for Eurovision is rather folksy. Tons of folk on Scarsick lemme tells ya!

I don't know about you, but the new Led Zeepelin-y and Rainbow-y vibe on Linoleum is a big, positive step from Scarsick.




I thought Scarsick was bad- then I heard the new one- ouch. Really???



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Scarsick is such an awesome album. Cheers to Pain of Salvation for doing whatever they want to do.
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Cool, Norway is aming for Black Metal in Euro vision this year so Evil Smile be ready for some scared grandmothers around in Europe. epic Black metal called Keep of Kalessin

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_of_Kalessin
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Originally posted by Rune2000 Rune2000 wrote:


Now the change of direction on Scarsick is finally making sense. Cry


Oh bullsh*t.

The new album is going to be very different from Scarsick. I think Gildenlocks said the song for Eurovision is rather folksy. Tons of folk on Scarsick lemme tells ya!

I don't know about you, but the new Led Zeepelin-y and Rainbow-y vibe on Linoleum is a big, positive step from Scarsick.
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2010 at 17:47
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SVT, Swedish Television has announced the line-up for this years Swedish Eurovision finals and Pain of Salvation is among the contestants who will compete to become the Sweden's contribution to Eurovision Song Contest - Oslo 2010.

The band will perform at the first semi-final which takes place on February 6 and I will keep you all updated on the band's progress!

Now the change of direction on Scarsick is finally making sense. Cry


Edited by Rune2000 - January 27 2010 at 11:50
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