Recent Purchases - Progressive Rock Music Forum

On cd:

Journey - Escape (used)

Radiohead - Pablo Honey (used)

Delain - We Are The Others

Jorn - Bring Heavy Rock To The Land

Gotthard - Firebirth

Circus Maximus - Nine

-- Delain - We Are The Others is female-fronted rock/metal. The band was started by Within Temptation's 1st keyboardist, Martjin Westerholt. We Are The Others is their 3rd release, and I must say is their best offering to date, though it is less metal and more 'music-for-the-masses' friendly. Just better songwriting, excellent production, and Charlotte Wessel's voice sounds fantastic (her voice was a bit 'shakey' on their debut, she's definitely had voice lessons since).

--Jorn - Bring Heavy Rock To The Land is another fine offering from Jorn Lande, one of the best singers in harder music today. Think Whitesnake-meets-Dio. He's gone a little bit more radio-friendly since Pagan's Mind guitarist Jorn Viggo Lofstad has stopped working with him, but still a quality release.

--Gotthard - Firebirth is Gotthard's 1st album since the death of lead singer Steve Lee in a freak accident a couple of years ago. The new guy, Nic Maeder, will do very well with the old Steve Lee songs, but also brings his own voice to the table. Firebirth may be their best album since the classic 'Lipservice'. For those unfamiliar with Gotthard, think arena rock a la Bon Jovi/Bryan Adams.

--Circus Maximus - Nine is, after 3 listens now, my favorite CM album (out of 3). They started out as a Dream Theater/Symphony X cover band and it showed on albums 1 & 2, prog-metal like Dream Theater but with a hint of power metal like Symphony X. This 3rd album 'Nine' is less metal than the other two, with more mature songs, more keyboards (or at least brought forth in the mix more) and excellent production. It still rocks out, dont get me wrong, but you can tell they've found their own voice and stepped away from just being a DT clone.

Used CD Store.....

Marillion - Season's End

Dream Theater - Images & Words (replace a broken copy)

Flying Colors - Flying Colors (because it was $5

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Edited by Catcher10 - July 15 2012 at 19:05

I purchased Meddle remastered last week.

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

I just ordered an album from GEMM for the first time.

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Hawkwind - Zones

Peter Gabriel - Birdy

Jandek - Brooklyn Wednesday (4 CD live) - should arrive today

My other avatar is a Porsche

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

-Kehlog Albran

Baroness Yellow & Green
District 97 Trouble with Machines
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Moonloop Deeply from the Earth
Affector Harmagedon
Portishead Portishead

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Frank Swarbrick
Belief is not Truth.

Saga - 20/20

Not very positive about it after two-three listens... But it can get better...I'll listen some more.

I just purchased almost all of IQ's studio albums (except for one I believe):

“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov

My NEARfest haul...

Can: "Monster Movie" Peter Hammill: "A Black Box" Phideaux: "The Great Leap" and the Bloodfish Promotional Gosta Berlings Saga: "Tid ar Ljud" and "Detta Har Hant" (I dashed to the Gosta merch at exactly 3 on Sunday to get this. It's out of print!) Van der Graaf Generator: "ALT" Magma: "Felicite Thosz" Anglagard: "Viljans Oga" and "Epilog" Renaissance: "Ashes are Burning" and "Prologue" Mike Keneally: "Bakin' @ the Potato" and "Dancing" Comus: "Out of the Coma" Samla Mammas Manna: "Maltid" Twelfth Night: "MMX - Live" Discipline: "Unfolded Like Staircase" IZZ: "Crush of Night" and "I Move" Il Balletto di Bronzo: "Ys" Il Tempio delle Clessidre: s/t Museo Rosenbach: "Zarathustra" Aranis: "Roqueforte" Gnidrolog: "In Spite of Harry's Toe-nail" / "Lady Lake" Helmet of Gnats: s/t

In addition to those CD's, I also bought: T-shirts -Keneally, VdGG, Anglagard, Gosta Berlings Saga, Roger Dean Design Roger Dean glass Program Danger Money and Clockwork Angels on vinyl UK, Romantic Warriors II, and Magma DVD's

Later, I got Pinnacle "Blueprint for Chaos", UK's debut, and the new Echolyn ... all of which I was dumb enough to not grab at one of the vendors. Today, Mike Keneally's new album, Wingbeat Fantastic arrived and I recently ordered Thinking Plague's "In Extremis".

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^Either no or he's incredibly affluent LOL