Modern Prog: First Album

In all honesty, it's probably going to be sometime next year before I eventually get around to listening to Vovin and Theli. 

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: In all honesty, it's probably going to be sometime next year before I eventually get around to listening to Vovin and Theli.  I do not understand your logic here, but anyway...   I will not suggest anything from now on, by your logic you'll probably listen to that in 2047. 🤦‍♂️

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: In all honesty, it's probably going to be sometime next year before I eventually get around to listening to Vovin and Theli.  I do not understand your logic here, but anyway...   I will not suggest anything from now on, by your logic you'll probably listen to that in 2047. 🤦‍♂️ All I'm saying is, don't hold your breath in waiting for me to listen to those two Therion albums.  Dismissing them, it feels to me you don't even deserve to listen to them (TBH), especially Vovin.

^ Are you serious? That would make no sense at all to put Theron's fifth album in the second poll.

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ Are you serious? That would make no sense at all to put Theron's fifth album in the second poll. Yes, I am very serious, because it is the FIRST symphonic metal album they did.

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ Are you serious? That would make no sense at all to put Theron's fifth album in the second poll. Yes, I am very serious, because it is the FIRST symphonic metal album they did.  I'll listen to Therion's second, third and fourth albums before I listen to Theli, and if I don't like them, I can't say you didn't warn me. You don't have to listen to those albums, why torture yourself when you could listen to their symphonic metal work. I don't understand your reasoning.

^ Yes, I did like the Therion song Logan posted, which is one of the reasons I decided it's well-worth keeping them in the Symphonic Metal poll. It gives me something to look forward to when I eventually get around to listening to Therion's Vovin album in full.

While we're on the subject of Ayreon, here's their first awesome album. I still can't help feeling Ayreon fully deserved to be included in this poll, but that will forever remain an Actual Fantasy.  

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Well, I didn't ignore Therion in the end, because I followed yours and Logan's wise advice and kept them in the poll. Like I said, common sense prevailed.

When Dream and Day Unite is The Astonishing debut by Dream Theater and Awake-up call for fans of Progressive Metal. It's the only Dream Theater album to feature their original singer, Charlie Dominici. In a Dramatic Turn of Events, Dominici announced he was leaving the band after the recording of their first album, due to the age-old band problem of "artistic differences".  Singer James LaBrie was recruited from a cast of hundreds for the recording of Dream Theater's second album in 1992 and he's still with the band in 2022. Dream Theater's outstanding second album remains their most commercially successful  album to date - Images and Words can't express just how good this album is. It was A Change of Seasons and a change of keyboard player in 1995 with Kevin Moore leaving the band to be replaced by Derek Sherinian. Dream Theater were in Systematic Chaos in 2010 with the sudden departure of their long-time drummer Mike Portnoy due to exhaustion following a gruelling world tour, but with a Train of Thought following the dictum of  Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Dream Theater announced the recruitment of new drummer Mike Mangini who's been with the band ever since. The Astonishing thing about Dream Theater's longevity is how they've withstood the Distance Over Time, despite several major line-up changes along the way.:-

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 05 2022 at 16:16