Key

It's been a little under a month since I started this little Devin Townsend endeavor, and i must say, I'm been having a blast going back and listening to some of the albums of his that I once thought were either mediocre or just decent, then to find out those same albums are pretty fantastic. Very eye opening experience and i'm excited to get to other albums that i've been putting off due to the reasons I started with.

Pet_Sounds

Reminds me of something - how did you get away with a two-character username? When I joined, the max was four.

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Frownland

You have to send Yac your requested new name and nudes.

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Key

Correct.

Key

Epicloud



I can't even begin to count the amount of times this album has gotten played. When it was announced, just the name alone already had me hooked, I mean it combines Epic and Loud, how can it not be great??!

Of course, as it was leading more toward it's release, we had tracks being released on Youtube and teasers and such, and obviously those will just hold your excitement for so long, and it's impossible to judge an album by the few singles that are released before it's release, though some people like to judge it based on one song they hear, which never made much sense to me.

Anyway, this album is part of the Devin Townsend Project series, the fifth one to be exact, and it's got a lot of great things going for it, one being the fact that it really does a great job at sounding like it would do fantastic in a large open space, sort of like a heavier AOR album, but not exactly.

Devin Townsend obviously put in a lot of what he loves into this album, and it shows. Each track is better than the one before it, and it continues that tradition throughout the entire album. I can't really think of one track that I absolutely hate, granted there may be a few that I tend to skip over, more for the fact that it may not fit the mood i'm in at the time of listening, but that always changes since you get a mix of fast and slow in this album, so it's hard to go through it with feeling one way.

Some of the finest tracks on the album are as follows:



As I said, it's very hard to choose one or two tracks that really show what this album is capable of, so I chose three, ha!

Anyway, this album also comes with a more updated version of the song Kingdom, and it's sooooo much better than the original, not that the original is bad by any means:



By far one of Devin's finest works, and one I will come back to day after day and still feel that awesome feeling of "wow, this album is simply perfect."

Pet_Sounds

Your posts about Devin Townsend have made me want to give him a listen. Where should I start?

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Key

Oh man, I really don't know. Either Ki or Synchestra would be good since they're the easiest in my opinion. If you're into some really heavy technical proggy stuff, give Deconstruction a listen. Honestly, just choose one that looks interesting to you. They're all different but they're all fantastic in their own way.

Chula Vista

IMO Ocean Machine.

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Key

I was fortunate enough to be able to see Judas Priest in concert tonight (11.22.2014), which apparently was the last show they were going to be playing until they left for Australia. I'm going to be completely honest off the bat, I wasn't the biggest fan of Judas Priest prior to hearing the news that I would be able to see them perform live. I did have a good knowledge of what they sang and how they sounded, but was never really a huge fan as most other people are. That did however change within this last week including seeing the show. Prior to seeing this show, I did express excitement to a few friends of mine and told them i'd be seeing them in concert, I heard nothing but good things from what they've heard and from people who have seen them before, all the time saying that they really know how to put on a show, and that was proven tonight from a personal point of view. I want to say that this is probably close to the top of my list of all time favorite concerts that I have seen in my life, and I do feel very fortunate that I have been able to see them perform.



Rob Halford did not sound like age has gotten to him at all. In fact, he sounded better than he does on any of Priest's albums, and that's saying something. Being 63, you wouldn't expect him to still be able to pull off what he has been able to pull off, however he was able to pull off the high notes, the long-lasting notes, and do them with so much passion and energy, it just sounded natural, and it was a fantastic thing to witness.

I'm not really going to get into the opening act "Steel Panther", because...well there's not a lot to say.

Here are some pictures I took of the show:





I did get some videos as well, however they are huge files, and would take forever to upload. I will say though that the live performance of "Breaking The Law" is flawless, as was every other song they performed.

Trollheart

Watch for a serious review of this in my main journal very soon.

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