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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Even when I was 13 I found Crimson Glory to be too corny.
This guy at school would not shut up about them and insisted I listen to them.
Made me listen to their first 2 albums, hated them.
I also remember Radio One broadcasting a live gig of theirs for the Friday Rock Show sometime around 88/89. They were atrocious live.
There's a reason they had such a low profile compared to someone like Queensryche, they were awful.
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Corny eh? Just goes to show you that one man's trash is another man's treasure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc. etc. I have my inclinations and you have yours: I do completely disagree with that corny bit though, especially since I revel in all that blood-pumping sword & sorcery fantasy stuff. Guys like
Robert E. Howard and
Ashton Clark Smith were some of the best damn writers that have ever lived, and CG's music touches upon their usual imagery often: Jon & Midnight were quite big fans of the latter in particular.
Secondly, they weren't that low profile. If anything,
Fates Warning were probably the lowest profile among the original prog-metal bands (at least until the release of
Parallels in 1991). CG toured with Anthrax and Ozzy in '88 and '89 for quite a while, and even briefly with QR themselves around the time they started selling out stadiums. But I'll be getting into that stuff on my next post, lol.
If they aren't your cup of tea, fine....but there's nothing wrong with CG musically or lyrically. They're a heavy metal band for Crissakes! Might as well piss all over Maiden and Judas Priest while we're at it.