@ Trollheart
Not trying to badger you, but I'm just asking if you saw my PM. You usually see them and respond pretty quickly, so I'm just making sure you at least know about it.
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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther
Hey, Trolly, could you stick these on the list for when you get back?
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
Opeth - Blackwater Park
And if you'll let me have one more: Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star (Probably more up your alley).
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He prefers to only get one rec per post, and then you have to wait at least four posts before you can make another. I think he might have instituted a new rule about how many recs you can make per cycle as well -- I believe it was four at first, but now he might be cutting it to one until other people who aren't as quick on the draw as Frownland and me have had a chance to rec something.
And he doesn't take any recs, even ones for when he next opens the floodgates, until he officially does open them. So you're gonna have to wait, and then pick just the one to begin with.
Also, I know I've already given you my rec in your thread, so I have to wait again, but I'd just like to ask if you're familiar with Cynic and Edge of Sanity? I'm not the biggest Opeth fan, since I'm dubious on folk, and I see their schtick as kind of a novelty rather than a cohesive sound (although I do love Mikael Akerfeldt's unique death metal vocals), but if you're interested in that kind of thing, then you would probably want to check out those two bands.
Cynic pretty much were the first to combine death metal and off-the-wall, melodic passages seemingly at random, though they did so with jazz/jazz fuzion (don't know much about those, so I'm going from second hand descriptions rather than my own analysis). Their DM sound is much more old school than more modern DM bands, and they only had the one album back in the day, which is the only one to sound like that, but it's a legendary album that's either on my prog metal list or my avant garde metal list in my Survivor thread.
I'm not as familiar with Edge of Sanity, but Opeth is generally considered to have almost lifted their sound from that band, and they're
very highly regarded. From what I've heard, I'd take them over Opeth, but I haven't listened to enough of either of them to make a fair comparison. EoS definitely seem to have a better DM sound at least.