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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Nah, I write my impressions of an album, not someone else's, and I did not see any of that in it. Mind you, there are two weeks left of Metal Month III: you're perfectly welcome to submit a companion piece on it if you want to, tell us why you think it's so great.
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Sigh. Trollheart, it is there.
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Originally Posted by the goddamn definition of melody
a linear succession of musical tones
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The melodies on Obscura may not be the same type of melodies that you may hear on, say, a Taylor Swift or a Genesis album, but they are melodies nonetheless. They are not pretty little melodies you can pop into your pocket and hum to yourself without getting looks, of course, but it's closeminded (there's that word again) to think that they are not melodies just because you don't like them (which I understand entirely, even though I love it and **** you for thinking otherwise
). You could say the same for structure. The band is incredibly tight and there are repeated motifs regardless of how much you enjoy what they are playing. To imply that the music is freeform or structureless is as ludicrous as saying that Buddy Rich doesn't play drums on any of his songs just because you don't like jazz.