Trollheart Listens to Every Album on Wiki's List for 2017

10-28-2017, 10:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: The Eternal Reign Artist: Born of Osiris Genre: Progressive Metalcore/Deathcore Nationality: American Release date: February 24 Position in Discography: Fifth EP; ninth overall Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.24 Not quite sure to make of this. Technically, I probably should have passed on it, as it's a re-recording of an EP released in 2007, and typically I'm only doing new albums here, not reissues, but given that Batty would have called me a pussy or something for avoiding it, and since he's been whining about there being so few metal releases on this list, I thought I'd give it a go. Musically, it's pretty damn fine; these guys know what they're about, but the vocals, for me, again, let the album and the band down. They're not unintelligible or anything, but I just feel the music is well crafted and I can see where the progressive part of their genre tag comes in, and the vocals just don't mesh with what I'm hearing musically. But it is overall pretty good. The second last track contains an unexpected and very beautiful piano outro, with the closer opening on an almost ambient piece on I assume some sort of synthesiser. Weird but really effective. Think I like this. Check out more from this artist? Possibly Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Maybe Expectation Index: 8 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

10-28-2017, 02:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Nessun posto è casa mia Artist: Chiara Genre: Pop Nationality: Italian Release date: February 24 Position in Discography: Third Fear Factor: Moderate Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Yes Average RYM Score: 2.50 Talk about being hard to track down! I eventually found evidence of this, Chiara Galiazzo's third album, on RYM, but no idea as to its genre. It sounds like pop or adult contemporary, I guess. Pretty good voice, certainly, and the music seems ok too. I would say it's a competent pop album, though nothing in particular jumps out at me as being special or noteworthy. By the same token, there's nothing here that I hate or even dislike. The ballads are nice, if a little cliche, and I see now that she must be involved with that bane of my life, The X Factor, as she appears on two compilation albums dedicated to that show. I suppose I can't hold that against her. Yep: won the sixth season of the Italian version. Decent album. Not a lot more than that really. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Expectation Index: 0 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

10-28-2017, 03:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Crystal Fairy Artist: Crystal Fairy Genre: Hard Rock/Alt-Rock/Sludge Nationality: American Release date: February 24 Position in Discography: Debut Fear Factor: Moderate Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Yes Average RYM Score: 3.14 Well, if that doesn't sound like the name of a prog band, or at least a psych rock one, I'm a Dutchman! Pleased to meet you, Jakob, cos it's actually the debut album of a supergroup made up of members of The Melvins, At The Drive-In, and Le Butcherettes. Hmm. Not familiar with any of them. Kicks off well with a fast frenetic rocker, and is there punk in this too? “Necklace of Divorce” certainly sounds that way. I think there may be two vocalists taking turns, one a woman? The latter certainly reminds me of Siouxsie Sioux and Hazel O'Connor, with a bit of Robert Plant thrown in for good measure. I guess “Moth Tongue” is the sludge part of the equation and yeah, I guess if you're into these guys or their respective bands you might enjoy this, but I'm not, so I'm finding it hard to maintain my interest. Not that there aren't good tracks; there are. “Under Trouble” has a lot going for it. But it's just kind of hard for me to care. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Expectation Index: 0 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018