Metal Reviews

yeah well my dad will beat u up lee and call the army on u HAHAH

Winner at the game of life = Eyesore. Sexier = Eyesore. Discussion = Over.

Nice seeing Paragon get a mention. Excellent band

Don't encourage him.

I am an applications eng/customer service manager for Asia. I install, test, fix, and train people. I work with our foreign sales reps a lot for training and stuff so they can take care of customers themselves and have a guy that lives in Taiwan that works for me.

It took a long time to start making really good money but I am lucky I work for a small company and I like Asia so I get rewarded well for it, that and that I have no life anymore etc....

You install and fix people? Sounds pretty exotic.

Hahaha. I had a joke, you fag! You stole my thunder.

It is Test equipment probably no one in here would know about so it is not worth going into. Is a good job. I am just getting a little bit too old for the constant travel and living in foreign countries. We will see what happens after this year.

Living overseas is great, but a lot of times the difference of culture starts to drag you down. It can suck. Italy, however, was awesome for the entire 6 months I was there. It ruled. I'd move there.

i'm sorry, i can't stand italy. no offense to anyone here, but... i guess living where i do has spoiled me. i need my public buses to be on time and clean!! (using this smiley just for the hell of it)

and public toilets, as well.

It was different for you because you were in the Military (if you were in English Teacher kind of the same thing....). Me I am always immersed in it and yeah I can get disconnected easily. I liked living in Taiwan though, serious GF for 4 years, and I just like being around Chinese people, I feel the same way about Singapore and China as well (Hong Kong is a shit hole IMO for a variety of reasons, Southern Chinese are just strange and to many UK asses when you go out at night). Korea is a little strange and isolated at times. Especially since I stay in Suwon usually.

This is ok. I listened once and I dont really like the clean Chorus type vocals. It does have an emo quality where he sounds about 15 to 18 years old. Maybe this was designed to appeal to both types of metal listeners. While it is solid, I like so many other things I would probably not purchase this release :(

I will give it more spins because alot of times things grow on you or it depends on your mood upon the time of listening.

Where do you guys get the download? I was looking forward to the release of this, but I didn't realize it had been leaked...

isohunt.com

Thanks.

Sorry about the double post...had to come back to post my opinions.

This is definitely a great CD...there are some notable changes in The Scattering of Ashes from Buried in Oblivion. For me, most noticable are the changes in vocals--much more screaming and the absence of the high-pitched, Coheed and Camrbia-esque clean vocals on Buried in Oblivion. The nu metal-like vocals they have on this aren't bad, I don't think, but I liked the high pitched vocals of old a lot better. But, vocals aside, this CD is better in every way...it's amazing how much better they seem to have gotten instrumentally. The solos are faster (on Buried in Oblivion it seemed like they were trying to be John Petrucci but weren't good enough to do it), and they've improved their fast and technical way of playing--much faster and much more technical. I love Jim Austin's drumming on this...his double bass work is 100 times faster, although I miss his unique use of cymbals on BiO, like the part towards the end of "Beginning of the End". Songwriting is top notch...hopefully the production improves when the actual CD comes out. Great stuff.

Well, I've never heard any Coheed & Cambria girly singing on any Into Eternity album yet. On this one there is plenty of Halford worship, but nothing that sounds like a valley girl singing after taking a bong hit of helium like that tard from Coheed.

And there are no nu-metal vocals here. What do you mean?

Well, rather than debate over whether he (they?) sounds like the guy from C&C, I'll just say that there was a lot more high pitched singing in BiO, and IMO was reminiscent of (but not exactly like) C&C. Screaming was used very sparingly, and growling frequently but it seemed like the clean vocals dominated. Now, screaming and growling dominate with the clean vocals taking a back seat, and usually only appearing in choruses. I actually think the screaming is a lot better than it was on BiO--I thought he was a mediocre screamer and am glad they limited the use of it. I'm not really saying that one or the other is better, just noting the change.

Now, as for the clean vocals being nu metal, I was just noting that they had ditched the high-pitched vocals and replaced them with something that I think would not be out of place on a nu metal song. But, the vocals are still very good...the lower-pitched vocals are growing on me as I listen to the CD more, and now I'm starting to doubt that I like the higher-pitched vocals better. I personally think that a combination of both would kill...

haha the C&C comparison kinda makes sense

Not to start an argument and Im 100% serious here, I checked this out and during certain points of the clean vocals the singer sounded like the buddy from Simple Plan and that is not something I wanna hear in metal.