tobi is an animal

1 hour ago, Kristian said:

Not as good as "Rise", but still dope thanks to Nuno :-)

Verses reminds me of Salty Dogs - "Cat's got nine"

I was thinking the verses were reminiscent of Girls, Girls, Girls. I'm guessing Nikki is gonna sue. 

Extreme - Banshee

Extreme - #Rebel

The Pretty Reckless - Standing At The Wall

tracklist:

1. Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II
2. Dreamer Of The Dawn
3. The Shadow
4. Right Way Back
5. Context: Fearless Pt. I
6. Reflections
7. Penny
8. Lady Of The Lake
9. Citadel

tracklist:

1.  Wildfire
2.  You Say My Name
3.  The Only One
4.  Like I Do
5.  No Place To Go
6.  Don't Walk Away
7.  Desperate Days
8.  Ache
9.  Days Since You're Gone
10.On My Own

Harem Scarem - Mother Of Invention

Epica - Once Upon A Nightmare

Threshold - State of Independence

With Q1 finished I currently have 3 strong contenders for my top 10.

1. Lordi - Screem Writers Guild

2. Crowne - Operation Phoenix

3. Kamelot - The Awakening

Wig Wam - Out Of The Dark is a solid album and could make the top 10 depending on how strong the rest of the year is.

Looking forward to upcoming albums from Elvenking  and Extreme. 

tracklist:

The future remains bright. 

Skid Row - Wasted Time

tracklist:

1. The Sickening

2. Apocalypse For Free

3. Story Of A Ghost

4. Eye For An Eye

5. I Fear Nothing

6. Need For Speed

7. Stone Dead Pony

8. Nails In My Bed

9. Illuminated

10. The Tragedy Of Being Late

A couple times through the album and love it.  Early favs are Vampyro Fang Club, The Bride and Scarecrow. 

Lordi - Humanimal

22 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Well I had certainly not heard anything by Ghost but had heard of them, and as soon as I saw them I thought "Oh, they are probably some growly band or doom sounding, so prob not my cup of tea".

Then when they released the Joe Elliot version of Spillways I just had to give it a listen just because of Joe, and I was blown away by how melodic it was. With it's ABBA "Money Money Money" influenced piano (from what I have found out since Forge is a big ABBA fan), and it's catchy as hell tune you don't initially even notice the lyrics are far from the upbeat style of the actual tune, which is by the looks of it the biggest gimmick with Ghost, not the image. They take dark lyrics which are not as satanic as some people will make out, and put them to generally upbeat catchy music.

On the back of hearing the Elliot version, I checked out the original and initially I would agree there is very little difference, and the vocals are hard to tell apart but once I started to listen to the original version over and over, I went back to the Joe version months later and you really can hear the difference and you can hear Joe's delivery of some of the lines is different to when Tobias sings them.

Anyway, I also checked out a few other songs on YouTube including Twenties from this album, and some older songs like Rats, Dance Macabre, Mary on a cross and Square hammer and loved them all.

Due to financial difficulties I searched around until I found a slightly cheaper brand new copy of Impera (£8 against the £13 the likes of Amazon sell it for) and I have not stopped playing it since. Actually now have to review my top albums list from 2022 as I think this may actually now be my stand out favourite, even over Megadeth and Chez Kane.

Once money is better I will start going into their back catalogue and will probably work my way backwards as from what I have heard and read, Prequelle and Meliora are more likely to be my cup of tea but earlier than that sounds like it might be more a case of acquired taste.

The first two ghost albums are unlistenable, imo. Things started to improve when Tobias started working with outside writers on album # three. Each album after the first two have improved on the one before it culminating in their best album Impera.  I have zero interest in hearing Spillways feat joe elliot, but the sans joe version is probably my second favorite track after Darkness At The Heart Of My Love. 

Beast In Black - Ghost In The Rain

Battle Beast - Far From Heaven

good tune.  I'll check out their previous stuff while I wait for August 18, 2023 to roll around.