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  1. 30 minutes ago, P-Tor said:

    I saw them for the 4th time last night in Toronto and they were amazing as usual.  It was the last show of the 2024 tour and was notable because they played "Apologize" for the first time.:ROCK:

     

    I'm glad they finally played it. They had been playing the song at soundchecks so eventually it was going to get played. The main issue with the song was that Dany plays the chorus with a slide on her finger but she had zero experience as to how to use one before this. So they had to practice the song a little more than usual so she could get used to not using the finger with the slide on it during the parts of the song where it wasn't needed. I'm sure Pau needed a little more practice with doing the screams too so she didn't accidentally blow out her voice since that's not something she usually does besides the big scream during Evolve.

  2. The setlist has been the same for the whole tour so far. I don't think it's going to change every show like it used to when Portnoy did it before. I think this will help out James voice a lot by knowing what he's going to be singing at every show and he can make adjustments vocally if something isn't sounding right or he's having a hard time with hitting certain notes.

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  3. 23 minutes ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

    That makes a lot of sense. I’m sure they do feel proud of their work, as they should, but I look forward to seeing them stretch a bit more next time.

     

    They are certainly doing things musically on the album that they haven't done before. I would definitely like to see them expand on that and I believe they will on future albums. They do talk about wanting to try new things and challenge themselves so I'm sure they will keep that going. Another reason the songs are very short on the album is that the record label put them in a tough spot with the recording of it. During the final months of last year the band was splitting time between touring and recording the album. So they had to get things done pretty quickly and needed to be immediately happy with what they did. The singles started coming out in February and the band finished up recording in December. So the label didn't really give them any time to sit with the songs and decide if they wanted to change something like they had with the songs on Error. The band got completely fried doing this schedule and said that they would never record an album like that again. So the next album they should have some more time to work on songs and not make them so short. There are definitely songs on KMF that I think could have benefited from small things like extending the intro or outro.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

    You like what you like and that’s fair enough. Though I do remember being in a similar mindset about a decade ago before my taste broadened.

     

    As for this new Warning album. I’m not sure it’s their Hysteria (seeing the commercial streamlining but not actually seeing any hits), but I’m sorry to say this is definitely not their CoS. That was Rush digging in their heels about their own muses and not giving almost any thought to its accessibility. This is not that. Keep Me Fed is a very blatant attempt to streamline and commercialize their songs, and bands that start down this road rarely turn from it by the next album.  My hope is that whatever’s driving them to go in a more pop direction has more to do with their love of and curiosity for pop than with the possibility it might make them more accessible. If they really love and want to keep exploring this vein for the music’s sake, I think they’ll make something really special in the next couple records. If this is more about streamlining their sound to get a broader appeal, my guess is the initial hype will wear off before anything breaks them through to that mythical much larger audience.

     

    I think they intentionally went more accessible with this album in part because the record label didn't really do too much to promote Error. I think the band felt that they gave the label the best possible album that they could but the label just didn't seem that into promoting it too heavily. The band also said that in order to get financing from the label to record the album, the label wanted to hear three really good singles from them. More, Sick and Hell You Call A Dream were those three songs. I'm guessing since the label gave the go ahead to record the rest of the album after they recorded those songs that the band felt like since they liked those three songs, what about a whole album in a similar vein. If every song can potentially be a single than the label will be happy. Now, I'm not saying that they were forced to write anything that they didn't want to with KMF but it certainly seems like the label tried to nudge them in a certain direction. I do think that this is a very good collection of accessable rock songs and the band did genuinely write what they felt and are proud of their work on it. But there's probably some influence from the label which dictated the direction.

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  5. 1 hour ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

    Saturday, the only interesting band is INXS, and I only like a few songs from The Clash. That day is a hard no.

     

    Monday you have Bowie leading off and prime-era U2 much later in the day, but that's it. Too much dead space between those two to hang there the whole day.

     

    Sunday we have Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph and Preist in the first four spots. Randy Rhoads died the year before so no need to hang out for Ozzy. I could leave after the first four bands and be happy.

     

    You do know that festival lineups are arranged from headliner to opener when they make the posters, right? No way were Van Halen and David Bowie opening those shows. Triumph billed over Priest and Ozzy is a strange thing though.

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  6. 4 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

    Yeah I don’t see them doing anything envelope pushing for Portnoy’s first album back. I’m sure Mike is doing his best not to be overbearing so he can be sure this reunion works, plus I’m extra sure the rest of the band still remembers The Astonishing. 

     

    The first single shows that he is being overbearing though. It sounds exactly like what the band was before he left. They didn't have that vibe at all with Mangini. Portnoy is also doing the setlist again. So yeah, he's back to running things.

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  7. 14 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

    The Warning - Keep Me Fed

     

    First listen (finally got around to it). Very initial reaction: I like it. I probably liked their last two better, but I like this too and I’m glad it’s different. These are basically contemporary pop songs on top with something approximating modern radio metal underneath. It’s well made, and meticulously polished, and that’s commendable. I guess my hope would be that as they go forward they just go all out if they want to make a pop record, rather than trying to split the difference with their heavier roots.

     

    I don't hear pop songs on here. More and Burnout definitely lean in that direction but this album has what are probably their heaviest riffs to date. They've always had the melodic hooks in their songs anyways so this really isn't much different. I could see Pau doing a solo album that is completely pop one day but I don't think Dany and Ale will stand for it under The Warning name.

  8. 2 hours ago, Wandering Hermit said:

    New single n Youtube, Oxygen....

     

    Not an improvement. Sorry.

     

    Agreed. At least Nightwish had the awareness to know that they needed to go on hiatus once they started writing uninspired, going through the motions kind of songs.

  9. 6 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

     

    A very clever re-imagining.

     

     

     

    The string arrangement is new but the actual studio version was recorded three years ago.

     

    By the way, they are releasing this full show song by song on their YouTube channel. The sound, production and the band's performance above all else is amazing. Fun fact, all three had the flu during this show.

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