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Schbopo wrote:

Styx-Paradise Theater

Slowly becoming a huge Styx fan.

Same here. It started two years ago for me when I picked up their Greatest Hits.

Then a few months ago, I acquired their first four albums. They are a fantastic band!

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Styx-Paradise Theater

Slowly becoming a huge Styx fan.

Same here. It started two years ago for me when I picked up their Greatest Hits.

Then a few months ago, I acquired their first four albums. They are a fantastic band!

You guys pick up Equinox yet? That was the turning point for the band IMO. It's the transitional album between the experimental prog stuff of their early days and the hard rock hit machine they would eventually become.

Equinox, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight are my favorite quartet of albums released in sequence by any band.

DallasBlack wrote:

Yesterday in the mail:

Vision Divine-9 Degrees West Of The Moon

Awesome! Looks like you and I are the only ones here with that album. It's my album of the year so far! How you like it?

tohostudios wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Styx-Paradise Theater

Slowly becoming a huge Styx fan.

Same here. It started two years ago for me when I picked up their Greatest Hits.

Then a few months ago, I acquired their first four albums. They are a fantastic band!

You guys pick up Equinox yet? That was the turning point for the band IMO. It's the transitional album between the experimental prog stuff of their early days and the hard rock hit machine they would eventually become.

Equinox, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight are my favorite quartet of albums released in sequence by any band.

When I'm first exploring a band I want to get more into, I always start with their earliest album and work my way forward. I've not come to "Equinox" yet, but I will soon! Right now I'm still warming up to those first four 'prog' rock albums. They are good in and of themselves. Though, I think like you, I will probably prefer that era as well.

Well Equinox is next up MB. It's their 5th.

tohostudios wrote:

Well Equinox is next up MB. It's their 5th.

Awesome! Looking forward to it! I should have it soon then! I just want to get to know these ones a bit more before moving on.

I do have a feeling that one will be one of my faves (if not my fave) from them.

Some recent additions:

Puny Human - Universal Freak Out
Hexen - State of Insurgency
Hirax - New Age of Terror
Seventh Void - Heaven Is Gone
Fu Manchu - Hung Out To Dry ep (cd/7"vinyl)
Fu Manchu - Daredevil
Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
...And Back To Earth Again: MeteorCity Anniversary Box Set (3 cds)
Holocaust - The Courage To Be
Terra Firma - s/t
Redrum - Power Corrupts

Quote :

Fu Manchu - Daredevil

That's my favorite from them, just above In Search Of....

SpectreFate wrote:

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Fu Manchu - Daredevil

That's my favorite from them, just above In Search Of....

Haven't heard it yet. Just arrived this morning, along with the Hexen cd. Although I gotta say, if Fu Manchu have released a bad disc, I haven't heard it. I love everything these guys have put out. They've found their sound and stuck to it. I've still got a few holes to fill in their discograpy, and they might not be re-inventing the wheel, but they've been consistant.

You hear the new one yet? It's on my short-list of wants. I was gonna do the pre-order thing though CM Distro for 10 bucks, but I just placed a big order from their discount bin and decided to hold off for now.

Yeah I got the new one. You know how Start The Machine and We Must Obey sound? Yeah, it's exactly like that. It's worth your time.

Michael Phillips - Mirrors Within Mirrors
Ultimatum - Puppet (Remastered)

tohostudios wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Styx-Paradise Theater

Slowly becoming a huge Styx fan.

Same here. It started two years ago for me when I picked up their Greatest Hits.

Then a few months ago, I acquired their first four albums. They are a fantastic band!

You guys pick up Equinox yet? That was the turning point for the band IMO. It's the transitional album between the experimental prog stuff of their early days and the hard rock hit machine they would eventually become.

Equinox, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight are my favorite quartet of albums released in sequence by any band.

And those are the Styx albums I have now (along with two greatest hits and Kilroy). Great band indeed and thus far my favorite song is Castle Walls but they have many more real good ones.

I think my favorite Styx song of all time is Born For Adventure off Equinox.

tohostudios wrote:

I think my favorite Styx song of all time is Born For Adventure off Equinox.

That's a good one. I like it mostly for the reason that the bass is actually audible! That's pretty rare for Styx.

Yeah, the bass figure pretty prominently in that song.

I never really paid attention to the bass in their songs in general. Next time I pop in some Styx, I'll have to keep that in mind and see if I agree.

Krokus - Alive and Screamin'
Testament - The Ritual

HEAVEN & HELL - The Devil you know
ULTIMATUM - Puppet of destruction (remastered & expanded)

Adrenicide - Kill
Angkor - Infectus I.N.R.I.
Inferi - The Awakening of the Black Hordes
Inferi - The End of a Weak Nature
Necroabortion - Brutal Misanthropy
Resurrected - Endless Sea of Loss
Ultimatum - Puppet of Destruction (2CDs)

As a celebration of breaking up with my gf I figured I was due some partying gifts.

Agent Steel- Alienigma
Andrew W K- Girls Own Juice
Artension- Sacred Pathway
Diamond Head- Whats In Your Head?
Millenium- The Best Of (2 cd)
Metalium- Grounded
Narnia- Course Of A Generation
Riot- Narita
Saigon Kick- S/T

Ouch Phoenix! Did that numb the pain at all?




Just got back from Hastings with a few gifts for me and myself.

Dead By Sunrise ~ Out of Ashes
Bruce Springsteen ~ Greatest Hits


lately I've really been expanding the 'non-metal' part of my CD chambers.

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Agent Steel- Alienigma
Narnia- Course Of A Generation

sorry about the breakup though..

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Ouch Phoenix! Did that numb the pain at all?




Just got back from Hastings with a few gifts for me and myself.

Dead By Sunrise ~ Out of Ashes
Bruce Springsteen ~ Greatest Hits


lately I've really been expanding the 'non-metal' part of my CD chambers.

Of course. Gf's come and go metal stays forever

exact33 wrote:

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Agent Steel- Alienigma
Narnia- Course Of A Generation

sorry about the breakup though..

I havent had a chance to listen to these yet. Im actually putting them onto my ipod as we speak so i'll get to listen to them at work tomorrow.

its ok, its been something that has been bound to happen really so it was just a matter of time. It sucks but really in a way im happy.

From ebay

Crumbsuckers - Beast On My Back
Devildriver - Pray For Villians cd/dvd
Rest In Pieces - Under My Skin
Thunder - Baskstreet Symphony/Live Japanese combo
Destination Zero - Mr. Evil (wasn't actually thrash as advertised - but a really great album)

The Beavis and Butthead Experience

Just for the one Primus song I don't have.