Track the T
JournalWell, apparently the new Sepultura album's been released early:  I'm really not sure what to make of Kamelot, now. When I discovered them they were a power metal band that had the unusual property of being American but was fairly accessible by the usual standards. After Karma, they started off experimenting with more involved concepts (starting off as they meant to go on with a two-album interpretation of Faust) and incorporating more and more non-traditional instruments. Now, nobody can really agree on what they even are any more - their albums are called symphonic/progressive/power in various different combinations and quantities, and as their music has been getting gloomier and more pretentious, so has their album artwork. I'm pretty sure your radio will start bursting static when you take this out of its shrinkwrap. The new tracklist gives away some of the mood, as well:
Cheerful, isn't it? "Dear Editor" is a bit of a curious standout, though. But keeping with their "accessible" theme from the early 2000s, another thing about the tracklist is that there's hardly anything above four minutes long - it's especially odd that they split up the title track into four separate sections, because the nine-minute song they comprise is positively manageable in comparison to what some people in the genre get away with. One last thing you can do to assess the mood of a release is to look at the latest band shot - I promise that like I said above, they used to seem fairly normal. This time, with his beard having evolved into a full Blackadder II, Khan has a look of sheer unadulterated fury unmatched since the Sim City 2000 transport minister. 2010-08-25 13:02:00 17 comments |
