Recent content by CA Bryers

It was always my understanding that the B-sides weren't included basically because they didn't fit on a single CD. Steve mentioned a lot in the press for TXF that they put as much as could fit on a CD. This was, of course, before the time the band decided eff it and put out everything that was...

Good book definitely--however, if you have the Ross Halfin IM photo book and the What Are We Doing This For? photo book, you've seen a fair chunk of the pics inside. It does have some biography text running through it as well, hitting high points per album/tour cycle, but not as in-depth as the...

Ooh, jealous you got to see that combo for the X Factour. Over in the States, we got Fear Factory, which I was into as well, but MDB would've been amazing. A couple years later, I did get to see them do their only US tour opening for Dio with a 5-song set promoting Like Gods of the Sun. Left...

I think X Factor has the record for unreleased B-sides at 3. They typically write more songs than are released, it's just that they whittle the list of songs written down to the batch of songs that will be recorded. The most famous example would be the unrecorded Virtual XI leftovers that wound...

*of the Peace

Thanks again for putting together a tracklist that works and flows well! It's the only way I listen to it nowadays.

I just built the tracklist on my iPod, so no, there's no version that has those songs embedded into it. I based mine on one built by @Jeffmetal I believe, though I may reorganize it again in the near future. Currently, it runs like this: 1) Sign of the Cross 2) Lord of the Flies 3) Man on the...

I've been listening to The X Factor as a 14-track album with those included for years now to help with the dirgey mood and sometimes sluggish pacing.

A friend of mine went wearing an AoB shirt, but he's a relatively new fan. I don't really wear band shirts anymore, so I just went in a Skeletor shirt. B) Brilliant show, though, exceeded all my expectations for it. Bruce sounded excellent, the band were on fire and looking like they were...

Yep, Florida anytime of the year has the potential to suck hard. I went there in late October thinking we were golden going to Disney. Ninety plus degrees, high, high humidity...effing miserable!

Yep, I mentioned on here years ago that Justice of the Peace is the thematic precursor to what became Age of Innocence. It's an okay song, but yeah, I could do without the "old man complaining about the state of things with his old mates at breakfast" vibe those songs give off.

We could've had an interesting new era, one that would've undoubtedly continued the groundwork laid by the proggier nature of The X Factor, one pushed into different directions than the one we got thanks to the songwriting contributions of the new singer. I'm sure the most vital aspect was that...

Since they're sticking with these multi-year tours, I agree, a more versatile setlist is what they should be doing. Excitement goes down on the second leg of a tour with the same setlist, obviously, but that can be tempered by swapping out a fair amount of songs on each leg. Then there are the...

Mainly because--looking at RFYL and a possible latter half of the career followup--they'd be quite flagrantly ignoring the Blaze era as if it wasn't important. Fans understandably would jump all over that, just like loads complained that No Prayer was omitted from RFYL. Realistically, though...

Or, as I've said before, go hybrid again. New album + 1995-Senjutsu, + obligatory classics in the encore. It won't leave a ton of room for new songs, especially with the average length of reunion era songs. The consensus around here, at least, is that a 1995-Senjutsu set wouldn't sell nearly as...