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I have no idea who Jon Nödtveit is, but since he’s the only one on the list who has apparently killed people, he gets my vote. MJK is odd, but he has no place on this list. Same with Lars; he’s incredibly annoying, but he’s a choir boy compared to some of these others.

Super easy votes for Myrath, Armored Saint (I love this song and entire album), and Dream Theater (Petrucci’s solo is the cherry on top of a beautiful song). White Zombie’s classic edges out Alter Bridge for me. The other two are “the enemy of my enemy”-type votes.

These would all be great live songs. I’d kill to hear Surrender to Reason in particular. A testament to the quality of their catalog, for sure.

I love the building on fire at 1:15 and the guy passed out at 6:45. Definitely the Chicago I know! But my favorite part has to be the two full minutes of the guy on a bench slowly falling asleep. Did everyone really wear hats back then? I like how wide the roads are and the minimal traffic...

All great games that hopefully you’ll enjoy! I preferred Fallen Order to Survivor, but the latter is still excellent and a bigger game overall. AC Odyssey was the best AC I’ve played, and I’m looking forward to Shadows next week. I played as Kassandra, which aside from the historical...

I love that he loves Faith in Others! Apostle in Triumph, too. Saying Blackwater Park is overrated, though… not cool. Deliverance (song) is the one that’s overrated.

Hope you enjoy it again! Easily the best of their post-Watershed prog rock era albums.

Any way you slice it, Octavarium is the best track on an otherwise painfully mediocre album. Outside of The Astonishing it’s easily my least favorite album of theirs. The Root of All Evil is one of the most ploddingly boring songs the band has ever done. Tracks 2 and 3 are also snoozefests, and...

You left out some good parts, but I’ll agree that the entire keyboard intro is boring and the song should’ve just started when the full band enters.

It’s honestly one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard by them. Complete bottom of the barrel, yet they released it as a single.

About to start wrapping up STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl after playing it on and off for about a month. Solid game, but there’s been some bugs. My first time playing the series, too. After that I’m on to finish up FFVII Remake and play through Rebirth. As a relatively new PS5 owner I also...

OMG we agree!

Glad you liked it! I’ve never seen them disappoint. Really cool to see they played A Rite of Passage; I hope we get that in Chicago instead of Panic Attack (Octavarium is an album I don’t care much for outside of the title track).

I’ll be honest: I didn’t even know they had a bass player. With two 8-strings what’s the point? Haken’s bassist does some cool stuff, though, and they often have two 8’s chugging away. Going back to what @Mosh said (and I know he was joking), could you imagine Seventh Wonder without bass? Or...

Not cool dude!