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Can't believe you inVESTed time in that meme!

Dan Swano, easily. Fortress is a fine song, there's just something about Alter Bridge that feels flat to me. Despite having decent songwriting and good performers they just do literally nothing for me. More Human Than Human is typical Zombie silliness, but it's all kinds of memorable. ARMORED...

Crazy! Some parts of the city still look like this... The people look like AI, though?

I'm editing my original post as I go instead of posting broken up reviews. Hope to find some more 10's!

In Search of Truth The concept here is less of a story and more of a theme regarding one man's emotions over being abducted by aliens. In theory, I should love this album. It's definitely on the proggier side of riffing, I'm a massive fan of The X-Files, and there is more sharpness to the...

It's not frequent, but when I hear one it's like...dead on. And interestingly, these albums generally have come out before the Symphony X songs I'm referencing.

When Darkness Falls Bringing it all the way down with a beating heart 808, we get...wait for it...more stupid effected talking. The vocal effects carry over into the main vocals, though, with a very strange phaser effect. I'm not a fan. It's a shame because the chorus is phenomenal, maybe the...

Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy Holy shit what a difference a year makes! A real producer showed up for this one and thank Dio, because it's light years better than the debut. The songwriting is a bit more refined (but still has some room to grow). The band sounds incredible. Tom sounds good, but...

No time to listen today, so please allow me some very dumb and uninformed votes (I am American, after all). 1 Mike Portnoy > all KISS Death for no reason other than I would feel bad voting against them twice in the same round. Necropolis because I like Visigoth's cover of it. Nightwish...

I also had that thought on a couple songs! Tom’s chorus vocals do that Creed-y, 90s vocal dip.

I'll try to add a few song-specific thoughts here when I can... Blackened Dawn Cool intro, but the whole first verse is a mess. Great chorus, cool second verse and additional guitar riff underneath it. The bridge is fantastic, but the simplistic keyboard kind of kills the power of it. Still...

Coming into this, I have about 50% knowledge or experience with Evergrey. I have listened to the first 4-5 albums some time in the past decade, I'm pretty sure I listened to their most recent album last year, and I've heard Tom Englund sing on Ayreon projects and the most recent Redemption...

I know nothing about Stratovarius except one important thing: they don’t have Tate.

I paid $5.97 yesterday.

Cult of Luna bored me to tears for 6 minutes and then wasn't really my thing for 4 minutes. But I think at this point I'm stuck voting for the metal songs. Limelight is, truly, the better song here. That is not up for debate. And I do think there are some Rush songs that could be called metal...