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Huh. His questions made him sound clueless, like someone who had no idea how the blues influenced metal, and who had apparently heard of Helloween enough to bring them up twice, but didn’t already know that Adrian had cowritten songs with Kai Hansen for Michael Kiske’s Instant Clarity album...

The interviewer obviously didn’t do his homework on Adrian first, and seemed embarrassingly ignorant about metal in general, but Adrian was a good sport and kept the interview interesting regardless.

Aw, shucks. One thing I did differently was treat the qualitative rating as rounded to the nearest integer value, so for example everything from 8.5 to 9.4999 would be Excellent, 7.5 to 8.4999 would be Great, and so on. Funny thing is, the overall shape of your album rankings isn’t all that...

But seriously, have the moderators been AWOL since the start of the year, or what?

Look out, Bruce might try to kill him again…

Of course!

Finally, a completely sane and defensible review of a Rush album, all the way down to the song level. I knew you could do it, @MrK !

@Diesel 11, are you seriously re-reviewing all the Rush records after just doing a discography walk a couple of weeks ago? If you have meaningful score deltas then I’d be concerned about how volatile your opinions are. I was pretty generous with Hold Your Fire in my review. It’s an uneven...

@MrK is certainly delivering some piss-poor takes on these Rush albums. Wow. To each their own, I suppose…

Eyes Of A Stranger

Yep. Better keep your PS5 disk drive happy…

https://blabbermouth.net/news/todd-la-torre-next-queensryche-album-will-be-based-around-a-concept-that-happens-on-the-bands-debut-lp Interesting. Nothing from The Warning is immediately standing out to me as a jumping-off point for multiple concept albums, but I guess we’ll see…

EDIT: Took a long break from this one, and upon re-listening it’s landing hard. Great album!

Hyperbolize much? These were very specific electorates that were already predisposed to very progressive points of view. Not generalizable across the country.

They could pull a Kiss and release 6 albums, with each one full of songs written by a single band member…LOL. The Dave and Janick ones could go any number of directions, and who knows what Simon’s might sound like…

Did it break your back and your heart at the same time?

GUP is great, but let’s not get carried away now…LOL.

That’s probably true, though I remember surprising myself when I did my own run-through those years ago by how much more I enjoyed the prog material than I had in the past. I’ll probably never fully warm up to the proggiest stuff from the very early albums (“Fountain Of Lamneth”, etc.), because...

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the general shape of your review scores was pretty similar to my own in the end. :ok: Didn’t expect that at all.