here are some more thoughts on 2007 releases
- Pristbird, In Your Time: slightly mellow stoner/post-rock. i like it a lot, but it's not top 10.
- Skinny Puppy, Mythmaker: this one's really good. thing is, does it make the top 10? it might, actually. it's a little bit too similar to the greater wrong of the right (and for that matter the Ohgr record) to be a shoo-in, but i do like it a lot.
- Symphony X, Paradise Lost: i've been on this quest to find another band like dream theater, whom i really like. admittedly, DT's vocals are a bit cheesy, as any vox with that much vibrato in a rock/metal context will be (see: bruce dickinson). so, i sort of place DT at one end of the prog metal spectrum, and yngwie at the other. symphony x is somewhere between -- musically, i love it, but vocally, not so much. the singer sounds like a cross between gus chambers and joe lynn turner. neither are vocalists i particularly like, and man, does this find the worst of both. too bad, because the music fairly well rules. ;)
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