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Vim Fuego
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I gotta say Jill Janus' image put me off her music initially, but when I actually LISTENED to it, which is what you're supposed to do with music, I gotta agree with your assessment of her singing abilities. Mental illness is an awful thing.
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Vim Fuego
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^ Surprised you're bothering given your feelings on the original S&M.
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I'm always surprised at how low rated this is here. Yes they improved by leaps and bounds on The Spectre Within but this one is not that bad.
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DippoMagoo
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Let's see how this goes...... Edit: Well, I'm quite liking that supposedly wretched first track, so it's off to a promising start! Goddamn it, the default Youtube playlist had a messed up order, sending me from the first track right up to near the end Back to the very beginning, with a non fucked up playlist, it is!
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DippoMagoo
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That was excellent, definitely one of their better albums. It has hints of their more experiment later works, but is still mostly progressive, if very moody and modern sounding, at points. The longer tracks all hit, and interludes are quite nice. Definitely one of my favorites by them.
Now it's time to see how a band I once loved, could produce a 1 (nearly 0.5 star album), in what many people considered a return to form. I was always puzzled by my reaction to this album, so it'll be interesting to see if it goes any better at all, now that I know I still enjoy their early work, at the very least.
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DippoMagoo
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Now for the ultimate test:
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^Yeah, that one may just be unsalvageable. WAY too much garbage rap sections. I find if rap is used sporadically, as on most of their albums, it doesn't bother me, but here it's used CONSTANTLY, and very obnoxously, so it's just giving me a massive headache. I guess every non perfect band will have their one dumb album, though, so, whatever..... I just have to think, though, if Adam reviewed this he'd probably have to give it negative stars, somehow
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DippoMagoo
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Actually my favorite Japanese power metal album of the year, even over Lovebites. It's not as traditional as that one, but still quite heavy, mostly pure symphonic power metal, with no J-Pop whatsoever, and quite a bit of melodeath. It's an absolute blast of an album!
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I have no intention of ever listening to a single note this one.
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