Estradasphere- Palace of Mirrors

Estradasphere- Palace of Mirrors- Yontar o meter: 92/100

Some bands have criminally small reputations and followings. Estradasphere should be right up there with mr bungle and the fantomas in the avant garde scene, and maybe even better known than them because of their tendency for far more melodic music.

Now, obviously it is avant garde and tons of styles are covered. From the epic to the very quaint. From country and folk influenced music to things bordering prog rock and classical. It's a real adventure and the weird genre mixes are a great listen. Each player is really good and the songwriting is very accesible for being avant garde. If secreit chiefs were way less wierd and did some jamming with bungle (the california bungle) then you would be in the estradasphere area. A really great act, very talented live as well. It's Understood is also an awesome album (a 91 or so)

Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak

Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak- Yontar o meter 90/100

So, Some stuff is just completely classic and was even classic when it was released compared to the other artists of that day. Jailbreak is a testament to Thin Lizzy's perfection of blues influenced hard rock with great dual guitar leads. Good musicianship all around, good lyrics, and storytelling ability all just beef this album up even more. Every song is pretty different for being a classic rock album. You get hard rock, folky stuff, some almost funky blues sections. If ya dig the classics this is part of the cream of the crop.

I know these reviews are really basic, but um it's my blog and I like being straight up about things, when I get to metal reviews or prog rock albums maybe then I can elaborate more.

First Review-Deadsy-Commencement

Deadsy- Commencement-Yontar o meter: 83/100

Well, this is my first review, and beware these reviews will be simple, to the point and almost always about albums i thoroughly enjoy.

Now onto commencement: This is Music that is pretty distinct. It is essentially electro-rock but it's way heavier than that with really thick walls of distortion and almost tinged with gothic attitudes. When I was 16 I loved this album and I still do. Deadsy make music that is really robotic sounding yet still sounds like it's being manipulated by humans. Around half of the tracks are more uptempo almost 80s techno pop influenced hard rock songs and the other half drudges along in thick distortion and slow tempos. They also cover tom sawyer by Rush very well in their style. Just think electro industrial hard rock and you are around deadsy area. That's it.

Link: Actually, find the link yourself ya bums. The least you can do is find the link on your own ;)