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Post by doomyguy on Sept 10, 2021 15:49:16 GMT -5
I suppose I need to go listen to it, but perhaps more shameful is that I don’t feel any desire to hear this album.
Why?
I mean, why do you need to? An why should it be shameful that you do not want to?
Don't get me wrong, I think Iron Maiden is one of the great metal bands of all times, but their late career bloat albums are not for me. Last one I bought was Wild Frontier - which did not do much for me. Listened some to Souls, which did even less.
Personally I have absolutely no plans to listen to the new one - with so little time and are so many good newer bands out there, I can't really feel bad not spending time on a band out of a sense of obligation based on their past glories.
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Post by metalcrypt on Sept 10, 2021 16:28:13 GMT -5
Pffft. Elitist.  Is there anyone here that NEEDS to hear me moan about it? LOL That’s what this thread is all about. That’s what we live for!!!! |
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Post by reigninbloodygore on Sept 10, 2021 23:00:20 GMT -5
I suppose I need to go listen to it, but perhaps more shameful is that I don’t feel any desire to hear this album.
Why?
I mean, why do you need to? An why should it be shameful that you do not want to?
Don't get me wrong, I think Iron Maiden is one of the great metal bands of all times, but their late career bloat albums are not for me. Last one I bought was Wild Frontier - which did not do much for me. Listened some to Souls, which did even less.
Personally I have absolutely no plans to listen to the new one - with so little time and are so many good newer bands out there, I can't really feel bad not spending time on a band out of a sense of obligation based on their past glories.
I truly share your feelings here. I think I just have this feeling that I should take the time to find out what’s on offer because this band have released many great albums and there is always potential for another classic from them, even though it’s highly unlikely at this point. For certain, I’m not in a rush to hear it. There are a lot of interesting albums out now to check out from younger bands that I’m excited about. That new Portrait album is fun. But even more I’ve found for me this is a year in which Death Metal takes the crown for best releases of the year. Time might change that for me, but I’m finding it hard to find albums that impress me as much as the new Drawn and Quartered, Cannibal Corpse, Hooded Menace, Tombstoner, Inoculation, and Qrixkuor albums. |
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Post by doomyguy on Sept 11, 2021 10:51:07 GMT -5
Why?
I mean, why do you need to? An why should it be shameful that you do not want to?
Don't get me wrong, I think Iron Maiden is one of the great metal bands of all times, but their late career bloat albums are not for me. Last one I bought was Wild Frontier - which did not do much for me. Listened some to Souls, which did even less.
Personally I have absolutely no plans to listen to the new one - with so little time and are so many good newer bands out there, I can't really feel bad not spending time on a band out of a sense of obligation based on their past glories.
I truly share your feelings here. I think I just have this feeling that I should take the time to find out what’s on offer because this band have released many great albums and there is always potential for another classic from them, even though it’s highly unlikely at this point. For certain, I’m not in a rush to hear it. There are a lot of interesting albums out now to check out from younger bands that I’m excited about. That new Portrait album is fun. But even more I’ve found for me this is a year in which Death Metal takes the crown for best releases of the year. Time might change that for me, but I’m finding it hard to find albums that impress me as much as the new Drawn and Quartered, Cannibal Corpse, Hooded Menace, Tombstoner, Inoculation, and Qrixkuor albums. Hmm... some new DM to check out methinks 
And yeah, IM aside, I have think that a lot of the metal world is somewhat on a nostalgia trip. Some amazing, never surpassed (or not yet anyway) albums came out in the 70ies & 80ies. But when listening to a great newer band, I can't help sometimes thinking, that if this had been released in the the 80ies, it would be regarded as one of the great classics now.
But then again, who am I to talk - this evening I am on an AC/DC trip. So yeah.
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Post by metalcrypt on Sept 12, 2021 7:06:08 GMT -5
This album works a lot better as individual songs than as a whole. Most of the songs are good, and some are even great, but it doesn't flow well and it's too long. I think the middle is the weakest part. The Time Machine and Darkest Hour are the two weakest songs here and placed together right in the middle of the album kills the momentum and make for a very boring section. Get rid of those two songs, cut about two minutes from Lost in a Lost World (no one needs that chorus), shuffle the order of the songs a bit (Days of Future Past befor Lost in a Lost World and Stratego after Death of the Celts, for example) and you have a much better album. Funny, for me it's the other way around: The songs they released before the album didn't click, but I found they work well as part of the album. It's definitely too long and you do feel it even more when you have to flip three vinyl discs. lol But they've been doing "too long" since Brave New World (the last Maiden album I really liked). Still digesting it. Before yesterday I had only listened to it while doing something else (reading, walking, driving), whereas yesterday I played the vinyl version while reading the lyrics. |
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Post by mystophales on Sept 13, 2021 12:05:25 GMT -5
This album works a lot better as individual songs than as a whole. Most of the songs are good, and some are even great, but it doesn't flow well and it's too long. I think the middle is the weakest part. The Time Machine and Darkest Hour are the two weakest songs here and placed together right in the middle of the album kills the momentum and make for a very boring section. Get rid of those two songs, cut about two minutes from Lost in a Lost World (no one needs that chorus), shuffle the order of the songs a bit (Days of Future Past befor Lost in a Lost World and Stratego after Death of the Celts, for example) and you have a much better album. Funny, for me it's the other way around: The songs they released before the album didn't click, but I found they work well as part of the album. It's definitely too long and you do feel it even more when you have to flip three vinyl discs. lol But they've been doing "too long" since Brave New World (the last Maiden album I really liked). Still digesting it. Before yesterday I had only listened to it while doing something else (reading, walking, driving), whereas yesterday I played the vinyl version while reading the lyrics. Works WAY better fully giving your attention on vinyl. Still to long though... |
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Post by larmer28 on Dec 6, 2021 15:01:44 GMT -5
It's not too long. You don't have to play the whole thing at once.
I got Senjutsu the day it was released but I still haven't gone through the whole album. A song a week or three songs per month. I still have the last song that I haven't even heard yet. At this point, I think I'll save it for next year.
At least it's keeping me entertained for months. With a 35 minute album, I just spin it half a dozen times and it goes on the shelf. With this, I think the first day I played the first three tracks 4 times and that took me an hour and a half, plus breaks. That's a feature film right there.
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Post by metalcrypt on Dec 6, 2021 15:55:02 GMT -5
Sorry, but when I buy an album, I listen to it.
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Post by metalmike on Dec 10, 2021 20:21:52 GMT -5
Could have just been called "Book of Souls II - More songs that are too long" and been done with it
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Post by larmer28 on Dec 12, 2021 9:38:28 GMT -5
I also listen to everything I buy. Just not everything at once. The longer the album, the happier I am. I don't mind a 60 CD album, if one existed. It just means there's stuff there for me to last a lifetime.
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