I heard 2 tracks from NIME long ago that made me hate Blind Guardian, and they sounded nothing like the Blind Guardian I heard on the debut album, Somewhere Far Beyond, or Imaginations... which kicked ass.

They must have been interludes, and they sucked.

NIME is a pretty poor album for Blind Guardian, but it somehow contains no less than three of their best songs ever.

Nah NIME is their best album pretty much. It's not just an album it's like a play.

A very poorly articulated, very dull play. Yes, if you meant that, then I agree.

Granted it's hard to determine their best but Imaginations certainly isn't that jaw dropping to justify it beating NIME personally.

One time I actually deleted the interludes from NIME on my iPod, and it somehow made the album worse. It has a few really good songs, but I find myself losing interest in the middle every time.

One time I actually deleted the interludes from NIME on my iPod, and it somehow made the album worse. It has a few really good songs, but I find myself losing interest in the middle every time. SFB is probably my favorite, too.

I've had that album since I got into metal. It was my first BG album, and I pondered on why I couldn't quite get into it as a whole for a few years until I realized I just found the production weak, the songwriting cluttered and that there were only about five good songs on the whole thing, as has been previously noted here.

And of course it has to "do something else." I like tons of bands that progress it beyond its early roots. The problem is, when it goes too far, people complain that it has, well, gone too far. Where I usually do not agree.

One time I actually deleted the interludes from NIME on my iPod, and it somehow made the album worse. It has a few really good songs, but I find myself losing interest in the middle every time. SFB is probably my favorite, too.

As an avid King Diamond fan, I tend to have a preference towards concept albums, and I found the interludes to be the glue that holds the whole thing together. I'm a pretty big fan of "The Silmarillion", which was itself a sort of touch and go collection of poems. I think the album did a rather fine job of capturing the spirit of the book.

I found Alcameth's review of Spiral Architect's A Sceptic's Universe funny, frustrating, irritating, and completely fucking ridiculous. Then I saw the list of other albums he's reviewed and it all made perfect sense.

I guess I should clarify that I found the review itself not that funny, just the image some guy sitting beside a stereo scratching his head was.

"The guitars are distinctly Cryptopsy in tone, but sadly they have been castrated and watered down so much that they've actually begun to erode"

A perfect example of just how disorganized of a style this band exhibits is the extreme metal grab-bag anthem “Suspended by the neck”, which goes through so many damned stylistic and tempo changes that you’ll wonder if the random play button on your player is malfunctioning and shifting songs every 15 or 20 seconds. If you’re listening on an I-pod you’d suspect that the player is randomly shifting between the In Flames debut, something from The Dillinger Escape Plan, and a few occasional Dying Fetus excerpts and maybe a Machine Head or Biohazard bit. The singer just throws everything at the microphone but the kitchen sink, in no particular order, and succeeds only in sounding a tiger anally raping a bob cat at random intervals.

A certain passage from Hells_unicorn's review of Job for a Cowboy's Doom nearly made hurt something when I read it the first time.





Maybe I'm just immature, but the mental image of a tiger anally raping a bob cat in relation to deathcore vocals makes me laugh really hard.

A very poorly articulated, very dull play. Yes, if you meant that, then I agree.

It's an album that has to be heard all the way through each time which can be either positive or negative depending on the listener.

Yes, one of my many attempts at channeling Ultraboris' brand of juvenile humor while still trying to keep my own style of "description first, novelty second" reviewing. It seems that whenever I trash a band that I don't like, I always come back to Boris' latent desire to have seen Sepultura killed in an accidental bombing during the recording of Roots.