The mountain was my first introduction. Then affinity, then I decided I liked them enough to listen to the older albums. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a “oh shit” moment like I did hearing atlas stone for the first time with any other music again.
I feel like they took themselves was less serious during Aquarius/Visions compared to virus/vector. I love the goofy changes and insane virtuosity.
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I started with The Mountain and the first guitar solo after the goofy doobado bop bop section sold me.
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The Mountain is an almost perfect prog metal album. I highly doubt they’ll come out with something at that level again.
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Agreed. I put it up there with Raven as my favorite prog records of the new century
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HCE > Raven by a hair, but this isn’t the thread for that. All three albums are modern prog perfection.
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Agreed
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Every thread is the thread for everything. I think I might prefer HCE by a tiny bit as a whole, but I consider Raven to be a better prog record, with better individual song writing, if that makes any sense at all.
Raven is my favorite prog album of all time. Even take out the metal qualifier.
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In terms of song structure, I agreed with you. HCE is more cohesive as an album though and I like the overall flow better than The Raven.
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Should I make @cshore and all of @squeakyfeet do a full Haken discography listen through in the van next week? I’m thinking yes
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Kiesel and Strandberg fam
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I only listen to bedroom pop
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Back onto Haken discussion…
Island in the clouds is quickly growing on me. That Tool-esque bridge gets me going.
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Listening to the instrumental version of Fauna today. Catching some nuances I missed under the vocals.
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I did that on the way home from sqft last night. Lovebite has a lot more keys hidden under the vocals.
Only song on the album that hasn’t captured me in any way. Yet.
