It's been you-know-what. Along with Dream Theater's new album, but I don't care about that band, although some of you probably will. This new album has no cookie monster vocals for those who have been looking for that from them. Opinions? EDIT: Yeah, I like what I am hearing in their first 3...

They are very clearly trying to return to their roots, this song almost can be called Metropolis Pt.3. Dream Theater fans will be praising this song and claiming that Portnoy had been the cancer of the band, the guy who had been pushing the band to be more and more heavy while being less and...

OMG, have you guys heard the new Symphony X album? It's terrific, the production is much better than that of their last album and there's no crappy ballads, just freaking great heavy songs. Everyone check it out now.

http://www.amazon.com/Illud-Divinum-Insanus-Morbid-Angel/dp/B004VUP8WK You can hear preview of all the songs here. There's nothing to discuss really, was anyone actually expecting them to come out with a good album? Why care about them when Autopsy's new album is so badass?

My recommendations.

Kamelot - The Black Halo Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja Slough Feg - Traveller Opeth - Blackwater Park...

The Crown - Deathrace King Brutality - Screams of Anguish Massacre - From Beyond Adramelech - Psychostasia Convulse - World Without God Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity Malevolent Creation - Retribution

Death - Human Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Entombed - Clandestine Autopsy - Mental Funeral Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious Suffocation - Pierced From Within Immolation - Dawn of Possession The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral...

Question: why bother about what that's popular and topping that worthless billboard charts?

http://www.swedroid.se/test-av-lg-optimus-2x/ BTW, you might want to consider getting the LG Optimus 2x. It features the same Wolfson WM8994 as Galaxy S and Nexus S but according to this review measures better than those 2 phones.

That's highly debetable, it will almost certainly take months before the first apps to take advantage of dual core processors appear, and you can forget about games "you won't be able to play with a single-core cpu" appearing until at least the iphone 5 gets released. If you want to play games...

Once again, the stock tips are garbage and I won't bother using them. Try Shure Olives, Ety/Shure Triflangles or Klipsch Biflangles.

I really have a hard time believing that the Japanese mixes albums better than the rest of the world, considering that many J-Pop and J-Rock albums I have heard are some of the most brickwalled garbage I have ever heard. If you haven't heard a brickwalled album from Japan, most likely you have...

Can't believe anyone can stand using the stock tips; they are like the worst stock tips I have even seen. Ety triple flanges massively improve the sound quality and isolation of the DBA-02 and gets my vote.

Grado is infamous for its hard price control, it isn't just the GR10, pretty much any of the Grado headphone is sold at close to the same price. USD $399 is IMHO too much for what the GR10 offers, so you are probably better off looking for something else.

Ladies and gentlemen, the newest Buruzm album has been you-know-what. Be warned that it has a lot of clean vocals.

The Sky Moves Sideways Signify Stupid Dream Lightbulb Sun In Absentia Deadwing Their most important albums, besides Fear of a Blank Planet. Stupid Dream is my personal favorite, but In Absentia is considered by most to be their Magnum opus. Be warned that the pre-Stupid Dream albums are of a...

BBE needs to be set to max. Any less and you are not getting the best from the J3. MP needs to be on. SE can be 3, although the change in sound isn't that much. Does Mach3Bass actually have an effect on your bass? Can't say that I feel it does. I like to set 3D to 1, to add some air to my sound...

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/532704/e-mu-0204-usb-damn-they-ve-done-it-again-and-for-129 Specs wise, it's slightly better than the 0404, I am hoping to see some comparisions between those 2, but I am yet to see them.

Virgin Steele - Invictus Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd Falconer - Falconer Also get Kamelot - The Black Halo.

Uh.... Iced Earth is not a very talented band, but even so they had done a remarkable job to create a unique blend of thrash/power/heavy metal that no other band has. So it wouldn't be easy to find a band that sounds like them. You can try checking out Demons & Wizards which features Iced...

A few comments: 1) MP3 comes in many bitrates. How much MP3 is a downgrade from FLAC depends on the birate of the MP3; once you go below 192 kbps per second the quality starts to deteriorate rapidly. 320 kbps is often not that much of a difference from FLAC even in high end setups, but of...

Moonsorrow's new song, for those who care.

It's a bit pointless to recommend sopranos without talking about what works/composers you are interested in, isn't it? In any case I highly recommend you to check out the following: Beverly Sills Natalie Dessay Renee Fleming Katia Ricciarelli Ileana Cotrubas Edita Gruberova Joan Sutherland...

This forum is a public forum. Unless you are a moderator of head-fi I don't see why you have the right to tell us what to post and what not to post. It's wrong to say that the wiggle room for a performer’s “interpretation” is very tiny; if anything the interpretation ability for a classical...