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Feb 1, 2017 at 3:22 PM Post #946 of 5,588
We are two days away from the release of Haken's first two albums 'Aquarius' and 'Visions' remastered.





Quoting Haken "We can't wait for people to hear these albums in their brilliant new and remastered form. Both 'Aquarius' and 'Visions' hold a special place in our hearts as well as the fans' and we wanted to make sure we brought them back in a fresh and exciting way. Listeners will be able to enjoy the nuances in our instrumental arrangements and also embrace the complete audio experience of vinyl. We're looking forward to revisiting much of this music on stage for our fans around Europe in our upcoming 10th anniversary tour."



p.s. I have already preordered both from Amazon with delivery on Friday, February 3rd.

 


I read a review of these on the Prog Mind and they sound like a must buy.


https://theprogmind.com/2017/01/18/remixes-borealis-and-haken/

Thanks a lot you weasel. The anticipation is killing me. Worse because my Prog Master in Chicago who rips for me has his twins' birthday party on Friday so I have to wait until Saturday at the earliest to hear them.

When did family come before progressive music? What the hell is happening to the world?
 
Feb 1, 2017 at 3:26 PM Post #947 of 5,588
Trying to get into the new Odd Logic album, as I liked their stuff in the past. However, I feel like the mixing on this is bad. Feels like the SE used really dark headphones during mixing as the whole album lacks a low end foundation and the top end it brittle and strident. Feels super lean sounding to me. Anyone else?
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 9:58 AM Post #950 of 5,588
Trying to get into the new Odd Logic album, as I liked their stuff in the past. However, I feel like the mixing on this is bad. Feels like the SE used really dark headphones during mixing as the whole album lacks a low end foundation and the top end it brittle and strident. Feels super lean sounding to me. Anyone else?

 
Yes the production is average unfortunately..
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 10:23 AM Post #952 of 5,588
Yes but the music is great ;)

I am going to try and give a listen today. Their last one was wonderful, with horrible production issues. Hopefully this one has better production.

I am generally not bothered with swearing. I do, however, feel it just doesn't fit the tenor of prog music - which I consider more highbrow than most other forms of music.
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 2:06 PM Post #953 of 5,588
  You can stream the new Soen album here : http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-02-02/listen-to-the-new-album-from-soen-lykaia
 
The album is also on Tidal and Spotify.
 

 
I really enjoyed this one. The production is not perfect yet, but much better than their last effort. With this album I feel like they are giving me the sound I wanted from Opeth. I do feel like Sorceress is a bit of wheel spinning for Opeth, and maybe Soen in time will show us they are taking the mantle........please don't hate on me too much (or ban me):)
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 3:34 PM Post #954 of 5,588
I really enjoyed this one. The production is not perfect yet, but much better than their last effort. With this album I feel like they are giving me the sound I wanted from Opeth. I do feel like Sorceress is a bit of wheel spinning for Opeth, and maybe Soen in time will show us they are taking the mantle........please don't hate on me too much (or ban me):)

I promise to only hate you a little.

The first two Soen albums were imitation Tool/Perfect circle albums and this release while a great improvement just had no hooks to keep me interested. It sounded like progressive metal Muzak to me.

I know you do not like 'Sorceress' nor did I initially. However, with more listens I "got" what Mikael was trying to achieve a reimagining of 70's era progressive influences. The distorted bass for example was an homage to Deep Purple's 'Machine Head' era sound. Personally, 'Sorceress' is Opeth's best album since 'Watershed'.
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 4:54 PM Post #955 of 5,588
I promise to only hate you a little.

The first two Soen albums were imitation Tool/Perfect circle albums and this release while a great improvement just had no hooks to keep me interested. It sounded like progressive metal Muzak to me.

I know you do not like 'Sorceress' nor did I initially. However, with more listens I "got" what Mikael was trying to achieve a reimagining of 70's era progressive influences. The distorted bass for example was an homage to Deep Purple's 'Machine Head' era sound. Personally, 'Sorceress' is Opeth's best album since 'Watershed'.

I see the soen/tool argument with their debute, but Tellurian if anything was more opeth like to my ears than tool. This latest shows they are getting their own sound going, and hopefully they do something really interesting for their next one.
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 9:36 PM Post #956 of 5,588
I see the soen/tool argument with their debute, but Tellurian if anything was more opeth like to my ears than tool. This latest shows they are getting their own sound going, and hopefully they do something really interesting for their next one.


Thank you for the description of Soen's second album 'Tellurian'. I did not like their debut album so I never gave the second a listen but you are dead right on the second album. I hate to admit this but I am really enjoying 'Tellurian'. It maybe a poor man's Opeth but I really missed Martin Lopez' percussion.
 
Feb 3, 2017 at 9:50 PM Post #957 of 5,588
Thank you for the description of Soen's second album 'Tellurian'. I did not like their debut album so I never gave the second a listen but you are dead right on the second album. I hate to admit this but I am really enjoying 'Tellurian'. It maybe a poor man's Opeth but I really missed Martin Lopez' percussion.


He is a beast on tellurian. I just wish the mix didn't have so much mid bass so his drums were not so boomy.
 

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