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There's a lot of good material currently being posted in this thread. For what it's worth I commend you all. 

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

I'm listening to this album a lot more these days. I still have that nagging urge to take it off and put 'Tales' on, like the cold turkey junky who is walking past his dealer's house, but the cravings are not as strong as they used to be. 

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The first time I saw this band was in 2008 in London. It was Septic Flesh, Gorgoroth and Cradle of Filth, and it was freezing cold outside yet there was some kind of delay in letting people inside the venue, so we were all lined up for ages out the front. There was supposed to be a local band starting the night, but they were cancelled due to the late start - I felt really sorry for them as they missed their big moment. A massive tour bus with blacked out windows arrived while we're all standing out there, and out come the members of Cradle and Gorgoroth. It was when Gaahl was in the band, so it was pretty amazing to see that guy come out and walk around. 

Anyway, I knew of Septic Flesh but had never heard their music. It was just when 'Communion' was released, and they simply blew me away. I couldn't believe what i was hearing. I have since seen them in Melbourne and was really nonplussed by the whole thing. It was basically four guys playing their very quiet instruments while a tumult of orchestral backing tapes thundered around. It began my general distaste for backing tapes which remains to this day. 

That 2008 show (with backing tapes - go figure) remains one of my favourite live events. This band speaks to me on every level as a music lover. 

 

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'World Coming Down' was, for me, was the start of Type O Negative's decline into parody and, unfortunately, death. But the final song from 'World Coming Down' is an amazing track and needs to be heard by everyone everywhere. 

If, for some reason, you don't like the Beatles and Type O Negative, at least listen to the last five minutes of this. The song 'I Want You (She's So Heavy) was one of my favourites when I was 8 years old and playing the Abby Road tape at my parent's country estate. 

 

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'World Coming Down' was, for me, was the start of Type O Negative's decline into parody and, unfortunately, death. But the final song from 'World Coming Down' is an amazing track and needs to be heard by everyone everywhere.

For me, it was the beginning of their maturity as a band, getting past some of their poppy schtick and into darker, more introspective lyrics and much more interesting songwriting. Definitely my favorite album of theirs, although not always the easiest to listen to.

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1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

For me, it was the beginning of their maturity as a band, getting past some of their poppy schtick and into darker, more introspective lyrics and much more interesting songwriting. Definitely my favorite album of theirs, although not always the easiest to listen to.

It's the album that they leave a lot of the atmospherics behind, and that turns out to be a bad thing. I simply can't understand how anyone can prefer 'World Coming Down' to 'October Rust'. Even the great songs like 'White Slavery' sound stunted compared to 'Love you to Death' and 'Wolf Moon'.  

But I do like that album a lot. But 'October Rust' will forever remain my favourite album. 

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It's the album that they leave a lot of the atmospherics behind, and that turns out to be a bad thing. I simply can't understand how anyone can prefer 'World Coming Down' to 'October Rust'. Even the great songs like 'White Slavery' sound stunted compared to 'Love you to Death' and 'Wolf Moon'.  

But I do like that album a lot. But 'October Rust' will forever remain my favourite album. 

I disagree... which you already know. :) I don't think they got any less atmospheric, WCD drips atmosphere - tons of keyboards, those harrowing interludes, Pete exploring more dynamic potential in his vocals - and I think they changed for the better. It's funny how subjective it is. October Rust is probably their most musically accessible album - in fact it's the first one I really liked, after hating Bloody Kisses when it first came out - but it sounds to me like they were pandering to the Hot Topic crowd. Their later stuff is more engaging to me in every way (although I always loved Origin Of The Feces and I've warmed up to Bloody Kisses). Pete never put the cringeworthy adolescent wet-dream lyrics behind himself completely, but I was happy to see them not being front and center. The songs about his family have always drawn me in the most.

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