[Andreas89]

mightyjhon, on Feb 5 2010, 07:25 PM, said:

... I even thought they were for metal girls like the BackStreetBoys ...

ROCK YOUR BOOOODDDDY
EVERYBOOOODDDY
ROCK YOUR BODY RIGHT
BACKSTREET BACK ALRIGHT

I love that shit

[mightyjhon]

LorenzoGarbanzo, on Feb 5 2010, 07:34 PM, said:

mightyjhon, on Feb 6 2010, 02:28 AM, said:

LorenzoGarbanzo, on Feb 5 2010, 05:03 PM, said:

If you want a band for girls, the answer is Dream Theater.

<_< Are you serious?

At least their last gigs here were full of little swedish girls. Why else they would have released "Forsaken"?

well, I won't discuss

@Andreas89: :lol:

[Lord_Regnier]

rdyfrde, on Feb 5 2010, 01:20 PM, said:

Sonata Arctica is a band for girls, not Gamma Ray

Sonara Arctica and Edguy are bands for girls.

[Siegfried7]

Lord_Regnier, on Feb 7 2010, 01:13 AM, said:

rdyfrde, on Feb 5 2010, 01:20 PM, said:

Sonata Arctica is a band for girls, not Gamma Ray

Sonara Arctica and Edguy are bands for girls.

Not in the past, but in recent years yes they are.

Though truth be told, I like the idea of going in a concert that will have lots of girls.

[matos]

Listened to the "To the Metal" album and like it It's nothing new under the sun, but nice to listen.

[Arto]

I don't really understand direction this discussion has gone

[mightyjhon]

Siegfried7, on Feb 7 2010, 04:23 AM, said:

Lord_Regnier, on Feb 7 2010, 01:13 AM, said:

rdyfrde, on Feb 5 2010, 01:20 PM, said:

Sonata Arctica is a band for girls, not Gamma Ray

Sonara Arctica and Edguy are bands for girls.

Not in the past, but in recent years yes they are.

Though truth be told, I like the idea of going in a concert that will have lots of girls.

Oh yeah

[Lord_Regnier]

I would aprreciate being surrounded by girls at gigs, if only most of them weren`t so young I could technically be their father.

I would add that girls under 25 get on my nerves quickly in life, because of their lack of maturity. They`re children, from my point of view (you will understand it when you will be my age).

[mightyjhon]

Lol, I understand you now, I've got a friend who's 26 years he got his girfriend 5 years ago when she was 13. :lol: WTF with him?

[farfaramir]

Lord_Regnier, on Feb 6 2010, 09:13 PM, said:

rdyfrde, on Feb 5 2010, 01:20 PM, said:

Sonata Arctica is a band for girls, not Gamma Ray

Sonara Arctica and Edguy are bands for girls.

No :(!!! (I have no arguments to say the opposite thing XD... just Nooooo!)

[Black_Sheep]

Anyone here (rdyfrde? Arto?) know what songs they have been playing live lately?

[Arto]

Black_Sheep, on Feb 9 2010, 12:16 PM, said:

Anyone here (rdyfrde? Arto?) know what songs they have been playing live lately?

Setlist isn't very surprising but they finally dropped I Want Out though (helloween should follow the lead. Just my opinion though since I don't like that song).

I won't spoil anymore so here's the link http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/gamma-ray/20...y-23d75cd3.html

[Arch Evil]

I've only listened to the new album once, so I can't really judge it right now, but I have to say so far it left me with the impression of 'meh, this was it?'... Which usually isn't a good sign. I remember when I listened to Majestic for the first time, I thought 'THIS IS SO AWESOME!', and that was after the first couple of songs.

Looks like the new album might end up somewhere between 'mediocre' and 'decent', and I'm sad to say this happens a lot nowadays...

[Lord_Regnier]

Arch Evil, on Feb 20 2010, 05:39 AM, said:

Looks like the new album might end up somewhere between 'mediocre' and 'decent', and I'm sad to say this happens a lot nowadays...

It happens a lot to me too. I`ve wondered a few times in the last years if I was the problem or if the issue was really the music itself. Because, 99 out of 100 times, I don`t necessarily think the music is awful (though it also happens) but my reaction is "meh, I heard the same thing hundreds of times before and done in a much better way".

The main problems I have are the softening of many bands and the fact lots of albums nowadays are a watered-down-for-the-masses copy of older albums with a modern production I hate because it sounds sterile, soulless and so damn boring.
Imo, lots of bands (old or new bands) need to put aside the modern production they use if they wish to create music that will give the listener any kind of feeling (other than complete boredom).

Another issue is lots of albums feel so uninspired and bland. Here, I can see three explanations. Either the songwriter has lost inspiration with time and can`t write good songs anymore (it happens quite often with the famous old bands- they`re carried on only by their past because people don`t really analize the new music they make, as if their subconscious tells them that everything made by this band is great by definition so they overlook that the new material sucks), or the songwriter simply has never been good at it and never wrote great songs, or the album has been released only to be released which means no one really put thought in the songwriting (what I sometimes refer to as fast-food metal).

Personally, even if I wondered a few times if I still liked metal, I know the answer now. I still like metal a lot because, when I hear the kind of stuff that suits my tastes, I enjoy it as much as I did 20 years ago. If I so often dislike the new material I hear, it`s either because it`s different and doesn`t suit my tastes or because it quite simply sucks.
For example, I received Hellish Crossfire`s "Bloodrust Scythe" this week. The album sounds very old school. I sat there in my living room and put the CD in my PS3 (I use it as a CD reader sometimes). Guess what? I liked all the songs instantly.
It put a smile on my face because I felt as if I were in some kind of flashback or if I was re-living past events. For a short time, I was the teenage boy who discovers metal and is thrilled about it.
And I still enjoy many genres but almost only old albums. I`m listening to the song "Caught Somewhere In time" while writing this post, if it can give an idea.

So, my conclusion is nothing changed so much in me, even after all those years. If I so often dislike metal nowadays, it`s because it changed and the overall quality decreased. And because it`s overproduced, so it sounds like commercial crap.
Only exception is Powermetal: I grew tired of this genre over the years so much I can`t even enjoy the stuff I liked a decade ago.
Some people here seem to believe I listen only to Black Metal and it`s the sole genre I like. It`s false. I still like Thrash, some classic heavy metal bands, a bit of Death Metal, old progressive hard rock, etc.
The difference is Black Metal is the only genre from which I often like the new stuff. In all other genres, I still enjoy most of the old stuff as much as I did in the 80s but I don`t like the new stuff at all.

[rdyfrde]

Damn :(

http://www.bravewords.com/news/134600

[Lord_Regnier]

Sounds rather serious. Good luck to him.

[Arto]

There is some more news to follow regarding live shows...

[rdyfrde]

Kai guested on the song "The Agonist" by the death metal band In Arkadia. You can hear the song in their myspace player (it's the first track):

http://www.myspace.com/inarkadiaband

[Andreas89]

Too bad about Henjo, hope he gets well soon.

Happy b-day by the way, rdyfrde

[rdyfrde]

Andreas89, on 17 March 2010 - 01:36 AM, said:

Too bad about Henjo, hope he gets well soon.

Yeah me too. I'm just worried since any sort of surgery is dangerous :(

Andreas89, on 17 March 2010 - 01:36 AM, said:

Happy b-day by the way, rdyfrde

Thanks

[Black_Sheep]

Bad news about Henjo. I hope he gets well soon.

I also hope they don't have to cancel any more shows. Im going to see them on the 28th day....

But IF Henjo can't make it, they can always ask the guitarist from Guardians Of Mankind to cover for him, i guess

[Arto]

Arto, on 16 March 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

There is some more news to follow regarding live shows...

Now it's officially announced.

Quote

GAMMA RAY Taps AMBERIAN DAWN Guitarist For German, Czech Dates - Mar. 19, 2010

German power metallers GAMMA RAY have tapped Kasperi Heikkinen of AMBERIAN DAWN and the Finnish GAMMA RAY tribute band GUARDIANS OF MANKIND as the temporary replacement for guitarist/keyboardist Henjo Richter, who underwent surgery on Tuesday (March 16) for a "retinal detachment."

Affected dates:

March 19 - Lichtenfels, GER @ Stadthalle
March 20 - Prague, CZR @ KD Vltavska
March 22 - Langen, GER @ Stadthalle (rescheduled from March 18)
March 23 - Saarbrücken, GER @ Garage (rescheduled from March 16)

Henjo is expected to rejoin his GAMMA RAY bandmates in time for the March 25 concert at KB in Malmö, Sweden.

A retinal detachment is a disorder of the eye in which the retina peels away from its underlying layer of support tissue.

Kasperi previously filled in for Henjo for a few shows in 2006.

[Tormentor]

North American Tour