Those lyrics are fantastic! I have been converted to the cult of Scooter. Good job, you've given me a favorite techno artist--a genre of music I rejected for a long time.
I'll have to listen to Savior Machine a few more times. That album is hard to take in with one listen. First impressions: a lyrical mess of obscure dogma, but interesting nonetheless. I suppose that's typical of doom laden christian bands. Music is quite well composed. However, they suffer from a problem of being too ambitious without enough resources to pull it off. I'd love to hear what these guys could do with a real orchestra. Their compositions are almost too big for a typical rock band alone. Which in itself is quite impressive. Man, that guy can sing. I have the same impression of "too much" though. That guy's voice belongs in an opera, it's bigger than the rest of the band can support with its sound. On some songs, however, he seems to pull back and let his voice become another instrument sharing the stage with the other performers. I'd say those songs stand out and are quite good. But with a few more listens I'll probably get used to the guy's voice and the way its mixed, enough to like most of the songs. I'm curious to hear how they've grown, particularly that 4 disc opus about the end of the world.
Hey, if you like orchestral metal, I really ought to let you borrow a Lacrimosa CD or two--an orchestral metal band that has enough commercial success (in europe, of course...never in the USA...bah!) to actually use real orchestras in their music.
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I'll have to listen to Savior Machine a few more times. That album is hard to take in with one listen. First impressions: a lyrical mess of obscure dogma, but interesting nonetheless. I suppose that's typical of doom laden christian bands. Music is quite well composed. However, they suffer from a problem of being too ambitious without enough resources to pull it off. I'd love to hear what these guys could do with a real orchestra. Their compositions are almost too big for a typical rock band alone. Which in itself is quite impressive. Man, that guy can sing. I have the same impression of "too much" though. That guy's voice belongs in an opera, it's bigger than the rest of the band can support with its sound. On some songs, however, he seems to pull back and let his voice become another instrument sharing the stage with the other performers. I'd say those songs stand out and are quite good. But with a few more listens I'll probably get used to the guy's voice and the way its mixed, enough to like most of the songs. I'm curious to hear how they've grown, particularly that 4 disc opus about the end of the world.
Hey, if you like orchestral metal, I really ought to let you borrow a Lacrimosa CD or two--an orchestral metal band that has enough commercial success (in europe, of course...never in the USA...bah!) to actually use real orchestras in their music.